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Fred & Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband & wife who loved & killed together. During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their daughter. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife & nanny were buried in open country. Most victims had been decapitated & dismembered, their remains showing signs of sexual torture. These twelve are just the ones police found when the Wests were arrested in 1994. There may be more whose bones have not been located... Howard Sounes broke the first major story about the Wests as a journalist, & covered the murder trial of Rosemary West, before writing Fred & Rose, the definitive account of this infamous case. Beginning with Fred's & Rose's bizarre childhoods, Sounes charts their lives... ...
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Have you ever looked at one of our great historical buildings & wondered how on earth it was built? Well, now you can get the answer from a man who devoted his life to finding out
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Fred tours Britain searching out magnificent monuments, from ancient earthworks through to modern day structures. He looks at how & why things were built & what sort of tools & materials were used & how buildings were adapted & altered to meet changing needs. We get to see some of Fred's favourite castles, cathedrals, palaces, tunnels & bridges & discover the skills that were required to design, build & decorate these buildings. From Hadrian's Wall to St Paul's Cathedral & the Thames Barrier to the ' Pepsi Max Big One' Rollercoaster, Fred reveals just what makes a monument into one of Britain's best. FORTS & CASTLES Fred visits Old Sarum, Hadrian's Wall & the strategically placed castles at Dover, Edinburgh & Warwick. HOUSES & PALACES Fred starts his tour at his old house in Bolton with its unusual chimney before moving on to lghtham Mote, Hampton Court, Lacock Abbey, Cragside & Beamish. PLACES OF WORSHIP All his working life Fred has been involved with church towers & steeples & he thoroughly enjoys himself at St Walburge in Preston, Avebury, Escomb Saxon church, York Minster, Chester & St. Paul's Cathedral. PLACES OF WORK Fred takes the opportunity to look at our places of work including Merchant Adventurer's Hall, Lacock Village, Armley Mills & the ultra modern Lloyd's Building in London. BRIDGES & TUNNELS Fred takes a tour of some of the most wonderful bridges & tunnels in the country including The Pontcysylite Aqueduct, Conwy Suspension Bridge, structures designed by Brunel, The Forth Bridge, Humber Bridge, Thames Barrier & Channel Tunnel. PLEASURE PALACES Fred spends time looking at familiar places of entertainment in Bath, London, Edinburgh & Blackpool, & takes the opportunity to have a ride on the Pepsi Max Big One. ...
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Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes By David Hall, History & Nostalgia
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Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public. Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men including George and Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and why they were such inspirational figures to Fred. What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive and vision come from? What sort of people were they at work and at home? And what was their contribution to the history of industry and engineering? Most of them like Fred were colourful,
larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge was too great. Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves. 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm, pages 390
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Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering'
- the nineteenth century
- & his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations & dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism & captured the hearts of the British public. Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of these men including George & Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel & Joseph Whitworth
- & why they were such inspirational figures to Fred. What were their backgrounds? Where did their drive & vision come from? What sort of people were they at work & at home? & what was their contribution to the history of industry & engineering? Most of them like Fred were colourful, larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge was too great. Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves. 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm, pages 390

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With over 300 UK stores and more than 40000 different products in store each year, The Works is Britain's top discount book store. A well known presence on the high street, The Works was founded in 1981 to bring affordable books to the public. It now offers a large range of exciting products, including arts and crafts products, toys, gifts and seasonal products, all at discounted prices, making it a superb place to find items for hobbies and gifts for all ages. The book selection includes children's books, fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects from food and drink and craft and DIY to entertainment, autobiographies and history. Art and crafts products range from children's craft sets to sewing materials and professional artists' brushes. As well as big brands, The Works also sells their own high quality branded products.
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