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Hidden Walks: South Lakeland takes walkers to rarely trodden trails through breathtaking countryside, using Junction 36 of the M6 as a convenient gateway.
At last, a brilliant history of Lancaster Castle written especially for kids! This is a book crammed with fantastic facts, great stories, and scary history, all with lots of pictures and fun.
For 15 years, from 1970 until 1985, Lancaster was one of the great centres for live rock music in the world. This superb book tells the full story of this unbelievable period, giving details of the performers and the shows, and revealing what went on backstage.
Six years in the making, this superbly crafted book is a â¿must readâ¿ for anyone interested in Victorian country mansions.
The Sandhole, PrestonâEUR(TM)s place of debauchery and shame, never appeared on any town maps, and despite regular reports in the newspapers of the time, doesnâEUR(TM)t survive in folk memory. John Garlington uncovers a world of poverty, desperation and barbarism, inhabited by those who never really had any chances in life.
Oxfordshire is full of the weird, wonderful & mysterious. From Faringdon to Banbury, Henley to the edge of the Cotswolds, and not forgetting Oxford itself, local author Mike White shines a light into the darkness to chill, amuse, surprise and, above all, entertain.
This book is, quite literally, a barrel of laughs! Never has a beer cask climbed so many mountains, canoed across lakes, forded rivers, trundled over bridges and staggered over stiles.
This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-poweredfactories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness.
Rich with detail, lavishly illustrated, and astonishingly comprehensive, Wells and Swells: the Golden Age of Harrogate Spa, 1842-1923, is an invaluable resource bound in a beautiful, limited edition, two-volume set. It is an immediate classic, and is certain be highly collectable in years to come.
Social historian and author Gillian Perry takes us on a highly entertaining whistle-stop tour of the history of the English afternoon tea, enhanced by many luscious illustrations to make you salivate, and to bring forth your own wonderful memories.
The experiences of seamen, farmers, women, the poor, slavers, clergy, soldiers, politicians and gentry build a fascinating picture of the city of Lancaster, during a time of significant growth and change, evidence of which can still be seen in the city's buildings and streets.
This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured the Fall of Singapore, and their subsequent incarceration at Keijo POW camp in Korea, told by Chris Given-Wilson, whose father was one of those captured.
This unusual and beautifully illustrated book gives us a unique window on 600 years of Dales history. Looking through the eyes of contemporary writers, we can see how perceptions, attitudes and even the landscape itself have changed over time.
Ingleborough is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, one of the most iconic hills in England. This book looks at various facets of Ingleborough, from geology to landscape, history to land-use. It is of interest to those who love the Yorkshire Dales and the great fells of northern England.
This book is different from other books on York. Contained within its pages are hugely appealing photographic glimpses of how people lived, worked and played in the city a century ago, images full of human history, and so much more than the usual street scenes.
This comprehensive, fully illustrated book is a unique and invaluable guide to York's Roman heritage, essential reading for all those with an interest in the city.
Features carefully chosen walks that are intended for various ages and abilities, guiding the walker through some of the most picturesque landscape in Lancashire. This title includes instructions that are accompanied by helpful maps, local information, historical background and attractive photographs.
Captive Artists brings together for the first time the secret art, created by over 65 previously unrecognised artists, all Britishservicemen, who documented survival during Far East captivity.
Since the foundation of the town by King John, Liverpool has had a church by the river. Over the following centuries dozens more churches came and went, but the imprint of the activity of the Parish of Liverpool on the city and people was, and still is,profound.
This long-awaited book will be the only full history of Halifax available. The town has a wonderfully rich and interesting past, celebrated and enhanced by recent developments, all covered in A History of Halifax. Whether the book is bought as a treat for self or as a gift, it will inform and delight in equal measure.
This intriguing book is really a detective story, revealing what turned out to be a most unusual cast of characters and some eyebrow-raising family secrets.
Spanning centuries, counties, class and generations, author Peter Cotgreave allows this heroic, comedic, devious, irresistible cast of characters to live again in the pages of this unique book, and in so doing reveals much about the area's unique and ancient history.
Drawing on eight surviving casualty lists, full of information about the victims and their attackers, Professor Michael Bush gives us an objective assessment of the day's events. He shows that this was no mere act of dispersal. It was an act of terror and humiliation worthy of the epithet `massacre', and unequalled in the history of Britain.
From Fleetwood to Walney Island, make the best of one of the most beautiful bays in Britain using this entertaining guide.
With fascinating insight and attention to detail, patiently and quietly observing and recording, Elaine Prince follows the fortunes of eight families of otters as they mate, hunt, play and raise their young.
This is the story of how and why a small Lancashire village on the banks of the River Wyre became a bustling port, market and textile town in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
Based on surviving evidence, this unique volume is an imagining of a seventeenth century spell book that might have been written by Lancashire `witch' Jennet Device.
From pre-war murmurings to postwar memorials, John Fidler's engaging account of Lancaster in World War II draws on first-hand recollections, newspaper articles and museum resources to tell the tale of how the city fared with dignity and resilience in this most difficult of times.
This book is a brilliant concept. You can use it: as a guide to walking (not necessarily in a straight line!) from distillery to distillery; to plan lovely days out in the Lakes; as a highly entertaining read.
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