The National Trust has the finest collection of gardens in the United Kingdom. In this book Stephen Lacey paints a vivid historical & horticultural picture of the individual gardens placing them firmly within the context of gardening history in Britain. All the major periods & styles of garden design are represented ranging from the formality of early gardens such as Hanbury Hall & Ham House magnificent 18th-century landscapes like Stowe & Croome Park & the heady Victorian creations of Biddulph Grange & Waddesdon Manor to the famous plantsmens gardens of the last century such as Nymans Hidcote Manor & Sissinghurst Castle. Much has happened in the gardens of the National Trust since the last revision of this book & this edition has been substantially revised to embrace recent restorations
- notably of walled kitchen gardens in numerous properties
- to introduce recently acquired properties & to showcase superb new photography. Nine gardens make their debut in this new edition the Trust having acquired Seaton Delaval Hall Sunnycroft Godolphin Quarry Bank House & parts of the surrounding Styal estate & undertaken improvements at Treasurers House Goddards Wordsworth House & Sheringham. Woolbeding also opens for the first time presenting the work of more contemporary garden designers. The book serves as a practical guide as well as a source of inspiration. Each entry gives details of soil type & climate & an appendix

Includes:: many other gardens to visit. In addition there are practical features on different aspects of gardening written by National Trust head gardeners. Glorious colour photographs illustrate the entries complementing the text to bring the gardens to life.



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Gardens are most peoples main opportunity to see an ecosystem at work. Even the smallest space contains a collection of both wild animals & plants. Yet we are often oblivious of the sheer richness of experience that our gardens can provide. Most of us do not expect to see anything they havent built or planted. In small gardens most visiting wildlife will be in the form of birds & butterflies; in more substantial gardens residents may include larger mammals but they are mainly nocturnal
- & few gardeners look in their gardens after dark. This book explores the gardens hidden world of life amid the grass behind the bushes in the trees & under stones & fallen branches & will convert a stroll around your garden from a conversation with familiar friends (the plants chosen & planted) to a voyage of discovery that

Includes:: invertebrates & larger animals as well. Broad & inclusive in its approach this book should appeal to naturalists & gardeners of all ages.


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This book by historical transport expert Graham Edge is a comprehensive study of a Manchester company whose name became revered in over forty countries. It traces the story from the origins of the firm in 1868 until it ceased engine production almost 130 years later. In 1929 L Gardner & Sons Ltd perfected a small high-speed direct injection diesel engine the worlds first for an engine of its size. The company soon developed this into the first purpose-built automotive engine of its type. This renowned Gardner LW series was also revolutionary in its use of lightweight aluminium alloys. Because diesel fuel was more economical than petroleum spirit for most of the last century & especially in the 1930s Gardners was able to capitalise on a huge & growing market. Their diesel engines went on to gain an unrivalled reputation for reliability & economy in buses coaches lorries rail shipping & industrial installations. Their heyday was probably from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s a time when their order book was always full. As well as telling the story of the companys engineering achievements (and setbacks) the author also brings to life some of the personalities involved not least the members of the Gardner family. Although they were engineers par excellence some of the could be quite irascible! By the 1970s Gardners were being left behind by changes in the transport market & also faced damaging industrial relations. In 1977 they became part of the Hawker Siddeley group. This is a reprint of a book first published in 2002 & revised in 2006. Graham Edge was able to draw on knowledge freely provided by former sales director Dion Houghton. The superb photographs are mainly from the archives of Dion Houghton & Paul Gardner the great-grandson of the founder. Each photograph has a detailed caption & the books Appendices include production figures. ...

Gareth Bale is one of the most promising young talents in the Premier League & is regarded as one of Europes hottest football properties. Born in 1989 Bale first attracted the attention of Southampton FC at the age of just nine. At secondary school he was such a prodigious talent that his PE teacher Gwyn Morris had to impose special restrictions on him to make it fair for the other pupils. These included playing one-touch football & not using his left foot. After completing his GCSE exams (he gained an A grade in PE) Bale became the second-youngest player ever to sign for Southampton on 17 April 2008. Despite playing at left-back he scored five goals & was extremely impressive in his first season. The Premier League soon came calling & in 2007 Bale signed a four-year deal with Tottenham Hotspur. His career at White Hart Lane didnt get off to the best start as he played in a record 24 games without a win but in late 2009 he seized his chance to secure a regular place in the first team & since then he had proved to be a top-class footballer with a stunning hat-trick in Tottenhams Europa League tie against Inter Milan at the San Siro & a man-of-the-match performance in the return leg. Bale has unsurprisingly also made several appearances for Wales & his talent has been compared to that of the legendary Ryan Giggs. ...

After over 30 years in the spotlight Garfield is an international star & his humorous strip has become the fastest growing & most widely syndicated comic strip ever! Today it appears in 2570 newspapers around the globe & is read by 263 million people making it The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World" as recorded by Guinness World Records." ...

On 19th June 1978 Garfield appeared on the comics pages for the first time kicking off a career that has gone on to involve licensing television books computer games movies & much more. Now after 30 years in the spotlight Garfield is an international star & his humorous strip has become the fastest growing & most widely syndicated comic strip ever! Today it appears in 2570 newspapers around the globe & is read by 263 million people making it The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World as recorded by Guinness World Records. in addition Garfield enjoys a healthy product licensing programme whereby almost 400 licensees crank out thousands of products depicting Garfield & the rest of the gang. In fact his vast empire stretches into 111 countries &

Includes:: a popular website which attracts over 2 million visitors each month. The new TV show which commenced airing in May 09 went straight to the top of the childrens viewing charts for the first four weeks & is still one of the top three shows on the channel. At 31 Garfield is still feeling frisky & shows no signs of slowing down.

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The big kitty's back in his 65th Pocket Book featuring Garfield & Co in their hilarious exploits bringing you all the laughs you can handle. This is the latest all-ages must-read Pocket Book from Ravette with 90 pages of comic strips featuring everyone's favourite feline. ...

Ravette are pleased to announce the publication in September 2001 of two new GARFIELD Classic Collections
- two BUMPER editions
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Ravette are pleased to announce the publication in September 2001 of two new GARFIELD Classic Collections
- two BUMPER editions
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The nameless & beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle" is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine & wakes up in a burns ward undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over
- he is now a monster. But in fact it is only just beginning. One day Marianne Engel a wild & compelling sculptress of gargoyles enters his life & tells him that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling he was a badly burned mercenary & she was a nun & a scribe who nursed him back to health in the famed monastery of Engelthal. As she spins her tale Scheherazade fashion & relates equally mesmerising stories of deathless love in Japan Greenland Italy & England he finds himself drawn back to life
- & finally to love."

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