Approximately 150 detailed photographs from the Francis Frith Collection of the county from the 1940s, 50s & 60s. With extended captions & full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians & general readers.

Includes:: a voucher for a free mounted print of any photograph shown in the book.

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Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this biography, which uses material from the archives of six countries. ...

At the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school. At thirty-three he was crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. At forty-one he was committed to Good Mayes Psychiatric Hospital. In this book, Bruno tells his story: his becoming wo ...

RGJCD268 – Frank Sinatra Features 8 Complete & Re-Mastered Classic Albums On 4 C Ds. Disc 1 A Swingin’ Affair (1957) 1. Night & Day 3.57 2. I Wish I Were In Love Again 2.25 3. I Got Plenty O Nuttin’ 3.07 4. I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan ...

Books True Crime Books All the varieties of power – star, political, sexual, criminal & emotional – are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra & the Mafia. Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA & big-city police departments, Rothmiller & Thompson reveal Sinatra’s pact with the Mob in shocking detail. With additional evidence from decades of investigations & testimony, they expose Sinatra’s lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, & its deadly collateral damage. This revelatory showstopper is a wild dance made coherent by intelligent choreography. Sinatra may not have been an actual made man, but the Mafia certainly made him. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781802470840 •†Author:   Mike Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson   •†Publisher:   Ad Lib Publishers •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 256 •†Dimensions:†12.8 x 19.8cm   ...

Frank Skinner is undoubtedly one of the funniest & most successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957 he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football, a West Bromich Albion supporter, along with a liking for alcohol. Expelled from school at 16 Frank held various jobs later going on to gain an MA in English Literature.

Nurturing a serious drink problem from the age of fourteen, Frank eventually turned to Catholicism in 1987 & hasn't had a drink since. He performed his first stand up gig in December 1987. His first television appearance in 1988 met with fits of laughter from the audience & 131 complaints, including one from cabinet minister Edwina Currie.

He met fellow comedian David Baddiel in 1990 & the two went on to share a flat throughout the early 90's & to create the hit TV series Fantasy Football League. Winner of the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Skinner's is a unique mixture of laddish & philosophical humour which has won him the prime time ITV show
- The Frank Skinner Show. Here, for the first time, Frank candidly tells us of the highs & lows of his fascinating life & career.






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Over the course of the last ten years, Frank Skinner has toured sell-out st&-up shows, hosted countless TV shows & an award-winning radio programme, written two well-received volumes of memoir, as well as recording a couple of pop songs & learning to play the ukulele. He has been a busy man. Yet, for the last two years, he has also managed to squeeze in a weekly column for The Times. Without fail, he sat down every week & wracked his brain to think of something to write 900 words about. Dispatches From the Sofa is the brilliant result. Alighting on such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret Thatcher, the love-hate relationship with your football club, Mike Read's musical of Oscar Wilde, fat pop stars, Serbian breakfast banter, the pleasures of air-guitar, the banking crisis & the evil phenomenon of Jedward, this is a thought-provoking, wide-reaching, hilarious & self-deprecating collection
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Includes:: the first two chapters from his unpublished novel
- from one of our funniest, quickest & most beloved comedians.



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A five-volume set of the Brummie comedian's live shows. The shows featured comprise ' Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre' (1992), ' Live at the Apollo (1994)', ' Live at the London Palladium (1996)', ' Live in Birmingham' (1998) & ' Live from Birmingham's Nation ...

Frank Skinner's adventures on tour are by turns funny & moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors & joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night & on the nature of comedy itself. This work describes his experience of going back on the road & doing st&-up again, after many years spent working on television. ...

Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner, his first book, was one of the bestselling show business autobiographies of all time
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