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Author: Dee Gordon
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2006-06-22
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0750953284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding many conversations with Southendians, this title aims to recall life in their town, during the 1950s and '60s. It focuses on social change, as well as school days, work and play, transport, and entertainment. It also includes memories of the late '60s clashes between Mods and Rockers, and of the infamous Wall of Death at the Kursaal.
Author: Dee Gordon
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1526717670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Southend-on-Sea, like many seaside towns, may not have been at the forefront of the struggle for suffrage and equal rights in the lives of women between 1850 and 1950, there are surprisingly famous names linked to the town and its women. Novelist Rebecca West, living in nearby Leigh-on-Sea during the First World War (and her lover, H.G. Wells) played a key role in the suffrage and feminist movements and in women’s entry into the scientific and literary professions. Princess Louise, a visitor to the town, was known to be a feminist, regardless of her position, and Mrs Margaret Kineton-Parkes (founder member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League and involved in the Women’s Freedom League) gave a number of talks to the town’s female population. The most high profile of local residents was Mrs Rosa Sky, the one-time Treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union and an active member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League, but others were quietly active behind the scenes. This book is not about the distinguished and illustrious, it is about women from all classes, from all kinds of backgrounds, who entered the world of business, who rebelled against the traditional roles of mother, homemaker or domestic servant. It is about women struggling to come to terms with changes at home, in marriage, in education, in health care and in politics. It is the first to look at these issues as they impacted on a town whose population and visitors were growing in line with the expectations of its female population.
Author: Samson Raphael Levy
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781930143302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story of one man's life as it continues to unfold. His dignity and humanity even in the midst of war and disaster is a tribute to his illustrious forebears. Amid his books and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, Mr. Levy continues to write new chapters in his anything-but-dull life.
Author: Dee Gordon
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0752481614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popular seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea has long been a haven for holidaymakers, but the town also harbours some disturbing secrets... Discover the darker side of Southend with this spooky collection of spine-chilling tales from around the town. From ghostly sightings in Hadleigh Castle, ominous sounds and smells on the seafront and tales of mysterious shapes at the town's pubs and taverns, this book is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Illustrated with over sixty pictures, Haunted Southend will delight everyone interested in the paranormal.
Author: W.P.. Powell
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780197227701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Josephine Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1317044738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.
Author: Darren Lock
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1445634570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover a wealth of history in the stories told by a wide range of Walworth residents.
Author: Naomi Roux
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1526140306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects. These ranged from huge new museums and monuments to small community museums and grassroots memory work. At the same time, South African cities have continued to grapple with the difficulties of overcoming entrenched inequalities and divisions. Urban spaces are deep repositories of memory, and also sites in need of radical transformation. Remaking the Urban examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. Roux unpacks the processes by which some narratives and histories become officially inscribed in public space, while others are visible only through alternative, ephemeral or subversive means. Including discussions of the history of the Red Location Museum of Struggle; memorialisation of urban forced removals; the heritage politics and transformative potential of public art; and strategies for making visible memories and histories of former anti-apartheid youth activist groups in the city’s townships, Roux examines how these twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Author: Alan Wilson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2004-04-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0750954205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1930s were a troubled era, and England was a land of contrasts. This work gives a vivid impression of growing up in a working-class family in the East End at this time. It should be of interest to anyone who remembers the interwar years, and anyone interested in London's social history.
Author: Peter Hann
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1468579398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Hampshire Families, Hann / Hiscock is the story of two families, brought together by marriage, during the period from the mid nineeteenth century through to the twenty first century. From very different backgrounds we follow members of each family through hardship, wartime tragedy, country living and commitment to their own religious and social beliefs
