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  • Mosaics in Roman Britain

    This book covers the development of mosaics in Britain from the invasion to the end of Roman Britain. The technical side of the art form is covered as well as prefabrication. It covers those mosaics based in towns as well as more rural locations. Many of the mosaics have been lost but are recorded in coloured engravings. The author has a large collection of illustrations of both existing and lost ... Leer más

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  • Roman Gardens

    This book looks at the origins of ancient Roman garden design and its Greek influences. It includes the use and design of private domestic gardens as well as those connected to theatres and temples. Gardens connected to mausolea are also included. It shows how rooms were designed to afford the best views of the gardens. Special attention is paid to Roman water gardens, their pools and fountain ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Wareham and The Isle of Purbeck Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Wareham, once a quiet market town, is now the bustling historic gateway to the Isle of Purbeck. Wareham has a varied history that ranges from evidence of early Neolithic and Mesolithic settlers and even, interestingly, used as a garrison town, with 7,000 soldiers living and training there during the First World War. It grew very little before the twentieth century due to its environment but things ... Leer más

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  • Central Bristol History Tour

    Series series History Tour
    Central Bristol History Tour is a fascinating insight into the history of this famous old port city and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the centuries. Readers are invited to follow local author and historian Anthony Beeson as he guides them through its streets and alleyways, pointing out the well-known and lesser-known landmarks along the way. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Central Bristol Through the Ages

    Series series Through the Ages
    Bristol, ‘Queen of the West Country’, is a city founded on manufacturing and trade. Once described as producing within its bounds every daily necessity required in life, its merchants were mocked by outsiders for lives dominated by a rage for profit. It was a city in which grandeur lived cheek by jowl with poverty and pollution, and dangerous industry with domesticity. Old and modern Bristol are ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Central Bristol Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Brycgstowe, 'the place at the bridge', as the Saxon founders of Bristol once called it, is a city of destiny. Once the second port in the country and one of the wealthiest cities in Britain, it has enjoyed centuries of prosperity based on manufacturing, seafaring and trade. Geographically split between the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset and approached by sea through the dramatic Avon ... Leer más

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  • North Brighton Preston, Withdean & Patcham Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    'Preston, once a village with an independent life, is now Brighton', wrote Edward Verrall Lucas of the main subject of this volume in 1904. The same thing might also be said of Patcham and its hamlet of Withdean, which are the other protagonists within these covers. Preston and Withdean were noted for their trees in the 'barren waste' of Brighton. Their modern development followed the 1854 removal ... Leer más

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  • North Bristol Seamills, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park & Henleaze Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    'Stoke Bishop has less community of interest with Bristol than London has with Brighton,' stated Francis Tagart from his luxurious Old Sneed Park mansion in January 1885. For decades it rankled with Bristolians that those who made their fortunes within Bristol and enjoyed its benefits contributed nothing to its rates as they resided beyond the city boundaries, in the countryside between Sneyd Park ... Leer más

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  • North Brighton London Road to Coldean Through Time

    Series series Through Time
    Brighton’s first suburb, London Road, was for its first century almost entirely domestic in character and the haunt of the genteel middle classes, whose gardens were praised by the Loudons. The suburb’s change to commercial and industrial use provides a fascinating picture of a once prosperous community in transition. The suburbs subsequently spread along the traditional northern routes out of the ... Leer más

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  • Memories & Mementoes of Sunderland Through Time

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    There is nothing quite like an old photograph or an interesting item of memorabilia for rousing a memory and stimulating an interest in the heritage and history of one's hometown. Sunderland Through Time author Keith Cockerill returns to the city of his birth for a second nostalgic pictorial tour of Wearside. Each of his images is accompanied by a look at one or more associated mementoes - an ... Leer más

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  • Torquay Revealed

    Where can you find a haunted car park? Or one of the most expensive private air-raid shelters in the country? Lost roads, long-forgotten quays, a drinking fountain with a dragon's head spout, reminders of two world wars and a suburban villa that was once a secluded farmhouse? Or how about a crumbling tower built for a lonely lady? Or a beer-brewing trough that was once a coffin? They can all be ... Leer más

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  • The A-Z of Curious London

    Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics

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    Series series A-Z of Curious
    Spooky, gruesome, weird but true things about one of the world's greatest cities come alive in The A-Z of Curious London. Discover London's tiniest house, a 4,000-year-old mouse made from Nile clay, and have a giggle at things people leave on London's transport (including false teeth, a human skull and a park bench - yes, really.) Why did a dentist keep his dead wife on view in a shop window? ... Leer más

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