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Secret Chatham by Philip MacDougall
RRP: €19.03€12.60In 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... -
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh
RRP: €29.75€18.16In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs--and explored the history behind them--and chronicled them in the popular blog series Unpublished Black History. The month-long series was... -
Edinburgh Through Time by Liz Hanson
RRP: €19.03€12.91The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture and man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock - a volcanic plug - which constantly draws the eye from all parts of the city. Sloping down from it is a jagged... -
A-Z of Loughborough: Places-People-History by Lynne Dyer
RRP: €19.03€12.91So, what is the significance of the seventeenth-century Sir Thomas Abney to Loughborough, and what is the connection between the young Princess Alexandrina, later to become Queen Victoria, and Loughborough? What is the history of the Bat House, and what... -
Milford Haven Through Time by Patricia Swales-Barker
RRP: €19.03€12.91Milford 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... -
Edinburgh Reflections by Jack Gillon 9781398117730
RRP: €19.03€12.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Frederic Chaubin. Stone Age by Frederic Chaubin
€64.37Follow photographer Frederic Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring images of more than 200 buildings in 21 countries, Stone Age presents the history and architecture of the most dramatic medieval castles of... -
Nantwich Through Time by Paul Hurley
RRP: €19.03€12.91Nantwich occupies a pleasant position on the banks of the River Weaver and at least as far back as the Domesday Book has been one of the most important towns in Cheshire. The oldest and most ancient of the Three Wiches it has had several names over the... -
Secret Neath by Robert King 9781445666280
RRP: €19.03€12.91The south Wales town of Neath has existed since Roman times, when a fort was built here at the crossing point of the River Neath. It was a market town until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and new manufacturing industries of iron, steel and... -
A Century of Ilford: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Brian Evans 9780752479668
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Ilford during the twentieth century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Peterborough: Britain in Old Photographs by Lisa Sargood 9780752454344
RRP: €15.46€11.45This book brings to light a fascinating collection of images from the city's museum archives and library files. They present a vivid portrait of the changing city, and will give the reader an evocative insight into Peterborough's past. Some of the views... -
Around Yarmouth, Totland and Freshwater by Anthony Mitchell
RRP: €17.84€13.74Within these covers are over 200 high-quality images from the fascinating past of Yarmouth, Totland, Freshwater and the whole of the western end of the Isle of Wight. This area is world-famous because of its unique geographical and topographical features... -
Made in Belfast by Vivienne Pollock
RRP: €15.46€11.45In 1900 Belfast had the world's biggest linen factories and its largest ropeworks. Its shipbuilding industry produced more tonnage than any other city's (Titanic and Olympic were both built here). But Belfast was also home to cycle-makers, printers,... -
Warrington Reflections by Janice Hayes
RRP: €19.03€12.91Warrington is an old, established town with a rapidly changing townscape during a transformation from a traditional industrial Lancashire centre to a twenty-first-century Cheshire New Town. In Warrington Reflections, local author and historian Janice... -
Beer: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling 9780752461908
RRP: €15.46€11.45The village of Beer has a very special community spirit which has built up over the years. No doubt the rich history and heritage that Beer has is the reason why its inhabitants are so justifiably proud of the place in which they live. With its idyllic... -
Cotherstone: A Village in Teesdale by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: €19.03€12.91Cotherstone village in County Durham is set on the River Tees, 4 miles from Barnard Castle. Today a large and pretty village, its history goes back to the Domesday Book and it has remains of a motte-and-bailey castle dating from the 1200s. In more... -
Old Lurgan: With Waringstown and Moira by Rose Jane Leslie 9781840336856
RRP: €14.22€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336856Author Rose Jane LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 173mm * 240mm * 5mm -
Brierley Hill, Brockmoor, Bromley & Pensnett: Britain in Old Photographs by Ned Williams 9780752455631
RRP: €17.84€13.74Brierley Hill is one of the heavily industrialised towns that make up the region known as the Black Country. Like many such towns it can easily be divided into many smaller communities that, while being part of Brierley Hill, have quite an independent... -
50 Gems of Oxfordshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by David Meara
RRP: €19.03€12.91Oxfordshire is rich in many things: fine agricultural land and areas of dense woodland; delightful towns like Burford, Woodstock, Dorchester and Henley; the stately River Thames that bisects the county; the ironstone villages of the northern border; the... -
Redhill & Reigate Through Time by Roy Douglas 9781445633237
RRP: €19.03€12.91Redhill, 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... -
Middlesbrough: Britain in Old Photographs by Araf Chohan 9780752450377
RRP: €17.84€13.74The 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... -
