Full-colour guide to over 260 pubs throughout the UK which have interiors of real historic significance
- some of them stretching
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This is a comprehensive photographic field guide to the butterflies of Britain & Irel&. This completely revised second edition covers in detail the identification of all 59 butterfly species that currently breed as well as the 4 former breeders 9 rare migrants & 1 species with unknown status. The innovative easy-to-use format aims to help the butterfly-watcher
- beginner or expert
- to identify any species they encounter. It offers: stunning color plates showing typical views of each butterfly with similar-looking species grouped together; photographs of egg caterpillar & chrysalis for all breeding species; detailed species profiles covering: adult identification; behavior; habitat requirements; population & conservation; egg caterpillar & chrysalis; distribution with up-to-date maps; & sections on biology habitats how & where to watch butterflies & other useful information.

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Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation & development of the jet bomber tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant & Vulcan) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF & Fleet Air Arm. Each aircraft type is examined looking at how the design was created & how this translated into an operational aircraft. The basic development & service history of each type is explained with a narrative which links the linear appearance of each new design leading to the present day & the latest generation of Typhoon aircraft. Other aircraft types covered are the Canberra Sperrin Victor Scimitar Buccaneer Nimrod Phantom Sea Harrier Jaguar Tornado GR1/4 & Typhoon. ...

This is a comprehensive photographic field guide to the dragonflies & damselflies of Britain & Irel&. This completely revised second edition covers in detail the identification of all 56 species that have been recorded as well as 7 potential vagrants. It aims to help the dragonfly-watcher
- beginner or expert
- to identify any species they encounter. It
Includes:: stunning color plates of all species
- showing males females immatures & color forms; innovative beautifully detailed & easy-to-use identification charts summarizing the key features of both adults & larvae; detailed species profiles covering adult identification distribution (with up-to-date maps) flight periods eggs & larvae behavior habitat requirements status & conservation; & sections on biology habitats tips on how & where to watch dragonflies & other useful information. It is a guide on when & where to find each species. A companion iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app is available for this guide.



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Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments from torrential hill streams & lowland rivers to lakes & reservoirs ponds & canals & ditches & estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than 50 species of freshwater & brackish fish found in these waters. This beautifully illustrated guide features in-the-hand & in-the-water photographs throughout & accessible & informative overviews of topics such as fish biology & life cycles. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features with information on status size & weight habitat ecology & conservation. The book also

Includes:: a glossary & suggestions for further reading. This easy-to-use field guide will be invaluable to anyone interested in Britain's freshwater fish life from naturalists & academics to students & anglers. Covers all of Britain's freshwater fishes Features beautiful photos throughout

Includes:: detailed information on more than 50 species the places they inhabit & their roles in Britain's ecosystems Attractively designed & easy to use



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Britain's Hoverflies" is a beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible & designed to appeal to a wide audience the book contains more than 500 remarkable photographs exploring the various life stages of all 69 hoverfly genera & the 164 most commonly seen species. Easy-to-use species accounts highlight key identification features including status behavior & habitat requirements. The book also contains distribution maps phenology charts & introductory chapters that examine hoverfly biology. This guide is the perfect companion for wildlife enthusiasts professional ecologists & anyone with an interest in this unique insect family. I

Includes:: more than 500 remarkable photographs depict all 69 hoverfly genera & the 164 most commonly seen species in Britain that can be identified by eye or with a magnifying glass. It offers introductory chapters that explore hoverfly biology. Species accounts highlight key features of each genus & species including status behavior & habitat. Maps & phenology charts examine hoverfly distribution. It is a complete list of the 281 hoverfly species recorded in Britain to date with degrees of identification difficulty."

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Barrie Trinder has been a leading expert on industrial history for many years & this is perhaps his most important book to date: a general overview of the industrial revolution across the British Isles. The industrial revolution was one of the defining changes of human history & it happened in Britain first. It changed radically the way in which goods were made: for the first time large factories were built to house the machines & power systems that had been invented. It led to new ways of working & living: it concentrated workers in large workplaces often in the rapidly growing towns & cities. Along with spectacular profits & economic benefits it brought danger pollution & increasing inequality between rich & poor. Alongside industry arrived canals railways cast-iron bridges & iron ships. The industrial revolution created the country & the society we recognise today. ...

Fully illustrated with stunning photographs of dray horses coopers & grand Victorian architecture an elegy for the loss of ...

From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls & housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses
- but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield's Bramall Lane
- until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal & sold it for an industrial estate. Now in a further addition to Aurum's successful ' Lost' series following Britain's Lost Cities & Lost Victorian Britain Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds hearing reminiscences from former players & spectators & finding what if anything is left nowadays apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic & rueful trip back in time.

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A striking photographic record of how the Beeching cuts & modernisation saw our grand terminal stations soaring viaducts & cavernous locomotive works wiped from the landscape The current restoration of St Pancras Station & its Midland Hotel is a glorious exception to a melancholy rule
- that the finer our railway architecture the more likely it was to be demolished in the name of progress. Who would know that the ugly low concrete bunker of Birmingham New Street station replaced a handsome glass-roofed train shed or that until the 1960s the stupendously high Belah viaduct swept across a remote Cumbrian valley
- or that the outlet mall in Swindon selling cheap designer clothing used to be he great GWR locomotive works?
- or that on little bucolic branch lines in the West Country or Essex an old bus body was the waiting-room? In over 200 fascinating & often rare images John Minnis documents the remarkably rich architectural heritage of our railways from quaint country halts to distinguished railway hotels
- all of which exists now only in photographs.



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