Barry Island - The Making of a Seaside Playground, C.1790 - C.1965

Author: Andy Croll

ISBN: 9781786835864
Publication Date: 06 July 2020
Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, Cardiff
Format: Paperback, 217x139 mm, 288 pages
Language: English

By the mid-twentieth century, Barry Island had become one of Britain's most popular seaside resorts. Its history carries important lessons for historians of coastal tourism. This is the first full-length academic study of the Island's development as a seaside resort.

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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‘Much Frequented During the Bathing Season’: Barry Island and Welsh Coastal Tourism, c. 1780-c. 1860
Chapter 2 ‘That Favourite Place’: Cardiff’s Bathing Resort, c. 1860-1877
Chapter 3 Visitors ‘Mercilessly’ Turned Away: The Island Closed, 1878-1884 Chapter 4 Reclaimed, 1884-c.1890
Chapter 5 An ‘El Dorado Where Soft Winds Blow’: Resort Boosterism Flourishes in the 1890s Chapter 6 ‘Awake ye Sluggards!’ Resort Development Flounders, c. 1900-1914
Chapter 7 ‘They Sweep Down on the Place and Take Possession of It’: Trippers Triumphant, c. 1890-c. 1910
Chapter 8 Barry-on-Sea? The Tripper Resort Consolidated, 1914-c.1965
Conclusion
Bibliography

Author Biography:
Andy Croll is principal lecturer in History at the University of South Wales

Further Information:
• Casts a revealing light on Wales’s contribution to coastal tourism in the nineteenth century.
• Argues that visitors had a powerful role in setting a resort’s social tone.
• Written in an accessible style.