Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal never Wiltshire & Berkshire the W&B has been derelict & abandoned for over a century but plans exist to restore the waterway. Over sixty miles long the project has many interesting challenges to overcome. With branches to Cricklade (on the Thames & Severn Canal) Chippenham Calne & Wantage & a route through the middle of Swindon the plan is more than ambitious. Doug Small has written a photographic history of the canal showing the task of the restorers as they undo a hundred years of neglect. From the market towns of Abingdon & Melksham to the sleepy backwaters of the Wiltshire countryside the canal also meandered into the middle of Swindon. The restoration will be exciting & interesting & this book will show the changing face of the canal from its once-bustling commercial period to dereliction & restoration. ...

Walking is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities & this great pocket-sized walking guide to Wiltshire features a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities. Contained within the guide are 50 walks of 2-10 miles & all the practical detail you need accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history & wildlife of the area & an introduction to each walk. All walks are annotated with local points of interest & places to stop for refreshments. & every walk is given a summary of distance time gradient level of difficulty type of surface & access landscape dog friendliness parking & public toilets. ...

From prehistoric Stonehenge & Avebury to railway age Swindon the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close within a planned medieval town which boasts Georgian delights such as Mompesson House. Towns & villages range from Marlborough with its sweeping High Street to the exceptional Lacock in the shadow of its abbeys remains remodelled as an eighteenth-century Gothick fantasy. The great country houses include some of the finest in England: Palladian Wilton with which Inigo Jones was involved Stourhead set in its evocative classical landscape the elegant eithteenth-century Bowood & the mellow Bath stone of Corsham Court. ...

A full account of the part played by Wiltshires airfields during the Second World War including Boscombe Down Hullavington Lyneham Old Sarum Thruxton Larkhill & Wroughton. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons & aircraft based at them & the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians & the constant dangers from raids & night bombing are also detailed. Fully illustrated. ...

Manicured playing lawns. Royal patronage. Strawberries & cream. Spiffing white sporting apparel. There is no spectator event quite like Wimbledon. For more than a century tennis most legendary players
- among them Roger Federer Martina Navratilova Virginia Wade Boris Becker & Pete Sampras
- have gracefully volleyed their way to glory on the hollowed grounds of the All England Club. But it is also on this same turf that some of the games finest have faltered often because they were unable to master the very thing that gave lawn tennis its name
- the grass. The only Grand Slam tournament still played on the games original surface Wimbledon has become as much of a showcase of British culture & tradition as it has an elite sporting event. In Wimbledon: 101 Reasons to Love Tennis Greatest Tournament author David Green celebrates the athletes the matches the history & the rituals that have come to define this prestigious competition. Beautifully illustrated this charming book is a perfect addition to STCs popular 101 Reasons to Love series.


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Wimbledon 2012 tells the inside story of the world's most famous & prestigious tournament with interviews & analysis opinion "es from the stars of the show. Beyond that photography by legendary sports photographer Bob Martin & his team of award-winning snappers capture the drama & atmosphere of those two glorious summer weeks in London SW19. ...

A glimpse of & privileged access to areas of Wimbledon which are out of bounds even for tournament ticket holders. Your tour



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It was to raise funds for the repair of a broken pony roller so essential for the upkeep of the lawns at their ground in Nursery Lane Wimbledon that the All England Croquet Club first decided to hold a tennis tournament. From those humble beginnings in 1877 The Championships at Wimbledon have grown to become one of the world's great international sporting occasions attended annually by some half a million fans broadcast to almost 200 territories each year & watched by more viewers than any other tennis tournament in the world. In this lavishly illustrated third edition of the definitive Wimbledon history John Barrett has traced the process by which a small private tennis club in rural Surrey has become a multi-million pound business that is the main source of finance for British tennis. It is a romantic story that reflects the ages decade by decade from the chivalrous Victorian days when the whalebone stays the ladies wore beneath their ankle-length dresses often drew blood & the gentlemen played in striped shirts cricket caps & long stockings to today's white-clad gladiators in functional attire befitting super-fit international athletes of the 21st century. Within these pages you will find all the game's heroes & heroines all captured in action & in repose in vivid detail through the educated lenses of the world's leading sports photographers. Wimbledon: The Official History captures as never before the magic of an annual event that is at once a dynamic sporting occasion & a cherished British institution. ...

Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you've had from reading the diaries all the best bits you talk about with your friends & all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you've had a go at drawing yourself. Now imagine it all
- on screen! The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary" goes behind the scenes of each of the three Wimpy Kid movies to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever to a real live person on the big screen. A full-colour diary complete with photographs script pages storyboard sketches costume designs & more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney. " The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary" is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series."
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Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs youve had from reading the diaries all the best bits you talk about with your friends & all the cartoons of Greg Heffley youve had a go at drawing yourself... Now imagine it all
- on screen! The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary" goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever to a real live person on the big screen. This is a full-colour diary complete with photographs script pages storyboard sketches costume designs & more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney. " The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary" is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series."
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