Weston-Super-Mare Through Time - Through Time Revised Edition

Until the railways arrived, Weston-super-Mare was a town without a history. Weston grew into a major seaside resort from a little fishing village with just a handful of houses in under one hundred years. After a period of decline, it has sucessfully recreated itself as a holiday destination for the twenty-first century and as one of Somerset's major towns. Iron-Age settlers, Romans, seventeenth-century smugglers, John Cleese (television comedian and top-selling writer of Monty Python fame), actors and even the wireless pioneer Gugliemo Marconi play a part in the story of Weston's past. A walk along the town's seafront demonstrates the amazing diversity of the town, encompassing Victorian enterprise, Edwardian splendour, the commercial endeavour of the new-Elizabethans and the remarkable flood defences of the twenty-first century. This edition of Weston-super-Mare Through Time is fully updated.

ISBN:	9781445652023
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing
Imprint:	Amberley Publishing
Published date:	15 Jul 2015
DEWEY:	942.396
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	96
Weight:	282g
Height:	330mm
Width:	167mm
Spine width:	15mm

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