Uxbridge From Old Photographs

Uxbridge From Old Photographs
Author: Ken Pearce
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-08-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445631857

Uxbridge From Old Photographs provides an interesting and evocative collection of photographs which reflect the dramatic and lasting changes that have occurred in and around Uxbridge during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Uxbridge At Work

Uxbridge At Work
Author: Ken Pearce
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445670852

A pictorial history of the working life of Uxbridge over the last century and more.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge
Author: Jonathan Oates
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1783408723

This west London town has its own character—and its own deadly criminal history—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting victims and villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing—and revealing—incidents of evil and despair to recount from the earliest recorded history of the Uxbridge district up to the present day. Jonathan Oates’s fascinating research has uncovered some grisly events and unsavory individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of this suburban area west of London. His book records crime and punishment in all its dreadful variety. Among many acts of violence and wickedness are the burning to death of five Protestant martyrs and the execution of a turbulent priest in Tudor times, a family massacred at Denham in 1870, and several brutal murders that have never been solved or explained. Cases that stand out as particularly shocking or bizarre include a son who was killed by his mother, a woman who died after an illegal operation, the Uxbridge tea-shop murder of 1951, and a man tried for manslaughter and later murder in West Drayton, who committed suicide two decades later. This chronicle of Uxbridge’s hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the local history of the area and in the dark side of human nature.

The Dragon and the Virgin: Religion in Uxbridge

The Dragon and the Virgin: Religion in Uxbridge
Author: Andrew Thompson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1398123943

A fascinating survey of the history of Christianity in Uxbridge from Roman times to the present day.

Growing Up in Wartime Uxbridge

Growing Up in Wartime Uxbridge
Author: James Skinner
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0752480146

From a child's viewpoint, the pre-war years of the 1930s were full of carefree, halcyon days when the sun always used to shine; but for many people the 1930s were, regrettably, quite the opposite. In this book all aspects from pre-war to post-war Uxbridge are covered, including street scenes, schools, buildings, transport, leisure and entertainment, and personalities. The book will also be of interest to younger generations growing up in Uxbridge and to those who wish to learn more about the history of the area.