Barry Island
The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2020
288 pages
978-1-78683-587-1 (ISBN)
Description
Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex, lengthy and important than has previously been recognised. As conventionally told, the story of the island as tourist resort begins in the 1890s, when the railway arrived in Barry - in fact, it was functioning as a watering hole by the 1790s - yet decades of tourism produced no sweeping changes. Barry remained a district of 'bathing villages' and hamlets, not a developed urban resort. As such, its history challenges us to rethink the category of 'seaside resort' and forces us re-evaluate Wales's contribution to British coastal tourism in the 'long nineteenth century'. It also underlines the importance of visitor agency. Powerful landowners shaped much of the island's development but, ultimately, it was the working-class visitors who turned it into south Wales's most beloved tripper resort.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Yes
File size
6,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-587-1 (9781786835871)
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07/2020
University of Wales Press
€44.77
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Person
Andy Croll is principal lecturer in History at the University of South Wales.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 'Much Frequented During the Bathing Season': Barry Island and Welsh Coastal Tourism, c. 1780-c. 1860
Chapter 2 'That Favourite Place': Cardiff's Bathing Resort, c. 1860-1877
Chapter 3 Visitors 'Mercilessly' Turned Away: The Island Closed, 1878-1884
Chapter 4 Reclaimed, 1884-c.1890
Chapter 5 An 'El Dorado Where Soft Winds Blow': Resort Boosterism Flourishes in the 1890s
Chapter 6 'Awake ye Sluggards!' Resort Development Flounders, c. 1900-1914
Chapter 7 'They Sweep Down on the Place and Take Possession of It': Trippers Triumphant, c. 1890-c. 1910
Chapter 8 Barry-on-Sea? The Tripper Resort Consolidated, 1914-c.1965
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 'Much Frequented During the Bathing Season': Barry Island and Welsh Coastal Tourism, c. 1780-c. 1860
Chapter 2 'That Favourite Place': Cardiff's Bathing Resort, c. 1860-1877
Chapter 3 Visitors 'Mercilessly' Turned Away: The Island Closed, 1878-1884
Chapter 4 Reclaimed, 1884-c.1890
Chapter 5 An 'El Dorado Where Soft Winds Blow': Resort Boosterism Flourishes in the 1890s
Chapter 6 'Awake ye Sluggards!' Resort Development Flounders, c. 1900-1914
Chapter 7 'They Sweep Down on the Place and Take Possession of It': Trippers Triumphant, c. 1890-c. 1910
Chapter 8 Barry-on-Sea? The Tripper Resort Consolidated, 1914-c.1965
Conclusion
Bibliography
