Summer by the Seaside
Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781584655763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels
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The English Seaside
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Historic England Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers, grand hotels and gardens. Certain seaside towns have just about everything: Weymouth, for example, has a grand parade of hotels, a wide esplanade and a small fishing village. Blackpool has more of everything - three piers, miles of hotels, the Tower, Winter Gardens, trams, illuminations - but no fishing and no castle! There is something about the seaside that brings out the beating heart of John Bull in the English: doggedly erecting our wind-breaks to capture every vestige of a watery sun; wrestling with deckchairs; wrapping up against the determined wind on the verandas of our beach huts; accepting that 'sand' in 'sandwich' means just that! But we still love it and nowhere else in the world can match its myriad charms and eccentricities. For too long the English seaside has suffered from bad press, accused of being tatty, cold grey and windswept. Peter Williams' evocative photographs in this fully revised edition of his acclaimed book will make you want to rediscover what a fantastic place the seaside is - full of character, charm and 'Englishness'.
AA Book of the Seaside
Author: Automobile Association (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9780903356008
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Author: Jon Bounds
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers LTD
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1783727519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty-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.
British Seaside Piers
Author: Anthony Wills
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only guide to all 58 extant British seaside piers, including details of location, history and current operations, archive and contemporary photography and a gazetteer.
England's Seaside Resorts
Author: Allan Brodie
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll stretches of the coastline, and all sizes of resorts, are featured in this title, and have been studied to explain what gives England's seaside towns their special character.
Blackpool's Seaside Heritage
Author: Allan Brodie
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1848023278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlackpool is Britain's favourite seaside resort. Each year millions of visitors come to walk on its three piers, ride donkeys, enjoy shows at the Winter Gardens, scream on the thrilling rides at the Pleasure Beach and ride the lift to the top of the Tower. Generations of holidaymakers have stayed in its hotels, lodging houses and bed and breakfasts and all have succumbed to its delectable fish and chips. Two centuries of tourism has left behind a rich heritage, but Blackpool has also inherited a legacy of social and economic problems, as well as the need for comprehensive new sea defences to protect the heart of the town. In recent years this has led to the transformation of its seafront and to regeneration programmes to try to improve the town, for its visitors and residents. This book celebrates Blackpool's rich heritage and examines how its colourful past is playing a key part in guaranteeing that it has a bright future.
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Author: Alice Jolly
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1783521600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Alice Jolly's second child was stillborn and all subsequent attempts to have another baby failed, she began to consider every possible option, no matter how unorthodox. Shot through with humour and full of hope, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is an intensely personal account of the search for an alternative way to create a family. As she battles through miscarriage, IVF and failed adoption attempts, Alice finds comfort in the faded charm of Britain's crumbling seaside towns. The journey ultimately leads her and her husband to a small town in Minnesota, and to two remarkable women who offer to make the impossible possible. In this beautifully written book, Alice Jolly describes with a novelist's skill the events that many others have lived through – even if they may feel compelled to keep them hidden. Her decision not to hide but to share them, without a trace of self-pity, turns Dead Babies and Seaside Towns into a universal story: one that begins in tragedy but ends in joy.
The British Seaside
Author: John K. Walton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2000-11-18
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780719051708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian Times
Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-11-20
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0747811911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a collection of coloured holiday photographs covering all the major and several minor resorts around England's coast, linked to selected written commentaries from Charles Dickens and many others, this book celebrates the heyday of the seaside holiday.
