Local and family history, nostalgia

Bridport is a thriving market town in western Dorset.

Lyme Regis is Dorset's most westerly town, lying hard by the Devon border.

The picturesque market town of Montrose, located on the windswept coast of Angus between Dundee and Aberdeen, offers all the charm of a seaside resort alongside a range of impressive buildings.

Salford is often seen as the smaller twin of Manchester, its neighbour across the River Irwell.

Nearly doubling its population over the last twenty-five years, and with more growth still expected, Didcot has both a bright future and an interesting past.

With over 120 unique images of people and places in London in the fifties and sixties, London: Portrait of a City 1950-1962 paints a picture of England's multifaceted capital in a decade of great change and development.

The market town of Stockton-on-Tees, or 'Stockton' as it is known locally, began life as an Anglo-Saxon settlement on the northern bank of the River Tees.

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is perhaps best known for its role in the 1970s film The Railway Children, based on Edith Nesbit's much-loved book.

Situated in North London near the county boundary with Hertfordshire, Barnet has a long and distinguished history.

East Lothian, previously known as Haddingtonshire, has both benefitted and suffered from its strategic location between Scotland's capital city and England's northernmost county.

Tossed by the tides, feted by the fashionable, murdered by the marshes.

Stretching from the Ribble Estuary to the River Kent, the Lancashire coast provides both spectacular views and glimpses of the county's industrial heritage.

From the murderous cannibalism of Sawney Bean to the bodysnatching exploits of Burke and Hare, Edinburgh has seen its fair share of ghoulish happenings over the years.

The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work.

Crossing the Cotswolds and widely regarded as one of the most attractive locations for an historic canal, the Thames & Severn Canal is also one of the most interesting to trace and enjoy on the ground today.

The skyline of Victorian London was dominated by sinister mounds of rubbish, graphically described in Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend.

Built between 1775 and 1779, the Stroudwater Navigation stretched from Framilode to Wallbridge in Stroud where it later connected with the Thames & Severn Canal to form a link between the River Severn and the River Thames.

This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the traditional sepia and black and white monochrome, new realism is given here by reproducing the images in full colour.

From its earliest days, Bishop's Stortford was a prosperous town, something that continues up to the present day.

For centuries, Sydenham was a small hamlet on the edge of a large tract of common land, known as Sydenham Common, in the parish of St Mary's, Lewisham.

Guernsey is the most western of the Channel Islands, with a proud maritime history spanning many centuries.

The story of the River Tees is one that combines tales of Roman forts, mythical beings and manufacturing heartlands.

The City of Nottingham as we know it today began life as an Anglo-Saxon settlement.

For this, the third book in a series on the area of Walworth, we let the people, old and new, speak first-hand about SE17.

Battersea has grown to be a fashionable and vibrant district of south-west London.

Cork Harbour, at the mouth of the River Lee, is one of the largest natural harbours in the world.

Great Torrington, or Cheping Torrington as it was once known (Chipping being the old name for market) was a considerable town, even in medieval times.

Situated within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Dartmouth is a popular tourist destination on the River Dart.

In recent decades, few communities in Devon have experienced such a rapid growth in population as Kingsteignton.

Eastbourne, situated close to the eastern end of the South Downs, near the famous Beachey Head cliff, is a bustling seaside resort.

North East Canals Through Time follows on from previous titles by specialist author and canal historian Ray Shill, notably North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks.

Northern Canals Through Time follows on from the previous title by well-known author Ray Shill, North West Canals Through Time: Manchester, Irwell & the Peaks, as a study of waterway infrastructure, in this case focusing particularly on Lancaster, Ulverston, Carlisle, and the Pennine Waterways from west to east, including from Nelson to Leeds on the Leeds & Liverpool, the canal from Rochdale to Sowerby Bridge on the Rochdale and the Huddersfield (Narrow) from Ashton to Huddersfield.

The River Mimram rises from a spring to the north-west of Whitwell in North Hertfordshire and makes its confluence with the River Lea near Horn's Hill.

'Water is Life and Heaven's Gift.

Looking at the local place names leaves no doubt that Blackwood and its environs were, at one time, 100 per cent Welsh.

Gillingham began its life as an agricultural and fishing parish on the banks of the River Medway in Kent.

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'Whitstable is a stirring little town, with strong business proclivities, and a history stretching far back into the remote past.

Chatham is an ever-evolving part of the Medway conurbation in South-East England.

The Ripley region owes its growth to the area's natural resources of coal, iron, oil and clay.

The route covered by this book dates from 1849 onwards.

London has been an irresistible subject for generations of artists and draughtsmen, who have captured scenes of everyday life as well as the grand occasions in a variety of moods and weather.

Bishop's Stortford was a small town in the Edwardian period.

The author's interest in windmills reaches back well over ten years and culminated in Yorkshire Windmills, published in 1991, and the foundation of the Yorkshire Windmill Society.

Many parish churches and chapels are the oldest building in their town or village; some of them may be over a thousand years old.

York Places of Learning Through Time tells the unknown story of York's role as a seat of learning and culture.

The foundations of York's commercial identity lie in the powerful medieval guilds that controlled and organised business development here until the nineteenth century.

This book delves into some unusual aspects of Brighton's history that are not readily found elsewhere.

In the Yeovil Corporation's Official Guide Yeovil With its Surroundings, published in 1906, Chapter II entitled 'Describes Yeovil in the Past' begins: 'It has been said, and that, in Yeovil itself, that Yeovil has no history, and in a sense, no past i.

Yeovil Memories covers a wide range of stories, from a tragic drowning in the River Yeo in 1856, the hardships of the savage winter of 1861 and that of two families who lost their cottages in a fire in February 1906, the lucky escape of a Westland test pilot as his aircraft broke up in mid-air in August 1934, and the top of the music charts of August 1952, to pop concerts in the Liberal Hall in 1965.