Victorian Bournemouth (156) surveys articles published in the fourth quarter, covering different aspects of society at all levels.
Tag: middling people
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 (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 (142): a local long firm
Victorian Bournemouth (142) investigates the report of a criminal long-firm operating in the resort during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (136): technology
Victorian Bournemouth (136) charts how the arrival and spread of technology brought many benefits to the resort’s inhabitants.
Victorian Bournemouth (132): brewster courts (1870s)
Spirited opposition Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (132) analyses attitudes towards increasing the resort’s licensed establishments during the 1870s. Before 1869, a trader might obtain a licence to sell alcohol by paying a fee to the local excise officer. Thereafter, magistrates, sitting in session, controlled the supply of such licences. Their annual ‘brewster courts’ provided good copy […]
Victorian Bournemouth (121): mob violence (3)
A clash of envy against ambition Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (121) marks the third and final article analysing a riot which happened on Windham Road, Springbourne, in 1878. During this, a mob tried to harm Arthur Adams, tailor, a court witness, and set his house alight. This article explores the social profile of the victims or […]
Victorian Bournemouth (116): Improvement Commission 1870s (3)
All types together Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (116) continues the series of articles which cover the activities and identities of the Improvement Commissioners during the 1870s. This article explores their social backgrounds, their connections, and their role in the community. Victorian Bournemouth (116): social Working and middling people Since the Commission’s establishment in 1856, its Board […]
Victorian Bournemouth (109): Eastward Ho! (2)
Different folks. Different strokes. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (109) explores the social profiles and life histories of the men who served on the short-lived committees of Springbourne and Boscombe in 1875. It also compares them with the backgrounds of those who supported independence for the ’70 acres’ on East Cliff. Victorian Bournemouth (109): Springbourne committee Building […]