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Secret Aberdeen by Lorna Dey
RRP: £15.99£10.85Aberdeen is not a boastful city, preferring to wear its many distinctions lightly. Which of its institutions produced three Nobel laureates and who became the first Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)? Which... -
Secret Gillingham by Philip MacDougall 9781445689258
RRP: £15.99£10.85The modern town of Gillingham grew up on the banks of the River Medway around the Royal Naval Dockyard of Chatham, most of which actually lay within Gillingham. The sixteenth century saw the expansion of the one-time fishing and farming village of... -
From Hereford to Three Cocks Junction: The Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway by John Mair
RRP: £16.95£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617532Author John MairFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Isle of Man: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian Collard 9780752491004
RRP: £14.99£11.55Over the course of 100 years, the Isle of Man developed from a collection of fishing villages into one of the main holiday destinations for people working in the Lancashire mills and coal mines. Hotels and other holiday accommodation were built and... -
Milford Haven Through Time by Patricia Swales-Barker
RRP: £15.99£10.85Milford takes its name from the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour on which the town stands. It is a relatively modern town, founded at the end of the eighteenth century on land owned by Sir William Hamilton, but the neighbouring parishes of... -
Alton and Its Villages Through Time by Tony Cross 9781848680760
RRP: £15.99£10.85Alton has been a market centre for the villages that surround it for many hundreds of years and these two pictures show the changes that have taken place in the last 100 years. For most of that period a weekly Tuesday market took place in the Market... -
Chatham From Old Photographs by Brian Joyce 9781445632919
RRP: £12.99£9.09Chatham is an ever-evolving part of the Medway conurbation in South-East England. Best known for its Royal Naval Dockyard, the history of which began in the sixteenth century, the town grew as the yard expanded. Chatham survived the closure of the... -
Exploring Dumfries & Galloway's Lost Railway Heritage: A Walker's Guide by Alasdair Wham 9780853610830
RRP: £16.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853610830Author Alasdair WhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 11mm -
The War Is Here: Newark 1967 by Bud Lee 9781736309360
RRP: £35.00£24.87With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee's dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967-a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and... -
Welwyn & Welwyn Garden City Through Time by Tony Rook
RRP: £15.99£10.85If you look up Welwyn you uncover a geographical confusion that began nearly 100 years ago, when Ebenezer Howard purchased an area of agricultural land that was in two parishes, Hatfield and Digswell. For the purposes of civil administration, it was... -
Lost Guildford by David Rose
RRP: £15.99£10.85Guildford has grown from a Saxon settlement town to become a major commercial centre in Surrey today. William the Conqueror built the Norman castle that still overlooks the town, which became prosperous during the medieval period. The building of the Wey... -
Pontypridd History Tour by Alun Seward
RRP: £8.99£6.02Pontypridd History Tour takes the reader on an exciting journey through this iconic market town, which sits at the gateway to three historic valleys of the South Wales coalfield. From pastoral, drovers' river-crossing into a town that embodied a thriving... -
Redhill & Reigate Through Time by Roy Douglas 9781445633237
RRP: £15.99£10.85Redhill, a commuter town in Surrey, is located close to the North Downs, a ridge of chalk hills stretching from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. As a quiet, picturesque getaway from the bustling life of the capital city, which is... -
Secret Oxford by Andrew Sargent
RRP: £15.99£10.85Oxford is identified with its university, and the university has certainly played a huge role in shaping the town. But the history of Oxford is much more than just a footnote to its colleges. The town was already old when the first scholars gathered... -
Painswick, Slad, Sheepscombe & Edge Through Time by Howard Beard
RRP: £15.99£4.11This fascinating photographic collection represents a journey both through time and also along the byways of a truly scenic part of rural England. Edwardian photographers' lenses enable us to glimpse celebrations such as Empire Day, we revisit tranquil... -
Colchester Through Time by Patrick Denney
RRP: £15.99£10.85Colchester Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Essex. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of the well-known streets and famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area... -
Brighouse Through Time by Chris Helme
RRP: £15.99£10.85Brighouse Through Time provides a unique opportunity to look, not only at the present day town centre that many readers will be familiar with, but also how many parts appeared particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contrasting... -
The Lane End Plateway: An Early Railway in the Staffordshire Potteries by Rowan Patel 9780853615385
RRP: £13.95£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615385Author Rowan PatelFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 128mm * 208mm * 6mm -
Great Yarmouth: Photographic Memories by Clive Tully 9781859374269
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859374269Author Clive TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Vest Pocket Kodak and the First World War by Jon Cooksey 9781781452790
