Victorian Bournemouth (187) surveys the cultural and commercial terrain deterring professional theatrical productions until the 1880s.
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Victorian Bournemouth (85): hotel guest profiles
More hotels. Two markets. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (85) compares the social profiles of the resorts’ hotel guests during its second period to explore whether the venues served different demographic segments. Census listings for 1861 and 1871 provide some data. Additional insight comes from a special analysis of all arrivals (and their venues) conducted on the […]
Victorian Bournemouth (77): clouds of clergymen
Worship reputation for competitive forms of worship Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (77) explores how Bournemouth appeared to attract numerous clergymen as visitors. The resort’s worship practices had created interest amongst the country’s religious community. Press attention developed this attention into a reputation. Some lodging-house keepers may have specialised in accommodating specific denominations of clergymen. Victorian Bournemouth […]
Victorian Bournemouth (68): Volunteer Rifle Corps (3)
Victorian Bournemouth (68) examines how Bournemouth’s Volunteer rebels beat Lord Malmesbury at his own game of weaponising courtesy.
The Belle Vue: Bournemouth’s community centre
Introduction The Belle Vue, a prominent hotel equipped with or connected to an assembly hall, featured often in community activities held at early Victorian Bournemouth. These events taken together illustrate the range of activities that gathered the town’s inhabitants, permanent and temporary. The Belle Vue Boarding house, hotel, community centre At first a boarding house, […]