This third selection of Tipton In Old Photographs will bring back happy memories for all those who know and love the town.

Tipton

History

John Brimble

Keith Hodgkins

Europe

History Press Ltd

Llandudno Past and Present (Britain in Old Photographs)

Arts & Photography

Roberts, Jim

Photography & Video

In 1900 an American financier called Charles Tyson Yerkes was placed in charge of London's underground railways, which had been in service since 1863 and were, even then, showing signs of their age. Over the next five years he applied his business methods - which he described as 'Buy up old junk, fix it up a little and unload it upon other fellows' - to the construction of much of the capital's deep-level tube system. Yerkes was one of many colourful characters who gave London its underground railway system. But the London Underground is more than a railway. In the twentieth century, under the enlightened management of Frank Pick, the Underground was responsible for some striking developments in industrial design. Bauhaus, Cubist and other innovative ideas were applied to station architecture, advertising posters and seat covers. The work of artists such as Graham Sutherland, Len Deighton and Lucie Attwell was exposed to large audiences for the first time, as was that icon of industrial design, Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the Underground network.Making use of extensive research in London's archives, Stephen Halliday shows how these pioneers struggled with the problem that vexes the Underground to this day. London undoubtedly needs it but has never really decided who should pay for it. Passengers or taxpayers? Public or private finance? Is it a profit-making enterprise or a social service? The book places this unanswered question in its historical context as, in the twenty-first century, the debate turns in a new direction, once again headed by an American under the direction of London's first elected mayor.

Underground to Everywhere

Halliday, Stephen

Women are at the forefront of garden design and the horticultural world. This work ranges from the virgins perched on turf seats in medieval illuminations and the weeding women of the Tudor royal garden to queens who introduced new plants to Britain and herb wives who had to dodge accusations of witchcraft because of their arcane knowledge.

Virgins, Weeders and Queens

Twigs Way

World

On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month before Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. This title looks beyond the familiar image of the hero.

Roald Amundsen

Biographies & Memoirs

Bomann-Larsen, Tor

Historical

West Bromwich Memories

Dr. Alfred Price

A Century of Birmingham: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century

Baird, Patrick

The history of execution at Manchester began with the hanging of a young Salford man, he was the first of 100 murderers to pay the ultimate penalty here. Steve Fielding has fully researched all these cases, and they are collected together here in one volume.

Hanged at Manchester

Fielding, Steve

In December 1910 an armed gang of Latvian revolutionaries killed three policemen while escaping from a robbery in Houndsditch, London. Nearly three weeks later, police were tipped off that two of the gang were hiding in a house in Sydney Street. So began the siege, which ended with a burning house and two dead gunmen.

The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street

Politics & Social Sciences

RUMBELOW, Donald

Social Sciences

The origins of the maritime city of Plymouth can be traced back to Saxon times, when farmland on a small peninsula at the mouth of the river Plym developed into Sutton Harbour, the hub of medieval Plymouth. During medieval times the town established its reputation both as a centre for voyage and discovery, particularly during the Elizabethan era, and for its military importance. Maritime trade and industries based in the dockyard, coupled with a steadily growing population, led to the renaming of Plymouth Dock as Devonport in 1824. Ninety years later the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse were united as the Borough of Plymouth, which was granted City status in 1928. During the Second World War Plymouth was one of the most severely bombed cities in Britain, and large areas had to be completely rebuilt in peacetime. The end of the Cold War and defence cuts has led to the development of new industries to replace those which relied heavily on the dockyard and maritime trade.

Plymouth History and Guide

John Van Der Kiste

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