{"id":6299,"date":"2013-08-09T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2013-08-09T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T18:05:42","slug":"new-context-ihbcside-heritage-conservation-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6299","title":{"rendered":"New Context: IHBCside heritage\u2026 conservation at the beach!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Summer is here, and Context has gone to the beach as the IHBC\u2019s membership journal is now out, looking at our seaside heritage<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

IHBC Director, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Just now, as some of our smaller seaside resorts seem to be targeted as little more than society’s sink estates, it\u2019s worth remembering just what a wonderful resource they can all represent, and how hard our members and their colleagues are working to revive their fortunes.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018So it is critical that we seek answers to problems rising from lacklustre policies that will only generate the costliest of long-term problems. And if ever there was a tool to help us all look beyond those policies and problems, it is our current issue of Context!\u2019<\/p>\n

To get everyone in a holiday mood, Context editor Rob Cowan writes: \u2018The location at the edge \u2013 where the finite world meets the infinite sea and sky, and the ceaseless waves roll and withdraw \u2013 gives the seaside a magic of its own. Such magic: sun, salt, seabirds, the architecture of enticement, piers, beach huts, pavilions, helter-skelters, merry-go-rounds, and promenade railings and shelters; and the faded glories of an era when resorts promised fun for all the family (such an unlikely prospect!) rather than places for the elderly to stroll away their sunset years.\u2019<\/p>\n

Context\u2019s editorial panel chair and IHBC Project Officer Fiona Newton writes: \u2018Architects at the seaside were expected to spark the imaginations of the people who saw and used their buildings through all sorts of exoticism, from the orientalism of Brighton\u2019s Royal Pavilion downwards; or, similarly eschewing the everyday world, through the art deco, modernism or moderne announcing that these were not places constrained by architectural convention.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Context\u2019s content? Reliably unconventional:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Littoral conservation – literal architecture
\n\u00b7 Coastline coasters – the seaside funfair ride
\n\u00b7 Penarth Pavilion – part-bridge from past to future
\n\u00b7 Beach huts – designed, built and rediscovered
\n\u00b7 Old boat breakwaters, and
\n\u00b7 Historic environment in the sea!<\/p>\n

Themed issues of Context also include more general conservation articles as well as news, book reviews and reports from the IHBC\u2019s officers.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming Context themes include the IHBC 2013 School for Skills, Heritage and Nationhood, and the Value of heritage.<\/p>\n

If you have any suggestions for articles or other material contact Fiona Newton at: editorial@ihbc.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For an update on current social policy impacts on seaside resorts see our NewsBlog at<\/span>: LINK<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For information on Context\u2019s future issues, guidance for authors, and links to the journal\u2019s archives, see<\/span>: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

Read online issues and see features and articles from the links at<\/span>: LINK\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

To find our more about the IHBC, take advantage of our mobile friendly introduction to the institute\u2019s 25000+ of web page resources at<\/span>: LINK\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer is here, and Context has gone to the beach as the IHBC\u2019s membership journal is now out, looking at our seaside heritage. IHBC Director, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Just now, as some of our smaller seaside resorts seem to be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}