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Dr Kathryn Ferry

@seasideferry.bsky.social

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Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly. Founder member @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social Rep'd by @pastpreservers.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see there's a plan, thanks

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds unlikely but Salvation Army members in Worthing were mostly outsiders and resented as such. Lots of them were also women because the organization treated both sexes equally. This was not popular with locals either

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Walked past this building earlier, the Salvation Army Citadel in #Sheffield. It's boarded up now through lack of use but I learnt from a fellow speaker on Saturday that there were riots against the Sally Army in the 1880s! In #worthing all the windows in their HQ were broken

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Other 1932 #fairground/ #seaside trivia - yo-yos were the latest novelty; #Folkestone banned Punch and Judy men 😱; the world record for longest fast was contended by various sideshow acts and soda fountains were very profitable

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Spent today at the fab National Fairground and Circus Archive @uoscollections.bsky.social
Surprising upshot of browsing through 1932 copies of World's Fair magazine is that I now know who (probably) invented the ice cream cornet - Charles E Menches from Akron, Ohio. Now you know too 🍦🍦🍦

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

@victurk.bsky.social Saw this and (obviously!) thought of you.
I'm sure you know #Sheffield #turkishbaths but it was great to see it so boldly advertised and still in use

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Really enjoyed my talk at #sheffield Millennium Gallery yesterday. A sell-out crowd which just goes to show that you don't have to be beside the #seaside to appreciate it

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

No! They're just for looking at 😂

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful to meet you too Kim and thanks so much for coming along. Really glad you enjoyed it xx

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, so I'm not famous enough to appear on the banner but I'm excited to be in such brilliant company! #OffTheShelf #FestivalofWords #Sheffield

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

Stepped out of the train in #sheffield and the sun was in my eyes! But look, there's Park Hill behind the station...
And lots of shiny things on the walk to my hotel

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely!! See you later Kim 👋

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

On my way to #sheffield to speak at the #OffTheShelf festival and taking a moment to admire the marvellous train shed at St Pancras by William Henry Barlow and Rowland Mason Ordish

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 2d

This looks fascinating. I worked as a tour guide in a glass factory when I was a teenager talking visitors through the processes on the floor below. Didn't know the concept started between the wars

Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 2d

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production

Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 2d

#onthisday, 12 Oct 1868, the #Brighton #TurkishBaths opened in West Street. The Architect—Horatio Nelson Goulty—secretary, & all original directors of the Brighton Turkish Bath Co Ltd were Freemasons. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... Closed in 1909, it became the Academy Cinema. 🗃️ #C19th

Certificate No.758 for a £10 share in the Brighton Turkish Bath Company Limited.

Drawings of the proposed hot room and cooling-room, with two floor plans.

Drawing of bathers standing and seated round the plunge pool in the cooling-room, part of an advertisement for the baths shortly after opening.

The exterior of the baths in 1939, thirty years after its closure and conversion into the Academy Cinema.

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

I get that

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

I can! We bought a wood fired pizza oven in the summer so I got quite good at it 🍕😁

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

Some bow windows in #Lewes. I like the tenty shape of the one painted black. Incidentally the building is for sale if anyone would like to own it (me, me, me!)

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Annie, hope you enjoyed it ☺️

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

I think the juxtapositions make it all more interesting

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it is sad that the last surviving Kursaal is in such a sorry state

Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

I have a couple of sets of those in my collection of bonkers seaside souvenirs ☺️

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow I'm speaking at a conference about Victorian and Edwardian Sussex which gives me the chance to talk about #piers and Kursaals - a form of entertainment pavilion inspired by Continental spa towns. Here are the Kursaals at Bognor, Bexhill & Worthing
www.sussexarchaeology.org/victorianedw...

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 4d

Fab! Do you know when the details for that are going to be published? I've got some people in Great Yarmouth who might like to sign up...

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