Rishton 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 western part of Rishton & the area linking it westward to the Blackburn outskirts. Features include railway with Rishton station, stretch of Great Harwood Loop railway, stretch of Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Rishton Reservoir, cricket ground, St Peter & St Paul church, Whitebirk Moss, Higher Whitebirk, brick works, Higher Side Beet, Cut Farm, etc. On the reverse is a 1918 directory of Rishton 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. ...

Rishton, Church & Dunkenhalgh Park 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 is centred on Dunkenhalgh Park. Most of Rishton is in the north-west corner & the map extends southward to the Church Works & eastward to Dill Hall. Features include Dunkenhalgh Hall, two stretches of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal plus the Peel Arm, Rishton Colliery, Rishton Mill, Wheatfield Mill, Daisyhill Mill, Rishton town centre as far west as Walmsley Street, Henfield House, Prospect Mill, Atlas Works, part of Enfield area, Whin Isle Farm, Accrington & Church Sewage Works, Dill Hall area, Churchbank Mill, St James church, Church Kirk Bridge, Church Works, Peel Bank, Church Hall, Elmfield Hall, Coppy Clough Chemical Works (in ruins) etc. On the reverse is a 1918 directory of Church. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Rishton, Church & Dunkenhalgh Park 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 is centred on Dunkenhalgh Park. Most of Rishton is in the north-west corner & the map extends southward to the Church Works & eastward to Dill Hall. Features include Dunkenhalgh Hall, two stretches of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal plus the Peel Arm, Rishton Colliery, Rishton Mill, Wheatfield Mill, Daisyhill Mill, Rishton town centre as far west as Walmsley Street, Henfield House, Prospect Mill, Atlas Works, part of Enfield area, Whin Isle Farm, Accrington & Church Sewage Works, Dill Hall area, Churchbank Mill, St James church, Church Kirk Bridge, Church Works, Peel Bank, Church Hall, Elmfield Hall, Coppy Clough Chemical Works (in ruins), etc. On the reverse is a 1918 directory of Church. 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. ...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places & set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land`s End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors & tombs of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of Britain`s attitude to place. In archives, he uncovers the life & work of other enthusiasts before him
- medieval chroniclers & Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets & abstract painters. Drawing also on his travels from further afield, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our own history but of man`s perennial struggle to belong on this earth.
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The definitive account of Barack Obama`s life before he became the 44th president of the United States
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Rising `44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies` unique understanding of the issues & characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army`s march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in celebration, but the Soviets remained where they were, allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup & Hitler to order that the city of Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on in the cellars & the sewers. Defenceless citizens were slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the City`s monuments were reduced to rubble, watched by Soviet troops on the other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided that there was nothing to be done, Poland would not be allowed to be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain & the Soviet tanks rolled in to the flattened city. It is a hugely dramatic story, vividly & authoritatively told by one of our greatest historians. ...

Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired & demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human & animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven to despair by the water, accompanied by whales & birds & seals – familiar spirits swimming & flying with the author on his meandering odyssey from suburbia into the unknown. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets & eccentric artists, modernist writers & era-defining performers, wild utopians & national heroes – famous or infamous, they are all surprisingly, & sometimes fatally, linked to the sea. Out of the storm-clouds of the twenty-first century & our restive time, these stories reach back into the past & forward into the future. This is a shape-shifting world that has never been certain, caught between the natural & unnatural, where the state between human & animal is blurred. Time, space, gender & species become as fluid as the sea. Here humans challenge their landbound lives through art or words or performance or myth, through the animal & the elemental. & here they are forever drawn back to the water, forever lost & found on the infinite sea. ...

Rich & strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones` Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired & demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human & animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven to despair by the water, accompanied by whales & birds & seals
- familiar spirits swimming & flying with the author on his meandering odyssey from suburbia into the unknown. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets & eccentric artists, modernist writers & era-defining performers, wild utopians & national heroes
- famous or infamous, they are all surprisingly, & sometimes fatally, linked to the sea. Out of the storm-clouds of the twenty-first century & our restive time, these stories reach back into the past & forward into the future. This is a shape-shifting world that has never been certain, caught between the natural & unnatural, where the state between human & animal is blurred. Time, space, gender & species become as fluid as the sea. Here humans challenge their landbound lives through art or words or performance or myth, through the animal & the elemental. & here they are forever drawn back to the water, forever lost & found on the infinite sea.

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Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, & on both sides of the Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made
- or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter from a long-ago affair has recently got in touch, & he has walked into a lucrative role in the booming banking sector. It is only when he learns of the deaths of two friends within a week that intrigue begins to intrude on his contentment & life begins to feel a little more precarious.
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Cluedo London Edition is a take on the classic murder mystery game & has moved to the capital! This version sees murder scenes such as the study, the garage, kitchen etc. replaced by iconic locations of the capital like Tower Bridge, Covent Garden, Wembley & Soho. Reverend Green & Miss Scarlet & the other classic suspects have been swapped with urban characters like Malcolm Mustard the Mayor, Gus Green the footballer, Paul Plum the journalist etc., while the traditional murder weapons have been kept. Explore the city with Cluedo London, look for the clues to solve the murder mystery. This is a great game for the whole family & group of friends. Recommended for ages 8+. Content:- Gameboard- 6 coloured pawns- 6 suspects cards- 6 weapon cards- 9 London cards- Case Closed Envelope- 2 dice- Instructions- 1 pad of detective notebook sheets ...