Northwich History Tour by Paul Hurley
RRP: €10.70€7.16Northwich has been an important settlement since at least Roman times. The salt beds of Cheshire deserve more than a quick mention as it is here in Northwich and the surrounding areas that the prosperity of the town was based. Two other towns - Nantwich... -
Wimborne Minster Through Time by Roger Guttridge 9781398116429
RRP: €19.03€12.91Wimborne Minster is a market town in Dorset. The settlement grew up around its minster, from which it takes its name and which was originally an Anglo-Saxon foundation. The town is known for its large number of buildings from the fifteenth to the... -
West Highland Extension Great Railway Journeys Through Time by John McGregor
RRP: €19.03€12.91The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland's west coast. It revived, more ambitiously, the Fort William to Roshven line lost in 1889. With... -
Bournemouth Airport Through Time by Mike Phipp
RRP: €19.03€12.91Bournemouth Airport was first opened as RAF Hurn on 1 August 1941, one of the bases established by the RAF to counter the Luftwaffe presence across the Channel in northern France. RAF Hurn would go on to serve as a base for the development of radar in... -
Dumfries Through Time by Mary Smith
RRP: €19.03€12.91Dumfries, a market town in south-west Scotland known as the Queen of the South, is the administrative capital of the Dumfries and Galloway region and has a population of almost 32,000. Dumfries has a turbulent and sometimes bloody history with links to... -
Dalkeith & Around Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: €17.84€11.54The Midlothian town of Dalkeith has had an eventful history. Cromwell's officer, General Monck, was Commander in Scotland, and the government of the country was based out of Dalkeith Castle. In the seventeenth century, Dalkeith had one of Scotland's... -
New Malden Through Time by Tim Everson
RRP: €19.03€12.91New Malden is situated between the much better known Kingston and Wimbledon. Its history is fairly recent and came about because The London & South Western Railway Company sited a station halfway between the wealthy residents of Coombe and the small... -
Nuneaton Memories, From the Reg Bull Collection: Britain In Old Photographs by John Burton
RRP: €16.65€12.91Nuneaton Memories is sure to fascinate anyone who has grown up or lived in Nuneaton over the past fifty years. It shows the enormous changes that have taken place in the town since the Second World War, as it adapted to the needs of increasing car... -
Lowestoft Within Living Memory: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian Robb 9780752462783
RRP: €19.03€15.86Lowestoft Within Living Memory is a fresh new look at the town's relatively recent history. In a place once famed for its fishing fleet, shipbuilding and coachworks, we see plethora of photographs of people going about their daily work and at play, as... -
Wolstanton & May Bank Through Time by Mervyn Edwards
RRP: €19.03€12.91The impact of people and places in Wolstanton and May Bank is recorded in this pictorial record that recognises the contribution of village notables, dear old friends and long-gone institutions. A wealth of photographs depicting the joys of community... -
Chelmsford Through Time by Jim Reeve
RRP: €19.03€12.91As the county town of Essex since the thirteenth century, Chelmsford was the original site of the local assize, and is today a bustling market town. Chelmsford's history is omnipresent; the city boasts a magnificent fifteenth-century cathedral, and its... -
The Lane End Plateway: An Early Railway in the Staffordshire Potteries Rowan Patel 9780853615385
RRP: €16.60€14.98Apologies 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 -
Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive Christina Riggs 9781350038516
RRP: €28.55€25.45They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a... -
Secret Dorking by Eddy Greenfield
RRP: €19.03€13.82Dorking has long been a popular market town in the Surrey Hills. Lying on a number of major routes, in the eighteenth century the town became an important stopping place for stagecoaches between London and the south coast. Dorking's proximity to London... -
Barking & Dagenham History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: €10.70€7.16Barking & Dagenham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they've changed over the years, as... -
The Kyle of Lochalsh Line Great Railway Journeys Through Time by Ewan Crawford
RRP: €19.03€12.91The Kyle of Lochalsh Line was opened in 1870 to connect the ferry terminus at Stromeferry on Scotland's west coast with Dingwall and Inverness on the east coast. It had been intended to reach Kyle of Lochalsh but the company ran out of money, and the... -
Northwood Through Time by Eileen M. Bowlt
RRP: €17.84€11.54Northwood, situated in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is a leafy residential settlement adjoining the ancient Ruislip Woods. Originally a small hamlet, the population had risen to 2,500 by the early 1900s, and has continued to grow since, its... -
Leeds - Bradford Airport Through Time by Alan Phillips 9781445606095
RRP: €20.22€13.65Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire. Regular flights began from the airport in 1935 with a service to Newcastle, Edinburgh and London (Heston). During the war, the airfield was used as a shadow factory... -
A-Z of the Yorkshire Dales: Places-People-History by Mike Appleton
RRP: €19.03€12.91A breathtaking landscape and attractive small towns and villages draw many visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A huge variety of people, landscapes and wildlife can be found within its boundaries, from churches that acted as places of rest on...