Your shopping cart is empty!
Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.
Places in old photographs
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Central Swindon is the retail core of the modern town and its residential environs. It began in the 1840s, when the model village for railway workers was laid out on marshy ground to the north of Swindon hill. By the 1860s, pockets of development ha..
18.68£
Brand: Stenlake Publishing Ltd.
Almost everything there is to know about the history of Channel Islands aviation, from its early beginnings to the Second World War, must surely be included in this weighty book, together with a huge number of photographs. The book has taken 40 year..
40.01£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Chapel-en-le-Frith was founded in 1225, when foresters in the Royal Forest of the Peak were allowed to build a chapel in the forest. Buildings which have survived to the present time tell of a market town that developed into an important stopping pl..
19.67£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
'There is some deep satisfaction in being born in a place like Chard', said Margaret Bondfield the UK's first female cabinet minister, in her book A Life's Work. 'The old cloth trade of Chard - the lacemaking industry - the dyeing houses - the iron ..
20.12£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Cheddleton is located on the road from Leek to Cheadle, settled in the rolling landscape of North Staffordshire. For a village, there is far more to Cheddleton than meets the eye. It boasts a number of grand gentlemen's residences, mostly still occu..
20.05£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
As the county town of Essex since the thirteenth century, Chelmsford was the original site of the local assize, and is today a bustling market town. Chelmsford's history is omnipresent; the city boasts a magnificent fifteenth-century cathedral, and ..
19.93£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The best way to explore a town is on foot accompanied by an expert guide. In this comprehensive set of illustrated walks catering for all abilities Cheltenham's history and literature are woven together to create a rich tapestry of fascinating insig..
20.22£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Chesham, a small market town in the valley of the River Chess between the beech-clad Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, has a long history of light craft industry based on locally produced raw materials. Early development had been confined to the fl..
20.12£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The city of Chester grew up around one of the largest Roman fortresses in the country. Its cathedral and Norman castle are evidence of Chester's importance in the Middle Ages. During the Industrial Revolution the arrival of canals and railways broug..
19.22£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
From its foundation as a Roman fort, Chester has played an important role in the history of north-west England. Close to the Welsh border, the city is still surrounded by an almost complete circuit of city walls, enclosing the cathedral, castle and ..
20.05£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
At first sight, nothing seems to distinguish the North Staffordshire villages of Knutton, Silverdale and Chesterton. They all have the appearance of residential, dormitory areas of that town. However, within the pages of this book, a rich store of p..
19.50£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Chichester is a city with an unbroken history that stretches back to Roman times or earlier. Its main city streets follow the original pattern laid out almost two thousand years ago while the buildings that line many of those streets, when not medie..
20.07£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Just how much has changed in Chippenham over the decades is clear when you consider that Edward Hutton described 1920s Chippenham as 'one of the sleepiest places in England'. Today, the busy cattle traders in the Market Place of the 1890s and Chippe..
19.90£
Brand: The History Press
Christchurch is surrounded by large wide marshes at the confluence of the Stour and the Avon. This strategic position gave Christchurch its former name Tweoxneam ... 'the town between the rivers'. Its harbour was sheltered by nearby Hengistbury Head..
23.55£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Today Cirencester is an attractive market town at the heart of the Cotswolds, and has been a thriving place since Roman times when as Corinium it was a regional capital. With 2,000 years of history for the visitor to explore, it offers much survivin..
20.89£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The city of Oxford has a long and prosperous history. First mentioned by name in 912 as one of the 'burghs' or fortified places that King Alfred and his descendants had constructed to protect Wessex from the Vikings, Oxford has played a significant ..
18.18£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
In ancient times Clapham was a secluded Surrey village, clustered round a manor house and church. By the seventeenth century, the wealthy of London were building houses here as rural retreats and, by 1800, their mansions in extensive grounds surroun..
19.98£
Brand: Stenlake Publishing Ltd.
The first title in this new series looks at Scotland's railways between 1980 and 1993. These perhaps didn't feel like they would ever be described as the "Classic Diesel Years", but these were the times when the successors to the steam trains were o..
16.81£
Brand: Stenlake Publishing Ltd.
Clwyd was created in 1974, comprising the old counties of Denbigh and Flint in North Wales. It's primarily rural, but in the 18th century, the main town of 'Wrecsam' became a centre for coal and limestone mining and the production of iron, steel and..
16.81£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Cobham is situated 17 miles from central London on the London to Portsmouth road and 3 miles from Esher in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey. Early development took place in the eighteenth century at Street Cobham on the Portsmouth Road, with the cons..
19.23£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Colchester's history goes back to the Iron Age and the Roman settlement that was for a while the capital of Britain. There are extensive remains of Roman Colchester that can still be seen today, as well as from its medieval and later history, includ..
19.93£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Picture postcards first began to appear in Colchester in 1902, used by people from all walks of life as a cheap and easy form of communication. Fortuitously, local photographers saw the opportunities provided by the cards and began capturing everyda..
19.27£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Colwyn Bay lies in a wonderful spot on the sunny coast of North Wales. The Ministry of Food relocated to Colwyn Bay in 1939 following the outbreak of the Second World War. It is little known just how important the work undertaken at Colwyn Bay would..
20.86£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
One hundred years ago in Ireland marked a time of change. The continuous rise of an Irish revival, debates over Home Rule and the idea of Irish identity were continuously negotiated by all classes of society. In Cork City Reflections, authors Kieran..
19.89£