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  • On the Roads and in the Fields

    Fifty Years a Fowler Driver

    par Harry Smith-Powell ...
    Harry was born in a little Welsh town and was brought up with horses and steam engines engaged in timber haulage under contract to the Great Western Railway to load large timber for the Swindon works. This gave Harry the chance to learn from experience the handling of heavy tackle on the bad roads. So, when family troubles grew overbearing he made a quick getaway and joined the firm (Fowlers) that ... En savoir plus

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  • Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives

    Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

    par Ken Issitt ...
    Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last ... En savoir plus

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  • Working Lives

    par David Hall ...
    In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work during that time, an infernal landscape of smoke-blackened factories, towering slag heaps and fiery furnaces dominated their lives. From the deep docks ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • What the Victorians Got Wrong

    par Stan Yorke, Trevor Yorke ...
    The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constructed, rivers tamed and electricity harnessed, to the great benefit of all But progress was only achieved at high cost. Impatience for achievement too often resulted in catastrophe and disaster. In 1879 ... En savoir plus

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  • Royal Enfield

    The story of the company and the people who made it great: 1851-1969

    par Anne Bradford ...
    Over 80 ex-employees and their descendants give perceptive and often humorous accounts of life in the Enfield works, charting its expansion from a humble needle factory into one of Britain’s best known motorcycle manufacturers. Contributions include Enfield-trained Bill Lomas, double World and British motorcycling champion, and Johnny Brittain who describes how he became the youngest member of the ... En savoir plus

    $11.07 CAD

  • The Agony and the Ecstasy

    My Life as a Stonemason

    par John Hopkins ...
    This is the true story of my life, born into a family who lived in poverty on the edge of Bristol. In the early 1930s the economy of England started to improve. This improved my life in that I had my own pair of shoes to wear and some new clothes instead of hand me downs but never enough food. I relate some of my experiences as a child and teenager, then my Stonemasonry story. My career in the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Tay Bridge Disaster

    The People's Story

    par Robin Lumley ...
    On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – ... En savoir plus

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  • The Women's Land Army

    par Bob Powell, Nigel Westacott ...
    This book brings together a wealth of black and white pictures which together record not only the operations of the WLA but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. Drawn from the worldwide albums of many ex-land girls at a time when film was rationed and photography monitored, this collection offers a fascinating insight into the people and places associated with the WLA. Many of ... En savoir plus

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  • Voices from History: Essex Land Girls

    par Dee Gordon ...
    As much as 70 per cent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it is not surprising that so many members of the Women's Land Army found themselves on Essex farms and in Essex fields during the two world wars, doing their bit to make sure that Britain did not starve. This book not only includes interviews with some of the last surviving land 'girls' but also contains a ... En savoir plus

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  • The Little Book of the Black Country

    par Michael Pearson ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • History in a Hurry: Industrial Revolution

    par John Farman ...
    Collections Livre 7 - History in a Hurry
    John Farman, the genius (for want of a better word) responsible for the best-selling A VERY BLOODY HISTORY OF BRITAIN (WITHOUT THE BORING BITS), now tackles all the great periods of history - in less than 10,000 words.History in a Hurry is so short that there just isn't room for any boring bits!All you need to know (and a little bit less*) about the Industrial Revolution.(*Quite a lot less, ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire

    par Alan Davies ...
    The area of Lancashire and Cheshire can be considered one of the homes of the Industrial Revolution, and it was the abundance of coal close to the surface that literally helped fuel the great growth in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. With poor roads, it was easier to move coal by water and so Lancashire landowners developed the first canals in Britain. Lancashire coal powered the cotton ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD