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The Way We Were - Victorian and Edwardian Scotland in Colour (Paperback)
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The Way We Were - Victorian and Edwardian Scotland in Colour (Paperback)
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Loot Price R598
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This is John Hannavy's reflective look at how Scotland was depicted
in photographs and postcards 100 - 170 years ago. In many ways, it
redefines our view of Scotland's past as we are familiar with
seeing Victorian and Edwardian people and views in sepia, but these
are in colour, adding a warmth and realism to the scenes which
photographers immortalized. The subject matter of the pictures was
as wide and varied as Edwardian life and work itself and it is here
that the reader meets eccentrics and worthies, sees people going
about their daily work, catching buses and trains, embarking on
steamers, and simply enjoying Scotland's spectacular scenery. Many
aspects of Scottish life are explored from people's jobs to the
many ways in which they occupied their limited holiday and leisure
time between 1840 and the outbreak of the Great War.These include
Creating Tourist Scotland - how Victorian and Edwardian Scotland
was sold to the world and the birth of Scotland's tourist industry;
Scotland's Railways - the development of the railway network and
some of the splendid photographs and postcards which were sold to
travellers; Industrial Might; The Ubiquitous Steamer; Gateways to
the World; Fisherfolk; Working the Land; The Textile Industry;
Taking to the Road; The Scots at War - from the Crimean War, the
first to be photographed, to the skirmishes leading up to the Great
War; Out in the Scots Fresh Air; On Scotland's Canals; Village
Life; Family Life; That's Entertainment; Town and City Life; What
we did on Holiday and Sports and Outdoor Pursuits. Included are
fine studies of the hardy Scotch Fisher Lassies who worked their
way down the east coast of Britain gutting and pickling the
herring; the people who lived and worked on Scotland's canals; the
men who crewed the country's trains, trams and ferries, together
with a host of others. In effect, it opens the book on what was
perceived as an almost mystical and mysterious landscape, 'north of
the border'.With almost 270 photographs, many of them previously
unpublished, The Way We Were brings Scotland's colourful past to
life.
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