August bank holiday Monday 1872, was only the second such August bank holiday, and the first to bring out significant numbers of holidaymakers, because the creating statute - the 1871 Bank Holiday Act - was not passed until mid-1871. The act established four bank holidays: Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day. Good Friday and Christmas Day were considered traditional days of rest (as were Sundays) and therefore it was felt unnecessary to include them in the act. During the 1870s, these national 'days off' brought many more working class people to the seaside between Easter and August - a new generation of trippers seeking fun, not health, and trying to escape from the stifling confines of Victorian urban life.
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