LOST LANES will take you on 36 meandering tours of the most beautiful & hidden destinations in southern Engl&. The book
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The Worlds Last Steam Locomotives is a joyful celebration of Colin Garratts forty years of professionally documenting these wonderful machines. During this time he has visited more than forty countries all over the world with eight expeditions to India & twenty to China. The result has been a matchless legacy of pictures which can be only be of increasing interest & value as time passes. Colins work is authentic
- no preserved or tourist revivals scenes appear within this book just real steam locomotives doing what they were designed & built to do. This is the finest possible visual tribute to the steam locomotive ever produced. With 224 pages & more than 300 colour photographs it documents machines of every conceivable shape size & colour often framed by some of the most memorable landscapes in the world. This is a book of great beauty & delight destined to become the jewel of any trainlovers collection.
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HE WAS THE KEEPER
- Arno Holmstrand is about to die his life cut short by an organization intent on laying claim to the secrets
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When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a film set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal & when Bosch decides to re-investigate he quickly falls fouls of both his old colleagues & the FBI. When the investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend shadows from his past come back to haunt him... ...

This volume covering the Eastern Region examines many of the fascinating lines in the region including the much mourned Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway rural branches like that to Eye the lines in east Lincolnshire & the Woodhead route with its electrification scheme. ...

Lost London" is the story of the city as told through the buildings parks & palaces that are no longer with us. Places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens the leading venue for public entertainment in the city for over 200 years or the Palace of Whitehall whose 1500 rooms made it the largest royal residence in Europe until it was destroyed by fire at the end of the 17th century. From bull rings to ice fairs plague pits to molly houses this is a fascinating journey through Londons forgotten past unearthing the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets as well as shining a light in the citys darkest corners." ...

This fascinating compilation of early London photographs takes us on a tour of one of the world's greatest cities but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the traditional sepia & black & white monochrome new realism is given here by reproducing the images in full colour. We can therefore explore not only some of London's world renowned landmarks but also less frequently pictured aspects of the capital including its street characters local markets shops theatres & early cinema & the historic River Thames by whose banks London began as a Roman town nearly 2000 years ago. There is also a look at some of the local neighbourhoods where Londoners live & at the city's transport as horse & steam traction gives way to electricity & the internal combustion engine. Great exhibitions & royal events are featured as are wartime photographs recalling the inferno of the Blitz in the 1940s while a further sequence recalls London's old docklands. Principally sourced from ancient albums & private collections Lost London in Colour unites a wealth of rare & unpublished images to reveal that the London of a century & more ago was as colourful & vibrant a city as it is in the present day. ...

In York Winter 1906
- two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter humblest among
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In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food & fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Yet all went tragically wrong when the Aurora broke free of her moorings in an Antarctic gale & stranded ten men ashore. Left with little more than the clothing on their backs & scavenged equipment the men vowed to carry on in the face of impossible odds. Meanwhile the rest of the Aurora crew cast adrift at the mercy of the elements battled for survival. The lost men struggled to save themselves & carry out their mission with little hope of rescue. ...

The 1920s were an amazing decade in motorcycle development. Lost Motorcycles of the 1920s" describes in as much detail as possible over 50 of these lesser known motorcycles providing a wealth of information on makes from Abbotsford & Alwin to Turner Weaver & the Xtra Car
- not forgetting the many transient but somewhat better known marques such as Blackburne Radco & Raleigh for example. Each model & make is described in detail & accompanied by as many illustrations as possible. " Lost Motorcycles" also offers some fascinating & helpful insights into the many facets of motorcycling during the 1920s
- the roads & garages suspension tyres & clothing for example
- all of which helps set these motorcycles in their period & gives a real feel for what motorcycling must have been like some 80 years ago. This title is absolutely invaluable to restorers & historians of early British motorcycles."


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