” Bloody Paralyser” tells the story of the largest British bomber aircraft of World War 1 & the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest plane ever seen in Britain, the Handley Page Type 0, took flight for the first time, a twin engine monster with a 100 foot wingspan, designed to be a `bloody paralyser` to the Germans. Operating mainly at night, the Handley Page bombers attacked German & German-occupied towns & cities with near impunity, disrupting the enemy`s industry & crippling its war effort. The men that flew in the bloody paralysers were the forerunners of the crews of Bomber Command in World War 2, & now their story is told in their own words. Bristling with Lewis guns, the lasting legacy of the aircraft was such that for many years after the war, any large aircraft came to be called a ` Handley Page` in Britain. ...

Kingston upon Thames 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 centre of Kingston upon Thames & part of Hampton Wick, stretching from Normansfield & Wick Road in Hampton Wick eastward to Park Road & Manorgate Road in Kingston, & from St Albans Road southward to Washington Road. Features include railway with Kingston & Hampton Wick stations, River Thames, All Saints church, brewery, Canbury Field, The Fairfield, Bunyon Chapel, Albany Club, Tiffins School, Norbiton Hall, St Peter`s church Norbiton, Royal Cambridge Asylum, St Paul`s church, Kingston Bridge, Normansfield, St John`s church Hampton Wick, tannery, etc. Extracts from an 1897 street directory are on the reverse, including entries for Caversham Road, Church Street, Eden Street, Fairfield Road, Fife Road & Market Place. The map overlaps sheet No. London 140 covering Hampton Wick. 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. ...

At the heart of one of London`s busiest boroughs, nestled on the banks of the River Thames, lies Kingston upon Thames. This vibrant Surrey market town first appears on record in a royal document from AD 838 & by the tenth century it had become the place of coronation for Anglo-Saxon kings. The town itself has managed to retain many of its historical roots with the countless examples of beautiful architecture throughout the ages; Kingston upon Thames in 50 Buildings explores its history through a selection of the greatest of these treasures. In this unique study, Julian Mc Carthy celebrates the city`s architectural heritage in a new & accessible way with a tour of the town`s historic & modern buildings. ...

Kingston upon Thames, Richmond, Epsom & Wimbledon Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:19, 000 (3.33” to a mile), with an enlargement showing the town centre of Kingston in greater detail at 1:9, 500 (6.67” to 1 mile). The atlas covers the south-western boroughs of London, extending south from Brentford, Chiswick & Hammersmith to include Banstead, Barnes, Cheam, Chessington, Esher, Ewell, Hampton, Hersham, Kew, New Malden, Putney, Surbiton, Teddington, Thames Ditton & Twickenham. 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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Kingston, Ontario on a double-sided map from Canadian Cartographics Corporation, combining a street plan of Kingston at 1:25, 000 with an enlargement of the downtown area, plus on the reverse individual street plans at 1:25, 000 of Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Iroquois, Cardinal, Morrisburg & Cornwall with an extension to Long Sault Parkway. Each street plan is indexed. The plans have colouring to indicate commercial, institutional or industrial use, etc. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & one way streets are marked. A range of symbols shows, as appropriate, parking facilities, bus terminals, metro and/or railway stations, various public facilities & services, places of interest, recreational centres, etc. ...

Kingswinford 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 much of Kingswinford, to the west of the Black Country, extending southward to Mount Pleasant. Features include Stourbridge Workhouse, tramways, Halfway, Summer Hill, Summerhill House, Bradley Hall, etc. On the reverse is a 1912 directory of Kingswinford. 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. ...

Kington in 1927 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 shows the town in the top half, with the more rural area to the bottom. The northern part the map features the railway line & station, Waterloo Bridge, Gravel Hill, St Mary`s Church, Lady Hawkins Grammar School & Victoria Cottage Hospital; the southern half

Includes:: the Poor Law Institution, Penrhos Wood & Mortuary Chapel & Cemetery. On the reverse is a list of private residents & a commercial 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.

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Waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active version of map No. 35 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Paper version of map No. 35 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Map No. 35, Kingussie & Monadhliath Mountains, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including the Cairngorms National Park, Coingnafearn Forest, Kinveachy Forest, Strathdearn, Glen Feshie, Badenoch, Aviemore, Ellan, Kincraig, Lagganlia, Insh, Drumguish, Newtonmore, Laggan, Feagour, Garvamore, Errogie, Lewiston, East Croachy, Tomatin & Clune, with the peaks of Carn a ...