The Kent Coast Gravesend To Margate Through Time

Author : Anthony Lane
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445640074
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kent Coast Gravesend to Margate Through Time written by Anthony Lane and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Kent Coast has changed and developed over the last century

Author : Stuart Bligh
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276258
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Kent Through the Ages written by Stuart Bligh and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day.Kent, with its long coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London and continental Europe, and on major trading routes between Britain and the wider world, has had a very significant maritime history. This book covers a wide range of topics relating to that history from the earliest times to the present day. It sets Kent's varied coastline and waters in their geological and geographical context, showing how erosion and sediment deposition have contributed to the changing nature of maritime activities and populations. It examines Kent's strategic role in the defence of the country with the development and redevelopment of coastal defences, including four naval dockyards. It goes on to consider the supporting industries which grew up around the coastline, those which supplied raw materials and agricultural products from the county's hinterland, and its wider national and international trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.l trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.l trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.l trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.

Author : Neil Parsons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226647439
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clicko written by Neil Parsons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and ’30s, Franz Taibosh—whose stage name was Clicko—performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the “Wild Dancing Bushman,” showing off his frenzied dance moves in freak shows, sideshows, and music halls from Australia to Cuba. When he died in 1940, the New York Times called him “the only African bushman ever exhibited in this country.” In Clicko, Neil Parsons unearths the untold story of Taibosh’s journey from boyhood on a small farm in South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World’s Fair Freaks. Through Taibosh’s tale, Parsons brings to life the bizarre golden age of entertainment as well as the role that the dubious new science of race played in it. Beginning with Taibosh’s early life, Clicko untangles the real story of his ancestry from the web of myths spun around him on his rise to international stardom. Parsons then chronicles the unhappy middle period of Taibosh’s career, when he suffered under the heel of a vicious manager. Left to freeze and nearly starve in an unheated apartment, Taibosh was rescued by Frank Cook, Barnum & Bailey’s lawyer. The Cooks adopted Taibosh as a member of their family of circus managers and performers, and his happy—if far from average—years with them make up the final chapter of this remarkable story. Equal parts entertaining and disturbing, Clicko vividly evokes a forgotten era when vaudeville drew massive crowds and circus freaks were featured in Billboard and Variety. Parsons introduces us to colorful characters such as George Auger the giant and the original Zip the Pinhead, but above all, he gives us an unforgettable portrait of Franz Taibosh, rescued at last from the racists and the romantics and revealed here as an ordinary man with an extraordinary life.

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan M. Everitt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349005754
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in English Urban History written by Alan M. Everitt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1973-06-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan McGowan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991143
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little History of Kent written by Susan McGowan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent has been the gateway to Britain since prehistoric man first set foot on our soil. Its people have repelled invaders including Julius Caesar, the Vikings and William the Conqueror, while welcoming migrants from countries such as France, Austria and the Netherlands. In turn, men from Kent played a part in invading and conquering such faraway places as Canada and the USA, leaving their stamp on the world at large. This volume is a tribute to those who have shaped our society and the world around us: from the long barrow at Trottescliffe and the medieval abbey of St Augustine to the Channel Tunnel and Bluewater Shopping Centre, it is plain to see that the landscape around us is itself a monument to those who went before.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445609225
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isle of Thanet written by Anthony Lane and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dependent originally on fishing and farming, Margate and Ramsgate benefited as limbs of the Cinque Ports during the Middle Ages, shipping grain to London and elsewhere. Growth was, however, slow until an interest in sea-bathing arose in the eighteenth century, when, to Margate's great benefit, Benjamin Beale invented the first bathing machine with a modesty hood. After that, hoys, paddle steamers and railways brought a stream of visitors that rapidly became a torrent. After the last war, easier foreign travel allowed people to bathe elsewhere, causing Margate to lose many hotels and other amenities. Mods and rockers did not reverse that trend and Manston aerodrome enjoyed some notoriety with the USAF in residence. Successes included the Hovercraft service to Calais and the enlargement of Ramsgate harbour. Thanet's cliffs, beaches and sea air remain attractive today, though. This delightful book shows some of the changes.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: