Download or read book The Amazing History of Southend written by Judith Williams and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Secret History of Southend written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret History of Southend offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city’s landmarks and streets, revealing the forgotten stories of Southend – its people, its visitors, its history, its streets and its buildings. This book is filled with hundreds of little-known facts and historical anecdotes. From the arrival of the ‘Brides in the Bath’ murderer to the famous mountaineer who liked to live at the top of his building, this book will amuse, fascinate and inform all lovers of the area. Southend may not be an ancient town, but it is the largest in Essex, and has a history that may surprise residents and visitors alike. This delightful book delves deeper, bringing history and landscape to life.
Download or read book A History of Southend written by Ian Yearsley and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southend has a complex and surprisingly interesting history. From 18th-century origins as the "South End" of Prittlewell Parish, it has grown over 300 years to swallow up six separate parishes: Prittlewell, Southchurch, Leigh, Eastwood, North Shoebury, and South Shoebury. The town and wider borough are both now known as "Southend." Starting in the Stone Age, this history ends in the modern information age, covering all points in between. The story of its evolution as a seaside resort, a commuter town, and a regional shopping center is unterwoven with a multitude of amusing, intriguing, and impressive events, incidents, and achievements in this very readable narrative. Southend has been unfairly maligned as "lacking much history." This new book successfully demolishes that suggestion, revealing a wealth of interest in the town and its past--from Prittlewell's Saxon origins to its important role in two world wars. It will be warmly welcomed throughout Essex.
Download or read book Southend Then Now written by Ken Crowe and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southend-on-Sea has gone through many transformations since its birth in the Middle Ages when a settlement of farmers and fishermen was established at the southernmost end of the lands of Prittlewell Priory. Having acquired the name ‘South End’, the area changed when the Lord of the Manor in the eighteenth century had a ‘New Town’ built along the cliffs to the west. The arrival of the railway in the mid-nineteenth century, and the subsequent influx of seaside day trippers, boosted Southend’s popularity and it quickly expanded into a large and bustling town. In this fascinating photographic history, Ken Crowe takes a fond look at his home town, exploring the changes to its streets through carefully chosen snapshots of Southend-on-Sea as it was in the past and is today.
Download or read book Southend History Tour written by David C. Rayment and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the historic town of Southend, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
Download or read book Southend on Sea and District written by John William Burrows and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-colour guide to Southend's historical buildings, from past to present day.
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 308 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.
Download or read book Southend on Sea and District Historical Notes written by John William Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southend United Football Club written by Dave Goody and published by Tempus Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the 100 Greats series, which collects short biographies and statistics of the 100 greatest players on various sporting teams or clubs throughout their histories.
Download or read book Southend on Sea written by Jessie K. Payne and published by Pictorial History Series. This book was released on 1985 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southend-on-Sea is officially called Southend.
Download or read book Haunted Southend written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book Southend On Sea Past and Present written by Ken Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Southend in a series of photographs dating from around 1860 to the 1960s, each accompanied by a comparative view taken today. The book offers a historical and geographical journey from the town's medieval origins to those parts developed to cater for the increasing number of visitors.
Download or read book Historic Charlotte County written by Douglas Houck and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 284 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.
Download or read book A Century United written by Peter Miles and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
