1st Edition

Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 4

By Susan Barton, Allan Brodie Copyright 2015

    The British led the way in holidaymaking. This four-volume primary resource collection brings together a diverse range of texts on the various forms of transport used by tourists, the destinations they visited, the role of entertainments and accommodation and how these affected the way that tourism evolved over two centuries.

    Introduction Scarborough J Taylor, Journey to Edenborough in Scotland (1903), extract; [Anon.], A Journey from London to Scarborough, in Several Letters (1734), extract; Selection of Poems, The Scarborough Miscellany (1732), extracts; Mr D-k, 'On the Virtues of Scarborough-Spaw Water, and the Humours of Dickey' (1703), extract. Famous Visitors: Mr P-s, 'On the Poet Laureat's (C-r) Arrival at Scarborough to Drink the Waters' (1734), extract; Mr D-s, 'An Invitation to Her Royal Highness Princess Amelia' (1734), extract. Love and Romance: [Anon.], 'On a Sight of the Ladies Bathing at Sea' (1733), extract; Mr Ph-ps, 'On the Ladies Bathing in the Sea, at Scarborough' (1734), extract. J Schofield, An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Scarborough and its Environs (1787), extract; [J Hatfield], A New Scarborough Guide (1797), extracts; G S Carey, The Balnea, or, an Impartial Description of all the Popular Watering Places in England (1799), extracts; [J Feltham], A Guide to all the Watering and Sea Bathing Places (1803), extract; J P [J B Papworth, F Wrangham and W Combe], Poetical Sketches of Scarborough (1813), extract; A B Granville, The Spas of England and Principal Sea-Bathing Places (1841), extract; E Lee, The Baths and Watering-Places of England (1848), extract; W Wheater, Handbook for Tourists in Yorkshire (1891), extract Margate J Macky, A Journey Through England (1714), extract; The Travels through England of Dr Richard Pococke, ed. J J Cartwright (1889), vol. 2, extract; [T G], A Description of the Isle of Thanet, and Particularly of the Town of Margate (1765), extract; [Anon.], The Margate Guide (1780), extract; W Kidd, The Picturesque Pocket Companion (1831), extracts; [Anon.], The Visitor's New Guide ... to the Isle of Thanet, etc (1850), extracts; [Keble], Keble's Illustrated Penny Guide to the Isle of Thanet, Margate, etc (c.1886), extracts Travelling to Margate: [Anon.], A Trip to Margate, a Poetical Epistle ... (1802), extract; W Camden, The Steam-Boat Pocket Book (1835), extract; [Anon.], The Visitor's New Guide ... to the Isle of Thanet, etc (1850), extract; J A Manson, Daily Sea Trips (1913), extract Margate and the Class of Visitors: [Anon.], Letters of Momus, from Margate (1778), extract; G Keate, Sketches from Nature (1779), extract; G S Carey, The Balnea: or, an Impartial Description of all the Popular Watering Places in England (1799), extract; A Cockney, 'A Week's Journal at Margate' (1823), extract Brighton A Relhan, A Short History of Brighthelmston (1761), extracts; W Lee, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston (1795), extracts; G S Carey, The Balnea, or, an Impartial Description of all the Popular Watering Places in England (1799), extract; R Sickelmore, History of Brighton and its Environs, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1827), extracts; J D Parry, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Coasts of Sussex ... (1833), extracts Blackpool W Hutton, A Description of Blackpool, in Lancashire (1789); P Whittle, Marina or an Historical and Descriptive Account of Southport ... (1831), extract; W Thornber, Historical and Descriptive Account of Blackpool and its Neighbourhood (1837), extracts; [Anon.], Illustrated Guide to Blackpool and District, etc (1891), extract; Blackpool Aviation Week. October 18th to 23rd, 1909, etc (Official Programme-Souvenir) (1909) Editorial Notes List of Sources Index