Dr Kathryn Ferry

So many examples of living heritage at the seaside!
All the things in this image and much, much more.
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Would you like a space to write, with sea views? Dan Thompson Studio are offering a desk at Marine Studios to a writer. You'll have your own desk, 24 hour access, seven days a week. Views over Main Sands, the studio is a five minute walk from the station, Turner Contemporary, and the Old Town.

Love the Venetian Waterways!

Golden Nugget amusement arcade #GreatYarmouth #Norfolk #England about the same date

Very Olde-Worlde, seaside hotel interior designed to look like a historic country house

The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Lambeth – London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC) Architect’s Department, 1963-68 Image © Morley von Sternberg

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

Hope not- submission later this year 😱

Yes indeed, wasn't there one at Brighton Aquarium too? Thanks for the congrats but I've got to write it yet!!

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I almost sent that post direct to you! Can't wait to share what I've found out... (though still looking for that pesky portrait!)

🥁 Drum roll please... My next book will be about the Victorian pier engineer and architect EUGENIUS BIRCH so I took the opportunity yesterday to visit the Scarborough Art Gallery exhibition about his 1877 Aquarium. Demolished in 1968 the building was an amazing Indo-Moorish fantasy - with fish!!

Ah yes! Quite a come down but at least it still maintains a hint of its original Orientalist design

Yes indeed. The Spa Bridge opened in 1829. Dr Granville wrote of his visit in the late 1830s and said he felt dizzy going across it!

The 3 #victorian incarnations of #Scarborough Spa as seen in paintings on display at Scarborough Art Gallery. First the Gothic Saloon by Henry Wyatt of 1839, then the music hall & observation tower of 1858 by Joseph Paxton & George Stokes, finally the current building by Verity and Hunt opened 1878

Had an enjoyable afternoon filming inside #ScarboroughSpa - just too cold to film outside 🥶
It meant I got to have a look around which was most fortuitous as I'm currently researching an article on the Spa's architectural history

Discover the surprising story behind Britain’s Victorian drinking fountains with historian @seasideferry.bsky.social Learn how they transformed public health, the designs that sprung up, and the people they memorialise.
📅 7 Feb, 2-3pm Online via Zoom
Book now:

The sand does NOT care how much your #beachhut is worth

They had to get more chairs out for my U3A talk this afternoon - always a good sign! Now on the train heading for #Scarborough...

It is! well done 😊
the middle one is at St Sephulchre's Church in London, the first erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain Association in 1859.
the one on the right is in Bath

My next talk is all about the #Victorian drinking fountain movement. Sounds niche now but it captured the nation from the 1850s and saved thousands of lives by the provision of free, filtered water.
Online THIS Saturday 7 FEB, book via the link
@thevicsoc.bsky.social

So, if you vote for Reform you're voting to get the old Tories back in again?
Hardly much of a reform is it?
Just waiting for Liz Truss to sign up now...

Pier washes away and railway sea wall crumbles as storm lashes South West Part of a historic pier washes away and a sea wall next to a railway line crumbles as Storm Ingrid lashes Devon and Cornwall.

One for @seasidenetwork.bsky.social and @seasideferry.bsky.social: the end of the Victorian Teignmouth Pier has gone.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you love the seaside please consider supporting this proposal to have it added to the UK's first inventory of #LivingHeritage 🏖️🌊⚓

Really enjoyed taking part in @seasidenetwork.bsky.social seminar on 'Wonders of the Deep' yesterday. 102 people tuned in for talks on fisheries, fearsome interwar sea monsters (linked to geopolitics, maybe?) and my own paper on architectural seahorses. A recording will be available soon...

Thank you - stitches due for removal tomorrow...

Kent seaside town tipped to bid for UK Town of Culture 2028 Council chiefs say a Kent seaside town’s bid for UK Town of Culture is “very tempting”.

The Government's new Town of Culture initiative has already got 2 potential seaside bidders - #Folkestone, Kent and #Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Both have loads to offer. Will any other seaside towns try and win the prize?
www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/n...

Another lovely brochure cover from @mikeyashworth.bsky.social PLUS my dog is called Juno! She is currently sporting a cone of shame after she ran at full pelt through barbed wire and had to be stitched up 😔

Hiya, I just had to check! Looks like you just click on the number of likes and it takes you to the full list 😊

#scarborough is bidding to become the UK's first Town of Culture so I've been on BBC Radio York this morning to give it my backing. Would be amazing for our first seaside resort - created 400 years ago - to be our first Town of Culture 🤞

Thank you, a trickle is now coming through but fear this is going to keep happening