Tag: amateur speculators

Victorian Bournemouth (72)
2nd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (61): speculators’ bankruptcy

Dangerous market. Bad advice. Uneasy recovery. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (61) studies the cases where speculators without building experience suffered bankruptcy in the late 1860s. Analysis of their bankruptcies and their social profile raises questions about the investment climate at Bournemouth. Bankruptcies for these people may have had a different social impact to builders in the […]