Background
Inglis was born in Sparkhill, Birmingham in 1955 and is currently editor of the Played in Britain series on sporting heritage, published by Historic England.
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The Football Grounds of Europe
(In tracing the history and design of over 150 European st...)
In tracing the history and design of over 150 European stadiums, the author visited every major World Cup and club venue from 33 countries, noting en route not only their architectural development but also their place in the sporting and social milieu.
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The Football Grounds of Britain
(As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hi...)
As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hillsborough disaster, Football League and Scottish League clubs are having to make stringent alterations to their grounds, in preparation for all-seater stadia. This revised edition reflects many of those changes, as well as the promotion to Football League status of Maidstone United and Barnet. New illustrations have been included, where appropriate. Since his book was first published in 1983 as "The Football Grounds of England and Wales", Simon Inglis has become acknowledged as an authority on the safety aspects of football ground architecture, and is now a member of the Football Licensing Authority. His survey, in this book, of every ground in all Divisions of the Football and Scottish Leagues, discusses their significance from the perspectives of football history, architecture, safety and social history.
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Great Lengths: The historic indoor swimming pools of Britain (Played in Britain)
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Swimming is Britain’s most popular participation sport. Nearly one in four people swim at least once a month, with around 80 million visits to swimming pools recorded every year. Surprisingly, although public baths have formed a vital part of community life since an 1846 Act of Parliament, their story has never been told in book form until now. Great Lengths, the eighth book in the acclaimed Played in Britain series, traces the development of indoor public baths and pools, from the earliest subscription baths of the Georgian period and the first municipal baths in Liverpool in 1829, to the current generation of leisure pools with their flumes and potted palm trees. In both the public and private sectors the golden era of pool design fell between the 1880s and 1914, when over 600 baths were constructed, many rich in architectural detail and technological innovation. The magnificent Victoria Baths in Manchester completed in 1906 (2003 winner of BBC2 Restoration series) set new standards for opulence. Birmingham’s Balsall Heath Baths (1907), London’s Haggerston Baths (1904) and similar establishments in Hull, Nottingham and Glasgow equally reflected the civic pride of their creators, as greater awareness of hygiene and physical fitness brought safe swimming and recreation to the urban masses. A further burst of activity between the wars saw a new generation of concrete and glass Art Deco baths and in the 1960s these were joined by classic Modern designs. Great Lengths is no mere exercise in nostalgia. Scores of Victorian and Edwardian baths have been allowed to deteriorate. Dozens remain closed and the subject of long running campaigns for restoration. Yet many modern baths built in the late 20th century have also been found wanting. For this reason, this book will serve as an important reference for anyone involved in the current debate, whether as swimmers or providers.
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SIGHTLINES. A Stadium Odyssey.
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Soccer in the Dock
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Book by Inglis, Simon
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A Load of Old Balls (Played in Britain Series)
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Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer (Played in Britain)
(Professional football provide one of the Victoran era's m...)
Professional football provide one of the Victoran era's most mesmerising spectacles, developed at a time when the British public has at its disposal more free time and spare pennies than ever before. But as the bread became more plentiful, it needed someone to build the circuses. That man was Archibald Leitch. Born in Glasgow in 1865, Archibald Leitch - a consulting engineer and factory architect by profession - became to football what Frank Matcham was to theatre; in effect, its designer in chief. Millions of spectators sat or stood in Leitch's structures, built for such famous clubs as Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Hearts and, not least, Glasgow Rangers, where his stadium career began in 1899, and nearly ended just three years later, when one of his stands gave way, leading to the death of 26 spectators. Leitch witnessed the tragedy and vowed never to let it be repeated. But while his pedimented gables and criss-cross steelwork balconies formed a recognisable and much-admired style, and his own patented crush barriers were so ubiquitous as to be virtually invisible, until now little has been known of Leitch himself. Moreover, following the modernisation of football grounds as a result of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, only a dozen of his buildings survive. In this timely and entertaining study of Leitch's life, his works and his legacy, Simon Inglis has unearthed a surprising number of hitherto unseen plans, documents and archive photographs, many of them rich in detail.
