This work takes us back to a time when the railways of Calderdale (West Yorkshire) carried top link express trains Saturday excursions packed with holidaymakers bound for Blackpool & the east coast & a seemingly endless procession of freight trains; when Heckmondwike Cleckheaton Ripponden Queensbury & Dewsburys market place were all served by the railway network & when Mytholmroyd Sowerby Bridge & Mirfield were important railway centres. The first chapter sets the scene by outlining the development & decline of Calderdales railways as well as the passenger & freight services operating over its tracks. ...

This is the book every loyal Shaymen fan should possess. Featuring club history player profiles match summaries & statistics it is illustrated throughout with colour photographs some of which have never been published before. Halifax Town was formed in 1911 following a letter by E.A. Jones which appeared in the pages of the Halifax Courier" & two subsequent public meetings at the now long since defunct Saddle Hotel. The intention was to build up the club & take it to the higher echelons of the Football League. Instead the club found itself floundering for much of the time amid poor attendances poor results & dire financial straits. Some folk might argue the club was not worth the bother. But for those who embraced it over the years they could not
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- live without it. Over the years Halifax Town have written themselves into the record books though not always for the right reasons. The supporters have suffered more than most for if the yearly struggles were not hard enough to take then what of the clubs liquidation in 2008? Major successes over 97 years could be counted on two fingers
- promotion in 1969 & the Conference title in 1998
- though the back-to-back promotions the reformed club has achieved under Neil Aspin must not be overlooked. This book chronicles the history of Halifax Town from its humble beginnings the highs & lows & everything in between in fascinating detail as well as profiling all the clubs managers star players memorable matches & history of the grounds. In addition every game played by both Halifax Town & FC Halifax Town is listed with season-by-season grids covering the major first-team matches as are separate lists of every player to have turned out for club. A second section also covers the formation & first three seasons of FC Halifax Town thus encapsulating the full 100 years since the original club was formed. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs some of which have never been published before the result is a volume that is an essential addition to the bookshelves of any Halifax Town fan. Put simply this is a book that provides everything any Town fan & indeed any football fan would want to know about the club. It is as the title suggests the complete record of Halifax Town."



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This vibrant series covers over 170 destinations worldwide including our new range of UK specific titles from cosmopolitan urban delights to sun-kissed beach idylls. Bursting with insightful & easily accessible information these guides are full of practical information on how to make the most of a city break or longer holiday. The compact format quickly locates the top must see & do attractions. It spans a wide range of destinations including those served by budget airlines. It offers the most comprehensive list of UK city titles currently available. It has practical listings to suit varied budgets & tastes. It has imaginative suggestions that reveal each destination's hidden gems. It is organised by recognisable areas making orientation easy. ...

This book not only tabulates the hallmarks that enable the identification of silver items but also traces the history of English silver describing some famous makers & provides hints on spotting fakes. There is a helpful chapter on Sheffield plate. ...

All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them there were lies damned lies & Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304 Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco & China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey -- the dizzy ladders & terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge & a hermit courtier & prisoner ambassador & castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan & the lost ports of Malabar the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj & Raj. Ibn Battutah left India on a snake stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is glittering grotesque but genuine a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday. ...

Comes with an exclusive CD of previously unreleased material Sex & drugs & rock & roll Is all my brain & body need Sex & drugs & rock & roll Is very good indeed Famous for his funny provocative visceral lyrics Ian Dury was a rock-&-roll poet & legendary force on the London music scene from 1970 onwards. In the course of his unstoppably creative career he studied art with Peter Blake before turning his mind to music. When he teamed up with a band called The Blockheads a new era in New Wave music exploded into being as they turned out hits like ' Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' ' Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' & ' Billericay Dickie'. Here for the first time are Ian Dury's collected lyrics
- not only material that was released but also material that has been gathered by his daughter Jemima from old demos song fragments & other sources that until now have remained hidden. The renowned designer & artist Jake Tilson who was also Ian Dury's brother-in-law has put the lyrics together with the original scrawled notes (complete with coffee stains) typewritten songs & miscellany of scraps that inspired them. Hallo Sausages is arranged chronologically: the six chapters cover every phase in Ian Dury's career from his early days in the seventies right up to his death in 2000. Each chapter is introduced by Jemima who paints a warm insightful & humorous portrait of the man behind the outrageous words.
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A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples! At a Halloween party Joyce -- a hostile thirteen-year-old -- boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her she storms off home. But within hours her body is found still in the house drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer! ...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you & turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly they are linked to sensory deprivation intoxication illness or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny Lilliputian figures. People with failing eyesight paradoxically may become immersed in a hallucinatory visual world. Hallucinations can be brought on by a simple fever or even the act of waking or falling asleep when people have visions ranging from luminous blobs of colour to beautifully detailed faces or terrifying ogres. Those who are bereaved may receive comforting 'visits' from the departed. In some conditions hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one's own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions & for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. As a young doctor in California in the 1960s Oliver Sacks had both a personal & a professional interest in psychedelics. These along with his early migraine experiences launched a lifelong investigation into the varieties of hallucinatory experience. Here with his usual elegance curiosity & compassion Dr Sacks weaves together stories of his patients & of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization & structure of our brains how they have influenced every culture's folklore & art & why the potential for hallucination is present in us all a vital part of the human condition. ...

The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left? While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth & the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as Section Three devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. Theyre going to need hundreds of willing soldiers though.. .and one more Spartan to get the job done. The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned & the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs & fleets of UNSC & Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War. But this reawakened & ancient force may have plans of its own.. . ...