Piers and Other Seaside Architecture

Lynn F. Pearson is an architectural historian and photographer specialising in research on unheralded structures, from seaside architecture and slot machines to multi-storey car parks and mausoleums. She was brought up beside the sea, at Lowestoft in Suffolk. She has published fourteen books including The People's Palaces: Seaside Pleasure Buildings (Barracuda, 1991), BritishBreweries: An Architectural History (Hambledon Press, 2000), and Amusement Machines (1992), Lighthouses (1995) and Mausoleums (2002) for Shire. She is a research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, where she is writing and editing the titles and Architectural Ceramics Society's gazetteer of British ceramic sites. Her website at www.gosforth3.demon.co.uk is largely devoted to seaside architecture.