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  • Whitehaven & Around From Old Photographs

    Series series From Old Photographs
    Whitehaven & Around From Old Photographs contains a collection of never-before-seen vintage photographs from the town and surrounding areas, collected together into one volume and spanning Whitehaven’s heyday as a mining and shipbuilding town. Organised into sections featuring streets, industry, churches, sport and recreation, this book will be your guide through the Whitehaven of yesterday. Each ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, ... Read more

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  • Copeland The Postcard Collection

    Series series The Postcard Collection
    Using postcards from the twentieth century, Copeland: The Postcard Collection takes a look at the borough in earlier times. Copeland was established in the mid-1970s following the amalgamation of the Borough of Whitehaven, Ennerdale Rural District Council and Millom Rural District Council. It takes in most of England’s Western Lake District and around 40 miles of wild and beautiful coastline along ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Whitehaven & District Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Whitehaven and the Borough of Copeland have seen many changes over the centuries, but the pace of their transformation has been breathtaking over the past decade. Whitehaven's one-time commercial harbour, tied to the needs of local industry, has been wonderfully restored, and now boasts a new sea-lock and marina dedicated to the needs of the leisure industry. Gone are the coal and iron ore mines, ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Whitehaven Harbour Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels. It has, however, seen development in the form of a new sea-lock and marina, which have enhanced the town's tourist appeal. Whitehaven Through Time captures the changing face of the town through a series of spectacular old ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Complete Talking Heads

    The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues plus A Woman of No Importance

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Narrated by Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett’s celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain’s best actorsThe Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett’s finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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    by Charlie Bunce ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a journey along nine classic British railway routes and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Great British Railway Journeys Text Only

    by Charlie Bunce ...
    TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people – from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around him, Charlie Bunce and Michael Portillo take a journey along nine classic British ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Walks Through History - Birmingham: Digbeth: The Early Beginnings of Modern Birmingham

    by John Wilks ...
    This walk is one of twelve walks in John Wilks' Walks Through History - Birmingham series which contains twelve walks within the city. The whole book is available as an ebook or physical book or you could try this one out first. The book is a celebration of the beauty and poetry of the county. Each walk in this book has been chosen not only because it is a pleasant walk in its own right, but also ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Memories & Mementoes of Sunderland Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    There is nothing quite like an old photograph or an interesting item of memorabilia for rousing a memory and stimulating an interest in the heritage and history of one's hometown. Sunderland Through Time author Keith Cockerill returns to the city of his birth for a second nostalgic pictorial tour of Wearside. Each of his images is accompanied by a look at one or more associated mementoes - an ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Battersea Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Battersea has grown to be a fashionable and vibrant district of south-west London. Referred to as Patricesy in the Domesday Book, Battersea was historically best known for market gardening, providing fruit, vegetables and flowers for the City of London. However, the area moved from rural to urban with the coming of the railways, industry and large-scale housing from the 1840s, provoking a ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Esk Valley Railway Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    The Esk Valley Railway is certainly one of the best railway journeys in the North of England, and could be considered far more picturesque than the more famed North York Moors Railway. It passes through woods, valleys, pasture, agricultural plain, moorland and industrial landscape; whereas the North York Moors Railway rumbles its way through the heavily-wooded Newton Dale with almost no view ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD