Victorian Bournemouth (246) has speculated that, during the 1890s, the community position attainable by bank managers changed. Hitherto, perhaps seen as akin almost to the gentry, managers had enjoyed a special place within their communities. The increased and systematic development within banking, however, may have made it harder for managers to attain such a position. At Bournemouth, however, during the 1890s, the population of bank managers appears to have included managers of both types.
Victorian Bournemouth (221) has considered the main themes explored in the first quarter of articles published covering the resort during the 1890s. It has discussed how the decade involved change in many areas and levels. The new civic status of a borough required councillors and mayors to handle matters and adopt procedures in ways comparable to similar towns. The social profile of these men changed from that characterising the Improvement Commission in that men of leisure gave way to meritocrats, albeit of humbler origin. The continuing process of shaping Bournemouth’s image appears in the model of civic heroism propounded within magistrates’ obituaries. Presenting the town in a positive way to the new audience of institutional and personal investors applied these skills in the new discipline of Corporation Stock issues.
Victorian Bournemouth (210) has sketched areas where the resort’s society, economy, and community had undergone substantial change during the decade. To some extent, its world tilted towards upside down. Changes in the economic and social structure occurred. So, also, did relationships with the adjacent settlements. As much change in this decade as in several previous seems to have occurred.
Victorian Bournemouth (149) finds that established residents perhaps upgraded Oxford Road’s society with a collaborative social protectorate.
Identity. Visitors. Persistence Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (78) provides a summary of this year’s second quarter articles. The main themes to emerge include identity, visitor profiles, and persistence. Victorian Bournemouth (78): identity On the map In a few decades a town had emerged from a scatter of ‘poor fishermen’s huts’, achieving an established presence During its […]