Changing places Flashcards
E: History
- Railway built 1838
- Railway lines 1832-1847
- Manufacturing expansion (1900-1950s)
e. g Mr Kipling and Pirellis - Deindustrialisation (1950s-2000) = Bloom of tertiary employement
E: Topography
Soil is Earthbrick
Sat on a wide floodplain - River Itchen
E: Landuse
Houses (jonas nicolas - grid housing), retailing, office blocks
E: Built environment
First council houses built (1920s)
By 2036 New Stoneham to build 1100 new homes on a greenfield site :(
E: Infrastructure
Railway to London (1938)
M5 and M27 connect (1995)
Home to HQ of Hampshire fire and rescue
60 secondary schools
E: Social characteristics
18x growth of population (1871-1901)
82% employed
Older age group driving overall population
76% Christian
E: Economic characteristics
Deindustrialisation (1950s-2000s)
End of secondary and beginning of tertiary
Some high tech manufacturing jobs but less jobs
E: Flows of people
Manufacturing of railway (1890) = flow of people from London to Eastleigh = jobs = £
Migration of EU migrants
E: Flows of ideas
Point theatre
Vue (2009)
E: Flows of capital
Swan Centre (1989) (2009)
Places Leisure - Netball - Cez :D (end of 2017)
M & S (summer 2017)
E:Flows of resources
House building = construction
Mineral resources = e.g cable wiring
E: External forces
Govs: Local gov - Places leisure
MNCs: AGEAS (Belgian) and Prysmian (Italian)
E: Quantitative data
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
E: Qualitative data
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
E: Re-imaging
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
T: History
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)
T: Topography
South West coast
Sheltered area - sandy beaches
Hilly - steep slopes = valleys towards the sea
T: Landuse
55% classified as greenspace
Farming - poultry and dairy
Housing
Fishing industry is now concentrated to only Brixham
T: Built environment
Houses
Large hotels
Main retail centre
Small retail parks on the outskirts or Torquay
T: Infrastructure
A380 that links to M5 Exeter is 30 mins commute London is 4-5hours 2 railways 5 secondary schools A&E
T: Social characteristics
66,000 people live in Torquay
Average age 43
1:2 ratio of old:young
90% White British
T: Economic characteristics
Dominated by tertiary jobs
20% people working in tourism
Average pay is £100 less than the rest of the UK
T: Flows of people
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
T: Flows of ideas
Town centre regeneration
‘Torbay connected’ (2010)
‘Harbour regenertation (2018)
2 hotels becoming student flats for student exchanges
T: Flows of capital
Torbay council
£32 million investment for developement of Harbour side
T: Flows of resources
House building (construction resources) Clay pits mined locally and sent elsewhere
T: External forces
Global:
EU - £116 million from 2014 - 2020
T: Qualitative data
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
T: Re-imaging
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.
T: Quantitative data
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