Burnley North West in 1909 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 northern part of Burnley, stretching from Old Hall Street northward to Heald Wood, & from Bishop House Mill westward to the River Calder. Features include the railway with New Hall Bridge Halt, Old Hall Mill & several other mills, tramways & depot, Reedley Hallows Brick Works, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Reedley Colliery, Lodge Mill, Crow Wood House, Royle. The western half of the map is quite rural. On the reverse is a good selection of street directory entries, including Abel Street, Barden Lane, Cleaver Street, Grey Street, Hurtley Street, New Hall Street, Waterbarn Street. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Burnley North West in 1909 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 northern part of Burnley, stretching from Old Hall Street northward to Heald Wood, & from Bishop House Mill westward to the River Calder. Features include the railway with New Hall Bridge Halt, Old Hall Mill & several other mills, tramways & depot, Reedley Hallows Brick Works, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Reedley Colliery, Lodge Mill, Crow Wood House, Royle, etc. The western half of the map is quite rural. On the reverse is a good selection of street directory entries, including Abel Street, Barden Lane, Cleaver Street, Grey Street, Hurtley Street, New Hall Street & Waterbarn Street. 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. ...

Burnopfield & The Leazes in 1895 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 village of Burnopfield, which stands on a shelf above the River Derwent, about 7 miles south-west of Newcastle. Burnopfield itself is near the centre of the map, & features include Bustybank Gasworks, Sheep Hill, Crookgate, Burnopfield House & Bryan's Leap. To the west is Leazes, with High Friarside, St James church, Leazes Hall, Lintz & (in the extreme SW corner) Lintz colliery. South of Burnopfield, at the foot of the map, is Burnopfield Colliery (Hobson Pit). The Pontop & Jarrow Railway runs through the map & at the eastern edge is a small portion of the Crookbank Wagonway & the outskirts of Byermoor. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Burnopfield & The Leazes in 1895 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 village of Burnopfield, which stands on a shelf above the River Derwent, about 7 miles south-west of Newcastle. Burnopfield itself is near the centre of the map, & features include Bustybank Gasworks, Sheep Hill, Crookgate, Burnopfield House & Bryan`s Leap. To the west is Leazes, with High Friarside, St James church, Leazes Hall, Lintz & (in the extreme south-western corner) Lintz colliery. South of Burnopfield, at the foot of the map, is Burnopfield Colliery (Hobson Pit). The Pontop & Jarrow Railway runs through the map & at the eastern edge is a small portion of the Crookbank Wagonway & the outskirts of Byermoor. 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. ...

Burnt Oak & Hendon Aerodrome in 1935 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 dominated by Hendon Aerodrome, which covers its central area but which, with its hangers & other buildings, is left blank for security reasons. But there is much of interest around it. To the west lie Colindale & Burnt Oak stations, Colindale Hospital, Watling Park & the many streets of Burnt Oak from Grange Hill Road eastward. To the right of the aerodrome (which finally closed to flying in 1957) appear the new arterial roads, Great Northway & Watford Way, dating from 1926 & 1927. A last reminder of the rural past, Good Hews Farm, would soon disappear. To provide a vivid contrast, on the reverse is over half of the 1896 version of the same map, showing the Midland Railway & GNR Edgware Branch going through open fields, Page Street a small rural settlement, & Hall Lane meandering where Watford Way would later rush. Stewart Gillies` introduction tells how Claude Grahame-White turned Hendon into one of the four leading airfields in the country, & of its impact on the area. 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. ...

In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders. August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire & the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad`s half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, & their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind & old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history
- personal, political
- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs & the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, & in the novel`s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades & generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences. Sweeping in its scope & mesmerising in its evocation of time & place, ” Burnt Shadows” is an epic narrative of disasters evaded & confronted, loyalties offered & repaid, & loves rewarded & betrayed.

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2018 August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty-one & on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, Hiroko travels to Delhi to find Konrad`s relatives & falls in love with their employee, Sajjad Ashraf. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind & old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history
- personal, political
- are cast over the entwined worlds of different families as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, & in the novel`s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11.

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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Why are bogies green? Are boys smellier than girls? Does everybody fart
- even teachers? Dirty Bertie
- the boy with nose-pickingly

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The Burren & the Aran Islands, with their unique combination of flora, fauna & landscape, are explored by large numbers of walkers annually. This is a guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions & additional information to enhance the walkers` enjoyment & appreciation of the place. From the rugged interior to spectacular coastal scenery, from challenging upland walks to shorter road & waterside excursions, this selection has something for everyone. Every part of the region is covered. Walks vary from two-hour strolls to the longer Burren Way, a six-hour walk from Lisdoonvarna to Ballyvaughan. The author has put his considerable experience & detailed knowledge of the area to great use in putting together an easy-to-use guide that introduces the best of this region for locals & visitors alike. Each route, prefaced with a quick-reference summary, is illustrated with a clear sketch map; descriptions include detailed access information while points of interest are highlighted
- geology, flora & fauna, history, archaeology & folklore.
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