This enjoyable new book delves into unexplored areas of history surrounding the great network of the West Midland Canals. It provides a new insight into its most fascinating figures & places, including interviews with some of the last true boatmen, whose world disappeared forever during the turbulent 1960s. It reveals fascinating figures like John Corbett, who became one of the richest men in Britain during the 19th century, through salt & canals. He built a fabulous chateau for his unfaithful wife on the outskirts of Droitwich that can still be visited today. We also have an account of how the Droitwich Canals have been wonderfully restored to the navigation system, with old & new photographs depicting the changes. & not forgetting such pivotal characters such as Boulton & Watt, who were an essential part of the canal story. We at The History Press are sure that this book will appeal to canal enthusiasts & all who love the West Midlands with its amazing Waterways. ...

A bestseller in hardback, this beautiful celebration of Britain`s rich waterways heritage is now available in paperback for the first time. Through the superb photography of Derek Pratt, this lovely & quirky book looks at 50 transitional years when Britain`s inland waterways changed from being a thriving commercial transport system to the much-loved pleasure cruising network it is today. Each double page spread juxtaposes superb atmospheric black & white photos of the locations as they were 50 years ago with vibrant colour photos showing how they look today, with many new photographs & updated captions for this edition. From quintessentially English rivers to London`s busy canal network, this wonderful book highlights the architectural legacy & natural beauty that attracts thousands of visitors to go boating or walking along the towpaths. ...

This is a collection of archive photos of the English canal system at the start of the 20th century, & a clear visual record of the working lives of the people who worked on the system at the end of the Victorian era. Drawn mostly from the archives of the British Waterways Board, most of these photos have never before been published. ...

Street by Street Watford Midi has been fully updated with a stylish new cover design, in a handy glovebox size. Quick to navigate & easy-to-use, the maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants, pubs, hotels, one-way streets & car parks. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure it can be read under street lighting, & National Grid referencing, Street by Street Watford Midi is all you need to keep you on the move. ...

Black & white street plan covering Watford, Leavesden Green & Kingswood at Approx. 1:10, 000 scale, & on the reverse shows Watford, Bushey & Oxhey together at Approx. 1:32, 000 scale. Each map shows grid squares every half-mile &

Includes:: street indexes. Shows some landmarks, public buildings such as schools, railway stations & police stations, & some notable private buildings & inns.

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South Watford & New Bushey in 1896 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 is double-sided, to give maximum coverage of the town. The main map covers the town centre, extending westward to Foxholes & northward to Butts Close. Features include St Mary`s church, The Priory, Windmill Hill, The Grove, Holy Saviour`s church, Whinbush Grove, Lavender Distillery, Leather Dressing Works, engine shed, Market Place, High Street, Rosenburg, Infirmary, Workhouse, cemetery, etc. On the reverse is a portion of adjacent sheet 12.02 extending coverage eastward to include the station. 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. ...

Watford Street Atlas at 1:15, 840 / 4 to a mile in an indexed, glove box size paperback format, with national grid referencing. Street atlas covers Watford, Borehamwood, Northwood, Abbots Langley, Bushey, Bushey Heath, Chorleywood, Radlett & Rickmansworth, with an enlargement of Watford town centre at a scale of 1:7, 920 / 8 ...

Street atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5 covering Watford with Borehamwood, Northwood, Abbots Langley, Bushey, Bushey Heath, Chorleywood, Radlett & Rickmansworth. Map scale is 1:15, 840 (4” to a mile), with an enlargement showing the town centre of Watford in greater detail at 1:7, 920 (8” to 1 mile). Coverage also

Includes:: Bricket Wood, Croxley Green, Kings Langley & South Oxhey. Current edition of this title was published in 2016. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases
- for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.


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Wath upon Dearne 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 the town of Wath upon Dearne, the village of West Melton, & the hamlets of Newhill, Gore Hill & Brampton. A short stretch of the GCR railway is shown, including Wath station. The Dearne & Dove Canal runs across the map. Features at Wath include All Saints church, Town Hall, Church Street, cemetery, Wath Brewery, Burlington House, High Street, etc. To the east is Gore Hill, with St James Mission Church, South Yorkshire Oil Soap Works, Green Ings. Eastward is West Melton, including High Street, Old Hall Farm, streets around Melton Road & Winterwell Road. To the south is Newhill with Newhill Hall, Newhill Grange. On the reverse is a portion of the adjacent sheet 283.06 showing the rest of West Melton, including Christ Church, Melton Green, brick works, Firth Road, & extending to Brampton with Brampton Hall & Brampton House, plus extracts from a directory of Wath. 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 journey along one of Britain`s oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, & the track became a road. It connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia & eventually England & Wales. Armies from Rome arrived & straightened this 444 kilometres of meandering track, which in the Dark Ages gained the name Watling Street. Today, this ancient road goes by many different names: the A2, the A5 & the M6 Toll. It is a palimpsest that is always being rewritten. Watling Street is a road of witches & ghosts, of queens & highwaymen, of history & myth, of Chaucer, Dickens & James Bond. Along this route Boudicca met her end, the Battle of Bosworth changed royal history, Bletchley Park code breakers cracked Nazi transmissions & Capability Brown remodelled the English landscape. The myriad people who use this road every day might think it unremarkable, but, as John Higgs shows, it hides its secrets in plain sight. Watling Street is not just the story of a route across our isl&, but an acutely observed, unexpected exploration of Britain & who we are today, told with wit & flair, & an unerring eye for the curious & surprising. ...