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Barry Island - The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965 (Paperback)
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Barry Island - The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965 (Paperback)
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Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in
twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of
working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a
seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex,
lengthy and important than has previously been recognised. As
conventionally told, the story of the island as tourist resort
begins in the 1890s, when the railway arrived in Barry - in fact,
it was functioning as a watering hole by the 1790s - yet decades of
tourism produced no sweeping changes. Barry remained a district of
'bathing villages' and hamlets, not a developed urban resort. As
such, its history challenges us to rethink the category of 'seaside
resort' and forces us re-evaluate Wales's contribution to British
coastal tourism in the 'long nineteenth century'. It also
underlines the importance of visitor agency. Powerful landowners
shaped much of the island's development but, ultimately, it was the
working-class visitors who turned it into south Wales's most
beloved tripper resort.
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