Victorian Bournemouth (155) explores press accounts depicting Christmas celebrations held in English workhouses during the 1870s.
Tag: Victorian history
Victorian Bournemouth (154): poor children
Victorian Bournemouth (154) explores the lives of children found in the Christchurch Union Workhouse school at Tuckton in 1881.
Victorian Bournemouth (153): early bicycles
Victorian Bournemouth (153) explores the early history of bicycles in the resort: manufacturers, dealers, clubs, consumers.
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 (151): cabs and cabbies
Victorian Bournemouth (151) explores the social profiles belonging to the increasing number of men driving cabs throughout the resort.
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 (148): Oxford Road (3)
Victorian Bournemouth (148) provides a demographic analysis of Oxford Road’s inhabitants during the late nineteenth century.
Victorian Bournemouth (143): Q3 summary
Victorian Bournemouth (143) surveys articles published in the third quarter, covering a range of subjects.
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.