Weston-Super-Mare Through Time

Product Description

Until the railways arrived, Weston-Super-Mare was a town without a history.

From a little fishing village with just a handful of houses, Weston grew into a major seaside resort, & this happened rapidly in just under one hundred years.

After a period of decline, it has recreated itself, successfully, as a holiday destination for the twenty-first century & as one of Somersets major towns.

Romans & seventeenth-century smugglers, television comedians & top-selling writers, & even the wireless pioneer Gugliemo Marconi play a part in the story of Westons past, as does the amazing diversity of architecture.

A walk along the towns seafront encompasses Victorian enterprise, Edwardian splendour, the commercial enterprise of the new-Elizabethans
- & the remarkable flood defences of the twenty-first century.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781445603858
• Author: Stephen Butt
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 96
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.5 x 1.5cm