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Kategoriename: Local History/Interest:England - Merseyside
Kategoriebeschreibung: PLEASE NOTE: As a small independent book seller I cannot carry more than a couple of copies of most titles. Please check before ordering that the title you require is still in stock. Most out of stock titles can usually be obtained from publishers within a few days at most

Artikelname: Around Bebington
Artikelbeschreibung: This fascinating collection of over 250 old photographs of Bebington and its surrounding communities demonstrates very clearly the enormous changes that this area has seen over the last hundred years. This once busy waterfront town attracted industries that made the area world famous for its products, many of which became house-hold names, and for the novel way that some of these employers housed and supported their workers. The construction of Port Sunlight to accommodate employees of the Lever family was the most famous of these, but Bromborough Pool Village, built for the workers at Price's Candles, predated it and was probably the very first of its kind in the world. These old scenes will bring back strong memories for some and show new residents and a younger generation how their town used to look and how their predecessors spent their time, at work and at play. This unique collection of photographs, assembled by one of the area's best known local historians, embraces an area that includes Bebington and Bromborough and stretches from New Ferry and Eastham Ferry to Raby and Thornton Hough.It will delight all who would enjoy a nostalgic glimpse of this important part of "The Wirral" in an age now sadly gone.

Artikelname: Branch Lines around Bodmin
Artikelbeschreibung:

The county town of Cornwall once had two stations but neither were on main lines. Thus two charming branches served the town for several generations. These were worked by small tank engines, as was the scenic mineral line to Wenford Bridge, which is also extensively illustrated herein.

Artikelname: Kirkby and Knowsley
Artikelbeschreibung: Today Kirkby is a town of concrete, brick and glass, where nothing appears to be older than the generation that lives in it, while Knowsley is a quaint village sandwiched between a council estate and a safari park. Yet, in the middle of the nineteenth century they were both rural villages, scarcely affected by the Industrial Revolution around them.This book shows, for the first time, the reality behind this revolution. It hegins in a world, almost medieval in its economy and social structure, where tenant farmers and agricultural labourers tended the fields and children learnt to write on a slate, and earls raised large churches, built schools and even a whole villa out of local pride. Progressing down the years, it shows the people, the institutions and vanished landmarks, until the coming of war and the Royal Ordnance Factory. Finally, in a series of picrures rarely seen before, it shows the building of modern Kirkby and the people who made it.