The History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects

Thursday 10 October at 7.30pm

At Bridport Town Hall, East Street, DT6 3LF

Ticket Price: £8.00 available on the door

Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts, and all those parts have their history.  Seaside historian Kathryn Ferry will be charting the part these played in a talk entitled The History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects. The talk unpicks our experience of the seaside through the things that make it distinctive.

Kathryn is the author of a number of books on seaside, architecture and design and the talk is based on Kathryn’s book Seaside 100. She enjoys sharing her passions for the seaside and often appears on radio and television. The talk is high point of the West Bay Discovery Centre’s “A Resort to Rival Others” exhibition programme. The exhibition, which is at the Discovery Centre until the end of December, tells the story what happened some 140 years ago when a group of local businessmen believed that Bridport Harbour could become a seaside resort to rival Weymouth or Bournemouth.

This event is organised by West Bay Discovery Centre:  www.westbaydiscoverycentre.org.uk