The coastline of Victorian & Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment & a venue for most people's holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry
- shipbuilding & fishing. This book travels around Britain's coast
- clockwise from London
- looking at the industries that could be found at many of the cities & towns en route.


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Discover the greatest scenic railway routes in Engl&, Scotland & Wales, from the authors of the highly

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Christopher Somerville has covered the length & breadth of the UK on foot, & has written & broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife & people for over 25 years.

Now, in this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular column in The Times
- A Good Walk.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780007978199
• Author: Christpher Somerville
• Publisher: Collins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions: 21` x 17.5 x 2cm










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The planes, the people & the planning are all included in this 6 disc DVD set. Included; The twin-engined Vickers Wellington, a comprehensive look at the development & operations of RAF Bomber Command from 1939-1945, Bombers (Strategic Bombing) first used by the Germans in the 1940 Blitz, Daylight Bombing Raids over Europe that were carried out by the United States Air Force during daylight hours, Bombers of World War 2 that takes a look at all the legendary bombers, highlighting their wartime action, & The Story of the Lancaster, the most successful of all World War II heavies. ...

The Berwyn Mountain Mystery Their houses shook, there was a loud explosion & then they saw lights in the sky. A nurse says she saw a pulsating orb the size of the moon. UFO, or a simple case of mistaken identity? Welsh Triangle West Wales in the late 70s was hotspot for UFO sightings. The sighting started on 4th February 1977 in a school playground & soon escalated to such a degree that the MOD were involved. But what really lay behind the mysterious sightings of extra-terrestrial craft & alien beings in the Broad Haven Triangle? UFO Alley In November 1980, PC Alan Godfrey claimed to have seen a UFP whilst on patrol in the Yorkshire town of Todmorden. He was one of six on-duty police officers to report strange aerial phenomena over the Pennines that night, but PC Godfrey ...

British TV comedy in its glorious forms
- from sitcom to sketch shows
- is a much-loved highlight of the small-screen schedules.

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The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture.

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A chilling portrayal of three of history's most ruthless murderers with Fred Dinenage. This DVD

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GWR
- This superb programme looks at the GWR, ' God's Wonderful Railway', as it was in the 1950s & 1960s & more recently.
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It was the railway's Titanic. An horrific crash involving five trains in which 226 died & 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network. The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915, Most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield, they were cut down instead on home soil
- victims, it was said, of serious incompetence & a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, Two signalmen were sent to prison. But startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex & wide-reaching than signalling negligence. The Real Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster
- When Truth Joined the Death Toll, exposes what really happened at Quinbtinshill
- & why.


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