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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.

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• 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. ...

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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 ...

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Britains First Photo Album traces the extraordinary achievement of the pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith & his team. Frith embarked upon a colossal project to photograph as much of Great Britain as possible during the second half of the 19th century. In this series John Sergeant sets out to follow in Francis Frith s footsteps to find out more about Britain s First Photo Album & celebrate our shared past. Follow John Sergeant as he drops in on the new owners of Charles Dickenss favourite holiday home & descends under Tower Bridge to witness Victorian engineering at its best. In a journey that takes John from the Isle of Wight to London, from Wales to Scotland & Liverpool to Gravesend, watch as Sergeant retraces Frith s epic journey & finds the history behind Britain s First Album ...

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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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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
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Examines the contribution of women in building & sustaining the British Empire. This title draws on a range of sources, including diaries & letters home. It provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada & Africa
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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. ...

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Britains Lost Railways

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

Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like

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

Like the viaducts at Belah & Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria & spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enochs, it stands proud as testament to Britains architectural heritage.

In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britains finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line & the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah & Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage.

The selection of images & the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables & maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity & ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.

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• ISBN: 9781781318638
• Author: John Minnis
• Publisher: White Lion
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions: 26 x 21 x 2cm

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