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The Architecture of Pleasure

Author : Josephine Kane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044738
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Pleasure written by Josephine Kane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Southend Memories

Author : Dee Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953284
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Southend Memories written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including 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.

The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea

Author : Dee Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750955457
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea is full of intriguing information on the incredible residents, visitors and events that have played a part in Southend's story. Southend-on-Sea, the largest town in Essex, has had an amazingly rich history, and this book collects together hundreds of little-known facts and anecdotes that will make you see the town in a new light. Discover the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer, the top secret military operations performed just off Southend shore and the secret tunnels and smuggling dens used to hide guns, tobacco and Dutch gin. This captivating book will amuse and inform readers in Essex and beyond.

Anglo-American Memories

Author : George Washburn Smalley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Memories written by George Washburn Smalley and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-American Memories

Author : George W. Smalley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387081715
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Memories written by George W. Smalley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

PENTHOUSE MEMORIES

Author : Graham Armitage
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471059057
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book PENTHOUSE MEMORIES written by Graham Armitage and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Armitage was born in Scarborough, grew up in Scarboroughand, as he says, "(Mis)spentmy youth and teenage years in the town."A fair amount of those teenage years were taken up in attending a night club called the Penthouse which graced St Nicholas Street in the centre of the town for around ten years - mainly during the 1970s.For Grahamand for many others of that era, the club represented not merely somewhere to go at the weekend, but also an attitude of mind and a way of life . This, as well as enabling him and many others to attend an excellent club which punched well above its weight by regularly putting on some of the best rock and folk music to be found anywhere in the country at that time. In fact, many bands of those days were spotted elsewhere and were asked to play at the Penthouse when they were growing and many then went on to much greater fame, country, and in some cases, world-wide.

Southend in 50 Buildings

Author : Ian Yearsley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445651890
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Southend in 50 Buildings written by Ian Yearsley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-colour guide to Southend's historical buildings, from past to present day.

The Amusement Park

Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317045122
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Amusement Park written by Jason Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea

Author : Dee Gordon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526717670
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea written by Dee Gordon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While 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.

My Memories

Author : Ovide Musin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Memories written by Ovide Musin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Memories

Author : Sidney Whitman
Publisher : London : W. Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Memories written by Sidney Whitman and published by London : W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1912 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sealand

Author : Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635766362
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sealand written by Dylan Taylor-Lehman and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched, stranger-than-fiction” history of the world’s tiniest rebel nation, filled with intrigue, armed battles, and radio pirates (Robert Jobson, author of Prince Philip’s Century). In 1967, a retired army major and self-made millionaire named Paddy Roy Bates cemented his family’s place in history when he inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand, a tiny dominion of the high seas. And so began the peculiar story of the world’s most stubborn micronation on a World War II anti-aircraft gun platform off the British coast. Sealand is the raucous tale of how a rogue adventurer seized the disused Maunsell Sea Fort from pirate radio broadcasters, settled his eccentric family on it, and defended their tiny kingdom from UK government officials and armed mercenaries for half a century. Incorporating original interviews with surviving Sealand royals, Dylan Taylor-Lehman recounts the battles and schemes as Roy and his crew engaged with diplomats, entertained purveyors of pirate radio and TV, and even thwarted an attempted coup that saw the Prince Regent taken hostage. Incredibly, more than fifty years later, the self-proclaimed independent nation still stands—replete with its own constitution, national flag and anthem, currency, and passports. Featuring rare vintage photographs of the Bates clan and their unusual enterprises, this account of a dissident family and their outrageous attempt to build a sovereign kingdom on an isolated platform in shark-infested waters is the stuff of legend. “Memorable . . . This idiosyncratic history entertains.” ―Publishers Weekly “Endlessly captivating, like a thriller, and filled with crisp, evocative writing. Now, you’ll have to excuse me, I’m visiting the principality to become an official ‘Lord of Sealand.’” ―Bob Batchelor, author of The Bourbon King

Hackney Memories

Author : Alan Wilson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954205
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hackney Memories written by Alan Wilson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

London Slums to South Oxhey

Author : Terry Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471686450
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book London Slums to South Oxhey written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building The Beast Stumbling down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. Boarded up new terraced houses will soon be some body's home, now standing empty. Wind blowing shutter boards rattling against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters. Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused.

Memories of a Musician

Author : Wilhelm Ganz
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Memories of a Musician written by Wilhelm Ganz and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1913 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Memories of Eighty Years

Author : Chauncey M. Depew
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book My Memories of Eighty Years written by Chauncey M. Depew and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician Chauncey Mitchell Depew pens his autobiographical novel "My Memories of Eighty Years". Depew is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator for New York, and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System. The novel chronicles his life's journey from his birth and upbringing in the village of Peekskill, his early education, his admission to Yale University and his admission to the Bar. He then went on to a successful career in the Railroad System, helping Vanderbilt to expand his railway empire as a senior executive in his company, before making his entry into politics.

Amusement Park Rides

Author : Martin Easdown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001522
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Amusement Park Rides written by Martin Easdown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ride on a rollercoaster is the highlight of any trip to an amusement or theme park, and such attractions have been entertaining the public for well over a century. From the first mass-produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through to the giant wooden coasters of the inter-war period, seaside historian Martin Easdown uses historic postcards and photographs to chart their development and that of other amusement rides including revolving towers, aerial rides, Ferris wheels and water chutes, all of which were produced from the late Victorian era in myriad forms. Essential to the very existence of such amusement venues as Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Margate Dreamland, these much-loved rides are not so far removed from their modern-day equivalents as they might at first appear.