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From Hampton Court to the Thames Barrier, the landscape of London unfolds along the River Thames, from leafy towpaths, bustling thoroughfares, palaces and humble dwellings to industrial buildings, warehouses, power houses, pubs, theatres and churches. In...

The origins of the name Knutsford have been disputed by historians but there is an ancient and popular explanation. After one of his victories, King Canute crossed the brook known as Birkin and the village became known as 'Canute's ford', later to be...

From its days as the city of 'Jute, Jam and Journalism', through postindustrial decline and late twentieth-century regeneration, to its current status as the UK's first UNESCO City of Design for its contributions to various diverse fields including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995639485Author Matt WingettFormat PaperbackImprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is Amazing

A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his...

Wakefield was originally a settlement on the River Calder in West Yorkshire, first Anglo-Saxon, then Viking controlled. After the Norman Conquest, the manor passed to the de Warenne family and Wakefield grew into an important market town in the area. In...

Set in the heart of the Stour Valley, Sudbury is an ancient market town situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty. During the late Middle Ages, the town was a centre for the weaving and silk industries, the wealth of which led to many great...

The Midlothian region, once called Edinburghshire, is now administratively separate from the city of Edinburgh. They have always been interdependent, whether to supply the Old Town with crops, paper and coal or for wealthy city dwellers to locate their...

Nuneaton 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...

Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, including shipbuilding. Wealthy Liverpool inhabitants moved to be beside the coast on the Wirral Peninsula and...

Rayleigh History Tour provides an insight into the illustrious history of this ancient market town. Mike and Sharon Davies guide us through its streets, showing how its famous landmarks and hidden-away gems have transformed over time. With the help of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681883052Author Heather WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Blue Streak BooksPublisher Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Galashiels History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Borders textile town. 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...

Scunthorpe is the third largest settlement in Lincolnshire and is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority. People have been living in the area for hundreds of years and making use of the local natural resource of ironstone...

Apologies 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

As soon as we set foot in Chester we are taken back to the Middle Ages; time seems to have slipped backwards. Is it a dream? Or are these decorated timber-framed houses, like big doll's houses, actually for ordinary habitation. We look around and see a...

Seventies Spotting Days in the Western Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulics from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include items of news,...

"Scenic photography and vivid storytelling." - PhotoLondon website "Venice - as you've never seen it before." - Sarah Holt, Mail online "It's Venice as you've never seen her before as artist Federico Povoleri gives us a whole new perspective into the...

The archaeology of Merseyside is extremely rich and varied. Humans have been modifying the landscape for over 10,000 years. The river and coast have always been significant to Merseyside. From early village settlements to industrial and port activity in...

Yorkshire has been at the heart of English history for over 2,000 years and has been shaped by Roman and Viking invaders, the conflict of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars. With such a wealth of heritage to uncover, 50 Finds from Yorkshire...

Born in Doncaster in the 1950s, Peter Tuffrey grew up with the collieries around him: Yorkshire Main at Edlington, Denaby, Cadeby, Rossington and Askern. Although it might have seemed that things would never change, they did, and Peter has now compiled...

A panoramic vision of contemporary Spain This book offers a colorful and panoramic vision of Spain through photographs taken by a large group of accomplished photographers, and also includes a special selection of 19 images obtained through a national...

The city of Aberdeen has been shaped by its natural surroundings and location on the North Sea coast. Long before the 1,000-plus years of the city's recorded history, the area's prehistoric people built megalithic stones and circles, and for centuries...

The largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire, Llanelli has a long and illustrious history. This book draws on an assortment of some 200 old maps, prints and photographs to illustrate the transformation of Llanelli from a small medieval hamlet and...

Northwich has an impressive history stretching back to Roman times when the surrounding area was exploited for its salt pans. Although the town's history goes back so far, the township was a very small one, comprising little more than 6 square acres of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167933Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Filled with academic, cultural and medical institutions as well as elegant Georgian terraces and leafy open spaces, Bloomsbury is one of central London's most appealing districts. Only a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal and nestled between...

The magnificent costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the country's tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders in German Southwest Africa led to the adoption by the Herero of...

Diss is a town in Norfolk close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres. The mere is up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51...

From the Stone Age to the exciting era of post-war architectural experimentation, Basildon is a town brimming with exciting historical gems just waiting to be explored. Beorhtel's Dun, as Basildon was originally called, got its name from a Saxon man who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336825Author Katrina PorteousFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 173mm * 240mm * 5mm

The town of Jarrow in the north-east of England transformed in the nineteenth century when heavy industry, particularly coal mining and shipbuilding, began to dominate the town. At its peak 80 per cent of the town's working population were employed...

Located in the south-east of Shropshire, Bridgnorth is divided into High Town and Low Town on opposite banks of the River Severn. Among its landmarks are its seventeenth-century, half-timbered town hall and the precariously leaning ruins of its castle,...

Stamford is one of England's finest stone towns, a happy mix of medieval and Georgian architecture that was untouched by the Industrial Revolution or later large-scale developments. In 1967, it became the country's first conservation area and in recent...

There is always a good story in a shipwreck. The tales from survivors, or frequently from those who tried to rescue them, are often astonishing in the accounts of bravery and self-sacrifice they reveal. Britain's long maritime past can be traced through...

Bournemouth 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...

Dependent originally on fishing and farming, Margate and Ramsgate benefited as limbs of the Cinque Ports during the Middle Ages, shipping grain to London and elsewhere. Growth was, however, slow until an interest in sea-bathing arose in the eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741925276Author Katja SassmannshausenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm)...

We may think of churches, mosques, synagogues and temples as ordered places for organized religion. But what happens when the congregation moves away? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean that people can no longer reach them? And, in the absence...

London's docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the existing riverside wharves became too congested and pilfering became rife. Dock systems were built on both sides of the...