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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to Weymouth with John Cowper Powys [ ⇒
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WEYMOUTH SEAFRONT A map of Weymouth seafront as seen in this view taken to the NW from the Esplanade at low tide on a sunny day. The church steeple barely visible at the extreme right is that of St. John's, just behind Brunswick Terrace. "In my child's mind the sea front was always separated into two strict divisions. To the right as I came out of the door was all the gaiety of a Vanity Fair, with varnished pleasure boats, entertainment shows, fairy-story goat-carriages, and white flat happy sands good for building castles. To the left was a more sombre expanse where the sea was rough and had to be kept by banks of heavy pebbles from breaking over into Lodmoor, that wild waste of bird-haunted marshland." (Llewelyn Powys, Dorset Essays ). |
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