Places In Old Photographs

Margate was one of the first English seaside resorts. From the 1730s it set out to attract visitors, particularly from London, who came by coach an...

The city of Chester grew up around one of the largest Roman fortresses in the country. Its cathedral and Norman castle are evidence of Chesters imp...

Thirsk & Sowerby Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Yorkshire. Reproduced in full colour, this is an...

'Hastings and St Leonards, the charming marine resort of fashionable English society, possess attractions and recommendations that render the borou...

Swanage lies in a particularly attractive corner of Dorset, in a sheltered bay overlooked by the Purbeck Hills, with chalk cliffs along the coast a...

Over the course of 100 years, the Isle of Man developed from a collection of fishing villages into one of the main holiday destinations for people ...

The historic East Sussex town of Rye has been an important place since medieval times when it was a member of the Confederation of Cinque Ports, a ...

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Stratford developed at the lowest crossing point of the River Lea and was a strategic gateway to London. Part of the Essex parish of West Ham, its ...

The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eve...

Manchester has changed rapidly in the last 100 years. The Lancashire market town was transformed during the Industrial Revolution through the manuf...

Hartlepool Through The Ages is a sister volume to Paul Chrystals Hartlepool Through Time, produced this time with Stan Laundon. Stan not only provi...

The city of Portsmouth, on the Hampshire coast, has been an important naval base for centuries and is still home to much of the Royal Navys fleet t...

The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second ...

The Midlothian region, once called Edinburghshire, is now administratively separate from the city of Edinburgh. They have always been interdependen...

The teeming nature of life in eighteenth-century Edinburgh elevated the Old Towns taverns to a critical role in the citys social life, and there wa...

Ealing was once known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', though this phrase is more commonly used now by estate agents. Ealing Through Time enables the...

Surrey Executions lists in chronological order all the criminals hanged in the county during the nineteenth century. It opens in the era of the Blo...