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Cheltenham
Anthea Jones
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Hardcover. Dr Anthea Jones describes Cheltenham's varied and unique journey from market town to booming spa, followed by the arrival of industry and suburban expansion, right up to today's tourist hotspot that benefits from a varied economic base and a wide social mix. A major new book. Num Pages: 384 pages, 280 colour and monochrome. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1354. A New History. 384 pages, 280 colour and monochrome. Dr Anthea Jones describes Cheltenham's varied and unique journey from market town to booming spa, followed by the arrival of industry and suburban expansion, right up to today's tourist hotspot that benefits from a varied economic base and a wide social mix. A major new book. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; HBJD1. Dimension: 257 x 199 x 29. Weight: 1354.
Cheltenham is well known as the most complete Regency town in Britain. It boasts a wonderful ensemble of broad streets, handsome terraces and sweeping crescents, as well as a remarkable number of generously proportioned squares and gardens. Grand stuccoed houses of the period are adorned with fine wrought-iron balconies, and the town has an air of openness, lightness and genteel early nineteenth-century affluence. This period was certainly important in Cheltenham's development, a time when the town became firmly established as a fashionable place of residence for the better-off, all the more attractive for being less expensive than nearby Bath. ... Read more
Cheltenham is well known as the most complete Regency town in Britain. It boasts a wonderful ensemble of broad streets, handsome terraces and sweeping crescents, as well as a remarkable number of generously proportioned squares and gardens. Grand stuccoed houses of the period are adorned with fine wrought-iron balconies, and the town has an air of openness, lightness and genteel early nineteenth-century affluence. This period was certainly important in Cheltenham's development, a time when the town became firmly established as a fashionable place of residence for the better-off, all the more attractive for being less expensive than nearby Bath. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carnegie Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Lancaster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859361542
SKU
V9781859361542
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Anthea Jones
Dr Anthea Jones was for fifteen years head of history at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She read modern history at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then went to work in the London County Council, as it then existed. A few years later, teaching offered a more flexible working week, and quickly became a source of much enjoyment and fulfilment. An interest ... Read more
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