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  • ASPECTS OF NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE
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    ASPECTS OF NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE
    JENNY WALTON
    The Aspects series takes readers on a voyage of nostalgicdiscovery through their town, city or area. This best selling series has now arrived, for the first time, in Northern Lincolnshire. Jenny Walton has highlighted many wonders of the Northern Lincolnshire area, by using the talent of local authors. Aspects of Northern Lincolnshire, is a local history book with a difference....

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  • FOUL DEEDS IN RICHMOND AND KINGSTON
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    FOUL DEEDS IN RICHMOND AND KINGSTON
    JONATHAN OATES
    You may think Richmond, Kingston and the neighbouring districts are prosperous, safe and law-abiding in comparison to the hazardous, crime-prone centre of London, but you would be mistaken. For, as Jonathan Oates shows in this gripping book, appalling crimes have shocked the local community and left their mark on the history of the area over the last two centuries. Among the se...

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  • LONDON'S RAILWAYS, 1967–1977
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    LONDON'S RAILWAYS, 1967–1977
    JIM BLAKE
    This pictorial book covers London's railways from 1967 to 1977, showing the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.This volume has a very readable narrative, telling tales of the authors adventures during his many trips around the London railway network.The volume encapsulates a period of time in Britain, during which a great deal of change was taking place, not ...

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  • THE VICTORIAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
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    THE VICTORIAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
    D. KINNEAR CLARK / G.D. DEMPSEY
    This book is a contemporary volume covering the history of the steam locomotive from 1804 1879. The work looks at the development and construction methods during the Victorian period. The volume of also has some good quality drawings and engineering diagrams ...

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  • THOMAS TELFORD
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    THOMAS TELFORD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct. He built so...

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  • THE RAILWAY
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    THE RAILWAY
    ANDREW DOW
    "A comprehensive and detailed history the railway and development from tram road to the modern era. . . . A must read" ( The Newcomen Society Western Courier). Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the develop...

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  • SCOTTISH STEAM
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    SCOTTISH STEAM
    KEITH LANGSTON
    Scotland is renowned worldwide for its engineering prowess, which of course included locomotive building. This lavishly illustrated and detailed publication celebrates standard gauge steam locomotive building North of the Border. Focussing not only on the achievements of the major companies, North British Locomotive Co Ltd, Neilson & Co Ltd, Neilson Reid & Co Ltd, William Bearm...

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  • RAILWAY DISASTERS
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    RAILWAY DISASTERS
    SIMON FOWLER
    British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confiden...

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  • RIPPER HUNTER
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    RIPPER HUNTER
    M. J. TROW
    True crime writer and novelist M. J. Trow's Ripper Hunter is a revelatory biography of Frederick Abberline, the man assigned to catch Jack the Ripper. Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a profe...

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  • MURDER AND MAYHEM IN SHEFFIELD
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    MURDER AND MAYHEM IN SHEFFIELD
    GEOFFREY HOWSE
    Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality. In Murder & Mayhem in Sheffield he takes a look at some of the events that took place during a period of enormous growth within Sheffield; including a failed plot to murder some of Sheffield's officials, take control of the Town Hall and set fire to the homes...

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  • FOOL BRITANNIA
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    FOOL BRITANNIA
    SUE BLACKHALL
    From annoying work speak to bureaucratic blunders, a hilarious account of political correctness and pedantry run amok across the pond.   Shoppers barred because they don't fit the bill, motorists targeted while real villains win the day, health and safety becoming a sick joke, and Big Brother putting a dampener on our freedom, fun, and fancies.   Yes, Britain has become so poli...

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  • A GUIDE TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND LONDON 2012
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    A GUIDE TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND LONDON 2012
    MAURICE CROW / JULIET MORRIS
    According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. The first Olympics were held in 776 BCE and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen nam...

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  • THE DENBY DALE PIES, 1788–2000
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    THE DENBY DALE PIES, 1788–2000
    CHRIS HEATH
    The quiet, rural, unassuming village of Denby Dale, situated by the river in the Upper Dearne Valley between Huddersfield and Barnsley has a major and unique culinary claim to fame.Once a generation, a gigantic meat and potato pie is cooked and eaten by the villagers amidst scenes of pomp, splendour and celebration, the occasions of which are attended by many thousands of peopl...

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  • MEN OF STEAM
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    MEN OF STEAM
    DAVID WRAGG
    Few modes of travel have the enduring appeal of steam railways. Today preserved lines, locomotives and rolling stock attract not just expert enthusiasts but more casual visitors who are keen to savor the distinctive atmosphere of a lost era in transport history. Yet these relics are but one aspect of the long story of steam, for they cannot reveal the human side of working life...

