JOYCEAN PICS 2009
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
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  Bognor Regis Railway Station
  London Road
  [FW Book I] Clarence Road featuring "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace,
  [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach
  
CONTENTS 2009
   1  Glasgow IASIL 2009@University of Glasgow
   2  Glasgow (Glaschu) and Joyce
   3  Glasgow (Glaschu): miscellanea
   4  Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
   5  New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
   6  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean)
   7  Oban (An t-Oban)
   8  Kilchurn Castle, Argyll and Bute
   9  Inveraray Castle (Caisteal Inbhir Aora), Argyll and Bute
  10  Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann), the Central Highlands
  11  Loch Lochy (Loch Lochaidh) and Loch Oich (Loch Omhaich) of the Caledonian Canal
  12  Loch Ness (Loch Nis) of the Caledonian Canal
  13  Inverness (Inbhir Nis)
  14  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
  15  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
  16  Moneygall (Muine Gall), County Offaly
  17  Limerick (Luimneach)
  18  The Burren (Boireann), County Clare
  19  Doolin (Dulainn), County Clare
  20  The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
  21  Connemara (Conamara)
  22  London and Joyce
  23  London: miscellanea
  24  Bognor Regis, West Sussex
  25  Sidlesham, West Sussex
  26  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England
8 August, 2009


  Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, on the south coast of England.  It lies 55.5 miles (89 km) south southwest of London, 24 miles (39 km) west of Brighton, and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the county town of Chichester.  It has an area of 4.86 sq km (1.88 sq mi) and the current population is 22,555 (2001 Census).
    Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east northeast and Selsey to the southwest.  The nearby villages of Felpham, briefly home to the poet William Blake, and Aldwick are now suburbs of Bognor Regis, along with those of North and South Bersted.Bognor is one of the oldest recorded Saxon place names in Sussex.  In a document of 680AD it is referred to as Bucgan ora meaning Bucge's (a female Saxon name) shore, or landing place.
  Bognor Regis was originally named just "Bognor," being a fishing (and one time, smuggling) village until the 18th century, when it was converted into a resort by Sir Richard Hotham.  Tourism gradually took off over the next hundred years, the area being chosen as an ideal location for King George V to convalesce in during 1929, the King and Queen actually staying at Craigwell House Aldwick; as a result, the King was asked to bestow the Regis suffix on Bognor.  Legend has it that the King's last words, upon being told that he would soon be well enough to revisit the town, were "Bugger Bognor!"  Although there is little evidence that these words were actually uttered in this context, it is certain that the King had little regard (to put it mildly) for the town (Kenneth Rose, King George V, London 1983. pp. 359-361).
  Bognor was a part of the ancient parish of South Bersted in the county of Sussex, attaining parish status separate from South Bersted in 1828.  Until 1894 it formed part of the Hundred of Aldwick, an ancient division of Chichester Rape.  From 1894 to 1974 it was part of Bognor Urban District (Bognor Regis Urban District from 1929), and since 1974 it has been a part of Arun District.  The historic meeting of the crews (and associated handshake) of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project on 17 July 1975 was supposed to have taken place over Bognor Regis, but a flight delay caused it to occur over Metz in France instead.  Bognor Regis town centre was damaged in 1994 by an IRA device left in a bicycle outside woolworths.  15 shops were damaged but no injuries occurred.
  On the beach between Bognor Regis and Aldwick lies the wreck of a Floating Pontoon.  It is part of the Mulberry Harbour which was towed across to Normandy on D-Day June 6 1944.  This particular section of Mulberry didn't make it across the channel and was washed up on the beach shortly after D-Day.  It is clearly visible at low tide throughout the year.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")


 
Extracted from Richard Ellmann's James Joyce (New and Revised ed.)
(Oxford and New York, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp.553-556
  
