RACHAEL LOUISE EXPLORES: WBL

Previous blogs have covered some of the negative social issues around seaside shelters, including vandalism, anti-social behaviour and...

Demolished seaside shelters is an entire topic I’d love to explore further; the reasons why the shelters have been lost, whether they’ve...

The Design Brief is the proposed outcome of my research. The research far outweighs what is suitable to present within a brief, but the...

During the previous research methods module, I visited the archives at Portsmouth library in order to discover more about Southsea Common...

The regeneration of seaside towns and seafronts is a wide topic, one which I’m going to explore as part of my thesis project. But there...

The design brief will be focussing on a permanent structure for the seafront, however its worth considering temporary shelters as part of...

The seafront has been an important part of Portsmouth and Southsea for at least the last two centuries and this is formally recognised in...

Staying with the competition theme, another competition set on the coast bearing a resemblance to seaside shelters was a 2006 RIBA...

Another design competition also with its own controversies was Littlehampton Town Council’s ‘Stage by the Sea’ competition. Whilst not a...

One of the competitions for the design of a new seaside shelter that helped inspire this project was set in Bexhill on Sea in East...

General social issues regarding seaside shelters were discussed in an earlier post, but a recurring theme, also touched upon by Neil...

The archaeology of the twentieth-century English seaside holiday experience: a phenomenological context. Neil has written several papers...

There are many seaside shelters that have been listed across the country, 30 that I’ve considered so far when looking through Historic...

The seaside shelters across the country have been dictated by the popular materials at the time of production and installation and their...

One of the most interesting parts about the seaside shelters when looking across the those in the southwest alone, is the distinctiveness...

Another issue that affects seaside shelters regularly, more frequently with climate change and irregular weather patterns as well as sea...

There are several issues surrounding seafront shelters in current times, anti social behaviour being one of them. The shelters by their...

Crowds watching a Punch and Judy show at Southsea, about 1895. Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Late 1800s: Some early reports of...

The book by Fred Gray covers many aspects of the seaside from an architectural perspective, however little is mentioned about seaside...

The book by Will Scott is a photographic journey around the UK documenting the seaside shelters in whatever state they were in at the...