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Author | : Simon Wenham |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750958626 |
The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country. Simon Wenham's illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Author | : Paul Talling |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473560233 |
______________________________ The huge word-of-mouth bestseller – completely updated for 2019 THE LONDON THAT TOURISTS DON’T SEE Look beyond Big Ben and past the skyscrapers of the Square Mile, and you will find another London. This is the land of long-forgotten tube stations, burnt-out mansions and gently decaying factories. Welcome to DERELICT LONDON: a realm whose secrets are all around us, visible to anyone who cares to look . . . Paul Talling – our best-loved investigator of London’s underbelly – has spent over fifteen years uncovering the stories of this hidden world. Now, he brings together 100 of his favourite abandoned places from across the capital: many of them more magnificent, more beautiful and more evocative than you can imagine. Covering everything from the overgrown stands of Leyton Stadium to the windswept alleys of the Aylesbury Estate, DERELICT LONDON reveals a side of the city you never knew existed. It will change the way you see London. ______________________________ PRAISE FOR THE DERELICT LONDON PROJECT ‘Fascinating images showing some of London’s eeriest derelict sites show another side to the busy, built-up capital.’ Daily Mail ‘Talling has managed to show another side to the capital, one of abandoned buildings that somehow retain a sense of beauty.’ Metro ‘Excellent . . . As much as it is an inadvertent vision of how London might look after a catastrophe, DERELICT LONDON is valuable as a document of the one going on right in front of us.’ New Statesman ‘From the iconic empty shell of Battersea Power Station to the buried ‘ghost’ stations of the London Underground, the city is peppered with decaying buildings. Paul Talling knows these places better than anyone in the capital.’ Daily Express ‘[London has an] unusual (and deplorable) number of abandoned buildings. Paul Talling’s surprise bestseller, DERELICT LONDON, is their shabby Pevsner.’ Daily Telegraph ______________________________
Author | : W. B. Woodgate |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368283405 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1971-07 |
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Author | : Simon Wenham |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781445696607 |
Hobbs of Henley is not only one of the best-known businesses in Henley-on-Thames. This book is a celebration of this famous Thames boat business.
Author | : George Dunlop Leslie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Edward Frederick Knight |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Denmark |
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Author | : Harriet Beveridge |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-03-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1838597972 |
With its winning mix of gripping narrative and easy-to-implement performance-raising tips, this book has become a best-selling classic. It’s garnered 5-star reviews and wide-ranging endorsements – from Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes to Lord Digby Jones
Author | : Ernest Henry FISHBOURNE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Thames River (England) |
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Author | : Jerome K Jerome |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-02-03 |
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Three Men in a Boat published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers - the jokes have been praised as fresh and witt