Lamberhead Green & Orrell Mount in 1907 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 western part of Pemberton, including Lamberhead Green, & parts of Orrell & Winstanley. Coverage stretches from Enfield Street westward to Orrell station & from Orrell Mount southward to Rylance Mill. Features include a stretch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (Orrell station is split by the west margin), Winstanley Colliery Railway, Favourite Pony Dick inn, Rylance Mill, moat of Winstanley Hall, Orrell Brick Works, Edge Wood Hall, Orrell Mount, Orrell Council Offices, Orrell Lodge, St John`s church, Lamberhead Green area, St Matthew`s church Highfield (split by east margin), Rose Hill area, tramways & depot, Duke`s Woods, old shafts, Highfield Farm, Highfield House, Sumner`s Hall, Pingot House, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Orrell in 1918. 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. ...

The world of the railways weaves a spell over many people. In this engaging book, railway expert Anthony Lambert presents some of the best stories. From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery & worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. But as the railway transformed the modern world, attitudes changed, & railways were opened to great rejoicing & even religious blessing. The perennial appeal of the steam locomotive generated a pride amongst railwaymen & a fascination among the public. The romantic aspects of the railway were soon celebrated
- & not just the unexpected engagement that came from a snowbound train in the Highlands or the sexual shenanigans of the Orient Express. Here are stories of railway travel, from the palatial carriages of tsars & maharajahs to the open trucks of the 'lower orders', mishaps & faux pas, & tales of how ticket inspectors used to have to hold on to the outside of carriages while clipping tickets. From tales of lonely stations & signal-boxes in Scotl&, to the unlucky engineer eaten by a lion in a carriage in Kenya, Lambert casts his net across railways worldwide to gather the most entertaining material. There are stories here that would enliven even a cheerless commute on the 18.01, & remind you that our railways really were
- & occasionally still are
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Haunted Lambeth is a collection of real-life stories of apparitions & poltergeists from all across the London Borough of Lambeth. Included are the ghost stories of Lambeth Palace, the terrifying tradition of the ` Tomb of the Tradescants`, a ghost at The Old Vic Theatre, the dream house that haunted the entertainer Roy Hudd, supernatural echoes of Waterloo`s Necropolis Railway, the ghosts of Ruth Ellis & others at Streatham`s Caesar`s Nightclub. These stories have been collected & researched over many years, & come from a variety of sources including original newspaper articles, books &, as often as possible, personal communication with people directly involved. ...

Lambeth & its Palace, the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, have a long history. Lambeth was also the home of a famous pottery, Vauxhall Motors, & a reviving Festival. On the Lambeth bank of the Thames, the Gunpowder Plot was hatched. & in humdrum Lambeth, the National Theatre was born at the Old Vic, & London`s County Hall built. The new importance of London`s Thames-side South Bank complex, its renovations & the allure of the London Eye have left this area ripe for redevelopment. ...

This book aims to give a visual impression of the northern & western parts of the borough of Lambeth as they appeared in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries. Starting from the riverside area at the northern end, historically known as Lambeth (as distinct from the much greater extent of the modern borough), the districts covered include also Vauxhall, South Lambeth, Kennington, Stockwell & Clapham. Strictly speaking, the last-mentioned of these is an odd one out, since only with the local government reorganisation of 1964 did Clapham become part of Lambeth, having always previously been in Wandsworth. The photographs range in date through several generations from the mid-1860s to the Second World War. This book is a must-have for any visitor or resident wanting to understand the origins of Lambeth. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:100, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 50m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 64 x 40km (40 x 25 miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals, plus show UTM coordinates for the map corners. Map legend is in Portuguese only.PLEASE NOTE
- EDITION DATES: some sheets at this scale date back to the 1950s or 1960s. For more recent editions please see IGP’s 1:25, 000 series where each 50K map is divided into four quarters. To see all the titles in the 1:100, 000 series please click on the series link.
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor & Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful & ancient folk music tradition. In a dark record shop in Istanbul, Christopher King uncovered some of the strangest & most hypnotic sounds he had ever heard. The 78s seemed to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible to contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania & northwestern Greece & boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre-Homeric era. Lament from Epirus is an unforgettable journey into a musical obsession which follows a genre back to the roots of song itself. As King hunts for traces of two long-lost virtuosos, he tells the story of the Roma people who pioneered Epirotic folk music & whose descendants continue the tradition today. His journey becomes an investigation into song & dance`s role as a means of spiritual healing & what this may reveal about music`s original purpose. ...

The eagerly anticipated new Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant & Catholic councillors are engaged in a final & decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry`s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, & the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry`s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake`s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace & asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered & desperate Queen. For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King`s attention it could bring both her & her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret & hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen`s private chamber, it has
- inexplicably
- vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake`s investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him & Jack Barak into the dark & labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies & Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, & the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either. The theft of Queen Catherine`s book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.

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Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant & Catholic councillors are engaged in a final & decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry`s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, & the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry`s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake`s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace & asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered & desperate Queen. For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King`s attention it could bring both her & her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret & hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen`s private chamber, it has
- inexplicably
- vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake`s investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him & Jack Barak into the dark & labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies & Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, & the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either. The theft of Queen Catherine`s book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake. The previous books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation & Heartstone.

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