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Informationen zum Autor Adam Menuge is Senior Investigator in English Heritage's Architectural Investigation Team. Klappentext Presents something of the historic interest encapsulated in Berwick, Tweedmouth and Spittal, and explains how these places came to assume such varied and distinctive forms. This book urges that a town anxious for stability and prosperity in the future must know where it has come from as well as where it is going. Zusammenfassung Nikolaus Pevsner described Berwick-upon-Tweed as ‘one of the most exciting towns in England’ [Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Northumberland (1957), 88] – a place where an absorbing historical tale can still be read in the dense fabric of its old streets and buildings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction: a border town on the borders of change; 2 A town takes shape; The landscape beneath; The Liberty of Berwick; Fruits of the earth; Communications; The buildings of the early town. 3 Political! social and spiritual order; Defence of the realm; Competing faiths; Berwick Corporation and local government; 4 Commercial growth: Berwick looks abroad; The salmon fishery; The herring fishery; The Greenland whale fishery; The grain trade; The rebuilding of Berwick; 5 Industry and housing: the 19th and 20th centuries; The rise of industry; Housing the poor; 6 Leisurely pursuits; The growth of the resort; 7 Safeguarding Berwick's past for the future; Notes; References and further reading.
