Places In Old Photographs

When Alexander Noble established his boatyard in 1898, he probably didnt realise he was also establishing a new Noble tradition. Alexanders yard wo...

Brisbane is a vibrant, fast-changing city. As the city has grown across the last century and a half many of the classic Victorian buildings have be...

In photographs and words, this beautifully presented book rekindles memories while providing glimpses of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War an...

Using archive photos from the 1860s to the 1960 paired with a modern viewpoint, Leeds Then and Now shows how the great northern powerhouse has reta...

What the historian Sir John Dunlop, writing in 1964, called 'The Pleasant Town of Sevenoaks' has come a long way since it was established as a smal...

This fascinating collection is the second volume illustrating Whitchurch and Llandaff North, containing over 200 images, many of which have never b...

Preston has a rich history that fortunately was captured on camera from its days as a cotton town. In Preston Reflections, local author Keith Johns...

Vaughan Grylls has rounded up all of the key sites that make up this fascinating and diverse city, from Jesuit cathedrals, Jewish synagogues, and B...

A visual historical tour through all the great tourist locations of Rome, with vintage images paired with their modern-day equivalent in this compe...

The ancient Shropshire market town of Oswestry, just to the west of Shrewsbury and close to the Welsh border, has not changed a great deal since th...

Matching archive photos with their modern viewpoint, London Then and Now gives a fascinating insight into the history of Europe's financial capital...

Cornwall has changed much over the last 100 years or so. Disused tin mines can be found scattered across the landscape together with signs of other...

Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire, was founded around 900 years ago. The town itself has three medieval parish churches and a priory,...

Brierley Hill is one of the heavily industrialised towns that make up the region known as the Black Country. Like many such towns it can easily be ...

Walworth, in the London borough of Southwark, was mentioned in the Domesday Book and, over the centuries, this former rural, agricultural area has ...

Although Liverpools history goes back to the Middle Ages, the opening of the port to the Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...

Colchesters history goes back to the Iron Age and the Roman settlement that was for a while the capital of Britain. There are extensive remains of ...

It was love at first sight. We drove up the long track, pulled into the yard, and wow! What a view. I did the drawings myself, the maximum we w...

In the space of just 200 years Hebburn has been transformed from a small fishing hamlet into a modern town of 20,000 inhabitants. The driving force...

Dependent originally on fishing and farming, Margate and Ramsgate benefited as limbs of the Cinque Ports during the Middle Ages, shipping grain to ...

Spanning the first one hundred years of the newspaper (1849-1950), London Free Press: From the Vault is chock full of photographs from the London F...

Bridport is a thriving market town in western Dorset. It lies a short distance inland of a spectacular section of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage...

Originally authorised as a ship canal between Gloucester and Berkeley in 1793, the entrance on the Severn estuary was changed to Sharpness to provi...

Described by the poet John Betjeman as 'the handsomest suburb of Europe', Clifton stands overlooking the centre of the ancient maritime city of Bri...

Michael Rouses photographic tour of the West Norfolk coast takes us from the Victorian vision of Hunstanton with its spectacular coloured cliffs ...

Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotlan...

York, founded by the Romans as Eboracum, the capital of Britannia Inferior, is considered one of Europe's best-loved cities. It boasts a wealth of ...

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and earl...

Rochester, Strood & the Hoo Peninsula From Old Photographs examines a diverse and fascinating area. Rochester, with its medieval castle and cat...

Penrith, a small, but characterful and historic market town, was known as Epiacum during the Roman occupation, significant through lead and silver ...

The former shipbuilding centres of Greenock and Gourock sit on the coastal strip, offering breathtaking views north to the Argyll Hills and Scottis...

Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood Through Time takes the reader on a nostalgic journey back to an age when the pace of life was much slo...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Kingston-upon-Thames over the years....