Local and family history, nostalgia

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.

Abingdon Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Oxfordshire.

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 book tells the story of Bishops Cleeve and Woodmancote over a period of 12,000 years.

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

This is an accessible and highly illustrated history of Altrincham, a vibrant town in Cheshire.

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.

'The jewel in Waveney's crown'.

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.

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

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.

To Western Scottish Waters: By Rail & Steamer to the Isles is a pictorial tour through the decades and a peek into how both people and goods have travelled to the Isles over the years.

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.

If you mention the subject of pleasure steamers on the rivers Thames and Medway, you can be certain that most people will remember with fond nostalgia the well-loved steamers Royal Daffodil, Royal Sovereign and Queen of the Channel.

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.

Reading some of the descriptions of the Black Country in the nineteenth century, one could be forgiven for believing the area stood at the gates of Hell.

Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery.

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

Rosyth Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Scotland.

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.

From Gigha in the south to Lewis in the north and St Kilda in the west, Alistair Deayton covers the piers of the Hebrides and other outlying islands in the companion volume to his West Highland Piers.

Despite their popular association with fun and frivolity, the function of piers as both an amusement centre and landing stage was varied, and nowhere was this better illustrated than on the coasts of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and east Dorset.

Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to the world's most famous bear, named after the station.

On the edge of the Warwickshire coalfield, coal had been mined in Nuneaton since the fourteenth century and the town was a centre for quarrying and brick-making too.

The very first issue of the - still current - magazine, The Autocar was on 2 November 1895.

From Whitstable, with its oyster beds and fishing fleet, to Chatham and Rochester, the Medway and Swale areas have seen a diverse variety of shipping over the years, from the fishing smacks to men of war, Thames barges, sailing vessels, submarines, pleasure steamers, ferries and cargo ships.

London City Airport was first conceived as part of the regeneration of the London Docklands at the start of the 1980s, a pilot landing on Heron Quays to prove it could be done.

The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years.

The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America.