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Reviews Days at the Coast Ayrshire, Ochiltree, 1994, pp.101, £8.50 ROBERT PRESTON, This is the kind of collection that will give a lot of pleasure to many people. Mr Preston has brought together some two hundred views of Clyde resorts, of the steamers that took folk 'doun the Water', of the places they went, and the entertainments and amusements which passed their time from Harry Kemp's Scotch Broth ensemble at Saltcoats to sandcastle competitions at Millport. Postcards provide the main source, and what is to be welcomed is that he also includes some of the messages; one holidaymaker at Strachur in August 1910 complained that 'it is awfully wet here. Rain every day since we came', a distinct corrective to the world of the postcard in which the sun seems always to be shining. There are also railway and steamer posters, and some photographs as of an unfortunate dancing bear at a dreich Largs. There are both colour and black and white reproductions of a high quality. The accompanying commentary is sometimes full, but in other places very brief: one feels that more could and should have been drawn out from the illustrations. And it is frustrating for
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1997
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