Places In Old Photographs

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...

Ebbw Vale's many losses over the past hundred years are celebrated here - collieries, steelworks, cinemas, churches, chapels, post offices, schools...

I'm 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 ...

Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been ...

London is a city of enormous beauty, a dynamic, ever-evolving cityscape built up over hundreds of years of architectural evolution. However, amidst...

Doncaster thrived during the Georgian period, and continued to grow as a railway town in the nineteenth century. As a consequence, it can boast a r...

This fascinating book explores the transformations that have seen Bournemouth develop from a small seaside town into a major South Coast resort and...

Granted city status in 2002, Preston is one of Englands newest cities. However the areas history dates back to Roman times when travelling legions ...

With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitlers most heavily target...

In 1968 the government decided to enlarge the area previously known as Dawley New Town. It was renamed 'Telford' after Thomas Telford, the 'Father ...

A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine ...

Little is generally known of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the immortal place it holds among all the Royal Ordnance Factories. For nearly four h...

Lost Melbourne looks at the cherished places in the city that time, fashion, and progress have swept asidethe old cinemas, the outdated hotels, the...

Edinburgh, Scotlands capital city, has a dramatic cityscape and its wealth of historic streets and buildings make up the UNESCO Old and New Towns W...

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was the leading holiday resort in England, ...

Wigan grew rapidly during the nineteenth century as a major cotton mill town and centre for coal mining, aided by the construction of the Leeds and...

Rochester lends the Medway towns a degree of class. It is the ancient core of Kent's largest conurbation. Instantly recognisable by its splendid No...

Following her success with Lost Charleston, local author and city tour guide Leigh Jones Handal brings a fresh approach to one of the ...

Wimborne Minster is a market town in Dorset. The settlement grew up around its minster, from which it takes its name and which was originally an An...

Chatham is a town that has been undergoing change for the last five hundred years. It all began with the arrival of the naval dockyard in the sixte...

As residents and regular visitors to Blackpool will know, and as the recent extensive changes to the town centre and promenade show, Blackpool neve...

Situated in picturesque countryside on the North Staffordshire / South Cheshire border, the villages of Betley, Balterley and Wrinehill are steeped...

Southend-on-Sea has gone through many transformations since its birth in the Middle Ages when a settlement of farmers and fishermen was established...