Bury St Edmunds Memories

Bury St Edmunds Memories

Castles of the Marches

Castles of the Marches

By Steamer to the South Coast

Series: By Steamer to the ...

Publication Date15th August 2014

Book FormatPaperback

pages96

Illustrations180

Height234

Width165

The story of the pleasure steamer cruises along the South coast.
Regular Price £15.99 Online Price: £14.39
Availability: In stock
ISBN
9781445614519

Since the dawn of steam navigation, people have taken pleasure cruises in Britain’s rivers and estuaries and along the coast. Andrew Gladwell takes us on a tour of the south coast of England, illustrating the story of the paddle and pleasure steamers from south Devon to Sussex. Southampton and Bournemouth were the homes of the Red Funnel fleet, and Weymouth housed the ships of Cosens. Interlopers such as the White Funnel ships of P&A Campbell also operated in the area, as did independents in Brighton and Hastings.


From the beauty of Lulworth Cove, where the paddlers would beach on the shallow sand to let passengers off, to the piers of Swanage, Poole, Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, pleasure steamers were a common sight until the late 1960s, when Cosens finally closed and scrapped their ships, although the PS Waverley and the Balmoral still continue the tradition.

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