Victorian Bournemouth (155) explores press accounts depicting Christmas celebrations held in English workhouses during the 1870s.
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Victorian Bournemouth (154): poor children
Victorian Bournemouth (154) explores the lives of children found in the Christchurch Union Workhouse school at Tuckton in 1881.
Victorian Bournemouth (153): early bicycles
Victorian Bournemouth (153) explores the early history of bicycles in the resort: manufacturers, dealers, clubs, consumers.
Victorian Bournemouth (152): the Triangle, 1870s
Victorian Bournemouth (152) surveys the area known as The Triangle, an offshoot of Commercial Road, which emerged during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (151): cabs and cabbies
Victorian Bournemouth (151) explores the social profiles belonging to the increasing number of men driving cabs throughout the resort.
Victorian Bournemouth (150): Oxford Road (5)
Victorian Bournemouth (149) finds that established residents perhaps upgraded Oxford Road’s society with a collaborative social protectorate.
Victorian Bournemouth (149): Oxford Road (4)
Victorian Bournemouth (149) uncovers the middling, upholstered dream world available to aspiring inhabitants of Oxford Road.
Victorian Bournemouth (148): Oxford Road (3)
Victorian Bournemouth (148) provides a demographic analysis of Oxford Road’s inhabitants during the late nineteenth century.
Victorian Bournemouth (147): Oxford Road (2)
Middling street life Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (147) introduces a short series exploring Oxford Road’s physical and community growth 1871-1901. The articles cover its geographic positioning and the built environment; demographics of the street; its socio-anthropology. It finds a stable, middling community, living in perhaps some comfort, pitched between the working people of Springbourne and the […]
Victorian Bournemouth (146): British Indians (4)
Multi-multi-families Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (146) finds public and private links interconnecting the British Indians who settled in the resort during the period 1871-1881. Genealogical analysis provides insights into the social history of Indian natives born to families who had originated in Britain. By the time they arrived in Bournemouth, in some cases, several generations of […]