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Author: Anthony Dawson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1445670976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful collection of steam locomotives in the Pennines.This book follows preserved lines and steam specials and revisits iconic locations in the history of steam across the Pennines.
Author: Ian Hardman
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-04-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1445685043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lavishly illustrated look back at the famous fifteen guinea special, and how the steam preservation movement developed in the years following it.
Author: Dr Tom Bell
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0750963506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated history describes how the two pioneering railways of northern England, the Stockton and Darlington and Newcastle and Carlisle railways, developed from unsuccessful canal proposals and how they, with the ill-fated Stanhope and Tyne Railway, initiated the development of the railway system that served the North Pennine Orefield. It reveals the public and private railways, as well as proposed lines, and the recovery and extensions of the Stockton and Darlington Railway until the North Eastern Railway took over in the early 1860s. Dr Tom Bell's impressive research also explores the subsequent slow but continuous decline as the minerals became exhausted, to the situation today when all that is left are three different tourist lines, one of which is trying to revive the mineral traffic.
Author: John Porter
Publisher: Moorland Publishing
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jill Liddington
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0349007810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as 'Baby Suffragette'. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
Author: Keith Widdowson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0750983116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1967, Scotland became the third of the six British Railways regions to dispense with the steam locomotive, bringing an iconic era of Britain's transport heritage closer to its demise. Residing over 300 miles away, then teenaged Keith Widdowson's pilgrimages north of the border were marathon undertakings. Abysmal overnight time keeping, missed connections, trains allegedly booked as steam but turning up as diesel – each journey could have been a disaster, but those setbacks were easily forgotten after many successes, such as in catching runs with LNER A2s, A4s, V2s and B1s, as well as BR Clans. Accompanied with brief historical data of routes and stations – many no longer extant – visited, alongside photographs from the author's archives, this book is a collection of reminiscences from the final two years of steam that anyone with a penchant for railways will enjoy.
Author: Ray Hamilton
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2018-05-10
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1786856905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than just a means of transport, trains connect communities, evoke memories and promise adventures galore. This fact-packed miscellany tracks their development from the earliest locomotives to today’s superfast trains, stopping off along the way to explore great railway journeys, iconic stations and memorable depictions in the arts.
Author: John Doran
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-06-23
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1913689018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran. Jolly Lad is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class. “This is not a 'my drink and drug hell' kind of book for several reasons—the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren't here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.” Jolly Lad is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour—especially regarding music and art.
