Victorian Bournemouth (148) provides a demographic analysis of Oxford Road’s inhabitants during the late nineteenth century.
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Victorian Bournemouth (124): Tourist traffic in 1870s
Growth of hotel arrivals’ share Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (124) uses the Visitors’ List Database to chart trends and changes in the resort’s holiday traffic. The database holds names of people arriving at and departing from named venues as published in the local press. While continued investment occurred within the lodging-house market, significant increases in the […]
Victorian Bournemouth (96): tourism analysis (1864)
Middling people. Lodging-houses Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (96) explores patterns found in a database of tourist traffic assembled from the Poole & Dorset Herald (1864). The paper published a visitor list each week. It listed those arriving, their venue, and limited demographic data. Departures also appeared as well as names of those moving from one venue […]