Pleasure Boating on the Thames

A History of Salter Bros, 1858-Present Day

Simon Wenham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5833-2 (ISBN)

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The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country. Simon Wenham’s illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.

SIMON WENHAM is on the part-time tutor panel of Oxford University’s Continuing Education Department. His doctorate at the university was on the history of Salter Bros Ltd, where he worked as a manager for five years. He has travelled on the waterways around Oxfordshire by skiff, steamer, canoe and narrowboat. He maintains www.simonwenham.com, which promotes aspects of social history with a particular emphasis on Victorian Britain, the river Thames, the city of Oxford and the development of leisure.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.5.2014
Zusatzinfo	40 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7509-5833-2 / 0750958332
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-5833-2 / 9780750958332
Zustand	Neuware