Category Archives: Travel Guides
Bishopston, Horfield And Ashley Down
This book contains over 200 old photographs portraying aspects of Bishopston, Horfield Down and St Andrews over the last century. These districts, so difficult to define both in geographical and historical terms, are brought together into a whole to make a fascinating and informative read for everyone who has at any time called them home.
Old Market, Newtown, Lawrence Hill & Moorfields
This 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.
In Search of Cheddar Man
This book puts Cheddar Man into a wider archaeological context and explains the scientific detective work behind the headlines which made him an international celebrity nine millennia after his death.
Hadrian`s Wall History & Guide
Stretching for 73 miles from coast to coast, and reaching a height of about 13 feet, Hadrian`s Wall attracts millions of visitors every year and is a designated Wor ld Heritage site. This book offers a detailed guide to Hadrian`s Wall.`
Battersea and Clapham: The Second Selection
This 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.
Waterways: Images From An Industrial Age
This is a collection of archive photos of the English canal system at the start of the 20th century, and a clear visual record of the working lives of the people who worked on the system at the end of the Victorian era. Drawn mostly from the archives of the British Waterways Board, most of
Verdun 1916
The Stalingrad of WWI, an epic year-and-a-half long battle that claimed 750,000 German & French lives. 1916 was a year of Killing, the British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the German Sin Verdun.
Marylebone
This fascinating collection of over 200 images takes is on a tour of the old borough of Marylebone, from Oxford Street to Edgware Road and from Baker Street to St John`s Wood. They sketch Marylebone`s history as one of London`s smaller metropolitan areas which, in 1965, amalgamated with nearby Westminster and Paddington to form the
Bristol Channel Shipping Remembered
In its heyday the Bristol Channel was a thriving estuary where ships of all descriptions were to be seen, ranging from elegant passenger and cargo liners to the utilitarian tugs and dredgers, each one fulfilling its own essential function in pursuit of the continuing flow of commerce. The post-war years, however, brought about a slow
Prehistoric Settlements
How and where did our ancestors live during the 8000 years between the end of Ice Age and the arrival of the Romans in AD 43? In tracing the variety and development of prehistoric settlements from the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic to the tribes of the Iron Age, Dr Bewley takes a fresh look at