  At Alexandra House on Clarence Road, the rococo boardinghouse they stayed in at Bognor, Joyce was always pleased to leave his work to walk and talk with his sister-in-law [Nora's youngest sister Kathleen Barnacle].  In Galway she had not been allowed to wear make-up, and he watched her discoveries of scented soaps, creams, and powders with the rapt attention of an anthropologist. ...
  In Bognor Nora remarked resignedly to Kathleen, "He's on another book again."  Joyce worked at Finnegans Wake with passion.  The structural problems were much more perplexing than those of Ulysses, where, at he wrote Miss Weaver, the ports of call at least were known beforehand.  To give form to his "storiella as she is syung" (and not merely recorded), he restudied Giambattista Vico. ...
  In Bognor he rewrote the passage dealing with King Mark, Tristram and Iseult, a sketch of which he had read to Larbaud the previous March; this revived his favorite theme of cuckoldry, and the squawking of the sea gulls on the Bognor strand made him think of imitating their sounds to suggest the derision visited upon King Mark:

383.01:  -- Three quarks for Muster Mark!
383.02:  Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
383.03:  And sure any he has it's all beside the mark...
383.08:  Hohohoho, moulty Mark!

  Another passage he drafted dealt with St. Kevin, who as founder embodied an aspect of his hero, and still another dealt with the philosopher Berkely, whose incursions upon the phenomenal world were as violent as those of the Scandinavian invaders --Earwicker's ancestors--upon the Irish coast.
  Before the end of the year most of the first part of the book--made up of eight chapters--was sketched out.  It was an introduction of the dramatis personae: Earwicker, his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, and their three children.  Earwicker's original sin, never precisely described, occurred in the Phoenix Park and involved exhibitionism, or voyeurism, with two nursemaids as accomplices, and three soldiers (imported perhaps from the Circe episode of Ulysses) as witnesses, quite possibly themselves involved in the offense through promiscuity with the girls or homosexuality with each other.  As chorus for the action Joyce evolved four old men, representing the four evangelists, whose names he coded as Mamalujo (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), the four masters who wrote a history of Ireland, and sometimes manifesting themselves as six rann singers or as twelve customers in Earwicker's pub.  He drafted the Mamalujo episode as "a study of old age," he told Miss Weaver, and finished its first version in October 1923.  Since the earliest passage to be written were from different parts of the book, it is clear that, in spite of his disclaimers, Joyce had a general notion of how to proceed in the later section, but had not yet worked them out in detail.  With mock disparagement he referred to the book as "a Mah Jongg puzzle."   The sojourn at Bognor was not entirely uneventful.  There was a visit from T. S. Eliot, and then, suddenly, news of a new gift from Harriet Weaver, this time of ￡12,000, making ￡21,000 in all that she had so far given to Joyce.


 
The Chronology of James Joyce's Great Britain Addresses
Summer 1894
 Trip to Glasgow
May 1900
 Trip to London
1 - 3 December 1902
 En route Dublin - London - Paris
18 - 22 January 1903
 London
8 - 11 October 1904
 En route Dublin - London - Paris - Zurich
9 - 13 September 1909
 En route Dublin - London - Trieste
11 - 15 September 1912
 En route Dublin - London - Flushing - Munich - Trieste
17 August - 18 September 1922
 Euston Hotel, London
15 - 29 June 1923
 Belgrave Hotel, London
29 June - 15 August 1923
 Alexandra House, Clarence Road, Bognor
September - 5 October 1924
 Euston Hotel, London
April 1927
 Euston Hotel, London
17 August - 21 September 1929
 Euston Hotel, London
July - August 1930
 London
July 1930
 Grand Hotel, Llandudno, Wales
3 August 1930
 Randolph Hotel, Oxford
23 April - 10 May 1931
 Hotel Belgravia, Grosvenor Gardens, London
10 May - 10 September 1931
 28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
18 July 1931
 Grand Hotel, Llandudno, Wales
9 - 20 August 1931
 Lord Warden Hotel, Dover
31 August 1931
 Salisbury
17 September 1931
 Lord Warden Hotel, Dover


  
  Reference: Richard Ellmann ed.  Letters of James Joyce, Volume II  New York: The Viking Press, 1966.
  (*See also the "London and Joyce" page of "Joycean Pics 2009.")


 

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Bognor Regis Railway Station
  
   Bognor Regis Railway Station.
  Bognor Regis Railway Station is in the town of Bognor Regis, in the English county of West Sussex, England.  It is about 65 miles south of London Victoria.  The station and the trains serving it are operated by Southern railway company.  The station is a terminus at the end of a short branch off the West Coastway Line.
  The original Bognor station was situated on the main line, just over one mile west of the present Barnham railway station.  It was opened 8 June 1846 by the Brighton and Chichester Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway a few weeks later.  This station was renamed several times during its short life becoming Woodgate for Bognor, Woodgate, Bognor (again) and Woodgate (again) before closing in 1864.  The site of the present station dates from the opening of the branch line to Bognor from Barnham on 1st June 1864, after several abortive projects to connect the town to the railway system in 1845, 1853 and 1855.  The station suffered two disasters in the 1890s, when it was blown down in a gale in 1897, and then burned down in 1899.  The present station buildings date from 1902.  The line was doubled between 1902 and 1911, and electrified in the 1930s.  The station was renamed 'Bognor Regis' by the Southern Railway (Great Britain) in 1930 as the town was renamed as such having been the place of the King's (George V) recuperation from serious illness.  (Cited from the site of "Wikipedia")
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 (Saturday 8 August) Signpost of Bognor Regis Railway Station
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 (Saturday 8 August) Plaque of Bognor Regis Railway Station
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 (Saturday 8 August) Bognor Regis Railway Station
  
  
   
London Road
  
   London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) Macari's, 46 London Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) My lunch at Macari's, 46 London Road, Bognor Regis
  
  
   
Clarence Road
  
   Clarence Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) Plaque of Clarence Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) North end of Clarence Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church (The Presbytery), Clarence Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1JT
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 (Saturday 8 August) Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church (The Presbytery), Clarence Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1JT
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 (Saturday 8 August) South end of Clarence Road, Bognor Regis
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 (Saturday 8 August) Bognor Regis Town Hall, Clarence Road (in the opposite side of Joyce's guest house)
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 (Saturday 8 August) War Memorial monument dedicated to the local war dead of two World Wars in front of Bognor Regis Town Hall, Clarence Road (in the opposite side of Joyce's guest house)
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] Arun District Council Plaque at the site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923: "JAMES JOYCE 1882-1941 NOVELIST Wrote part of 'FINNEGANS WAKE' here in 1923."
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW Book I] The site of "Alexandra House," 6 Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road where James Joyce and his family stayed between 29 June - 15 August 1923
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 (Saturday 8 August) Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) Seafront Mounds Dry garden, The Esplanade (facing the opposite side of Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road)
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 (Saturday 8 August) Seafront Mounds Dry Garden, The Esplanade (facing the opposite side of Alexandra Terrace, Clarence Road and the seafront)
  
  
   
Bognor Regis Beach
  
   [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach is a family-friendly beach consisting of sand and shingle, sloping gently towards the sea.  Part of the beach is a relatively safe swimming area where watercraft are discouraged.  There is a Kid Care scheme in operation of free colour-coded wristbands linked to beach zones to reduce the numbers of lost children.  Water sports enthusiasts on the adjacent beach have the option of windsurfing, surfing, canoeing, dinghy sailing and jet-skiing.  This award-winning beach is watched over by the Foreshore Station, incorporating a First Aid and Lost Children Centre, ensuring the excellent management of this beach.  (Cited from the site of "Sussex by the Sea.com")
  
  
  
  In Bognor he [Joyce] rewrote the [Finnegans Wake] passage dealing with King Mark, Tristram and Iseult, a sketch of which he had read to Larbaud the previous March; this revived his favorite theme of cuckoldry, and the squawking of the sea gulls on the Bognor strand made him think of imitating their sounds to suggest the derision visited upon King Mark:
  
383.01:  -- Three quarks for Muster Mark!
383.02:  Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
383.03:  And sure any he has it's all beside the mark...
383.08:  Hohohoho, moulty Mark!
      (Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (Oxford, etc.: Oxford UP, 1982), pp.554-555)
  
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach on the corner of The Esplanade and Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach on the corner of The Esplanade and Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] The Esplanade
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Information Board of Bognor Regis Beach
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road
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 (Saturday 8 August) [FW 383.01-08] Bognor Regis Beach, viewed from a point near Clarence Road




        


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