Tag: Leisure

• The lido boom and bust: how Britain built, closed and saved its open-air pools

  

  In the 1930s Britain built lidos; from the 1970s it closed them; since 2000 some have come back. I built an open register of 73 lidos: 33 of 49 dated openings came in the 1930s, and 14 closed pools have reopened.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, buildings, coast and sea, Heritage, Leisure, OpenStreetMap, Present day, sport, Twentieth century, UK, Wikipedia

• Did the railway invent the seaside?

  

  Britain’s seaside resorts were already growing 1.6% a year before any railway reached them. The line brought a burst in the decade it opened, and did most for resorts that had been slow before.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Before and after test, Britain, Census, coast and sea, Coasts and islands, history, Leisure, railways, UK, Victorian

• Tekken 3 on the PS1: still brilliant

  

  I got my PlayStation out the other day and Tekken 3 blew me away. Here’s why it still holds up, with some pixel art I drew for the occasion.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  art, games, Leisure, Retro games, Twentieth century

• Video game advertising: the next frontier

  

  Its 10 years since Obama advertised within games such as Burnout. Political advertisements within games has been sporadic. However recently in 2018 Doug Ford, a politician labelled the Canadian Trump, took out Xbox adverts. It appears that political advertising within games will become normality, given demographics and the importance of the market for advertisers.

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Election campaigns, games, Leisure, Online advertising, political advertising, United States