http://jameskennell.com/2009/01/26/the-lost-promenade/ A blog on tourism, events, regeneration and economic development Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jameskennell.com/2009/01/26/the-lost-promenade/#comment-100 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:58:20 +0000 http://jameskennell.com/?p=191#comment-100 Isn’t this screaming out for a ‘Promenades Project’ to follow on from Benjamin. The seaside did hold a remarkable place in the culture of 19th & early 20th century England.

]]> http://jameskennell.com/2009/01/26/the-lost-promenade/#comment-98 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:27:22 +0000 http://jameskennell.com/?p=191#comment-98 Thanks for your comments and link! It looks like you’re doing some really interesting work. Our aim is to look for the positive in the seaside towns we visit, and not just glory in the decay. The next place to be blogged about is Margate (will be online in February) and funnily enough, a lot of what I’ll be talking about in that entry relates to regeneration – I was awake all night after we’d visited, buzzing with ideas for its rebirth!

]]> http://jameskennell.com/2009/01/26/the-lost-promenade/#comment-97 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:46:36 +0000 http://jameskennell.com/?p=191#comment-97 A great blog, which captures wonderfully the sparse, bleak beauty with which I associate Dungeness. Childhood walks along the coast always offered intriguing, ramshackle sights and invariably ended with a meal at a mysterious, isolated pub which seemed to exist independently of any community which you might expect it to serve. Like many coastal towns in Kent, Dungeness seems to exist in a different time, but somehow within a protective bubble which distinguishes it from other towns which seem to be perpetually fending off slow decay. If Dungeness had a soundtrack, it would be The Caretaker’s “Persistent Repetition of Phrases”

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