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  • BRITISH STEAM: PAST & PRESENT
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    BRITISH STEAM: PAST & PRESENT
    KEITH LANGSTON
    "British Steam: Past and Present contains an evocative mix of specially commissioned modern steam images and steam era archive pictures, the majority of which have never been published before.The work of accomplished steam photographer David Anderson is highlighted in three special Location in Focus features, studies of 1950s and 1960s steam workings at Oxford and on the mighty...

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  • A DERBY VIEW - THE BEST OF ANTON RIPPON
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    A DERBY VIEW - THE BEST OF ANTON RIPPON
    ANTON RIPPON
    Anton Rippon is a Derby boy, born and bred. He is also one of the city's best-known writers and personalities, with a string of highly acclaimed books to his name. For the past eight years, he has written a popular weekly column in the Derby Telegraph in which he takes a whimsical, often sideways, look at life in Derby, both the serious side and the frivolous. In the process he...

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  • COMMUTER CITY
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    COMMUTER CITY
    DAVID WRAGG
    On the eve of the railway age, London was the worlds largest and most populous city and one of the most congested. Traffic-clogged roads and tightly packed buildings meant that travel across the city was tortuous, time-consuming and unpleasant. Then came the railways. They transformed the city and set it on a course of extraordinary development that created the metropolis of th...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
    VIVIEN TEASDALE
    Another trawl through the records of dastardly deeds, this time around Yorkshire, taking in the whole of the boundaries of the ancient West Riding, which stretched as far up as Sedbrough in the north-west, just beyond Todmorden in the west, north to Kirkby Malzeard and east to Selby and Goole. Join the Dyon, Stanton and Thornton families if you dare and find out who killed whic...

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  • MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
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    MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
    JOHN J. EDDLESTON
    To face a trial for murder must be a terrifying prospect, all the more so when you know that you are innocent of the charge. How much more horrific must it be then, when you know that should you be found guilty, the sentence must be that you will lose your life at the end of a rope?All of the cases reviewed in this book involved one or more individuals who were put on trial for...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND SWANSEA
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND SWANSEA
    BERNARD LEWIS
    The criminal cases vividly described by Bernard Lewis in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Swanseas long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wic...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
    M. J. TROW
    Discover the darker side of this scenic destination with over twenty true-crime tales, accompanied by photos and illustrations.   Its natural beauty attracts countless visitors—but notorious cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice have marked the long history of this apparently peaceful island. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of mu...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GLASGOW
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN GLASGOW
    PAUL HARRISON
    The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wi...

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  • A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RAILWAYS IN THE BRITISH ISLES
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    A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RAILWAYS IN THE BRITISH ISLES
    DAVID WRAGG
    Railways played a key role in Britain's social, economic and industrial history. These companies have long since gone, but all over the country relics remain to remind us of that pioneering age. David Wragg's Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles is a comprehensive, single-volume reference guide to the old railway companies and their heritage. He provides brief...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARNET, FINCLEY & HENDON
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARNET, FINCLEY & HENDON
    NICK PAPDIMITRIOU
    Stories of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barnet the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the dark side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of north London. For this journey into the sinister side of the past, Nick ...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SHREWSBURY AND AROUND SHROPSHIRE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SHREWSBURY AND AROUND SHROPSHIRE
    DAVID J. COX
    Sixteen true crime cases with a connection to two West Midlands English towns from the Middle Ages to the early decades of the twentieth century.   Criminal cases give us a fascinating, often harrowing insight into crime and the criminal mind, into policing methods and the justice system. They also tell us much about social conditions and attitudes in the past. And such cases m...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN CUMBRIA
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN CUMBRIA
    NICHOLAS CORDER
    The criminal cases vividly described by Nicholas Corder in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Cumbria's long history. The hills, villages and market towns of this famous landscape have been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to crimes born of ...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SUFFOLK
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SUFFOLK
    MARK MOWER
    True stories of real-life British mysteries and murders going back centuries—photos included.   This book tells stories of murder, deceit, and pure malice committed over the centuries in this traditionally rural part of East Anglia in England. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted h...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARKING, DAGENHAM & CHADWELL HEATH
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARKING, DAGENHAM & CHADWELL HEATH
    KATHRYN ABNETT / LINDA RHODES
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way murderous husbands and lovers, cut-throats, police-killers, highwaymen, Gunpowder Plotters and even a Nazi collaborator sentenced to death for High Treason. Luckless individua...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN WIGAN
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN WIGAN
    MIKE FLETCHER
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town seemingly overflowing with criminals, and some of the most gruesome cases, reco...

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  • MORE FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARNSLEY
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    MORE FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN BARNSLEY
    GEOFFREY HOWSE
    Barnsley and the surrounding area has a dark and sinister past. There were many foul deeds committed throughout the centuries of the most heinous kind -and many suspicious circumstances. Poverty was at the root of many of the early cases. During the Victorian period some seemingly uncaring magistrates appeared to take the view that to be poor was a crime to be dealt with severe...

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