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    Series series Memories
    Yeovil Memories covers a wide range of stories, from a tragic drowning in the River Yeo in 1856, the hardships of the savage winter of 1861 and that of two families who lost their cottages in a fire in February 1906, the lucky escape of a Westland test pilot as his aircraft broke up in mid-air in August 1934, and the top of the music charts of August 1952, to pop concerts in the Liberal Hall in ... Leer más

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  • I Tried to Run a Railway

    'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian.'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail.'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express.This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968.Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next ... Leer más

    $139 MXN

  • Britain's Railway Disasters

    Fatal Accidents from the 1830s to the Present Day

    de Michael Foley ...
    Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them.British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the ... Leer más

    $143 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of Norfolk

    de Neil R Storey ...
    Series series Little Book of
    The Little Book of Norfolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Norfolk folk or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome the reader will have such knowledge of the county, its landscape, people, places, pleasures and ... Leer más

    $152 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Death, Dynamite and Disaster

    A Grisly British Railway History

    de Rosa Matheson ...
    A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past.These horrible happenings include memorable disasters and accidents, the lack of ... Leer más

    $152 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sheffield Book of Days

    Series series Book of Days
    Taking you through the year day by day, The Sheffield Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history. Events include matters of national importance such as the Coronation of George IV, as well as local incidents such as the Sheffield Outrages and accounts of riots in the town. There are amusing incidents from the local newspaper, ... Leer más

    $134 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester

    E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime ... Leer más

    $212 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of the Black Country

    Series series Little Book of
    Did you know?Butcher Keith Boxley of Wombourne made the longest continuous sausage in 1988. It was 21.12km in length!The first general strike in the Black Country took place in 1842. The widespread public unrest was regarded nationally as the first ever general strike.Hell Lane in Sedgley was described as the 'most unruly place' in the Black Country. A woman who lived in the lane was said to have ... Leer más

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  • George Stephenson

    The Remarkable Life of the Founder of the Railways

    de Hunter Davies ...
    George Stephenson is the ultimate selfmade man: born in the pit village of Wylam, near Newcastle, and skipping any education to start work, his inventions would change the very nature of the world.From the moment he began work in the pit at the tender age of ten, he showed a natural talent for mending and inventing machines, slowly rising to become the colliery's resident engineer. However, he ... Leer más

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  • Scarborough a History of the Town and its People.

    de W.M. Rhodes ...
    Had you looked out on Scarborough Coast millions of years ago, you may have glimpsed a marine reptile such as a Plesiosaurus or an Ichthyosaurus chasing their prey. The rocks and cliffs, such as Castle Hill and Olivers Mount, were under the sea, waiting for the ice glaciers to thaw so they could rise above sea level and form the backbone of the town of Scarborough that we know today.Thorgils ... Leer más

    $103 MXN

  • The Little Book of Suffolk

    de Neil R Storey ...
    Series series Little Book of
    The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Suffolk folk or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome the reader will have such knowledge of the county, its landscape, people, places, pleasures and ... Leer más

    $152 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bloody British History: Camden

    Series series Bloody British History
    Black Death! The horrors of the plague in Camden! My wife is under the floor! The true story of Camden murderer Doctor Crippen! The elephant stampede! Weird accidents and strange events galore! Camden has a dark side to rival that of any London borough. The haunt of highwaymen, its fields also witnessed numerous duels. Crime, poverty and depravity were rife in parts of Holborn until the late ... Leer más

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