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Description for Blackpool Pubs
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs and informative text charts the history of pubs in Britain's most famous seaside resort. Series: Pubs. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; WBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
Blackpool isn't a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so. To cater for the millions of visitors that arrive each year, Blackpool has more licensed premises than anywhere else in the country outside of Central London. Like most other towns though, redevelopment of areas and the changes in social behaviour has led to many pubs being closed or restyled. Allan Wood and Chris Bottomley present an excellent collection of photographs from which the reader will glimpse some of Blackpool's `lost' pubs as well as ... Read more
Blackpool isn't a particularly old town and its rapid development has primarily been fuelled by tourism in the last 150 years or so. To cater for the millions of visitors that arrive each year, Blackpool has more licensed premises than anywhere else in the country outside of Central London. Like most other towns though, redevelopment of areas and the changes in social behaviour has led to many pubs being closed or restyled. Allan Wood and Chris Bottomley present an excellent collection of photographs from which the reader will glimpse some of Blackpool's `lost' pubs as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Pubs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445652832
SKU
V9781445652832
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-36
About Allan W. Wood
Allan was born in Blackpool and has a degree in Civil Engineering from Sheffield Poly and worked in the Borough Surveyor's Department of Blackpool BC from 1978 to 1989. His fascination with old Blackpool scenes started in Sheffield in 1975 at a `collectors' fair and has not stopped since. Allan has had several books published about old postcard views of ... Read more
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