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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With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This book tells the story of the small, but resilient, carriers & the crucial role they played in the British war effort. ...

Presents the story of the cat & mouse duel between the airship & another pioneering form of technology
- the submarine during World
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In the case of British Airways, its ancestral infancy & adolescence took many forms, & this is possibly the first book that follows the sometimes complex relationships that led, first, to the formation of Imperial Airways, &, later, to the formation of British Airways. Altogether, for all enthusiasts of airlines & air transport history, The Imperial Years should be a pleasure to peruse & also to serve as a reliable reference source for any library bookshelf. ...

Coverage of the British & Irish Lions' tour of South Africa during the Apartheid regime. Despite the media furore that surrounded the team heading out to play the Springboks, the test series was memorable to all with some of the best tries ever seen. After winning match after match, the Lions' captain nicknamed his team ' The Invincibles'. ...

Presents drawings of World War II armoured fighting vehicles
- offering military enthusiasts & modellers a reference on these steel
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