Brierley Hill West & Brettell Lane in 1901 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers a busy industrial area including the western part of Brierley Hill, with the Brettell Lane & Audnam areas. Coverage stretches from Audnam House eastward to Hill St, Brierley Hill. Features include Audnam Glass Works, Camp Hill, Stourbridge Canal, Dudley Canal, Brierley House, Buckpool, Nagersfield Fire Brick Works, Dennis Park, Brettell Lane area with Fire Brick Works, GWR railway with Brierley Hill & Brettell Lane stations, Clattershall Works, Brettell Lane House, Brierley Iron Foundry, Delph Works, tramways, Church Hill, Chapel Hill, St Michael`s church, Glass Works, Bottle Works, Silver End area, Turners Lane Colliery, etc. On the reverse is a commercial directory, entries A to K. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

33 specially selected hiking trails in the Brig
- Aletsch
- Goms region of Switzerland presented at 1:50, 000 on a waterproof

...

Map No. 1289, Brig, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
...

Brigg in 1906 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the north Lincolnshire town of Brigg, well known as the setting for Delius's tone poem Brigg Fair. The town's full name is Glanford Brigg, remembered on the map as the name for the Union. The map covers most of the town & features here include Old River Ancholme, New River Ancholme, station, Bigby Street, Wrawby Street, Market Place, workhouse, Yarborough Oil Mills, Bridge Street, Candley Beck, Island Carr, sweet manufactories, isolation hospital etc. On the reverse is a 1905 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Brighouse in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers Brighouse, south-east of Halifax, stretching from Healey Wood northward to Bridge Lane & Woodvale Mill, & from Cromwell Bottom Delph eastward to Clifton Road station. Features include the town centre with Town Hall, St James church, Mill Royd Mills, Victoria Mill, Borough Market, Calder Bridge, Owler Ings Mill, Anchor Bridge, railway with station, River Calder, Calder & Hebble Navigation (North Cut & Freeman`s New Cut), St Martin`s church, Lower Newlands, Little Woodhouse, Waring Green, Leopold Wire Works, Calder Dye Works, etc. On the east side of town is the Bailiff Bridge Branch with Clifton Road station, an industrial tramway to the canal basin, George Street Mill & Brighouse Sanatorium. On the west side are Brookfoot, Brookfoot Mill, Brookfoot Dye Works, Valley Dye Works, St Peter`s Mission Church, Longroyd Quarries, etc. On the reverse are extracts from a 1901 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

`A fabulously rich, anecdotal & gripping account of those men & women who ventured out from Britain into the swamps & jungles of the tropics in search, knowingly or not, of the missing link. Through their stoical-sometimes crack-brained-voyages, the shape of the world, geographically & biologically, was elucidated. Never have more significant journeys been made... Enthusiastic, informed & racy, this is one of the most invigorating accounts of the exploits of people from an age whose intrepidity is staggering`. ` Peter Raby`s book follows a disparate crew of botanists, scientists & collectors, who tried to order the earthly paradise which unfolded around them. Entrepreneurs they may have been
- many were dependent on selling their specimens to finance their trips
- but they were also scrupulous & sensitive observers... Raby finds some shimmering, personalities... His book is excellent`
- ” Daily Telegraph”.


...

In Bright Particular Stars, David Mc Kie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable visionaries on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotl&, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance & disastrous in its execution, he has created a vivid patchwork of arresting narratives that together illuminate some of the most secret
- but most extraordinary
- byways of our national & local history. Some figures, including Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others mixed the admirable with the morally dubious: the composer Peter Warlock rented a cottage in the Kentish village of Eynsford where he composed a gentle song cycle, but set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking & naked motorbike riding. In Bright Particular Stars quiet, unassuming streetscapes are transformed in to beguiling, eccentric & uproarious sites of action which
- through the eyes of David Mc Kie
- are once more filled with the great triumphs & failures of the visionaries that have each, in their own way, helped shape our island`s rich & chequered history.



...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars & down-&-outs. Palm-lined beaches & gridlock. Shopping sprees & gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey`s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos & ideals, hopes & despairs, anxieties & absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, & have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed. ...

Bright Underground Spaces: the Railway Stations of Charles Holden, written by David Lawrence & published by Capital Transport in association with the London Transport Museum, looks at the first period of radically new architecture on the London Underground, between the mid-1920 & the start of the Second World War, & in particular at the work of Charles Holden. Holden brought light & space to Underground stations on a scale that went far beyond the designs of his predecessors & even some of his contemporaries, & all of his structures still serve the people of London decades later. The book is illustrated with numerous photos, mostly contemporary black & white ones, original sketches used to prepare the designs, & even detail such as examples of brick types & patterns of brick bonding. ...