Seaside architecture

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Seaside Architecture

Lynn Pearson was brought up at the seaside, near Britain's most easterly point at Lowestoft in Suffolk. She has been writing about the seaside since the 1980s. See her publications for details. This page offers a variety of seaside pdf files (you will need acrobat reader) to read or download.

Lynn's seaside architecture database or the illustrated version of the seaside architecture database

Lynn's series of articles on ceramics and seaside architecture Tile and Tide published in the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society newsletter TACtile during 2000-2

Below is the complete text of The People's Palaces: Seaside Pleasure Buildings 1870-1914 published in 1991 by Barracuda Books of Buckingham.

1 Sun, sea, sand and money
2 A palace at the end of the pier
3 The pleasure domes
4 Theatres of opulence
5 Crystal palaces beside the sea
6 For amusement only
7 The first picture shows
8 Building the people's palaces
9 Dreamland on Sea