Local history

The Peak District is noted for its beautiful and varied scenery, its fascinating history, and its abundance of folktales.

Fisher Row was created as a consequence of the Castle Mill, recorded in the Domesday Book on the western edge of Oxford.

Firefighters of Cambridge vividly recalls what life was like for a dedicated firefighter in a large and busy fire station between 1951 and 1981.

Parts of this much centralised English county Keith had visited with his parents throughout his wartime boyhood.

The 50-mile stretch of the River Tamar forms a unique county boundary between the counties of Devon and Cornwall.

Derbyshire Cavemen explores the little known world of cave folklore and archaeology in a cave rich region encompassing the uplands of the Peak District and the surrounding areas.

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Barns have been part of the landscape since the Middle Ages and several superb examples dating from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries can still be found throughout the Cotswolds.

Bonnie Colne upon the hill is a town whose antiquity reaches back into the mists of time.

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself.

Cirencester Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

In the 1850s the area consisted of three villages - Turnham Green along the main road to the west and the riverside hamlets of Chiswick and Strand on the Green, separated by fields, market gardens and the grounds of several large mansions.

Now that the railway has gone and most visitors disembark from the car and coach bays above the world-famous caves, this book explores Cheddar past and present from the top of its dramatic gorge to the substantial reservoir beyond the bustling village below.

Wales, a small country, is littered with the relics of war - Iron Age forts, Roman ruins, medieval castles and the coastal forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Brighouse Through Time provides a unique opportunity to look, not only at the present day town centre that many readers will be familiar with, but also how many parts appeared particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The railway network within Birmingham has long been important for the movement of passengers and freight to serve the centre and its suburbs, and as the road network around Birmingham has become more congested, the railways in the city have, once more, taken on an important role.

Until Bexleyheath was enclosed in the nineteenth century, it was a wild area,the haunt of footpads and highwaymen.

The photographs in this fascinating selection document the changes which overtook the county town of Staffordshire in the century following the discovery of photography.

This book, a collection of photographs of rural dwellings that have long since vanished, and those that still stand but have changed beyond all recognition, records the changes inflicted upon the Lancashire townships of Maghull and Lydiate by the turnpike, the canal, the railways and the more modern demands of nearby Liverpool.

Around Lingfield at War is an extraordinary account of the life of a rural community during the Second World War.

Fairford is especially famous among medieval historians for the stainedglass windows of St Mary's church.

If you've ever wondered where Cross Bar Lane, Banjo Cottage, the Blue Robin and the Bug House cinema were, or how Jacky Fields, Caller Beck, Egton Village, Gallows Close and Cock Mill got their names, then A History of Whitby & its Place Names will be of interest to you.

This is the story of Trafford Park in vintage photographs, once the largest industrialised area in Britain and the workshop of Greater Manchester.

The largest of the British Channel Islands, Jersey is the most southerly island of the British Isles.

Somerset's contribution to the Second World War was extremely varied.

THE RIVER WELLAND has been a main waterway through South Lincolnshire for centuries, flowing through Stamford, Market Deeping, Deeping St James, Crowland, Spalding and finally out to the sea at Fosdyke.

Norwich in 1950 was a different place.

The railway at Ipswich dates from 1846 and that at Felixstowe from May 1877.

During the Second World War Devon was reputedly the most militarized county in the country.

The railway at Broxbourne dates from 1840, and that at Bishop's Stortford from 1843; the rest of the line was running by 1845.

Haworth Parsonage is the world-famous home of the Brontes.

Wotton-under-Edge, standing at the foot of the Cotswolds and tracing its roots back to Saxon times, has seen much change over the last 150 years.

Unlike in the rest of the United Kingdom the pier in Scotland has always seen as functional rather than as a pleasure pier.

The County Borough of Wallasey, on the Wirral Penninsula, is famous as a seaside town.

Victoria Station is the second in the Through Time series on London's famous railway termini.

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle.

For the past two hundred years, lifeboats have been stationed around the coasts of Britain and Ireland, ready to rescue the shipwrecked.

Flat-bottom craft have always been fascinating, largely because they appear so simple in their construction at first glance, made by the farmers and fishermen who used them.

The Stroudwater Navigation was a canal linking Stroud to the Severn Estuary near Gloucester.

Commencing at the Nore, Thames-side Kent follows the course of a ship inward bound, presenting a nostalgic study of the southern bank of the River Thames as far as the county of Kent extends, the mouth of the River Darenth, also known as Dartford Creek.

The Stour Valley line dates from 1849 and has had a long and turbulent history.

This part of the Stour Valley line dates from 1865 and survived for 102 years; the Saffron Walden branch followed a few months later.

With its famous hotel, St Pancras is now the London terminus of the Eurostar, with a high speed rail link to the Kent coast and the Channel Tunnel.

Using a unique series of images, many taken on the island of Hirta, the route is traced through the Western Isles and takes in Coll, Tiree, Skye, North and South Uist and St Kilda itself.

Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying.

Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day.

On the morning of Wednesday 21 December 1910, 889 men and boys travelled the two 434- yard-deep shafts at Hulton Colliery, also known as Pretoria Pit, situated in Over Hulton, north of Atherton, Lancashire.

Wiltshire contains some of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world.

Wales is known for its green hills and valleys, narrow gauge steam railways and medieval castles, but not, it appears, for its pleasure piers.