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The Football Grounds of Britain by Simon Inglis (1987-04-06)
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Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey by Simon (Like-new) Inglis (2001-01-01) Paperback
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The Football Grounds of Britain
(As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hi...)
As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hillsborough disaster, Football League and Scottish League clubs are having to make stringent alterations to their grounds, in preparation for all-seater stadia. This revised edition reflects many of those changes, as well as the promotion to Football League status of Maidstone United and Barnet. New illustrations have been included, where appropriate. Since his book was first published in 1983 as "The Football Grounds of England and Wales", Simon Inglis has become acknowledged as an authority on the safety aspects of football ground architecture, and is now a member of the Football Licensing Authority. His survey, in this book, of every ground in all Divisions of the Football and Scottish Leagues, discusses their significance from the perspectives of football history, architecture, safety and social history.
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Great Lengths: The Historic Indoor Swimming Pools of Britain (Played in Britain Series) by Dr. Ian Gordon (2009-02-03)
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Football Grounds of England and Wales
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Simon Inglis
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He describes himself as a now mainly "arms length" Aston Villa fan. In December 2005 he was described as an "iconoclastic historian" and "a national treasure who must be encouraged at all costs". Inglis summarised Leitch"s career for FourFourTwo Magazine in 2015 Great Lengths, the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain, which Inglis co-authored with Doctor Ian Gordon, received wide praise in the national press
Inglis" latest book Played in London, charting the heritage of a city at play, was published in September 2014 to great acclaim.
Signed copies are available from Played in Britain In August 2014 Inglis was chosen as a Listed Londoner for British Broadcasting Corporation London"s Robert Elms programme In 2015, inspired by the £1,000 free bet he received as a result of Played in London being shortlisted by William Hill, Inglis set out to discover whether he could earn more from betting cautiously with bookies than by putting the money into a building society. He ended up making 18.5 percent on his year"s betting before donating the proceeds to charity In addition to his writing, Inglis has given lectures at a wide range of institutions (including De Montfort University, Birkbeck College and the London College of Communications).
Societies (Victorian Society and the Twentieth Century Society). Local history societies, sporting bodies and at both literary and history festivals.
He also conducts tours of London football sites for visiting United States colleges.
His photography has appeared in numerous books and publications. In mid 2016 his archive of football ground images is to be made available via the When Saturday Comes photography gallery Simon Inglis biography Simon Inglis on Twitter.
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His illustrated biography of the Scottish football ground designer Archibald Leitch, Engineering Archie, was runner up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2005. lieutenant was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014, selected as Book of the Year by both the Londonist website and the London Historians and described by the Mail Online as a "remarkable book" and a "cracking good read" by The Times.
Works
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The Football Grounds of Europe
(In tracing the history and design of over 150 European st...)
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The Football Grounds of Britain
(As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hi...)
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The Football Grounds of Britain
(As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hi...)
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Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer (Played in Britain)
(Professional football provide one of the Victoran era's m...)
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Great Lengths: The historic indoor swimming pools of Britain (Played in Britain)
( Swimming is Britain’s most popular participation sport....)
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Soccer in the Dock
(Book by Inglis, Simon)
- Sightlines : A Stadium Odyssey
- SIGHTLINES. A Stadium Odyssey.
- A Load of Old Balls (Played in Britain Series)
- The Football Grounds of Britain by Simon Inglis (1987-04-06)
- Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey by Simon (Like-new) Inglis (2001-01-01) Paperback
- Great Lengths: The Historic Indoor Swimming Pools of Britain (Played in Britain Series) by Dr. Ian Gordon (2009-02-03)
- Football Grounds of England and Wales
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The Football Grounds of Europe
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