RRP: £7.99£5.60Launched in April 1912, the Vest Pocket Kodak was one of the world's first compact cameras. About the height and width of today's iPhone, it was small enough to fit into the pocket of a waistcoat (the American Vest) and allowed the soldiers to record... -
Stalybridge and Dukinfield by Alan Rose 9780752410982
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752410982Author Alan... -
Helen Levitt (second Edition) by Helen Levitt 9783868288971
RRP: £35.00£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868288971Author Helen LevittFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag -
Len & Cub by Meredith Batt
RRP: £19.99£12.86Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Len was an amateur photographer and automobile... -
Secret Arundel by Eddy Greenfield 9781445696010
RRP: £15.99£10.85The town of Arundel in West Sussex is overlooked by Arundel Castle and the Roman Catholic cathedral, which was built through the support of the Duke of Norfolk, but the history of Arundel is built on much more than the castle and the dukes and earls... -
Norfolk's Lost Railways by Neil Burgess 9781840337556
RRP: £21.95£19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337556Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 6mm -
Drogheda: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845887988
RRP: £16.99£12.94Drogheda nestles on the east coast of Ireland, on the border of Louth and Meath. A lively medieval town, it is home to a host of contemporary music and theatre companies, an international Samba festival, and was the birthplace of many famous Irish... -
Hailsham Through Time by Hailsham Historical Society
RRP: £15.99£10.85Hailsham, the largest of the main towns in the Wealden District of East Sussex, is an inviting market town, rich in industrial and agricultural history. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ropemaking was a major local industry and it still... -
Gourock Then & Now by John Fyfe Anderson
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338744Author John Fyfe AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm -
Secret Rye & Around by Terry Philpot
RRP: £15.99£10.85Rye and Winchelsea's unhurried appearance and ancient buildings disguise a history that ranges from Danish and French invaders to the notorious Hawkhurst gang of smugglers. E. F. Benson, creator of Mapp and Lucia, was mayor in places with residents as... -
Bury St Edmunds Through Time Revisited by Martyn Taylor 9781398109308
RRP: £15.99£10.85The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eventually be enshrined in his magnificent abbey church, alas now in ruins. The town's affinity with Magna... -
Oxford: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Blackham 9780752451282
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating selection of 180 archive postcards and maps takes the reader on a nostalgic journey around historic Oxford, showcasing some of the finest buildings and streets in this English university city. The collection conjures a forgotten world of... -
D-Day UK: 100 locations in Britain by Simon Forty 9781848025400
£36.47The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the culmination of months of meticulous planning and organisation. A vast army had to be trained and equipped; huge amounts of material - from tin cans to tank transporters, petrol to parachutes - had to be... -
Secret Chatham by Philip MacDougall
RRP: £15.99£10.59In these days of ubiquitous, non-stop media and information you would think that there were few secrets anywhere left to reveal, but when it comes to Chatham there remain a surprising number of facts and idiosyncrasies that, over the years, have remained... -
Burton Upon Trent Through Time by Arthur Roe
RRP: £15.99£10.85Burton straddles the River Trent and is famous for being the world capital of the brewing industry, with companies such as Bass, Worthington, Marstons, Allsopps, Ind Coope, Truman Hanbury & Buxton and Salts. Over several hundred years, Burton has been... -
Didsbury Through Time by Peter Topping
RRP: £15.99£10.85There have been some fine histories of Didsbury compiled over the last 150 years since the publication of A History of the Chapels of Didsbury & Chorlton by Revd John Booker in 1859. But now it is time for a new book, which does not attempt to revisit or... -
Irish Railway Memories: A Decade of Change - 1984-1994: in photographs by Paul Haywood by Paul Haywood 9781840338195
RRP: £12.95£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338195Author Paul HaywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Sydenham and Forest Hill by John Coulter 9780752400365
RRP: £12.99£9.62In the second half of the nineteenth century, after the removal of the Crystal Palace to the hill above, Sydenham and Forest Hill were among the most delightful of London's suburbs. By the first two decades of the twentieth century they were beginning to... -
Padiham: Britain in Old Photographs by Jack Nadin 9780752451886
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating collection of over 150 archive images provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Padiham over the last century. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past to life and describing many aspects of life... -
Middlesbrough: Britain in Old Photographs by Araf Chohan 9780752450377
RRP: £14.99£11.55The history of modern Middlesbrough, which only began with the laying out of the 'new' town in 1830, is a history of people coming from all parts of the British Isles to an industrial boom town. However, the Middlesbrough of the last years of the... -
Secret Richmond & Swaledale by Andrew Graham Stables
RRP: £15.99£11.61Richmond is one of the most scenic towns in Britain, well known for its magnificent castle, bustling marketplace and Georgian Theatre Royal, while Swaledale is one of the country's most beautiful and inspirational rural areas.Secret Richmond & Swaledale...