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It became a popular watering place, where one drank the waters - unlike Bath, where one bathed.

It is said that the rapid growth of football as a popular sport was facilitated by Glasgow's excellent public transport system.

All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.

Cycling became a very popular way for many people to leave the workaday world behind and go out into the countryside. Reid's offered a wide choice at modest and affordable prices.

In Victoria Park the crowds could enjoy a traditional fair with numerous amusements to suit all ages; it was particularly popular in the evening.

A popular promenade, it was also used as a low water landing stage for excursions and paddle steamers. It was demolished in 1953.

The prawner was popular with fishermen from the Solway Firth to North Wales.

Inevitably, the wide street of the Promenade soon became a popular place to park the car, look at the beach and eat an ice cream. It has little changed in that function since.

Dreamland developed into a popular amusement park between the wars with imaginative and thrilling rides.

After 1900 the first sporadic growth began, and much farmland was turned into building plots for the tiny timber bungalows that were so popular as weekend retreats for Londoners in the 1920 and