Places In Old Photographs

In the early 1800s Acton consisted of a small group of houses around the church plus a small farming community at East Acton and some farm dwelling...

Sheffield city centre suffered heavily in the Luftwaffe attacks of December 1940. More than 660 lives were lost and many houses, buildings, and bus...

Devizes is a typical bustling Wiltshire market town. Architecturally the town boasts a variety of buildings spanning almost a thousand years, and o...

The Manor of Northam dates back to the Norman invasion and is well recorded in the Domesday Book, being part of lands owned by a Saxon Lord called ...

Beverley Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting ...

Exeter has long been an important city in Devon, centred around its medieval cathedral. Much of the historic city centre was lost during the Second...

First published in 1974, Into the Hollow Mountains was a landmark book featuring black-and-white images taken by Robert Ashton around the Melbourne...

Coventry remembers the night of the Blitz, when many people lost their lives, lovely old buildings were destroyed, and the magnificent St Michael's...

Brighouse Through Time provides a unique opportunity to look, not only at the present day town centre that many readers will be familiar with, but ...

Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying. The largest flying ground in Esse...

The River Forth is one of Scotlands great waterways. It has a majestic history and heritage, part of which is the Forth bridges. Of these, the most...

Melbourne Remember When is a photographic celebration of nostalgia, particularly for Baby Boomers, thousands of whom follow the Melbourne Remember ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection...

Im just passing through, Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal C...

A history of London's East End

The old Saxon village of East Leah was recorded as existing as early as 932, situated on the ancient Roman road between Winchester (Venta Belgarum)...

Contrasting a selection of 45 archive images alongside full-colour modern photographs, this book traces some of the changes and developments that h...

As one of Englands most ancient settlements, Chichester has seen a lot of change over its lifetime of over two thousand years, developing through R...

Once an ancient Surrey market town, Kingston-upon-Thames is now a thriving suburb of Southwest London, which still boasts an impressive market, and...

Dover has been the gateway to England for over 3,000 years and each generation has left its mark on the town. From the Bronze Age boat to the Cha...

Contrasting a selection of 45 archive images alongside full-colour modern photographs, this book traces some of the changes and developments that h...

Swansea has a rich, absorbing past, which is uniquely reflected in this delightful, full-colour compilation. Contrasting a selection of forty-five ...

From the 1860s, residents of the town were commenting sadly on the rapid changes that were taking place, and at least one local artist found a read...

Rutland is at the very heart of England. It is England's smallest historic county, less than twenty miles in distance from north to south or east t...

The City of Newcastle is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne. It is thought that the city has had almost 2,000 years of continuous habitat...