Seaside Shelters

Author : Will Scott
Publisher : Heni Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1912122049

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Seaside Shelters by Will Scott Pdf

In Seaside Shelters, Will Scott documents and celebrates the wide variety of shelters adorning the British seasides. A testament to the heyday of British summer holidays and the country's notorious fickle weather, the shelters now mostly stand deserted. Scott's talented eye captures the, at times faded, beauty of the buildings. Most of the shelters were built in the late-19th and early-20th century and cover a wealth of architectural styles, from Victorian to Art Deco to Bauhaus. Locations range from iconic seaside resorts to lesser-known gems along the coast, including Blackpool, Great Yarmouth, the Isle of Wight, Clacton-on-Sea, Portsmouth, Aberystwyth, Swanage and Cromer.

Author : Allan Brodie,Colin Ellis,David Stuart,Gary Winter
Publisher : Historic England
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781848023178

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Weymouth's Seaside Heritage by Allan Brodie,Colin Ellis,David Stuart,Gary Winter Pdf

With Weymouth and Portland hosting the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games sailing events, the profile of the area will be raised considerably in the years leading up to the Games. Weymouth's seaside history and heritage will be a focus of attention and will contribute significantly to the regeneration of the town in the coming years. Weymouth has been a popular seaside resort for over 250 years. Likened to Montpelier and Naples for its natural beauty and healthy climate, it received the endorsement of King George III. His presence helped the town to expand rapidly in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, resulting in a stunning legacy of seafront terraces that continue to provide accommodation for thousands of holidaymakers each year. Weymouth boasts an eclectic mix of medieval town planning, harbour-side industry and former military sites that have had an impact on the town's development as a seaside resort. Many of the buildings associated with declining brewing and maritime industries have now been redeveloped and serve as amenities and accommodation for residents and visitors. An English Heritage opinion poll in 2007 found that seventy-five per cent of respondents felt that 'the historic character of seaside towns is what makes them beautiful and enjoyable'. This book describes the colourful story of Weymouth's seaside history and the buildings and open spaces that survive to tell this story. It also demonstrates how the historic environment can play an important part in the future development of the town.

Author : Fred Gray
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861892748

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Designing the Seaside by Fred Gray Pdf

"In Designing the Seaside Fred Gray provides a history of seaside architecture from the 18th century to the present day, investigating leisure, entertainment, taste, fashion and gender, and shows how the seaside even became a hotbed for moral and sexual issues - from the early use of bathing machines to twentieth-century beauty pageants and naturist groups. He relates the evolution of resort architecture to sweeping changes in how seaside nature was experienced and used by holidaymakers. The book also traces the history of the coastal resort, with examples ranging from Regency Sidmouth to Victorian Scarborough and early 20th-century Morecambe, as well as assessing seaside developments in the USA and Continental Europe, from Coney Island and Santa Barbara to Nice and Trouville." "Featuring many colourful, informative and often entertaining photographs, drawings, guidebook illustrations, postcards and publicity posters from resorts around the world, Designing the Seaside is a thoroughly readables as well as a visually fascinating account of changing attitudes to holidaymaking and its setting."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351562096

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"Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain " by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained study since the 1960s; yet it proliferated in Britain in the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace in 1851 - a time when some architects, engineers, manufacturers, and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. Comprehensively illustrated and richly researched, Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain presents the most sustained study to date of the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation by architects, critics and engineers, and the contexts in which it flourished, including industrial buildings, retail and seaside architecture, railway stations, buildings for export and exhibition, and street furniture. Appealing to architects, conservationists, historians and students of nineteenth-century visual culture and the built environment, this book offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture by questioning and re-evaluating both Victorian and modernist understandings of the ideological split between historicism and functionalism, and ornament and structure.

Author : Fred Gray
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785007149

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The Architecture of British Seaside Piers by Fred Gray Pdf

Of all the architectural delights of British seaside resorts, the most astonishing and idiosyncratic is the seaside pier. Remarkable visual spectacles, piers are architecturally extraordinary in concept and at times outrageous in execution. They brought together the Victorian genius for technological and material innovation, architectural ambition and engineering ingenuity in the search for new designs for leisure (as well as profit) over the sea. This superbly illustrated book explores the history of the design processes leading to the architectural and engineering innovations that have allowed people to walk on water in such diverse and delightful ways. Coverage includes the development of piers into the crowning architectural glory of British seaside resorts; the key people, materials, inventions and technologies in the field, particularly the work of Eugenius Birch, the greatest pier designer; the remarkable diversity of piers ranging from the earliest simple landing stages, through staid promenade piers and the glories of fully-fledged pleasure piers, to the boisterous joys of funfair and amusement piers; the rich variety of architectural styles, including exotic 'Orientalism' and streamlined Modernism and, finally, today's contemporary prospects for renewal and reinvention.

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472102607

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Mammoth Books presents Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside by Christopher Fowler Pdf

'Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside' came about firstly because I was commissioned to write a story for the World Horror Convention souvenir book and, as the event was to take place in Brighton, it seemed logical to set a tale on the South coast of England. "I had written a fantasy novel, Calabash, some years earlier, hinting at the dark madness of such seaside towns, which are the antithesis of their Mediterranean counterparts. I thought of the depressing Morrissey song "Every Day is Like Sunday", which captures the awfulness of English resorts. "Coincidentally, Kim Newman and I were discussing the inherent creepiness of pantomime dames, and I decided it was time to give vent to my horror of these coastal pleasure domes. I wish I'd thought to include screaming gangs of hen-nighters as well. And I thought it was a nice touch to have everyone in the story telling the hero to 'fuck off' until he finally does.

Author : Jacky Atkins
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781606934340

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The Mysterious Beach Hut by Jacky Atkins Pdf

Holly, 12, and her sister, Beth, 9, are in their Brighton beach hut one day when there is a knock at the door. Marjorie, the little girl they meet, is somehow different, and very soon a friendship develops that mysteriously transports them to the summer of 1914 and the eve of the outbreak of war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864703313

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Coast by Anonim Pdf

Celebrate the beauty of the humble beach house, and the beauty of the beach, in this tribute to seaside shelters, grand and small.

Author : Manfred Schrenk,Vasily V. Popovich,Peter Zeile
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783950311013

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CORP 2011 Proceedings/Tagungsband by Manfred Schrenk,Vasily V. Popovich,Peter Zeile Pdf

Author : Simon Brett
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786895035

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The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett Pdf

Fethering has everything a sleepy coastal town should: snug English pubs, cosy cottages, a little local library – and the occasional murder . . . Bestselling author Burton St Clair, complete with soaring ego and wandering hands, has come to town to give a talk. But after his corpse is found slumped in his car, he won’t be leaving. Jude is the prime suspect; she was, after all, the last person to see Burton St Clair alive. If she is to prove her innocence, she will have to dust off her detective skills and recruit her prim and proper neighbour (and partner-in-sleuthing) Carole to find the real culprit.

Author : Richard Hamblyn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789144864

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The Sea by Richard Hamblyn Pdf

Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hamblyn traces a cultural and geographical journey from estuary to abyss, beginning with the topographies of the shoreline and ending with the likely futures of our maritime environments. Along the way he considers the sea as a site of work and endurance; of story and song; of language, leisure, and longing. By meditating on the sea as both a physical and a cultural presence, the book shines new light on the sea and its indelible place in the human imagination.

Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781801104104

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Love in Old Age by Hunter Davies Pdf

A wryly humorous memoir from Hunter Davies, as he falls in love again in his eighties and chronicles the first year of living with his new girlfriend in their cottage on the Isle of Wight. King Charles I was imprisoned here; Queen Victoria so liked its mild climate and coastal scenery that she built an Italianate house here (and later expired in it); hundreds of thousands of people got stoned here at music festivals in the 1960s summers of love. And, in the very un-hippyish summer of 2020, Hunter and Claire escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday on the Isle of Wight, fell in love with its sleepy charm – and ended up buying a Grade 2-listed love nest in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde. Love in Old Age tells the story of their first twelve months on the island. It is a journey of discovery to a forgotten corner of England; an exploration of the attraction of meeting new people and new places in old age, and a celebration of flat sandy beaches. It brings together the themes of love in old age; Covid lockdown; rural escape; the anxieties of house-buying; and the history and curiosities of England's largest and second most populous island – all bound together by Hunter Davies's insatiable curiosity about people and places, and his irrepressible and ironic sense of humour.

Author : Tricia Cusack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351575737

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Art and Identity at the Water's Edge by Tricia Cusack Pdf

The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.

Author : Philip Algar
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782228950

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Short Stories and Tall Tales by Philip Algar Pdf

In this imaginative book, former journalist and occasional broadcaster Philip Algar avoids all the restrictions imposed during Covid and travels in time without any hassle. He meets new friends on a conventional UK holiday decades ago and discovers how three young boys play an unexpected role in the war. He listens to the reminiscences of two elderly men, gazing out to sea from their shelter on a sea front and follows the progress of an unpleasant politician to whom truth is an alien concept. How does a dream become part of reality for a man who plays a role in the manufacture of sausages and who is slavishly addicted to the advice offered in his daily newspaper? What happens to a young man who has a fantasy about a girl in a suede coat? These and other tales are included in this humorous book which is an exercise in escapism.

Author : Haley Healey
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772033267

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On Their Own Terms by Haley Healey Pdf

"An engaging contribution to Canadian women's history." —BC Books for BC Schools A fascinating collection of concise stories about seventeen courageous, independent, and diverse women who shaped the history of Vancouver Island. From the lush rainforest of Clayoquot Sound to the bustling city streets of Victoria, Vancouver Island has been home to an astounding number of inspiring women. On Their Own Terms: True Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island celebrates the achievements of seventeen amazing heroines working in multiple fields, from world-famous artists to social activists to groundbreaking scientists and quietly defiant labourers. The diverse women in this engaging new collection include: pioneer and midwife Tuwa ‘hwiye Tusium Gollelim, Mary Ann Gyves; world-renowned algae botanist Josephine Tilden; undiscovered aviatrix Lilian Bland; Vancouver Island’s first African-Canadian teacher, Emma Stark; and entrepreneur and bounty hunter Ada Annie Rae-Arthur, better known as Cougar Annie. On Their Own Terms will delight and empower anyone looking for true stories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women who confronted uncertainty, challenged gender norms, and excelled in their respective vocations. Whether you are an entrepreneur, an educator, a rebellious spirit, or an armchair adventurer, these incredible women who thrived on Vancouver Island will captivate you.