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  • Even More Merseyside Tales!

    Curious and Amazing True Tales from History

    par Ken Pye ...
    In Ken Pye's third collection of strange and often bizarre tales from Merseyside's History, prepare to be amazed and entertained, once again.Where on Merseyside was the nonsense rhyme, 'The Owl and The Pussycat' written? How did the 'Cast Iron Shore' or the Cazzie get its name? Is there a lost street running beneath Lime Street?Learn about 'Roast Beef' the Crosby Hermit, the prehistoric footprints ... En savoir plus

    $11.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Quirky Liverpool

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Quirky
    Liverpool’s rise to become the second city in the British Empire was directly linked to its development as a commercial port. It was also because of its crucial role as an international trading hub for the transportation and exchange of raw materials, commodities, and manufactured goods. However, its economic dominance and wealth was also directly because of its leading role in the transatlantic ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Merseyside Tales

    Curious and Amazing True Stories from History

    par Ken Pye ...
    This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside's history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women 'smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors', the true tale of the 'man in the iron coffin' and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from ... En savoir plus

    $10.29 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • More Merseyside Tales

    Curious and Amazing True Stories from History

    par Ken Pye ...
    Local historian and broadcaster Ken Pye has collected a further fifty true tales that celebrate the weird and wonderful side of Merseyside's history.From the subterranean munitions factory at New Brighton and the bird-man of Speke, to wild tigers at Tranmere and a mysterious leprechaun, you are sure to uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary stories here.Richly illustrated, this fantastic ... En savoir plus

    $10.29 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Quirky Wirral

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Quirky
    The Wirral Peninsula has a fascinating history. Before the development of the docks along the Mersey Estuary to the north, the area was a rural patchwork of communities and villages. The nineteenth century saw the growth of towns on Wirral such as Birkenhead, Wallasey, and Ellesmere Port. Industrial growth also led to the building of William Lever’s remarkable Port Sunlight garden village. As ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Liverpool: A Potted History

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series A Potted History
    This book tells the story of the town (later city) and port of Liverpool. It begins in 1207, when King John decided to transform the tiny, otherwise unknown fishing hamlet of ‘Lerpul’ into a major base for his planned invasion of Ireland. Soon renamed ‘Liverpool’, the new town continued as a garrison and military harbour for centuries. Then, during the Civil War in the seventeenth century, it was ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Liverpool at Work

    People and Industries Through the Years

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series At Work
    The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world. This once small fishing village was transformed into a mighty commercial powerhouse, seen by many as the second city of the British Empire. In 1715 Liverpool created the world’s first enclosed, commercial wet dock; eventually there would be docks along 7.5 miles of the River Mersey. It rapidly grew into the greatest port and city in the entire ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Beastly Merseyside

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Beastly
    Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these animals, and about the roles they have played. Horses have carried us and our weaponry into battle for millennia, right up to the wars of the twentieth century. They have ploughed our fields, carried our ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Murders & Misdemeanours
    This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The tales include ‘Fire in the Menagerie’, ‘Murderous Propaganda Against Prostitution’, ‘HMS Thetis - A Floating Tomb’, and ‘The Mass Graves of Old Swan’. Alongside these the author examines lesser-known cases ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A-Z of Liverpool

    Places-People-History

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series A-Z
    The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world. This once-small fishing village was transformed into a mighty commercial powerhouse, seen by many as the second city of the British Empire. In 1715 Liverpool created the world’s first enclosed, commercial wet dock; eventually there would be docks along 7.5 miles of the River Mersey. It rapidly grew into the greatest port and city in the entire ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Liverpool Pubs

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Pubs
    Liverpool was once the epitome of ‘the city with a pub on every corner’, but no longer. As social habits and communities continue to radically change, hundreds of pubs continue to disappear annually, and mostly without trace except in memories. However, not all have been lost. Right across the heart of this European Capital of Culture and UNESCO World Heritage City, Liverpool still boasts many ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Liverpool's Military Heritage

    par Ken Pye ...
    Collections series Military Heritage
    Liverpool was founded by King John in 1207 as a military base on the River Mersey. From his new town the king planned to invade Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Heavily fortified, and defended by a great castle and a formidable tower, Liverpool was besieged and changed hands three times during the English Civil War. Volunteer troops from the town later helped defend the region ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD