youth hostels, the history, people and ideas behind them
Youth hostels often seem like an urban idea but the origins of youth hostels in the Lake District show us something very different. They began in the Lake District in a haphazard and unorganised way after a schoolteacher, on the eastern Pennine fringe of the region, opened one hostel. Another opened on the edge Windermere... Continue Reading →
"Each member is required to carry out hostel duties as directed by the warden"* What do you remember about youth hostel chores? Washing up or dusting down? The daily chore was the centre piece of staying in a hostel from 1930 until at least the 1980s. Everyone swept, mopped, polished, scrubbed, or did any one... Continue Reading →
A group of enthusiasts on Merseyside claimed for itself a foremost place in youth hostel history, being the first to use the title of “Youth Hostels Association” and first to use the term youth hostel. Having set themselves “to promote Youth Hostels” they set their hearts on establishing “a chain of hostels in North Wales”... Continue Reading →
Perspectives of travel among youth hostel members in England and Wales in 1938 drawn from YHA's annual report of that year.
A new and illustrated edition Events change, times move and the up to date becomes old news. We all face the slow fade of what was new and exciting into rubbed, dull life so it's inevitable to want to revive and renew when time has passed. Open to All was published four years ago. Readers... Continue Reading →
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