Changing places

Question 1

E: History

Answer 1

• Railway built 1838
• Railway lines 1832-1847
• Manufacturing expansion (1900-1950s)
  e. g Mr Kipling and Pirellis
• Deindustrialisation (1950s-2000) = Bloom of tertiary employement

Question 2

E: Topography

Answer 2

Soil is Earthbrick

Sat on a wide floodplain - River Itchen

Question 3

E: Landuse

Answer 3

Houses (jonas nicolas - grid housing), retailing, office blocks

Question 4

E: Built environment

Answer 4

First council houses built (1920s)

By 2036 New Stoneham to build 1100 new homes on a greenfield site :(

Question 5

E: Infrastructure

Answer 5

Railway to London (1938)
M5 and M27 connect (1995)
Home to HQ of Hampshire fire and rescue
60 secondary schools

Question 6

E: Social characteristics

Answer 6

18x growth of population (1871-1901)
82% employed
Older age group driving overall population
76% Christian

Question 7

E: Economic characteristics

Answer 7

Deindustrialisation (1950s-2000s)
End of secondary and beginning of tertiary
Some high tech manufacturing jobs but less jobs

Question 8

E: Flows of people

Answer 8

Manufacturing of railway (1890) = flow of people from London to Eastleigh = jobs = £

Migration of EU migrants

Question 9

E: Flows of ideas

Answer 9

Point theatre

Vue (2009)

Question 10

E: Flows of capital

Answer 10

Swan Centre (1989) (2009)
Places Leisure - Netball - Cez :D (end of 2017)
M & S (summer 2017)

Question 11

E:Flows of resources

Answer 11

House building = construction

Mineral resources = e.g cable wiring

Question 12

E: External forces

Answer 12

Govs: Local gov - Places leisure

MNCs: AGEAS (Belgian) and Prysmian (Italian)

Question 13

E: Quantitative data

Answer 13

South Eastleigh Ward:
£255,000 , 38 yrs, owner occupied 50% and social housing 30% , middle level of deprivation

Eastleigh Central:
£180,000, 35 yrs, 45% private renting, middle to lowest 20% deprivation

North Eastleigh Ward
£400,000, 40 yrs, 80% owner occupied, top 20% of least deprivation

Question 14

E: Qualitative data

Answer 14

M&S- Dylan
“continuing to establish itself as a great place to live”

Bill Bryson - The road to little dribbling
“It is an interestingly unmemorable place- not numbingly ugly but not attractive either”
“Eastleigh has closed its factories and workshops, and instead is directing all its economic energies into the making and drinking of coffee…”

Blogs
“Don’t Fret! Not only have we got a KFC, but McDonald’s, Greggs, Subway, Poppins, Pizza, Kebabs, chip shops, cafes, Chinese, Indian, Mexican… you get the picture”

Top 5 words to describe Eastleigh
1) Convenient 2) Compact 3) Average 4) Boring 5)Quiet

Question 15

E: Re-imaging

Answer 15

Railway man sculpture - Towns first piece of major art
Proud industrial and working history is celebrated.

Charlotte Yonge - young novelist, who was generous with giving money earned from her writing to churches. She was asked to name which of the two villages the parish should be named after. Eastley she chose but wanted it to be Eastleigh as it was more modern.

Eastleigh Market Place - £600k facelift

Question 16

T: History

Answer 16

Tor - weathered rock outcrop = Torre
Quay - harbour = Fishing and agriculture (Past)
First ad campaign (1902)
Host town to WW2 evacuee children
Railway (1948)
Tourism = £££@seaside resort (late 1900s)
Destination for foreign exchange students (2000s)

Question 17

T: Topography

Answer 17

South West coast
Sheltered area - sandy beaches
Hilly - steep slopes = valleys towards the sea

Question 18

T: Landuse

Answer 18

55% classified as greenspace
Farming - poultry and dairy
Housing

Fishing industry is now concentrated to only Brixham

Question 19

T: Built environment

Answer 19

Houses
Large hotels
Main retail centre
Small retail parks on the outskirts or Torquay

Question 20

T: Infrastructure

Answer 20

A380 that links to M5
Exeter is 30 mins commute
London is 4-5hours
2 railways
5 secondary schools 
A&E

Question 21

T: Social characteristics

Answer 21

66,000 people live in Torquay
Average age 43
1:2 ratio of old:young
90% White British

Question 22

T: Economic characteristics

Answer 22

Dominated by tertiary jobs
20% people working in tourism
Average pay is £100 less than the rest of the UK

Question 23

T: Flows of people

Answer 23

5 deaths/4 births per day. Without migration, Torquay would be a shrinking population

lack of opportunities for 15-19 yr olds hence why an aging population

Question 24

T: Flows of ideas

Answer 24

Town centre regeneration
‘Torbay connected’ (2010)
‘Harbour regenertation (2018)
2 hotels becoming student flats for student exchanges

Question 25

T: Flows of capital

Answer 25

Torbay council

£32 million investment for developement of Harbour side

Question 26

T: Flows of resources

Answer 26

House building (construction resources)
Clay pits mined locally and sent elsewhere

Question 27

T: External forces

Answer 27

Global:

EU - £116 million from 2014 - 2020

Question 28

T: Qualitative data

Answer 28

Blog
‘I love Torquay fro a MILLION different reasons’

Mumsnet
‘There are some lovely areas but also some really rough bits’

Torbados - youtube video
'famous for hen parties'
'concrete jungle bars'
 the drinks they get thrown up'
'bedsit full of fleas'

Agatha Christie - famous crime writer

Question 29

T: Re-imaging

Answer 29

Metronomy album cover - English Riviera, a romantic destination where magic happens

Vintage poster = attract tourists
1920s Great Western Railway - more accessible and affordable railway travel

Nostalgia in New posters - 2014 Bettesworth
Recalls classic vintage posters but skillfully updates with a modern palette.

Question 30

T: Quantitative data

Answer 30

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