Kathryn Ferry is a historian, writer and lecturer who has also worked as Senior Architectural Adviser to the Victorian Society. Besides architecture and design her other great interest is the seaside, and the social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of four other books for Shire, including the bestselling 'Beach Huts and Bathing Machines'.

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Kathryn Ferry is a historian, writer and lecturer who has also worked as Senior Architectural Adviser to the Victorian Society. Besides architecture and design her other great interest is the seaside, and the social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of four other books for Shire, including the bestselling 'Beach Huts and Bathing Machines'.

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• Heart of the HomeThe Fitted KitchenColour and MaterialsLabour-Saving AppliancesCookware and GadgetsFifties FoodFurther ReadingIndex