I do like to be beside the seaside! -31 August 2021
Will Wiles takes us on a local, UK holiday, with this selection of books on British seasides and their architecture.
The pleasure pier is such an established part of the scenery of the British seaside that we forget their fantastical nature. They are “the most precarious and transitory of built structures”, writes Fred Gray in The Architecture of British Seaside Piers. It is, in some ways, “ludicrous” to build over the hostile margin of land and sea. A pier straddles three different types of...