The British Seaside Holiday

Author : John K. Walton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719051708
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Seaside written by John K. Walton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed academic cultural study looks at the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. John K. Walton offers a broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts, looking at who went, where they went, what they did, and how they were entertained.

Author : Kathryn Ferry
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747807278
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Seaside Holiday written by Kathryn Ferry and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old fashioned seaside holidays inspire a great deal of nostalgic affection among British people. Quintessential elements such as seaside donkeys and sickly sticks of rock are easily identifiable and memorable ingredients of a tradition that most people in this country have experienced. Focusing on the one-hundred-year period from 1870 to 1970, this book taps into collective nostalgia for an inside look at how ordinary people spent their seaside holidays. It examines what it actually meant to go to the seaside and what one could expect upon arrival, as well as various places to stay and how to spend one's days. Each chapter explores a different theme in order to build up a picture of holiday life and how it changed over time.

Author : Kathryn Ferry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Seaside Holiday written by Kathryn Ferry and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Braggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun, Fun, and Crowds written by Steven Braggs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inter-war period saw the annual holiday become part of the lives of large numbers of people in Britain for the first time. In the Edwardian age it had been a privilege enjoyed by the few, but by the end of the 1930s, 15 million people were going away to the coast for a week or two. This book explores all the facets of the seaside holiday--where people went and why; how they got there; where they stayed; and what they did. We take in the first holiday camps, which opened in the 30s, as well as some wonderful modern hotels that were the epitome of sophistication and style. We examine the architecture of pleasure, in the form of cinemas, piers, lidos, and pavilions. This intriguing account is richly illustrated throughout with a mixture of contemporary photographs and postcards, publicity material, posters, and modern images.

Author : ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH.
Publisher : Royal Museums Greenwich
ISBN 13 : 9780948065989
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great British Seaside written by ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH. and published by Royal Museums Greenwich. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the abandoned piers to the dazzling arcades, celebrate the British seaside through the lenses of Britain's most popular photographers, featuring Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn and Simon Roberts and new work by Martin Parr.--Museum website.

Author : Jon Bounds
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 1783727519
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pier Review written by Jon Bounds and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-five piers. Two weeks. One eccentric road trip. Before the seaside of their youth disappears forever, two friends from the landlocked Midlands embark on a peculiar journey to see all the surviving pleasure piers in England and Wales. With a clapped-out car and not enough cash, Jon and Danny recruit Midge, a man they barely know, to be their driver, even though he has to be back in a fortnight to sign on. Join Jon and Danny as they take a funny and nostalgic look at Britishness at the beach, amusement in the arcades, and friendship on the road.

Author : Jo Carruthers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030447804
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sandscapes written by Jo Carruthers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but also of time and mortality, of plenitude and eternity. Drawing together writers from a range of backgrounds, the volume explores the environmental, social, personal, cultural, and political significance of sand and the seaside towns that have built up around it. The contributions take a variety of forms including fiction and nonfiction and cover topics ranging from sand dunes to sand mining, from seaside stories to shoreline architecture, from sand grains to global sand movements, from narratives of the setting up of bed and breakfasts to stories of seaside decline. Often a symbol of aridity, sand is revealed in this book to be an astonishingly fertile site for cultural meaning.

Author : Val Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500022061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seaside Photographed written by Val Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the seaside been photographed? From the roaring waves of the nineteenth century through the reportage of the 1960s and the critical documentary of the 80s and 90s, to what is perhaps the more intimate work of the last ten years. No-one can tell it exactly the way it is. We all have a vision of the seaside which is uniquely our own. Memories, false and real, are aided and abetted by photography, a unique, fascinating, but in the end unreliable source of evidence. And time changes everything. What remains are a set of substantial fragments, thoughts along the way, obsessions, records, constructions, journeys. Ours for the taking

Author : Allan Brodie
Publisher : Historic England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seaside Holidays in the Past written by Allan Brodie and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using photographs from the National Monuments Record, these photopacks allow you to find out what Victorians wore on the beach, how developments in transport reflected great social changes and much more. The new restyled packs each include 8 A3 posters and fascinating facts so they are ideal as lessons starters and as an interactive resource for learners.

Author : Steven Braggs
Publisher : Npi Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9780752439648
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun, Sea and Sand written by Steven Braggs and published by Npi Media Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inter-war period saw the annual holiday become part of the lives of large numbers of people for the first time. In the Edwardian age, it had been a privilege enjoyed by the few, but by the end of the thirties, 15 million people were going away to the coast for a week or two. This book explores all the facets of the seaside holiday - where people went, and why; how they got there; where they stayed; what they did; and what they wore. A visit to Blackpool's Golden Mile to leer at its lurid attractions, including the unfrocked Rector of Stiffkey, contrasts sharply with the remote, unspoilt beaches of Cornwall. We take in the first holiday camps, which opened in the thirties, as well as some wonderful modern hotels that were the epitome of sophistication and style. We examine the architecture of pleasure, in the form of cinemas, piers, lidos and pavilions. For those who remember the seaside holidays of their childhood, this fascinating book will conjure up many nostalgic memories.