This new title is one of the first two in an updated series of Paul Hannon's ` Short Scenic Walks' guidebooks. The principle feature is that all walks are less than five miles in length, offering a perfect half day's stroll for families, casual walkers & all who want to enjoy a leisurely exploration of Britain's outstanding country landscapes. A range of enhancements include a wider geographical spread, in this case merging
- with full revision, two popular titles which are now out of print. The walks start from such places as Harrogate, Knaresborough, Pateley Bridge & Ripon, & include such iconic landmarks as How Stean Gorge, Brimham Rocks, Studley Royal, Almscliff Crag, the Nidd Gorge & the Washburn Valley. In addition to being more visually appealing than their predecessors, with a more modern house style, this new series offers 30 walks rather than 20, & these more substantial books feature a full spine rather than wire-stitched binding. Over 30 colour photographs depict features & landscapes along the routes.
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Harrogate & Ripon, just a few miles apart in one of the most beautiful localities in Yorkshire, have rarely had their contributions to the Great War told all together, in one volume. Stephen Wade has written an account of their importance, from the Ripon camps, where thousands of infantrymen for Kitchener's new Pals' Battalions were trained, to the many Harrogate hospitals where casualties were cared for. Added to this are stories of local individuals, at home & in the European theatre of war, who played their part in this massive conflict. Harrogate & Ripon, made the usual contributions to the war effort, raising money & making food, but the local people experienced many of the significant Yorkshire events of the war, such as the explosion at Barnbow munitions factory & the housing of Belgian refugees. The book tells the stories of not only the heroes, such as Betty Stevenson & Donald Bell VC, but of the ordinary Yorkshire folk who endured the hardships & made great sacrifices. The book provides ample evidence that Harrogate & Ripon, along with their surrounding areas, have a fine record for courage & determination during the First World War. ...

" The Harrogate Great Chronicle" is a unique & new type of local book. Part I, the printed book, is a complete history of the crucial early development of the English Spa from its earliest documentary reference in 1322 to the Harrogate Improvement Act of 1841. In many ways it acts as a prequel to the late H.H. Walkers monumental " History of Harrogate under the Improvement Commissioners, 1841-1884". It is an evenly flowing narrative which is particularly concerned with the discovery, use & promotion of the mineral wells, whose health-giving powers became the foundation of Harrogates later prosperity. Along with the history of the spa, & the important role of the Duchy of Lancaster in urban development, Part I also considers the changing role of education, hospitals, schools, religion & the churches, local government & poor law, transport, social history, the enclosure movement & how national events such as plagues, revolution & war all affected life in one small Yorkshire town. The author has consulted virtually every original source of information, many of which are to found as far afield as London or Oxford, in order to produce a strikingly comprehensive & useful narrative. Uniquely, in Part II of the " Harrogate Great Chronicle" he has ordered virtually all of these source materials into 24 sections which
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- have been reproduced in digital form on a CD-ROM which is bound into the case of this hardback volume. The narrative history of Part I refers constantly to the source material in Part II, an approach which allows other readers to test the authors conclusions & which, importantly, provides local people with an absolutely vast source of information about the early history & development of their town. Local people & historians everywhere will find masses of new information & new insight in this unique publication. Part I in book form; Part II on CD-ROM is bound into the back of the case.

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Harrogate History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Yorkshire spa town. This new book guides us through the streets & alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look & how they've changed over the years as well as exploring its lesser-known sights & hidden corners. With the help of a handy location map, readers are invited to follow a timeline of events & discover for themselves the changing face of Harrogate. ...

Harrogate in 50 Buildings examines the architectural treasures of this famous Yorkshire spa town. Established local author Malcolm Neesam has selected fifty of Harrogate's most significant architectural & historical buildings & describes their provenance, design, materials & use. Many of Harrogate's important older buildings were created to serve the spa that developed after 1571, & the design of these buildings often reflected the visitors' needs for accommodation, spa treatments, entertainment & bodily exercise. The uniqueness of Harrogate largely derives from the spa associations of its buildings. More recently, with the decline of British spas, Harrogate has managed to continue to build innovative & interesting buildings that enrich the community's architectural heritage. Join author Malcolm Neesam as he explores Harrogate's finest architectural marvels in a new & accessible way. ...

The significant historical & social differences between these two neighbouring towns are vividly brought into focus by the variation in pubs & other hostelries that have existed, or still exist, in each. Harrogate is a relatively new town which catered for the burgeoning spa trade facilities of the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries, while Knaresborough is an ancient market town that served farmers & tradesmen who flocked to the market there each week for centuries, as well as workers in local industries. Many of Knaresborough's old inns & pubs survive to refresh what is still a vibrant market town, while Harrogate is now a leading conference centre offering a multitude of pubs & hotel bars. This fascinating new book describes & depicts the many inns, pubs, beerhouses & bars that characterise both towns, with intriguing & often little-known information about their histories & the people who ran them, drank or occasionally died in them. ...

Harrogate Through Time is a wonderful collection of old & new photographs of Harrogate. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary full colour photograph, which illustrates the same scene. The contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed & developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate shops, schools, garages, churches, houses & street scenes, each photograph is captioned & the book has an introduction which gives a brief overview of the history of the area. As you browse through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads & the number of residents, how shops & other businesses have evolved & the changes & developments in modes of transportation & the architecture of the area. ...

Harrogate Through Time is a wonderful collection of old & new photographs of Harrogate. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary full colour photograph, which illustrates the same scene. The contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed & developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate shops, schools, garages, churches, houses & street scenes, each photograph is captioned & the book has an introduction which gives a brief overview of the history of the area. As you browse through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads & the number of residents, how shops & other businesses have evolved & the changes & developments in modes of transportation & the architecture of the area. ...

This enthralling collection of eighty pairs of Then & Now photographs compares the Harrogate of yesteryear with the Harrogate of today. Retracing the steps of his predeccessors David J. Jenkinson ahs gone to great lengths to capture precisely the same views as those earlier photographers. Through the pairing of images we see the changes that have taken place in Harrogate & occasionally scenes that remain little altered today. The transformations common to most towns & cities are seen in Harrogate the shift from pedestrian & equestrian traffic to the constant stream of motor cars. Particular to Harrogate, however, is the transition from spa town to centre for conference. The development of Britains most famous spa town is seen in Kings Road, Station Parade & Parliament Street. Our attention is caught by the designs of Victorian architects & engineers through to the modern shopping centres of today. We are taken on a journey around the town through time as well as locality. Landmarks, made famous by a century of picture postcards, & long lost buildings, such as St Georges orphanage, are pictured with the corresponding, perhaps unrecognisable view in our own time. The changes experienced on the railway are well illustrated as are the changes seen in the main roads, residential streets & buildings throughout Harrogate. ...

In her first novel since The Quick & the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment, then came back to life. After Khristen's boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, & her mother disappears, she ranges across the dead landscape & finds a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call ' Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations & people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. Rivetingly strange & delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is a tale of paradise lost & the reasons to try & recover something of it. ...