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Cotherstone: A Village in Teesdale
David RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Cotherstone village in County Durham is set on the River Tees, 4 miles from Barnard Castle. Today a large and pretty village, its history goes bac...
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Carlisle in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Originally established as a Roman settlement to serve the forts along Hadrians Wall, the Cumbrian city of Carlisle has a wealth of fascinating hist...
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Dunstable in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The Bedfordshire town of Dunstable can trace its origins back to Roman times and the building of Watling Street, which crossed the ancient Icknield...
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Tring in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99People have lived, farmed and traded in the Hertfordshire town of Tring for thousands of years. The Icknield Way, which hugs the Chiltern scarp, is...
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Hertford in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The River Lea and its crossing at Hertford lie at the heart of the town's history. Before the Norman Conquest the river formed a natural boundary b...
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Cassiobury Park The Postcard Collection
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Cassiobury Park has an incredible history. Not only is it one of the remnants of the greatest lost estates in the country, it is now one of the mos...
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Aylesbury in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, started as a Saxon settlement called Aegels burgh. By medieval times it had developed into an admini...
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Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €14.71Original price €15.99Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (16481721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone. Tant...
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Bournemouth in 50 Buildings
Liz GordonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Today, Bournemouth is one of the favourite resorts on the south coast, but until the early nineteenth century, the area was just heathland where ca...
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British Bandstands
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Bandstands have been a feature of the British way of life for well over a century but, after the Second World War, an increasing number fell into ...
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Windsor & Eton in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Today, millions of tourists from around the world are drawn to Windsor by its magnificent castle, dating from the eleventh century, and its wealth ...
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Luton in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The Bedfordshire town of Luton originated in the sixth century when the Saxons established a farm or settlement (called a tun) by the River Lea. Fa...
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Salford in 50 Buildings
Carole O'ReillyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Although little is recorded of its earlier history, Salford is a city of great antiquity. In 1228, Henry III granted the Lancashire town the right ...
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Manchester in 50 Buildings
Deborah WoodmanCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From its status as the world's first industrialised city, through late twentieth-century decline and subsequent regeneration and rebirth as the 'Se...
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Parkitecture: Buildings and Monuments of Public Parks
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99What are the ingredients of our great British public parks? We often think of the wider landscape of trees, grass, lakes, meandering footways, bedd...
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Bandstands: Pavilions for music, entertainment and leisure
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In 1833, the Select Committee for Public Walks was introduced so that the provision of parks would lead to a better use of Sundays and the replacem...
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Sir Christopher Wren
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Sir Christopher Wren (16321723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to ar...
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Cassiobury: The Ancient Seat of the Earls of Essex
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99One of the remnants of the great lost estates of the United Kingdom, Cassiobury Park is now the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal pa...
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Leighton Buzzard in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Close to the Chiltern Hills lies the Bedfordshire market town of Leighton Buzzard. Dominating the town is the 190-foot spire of the thirteenth-cent...
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Welwyn & Welwyn Garden City in 50 Buildings
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Situated a mile from the Hertfordshire village of Welwyn, the Garden City was founded in 1920. It was the vision of Ebenezer Howard, founder of the...
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Salisbury in 50 Buildings
Liz GordonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99With its magnificent Early English cathedral, timbered buildings and historic houses, Salisbury has a wealth of history and architectural treasures...
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Great British Parks: A Celebration
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Our great British parks are one of the finest legacies of the Victorian age. Designed and bequeathed to the masses as part of a movement encouragin...
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Richmond Park: From Medieval Pasture to Royal Park
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London, covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Pauls Cat...
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London''s Royal Parks The Postcard Collection
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The royal parks of London are lands originally owned by the monarchy of the United Kingdom for the recreation (mostly hunting) of the royal family....
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Hyde Park: The People''s Park
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Hyde Park is a London favourite. You can walk, lie in the grass, play games, take exercise and engage in sport. It has been a venue for mass celebr...
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Great Parks, Great Designers
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Much has been written about the history of Victorian life, the Industrial Revolution and the improvements brought about by the great reformers, inc...
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Bandstands of Britain
Paul A. RabbittsCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Bandstands of Britain is a historical celebration of one of the best-loved features still found in many of our parks, open spaces, squares and seas...
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Regent''s Park: From Tudor Hunting Ground to the Present
Paul RabbittsCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The Regents Park has a history stretching back through seven centuries, well before the designer and architectural genius John Nash and his patron ...
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