ABSTRACT
The deep emotional attachments forged between people or communities and the everyday places where they act out their lives are drivers of urban experience and creators of heritage. Yet these everyday sites of heritage and expressions of place attachment are often too ordinary to be documented or memorialised. This chapter examines photographic material related to the early twentieth-century gym for evidence of the expression of emotion as social practice and bodily experience. Adopting an archivally based methodology which is sensitive to the spaces between the record – to the voices which help us to locate the historical relationships that exist between (heritage) places and people – this chapter offers a means of understanding how people have historically formed and expressed emotional attachments to places.
