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. ...

The London Borough of Harrow has seen dramatic changes over the decades, moving gradually away from its countrified roots to become a bustling & diverse urban centre. Local historian Don Walters view that Harrow is not the place it was is evident in this selection of archive images of Harrows streets over the last century, but modern Harrow has changed both a huge amount & surprisingly little over the last 100 years, due both to population growth & the clever actions of far-sighted town administrators of decades past. Placing these archive images alongside beautiful modern photography of the same views today & fascinating informative captions, " Harrow Then & Now" takes us on a tour of the changing face of this historic area, from the modern central streets to the beautifully preserved historic school in Harrow on the Hill. ...

Spine-tingling horror from award-winning duo, Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook. Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts & monsters. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures
- & to the land itself
- in a way she never imagined. Collecting the first four issues of Harrow County, the southern gothic fairy tale from the creator of the smash hit The Sixth Gun (Oni Press, 2011), beautifully & hauntingly realised by B.P.R.D's (Dark Horse) Tyler Crook!

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Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker
- she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked
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Unlike anything I've ever read. Muir's writing is as sharp as a broken tooth, & just as unsettling. -V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth " Deft, tense & atmospheric, compellingly immersive & wildly original." -The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, & her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, & mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, & the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark's health is failing, her magic refuses to cooperate, her sword makes her throw up, & even her mind threatens to betray her. What's worse, someone is trying to kill her. & she has to wonder: if they succeeded, would the universe be better off? ...

This is the story of Prince Henry, third in line to the British throne, & most popular member of the Royal family. From a childhood born to a troubled marriage & scarred by the tragedy of the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, to his brilliant public performances at the Diamond Jubilee, the London Olympics & his brother's wedding, this book charts the remarkable journey of a seemingly ordinary young man with an extraordinary destiny. Once pilloried as a playboy prince who drank GBP200 cocktails with louche friends in London nightclubs, brawled with photographers & wore a Nazi uniform to a fancy-dress party, then lauded following his first term of duty on the front line in the most dangerous place on earth, southern Helmand in Afghanistan, from which he returned a hero. Written with the help of a wide range of people
- from senior aides to humble members of staff, from aristocrats to bodyguards & protection officers, from friends of Harry's to the not-so-friendly, from those who shared classrooms with him in boyhood to those he drank with. From girls he has loved & lost to soldiers who have served alongside him on the front line in Afghanistan
- Harry: The People's Prince is the story of a young man who has admirably created a life for himself in contrast to the one set out for him by what he describes as 'an accident of birth'.

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