By Garth Groombridge
However, through taking a pattern of 50 constructions, no longer them all constantly so seen or that popular, this booklet units out to chart the town's thousand-year-plus chronological historical past. From the medieval period via to its eighteenth-century acceptance as a spa, its sluggish, yet in view that non-stop, growth as a advertisement docks through the final 2 hundred years, the dramatic adjustments to its coastline and topography, and, through the overdue 20th century and into the twenty-first, its transformation right into a new, dynamic, bustling urban. at the method we find historic public homes, historical church buildings, eccentric monuments, altering fortunes (both advertisement and political), dramatic examples of civic and mercantile aspirations, and an eclectic mixture of many alternative, contrasting architectural styles.
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