Local and family history, nostalgia

Basking in the summer sunshine of July 1914, the west coast of Wales seemed far away from a war on mainland Europe.

Barnstaple, the main town in North Devon, is quite possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement.

Hyde Park is a London favourite.

Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway companies, Cambrian Railways was the largest independent railway in Wales, with a long, winding, single-track main line that extended from Whitchurch in the east to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli on the Welsh coast.

Secret Barnstaple goes behind the facade of the familiar to discover the lesser-known aspects of the town's fascinating past.

The largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire, Llanelli has a long and illustrious history.

'To be a true cockney you had to be born within the sound of Bow Bells' In Vanishing East End, researcher and author Megan Hopkinson unravels the rich history of the East End of London.

Penzance sits in the heart of beautiful Mount's Bay - the centre of Cornwall's most westerly region.

Two men started the transformation from sleepy hilltop community into a thriving town.

Liverpool was once the epitome of 'the city with a pub on every corner', but no longer.

Boasting some of the most beautiful countryside and villages in the county of the Vale Royal of England, Mid-Cheshire is one of the most picturesque areas in England.

Chapel-en-le-Frith was founded in 1225, when foresters in the Royal Forest of the Peak were allowed to build a chapel in the forest.

Using beautiful and carefully selected photographs, Woolton Through Time documents the changing face of this scenic village.

The unique and picturesque village of Cheddar has a long and ancient history, from world-famous landmarks to local myths and ghost stories.

This book tells the fascinating story of the town of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire.

This book combines a fascinating selection of 180 modern and archive images that trace some of the many ways in which Haxby, Wigginton, Strensall, Huntington and New Earswick have changed and developed over the last century.

The fascinating history of Winson Green to Brookfields is perfectly illustrated through archive and contemporary pictures.

Modern Ladywood, with its high-and low-rise housing, dual carriageways, open green spaces and trees on nearly every street corner, bears no resemblance to the old Ladywood many generations experienced.

The Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the S&D (said to also stand for 'Slow and Dirty' or 'Serene and Delightful'), ran from Bath across the Mendip hills to Bournemouth on the south coast.

The city of Chelmsford has, over the centuries, had its fair share of secrets.

It is doubtful that the appearance of a town has changed as much as Galashiels has in the last few decades.

Sittingbourne Through Time provides a detailed insight to this unique town.

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Kingston-upon-Thames over the years.

Guildford Through Time provides a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Pubs were an important part of our social history because they were, and still are to some extent, the working man's front parlour.

Illustrated with memorable photographs throughout, Secret Bristol peels away the gloss which covers inconvenient historic events to reveal truths about the city that are sometimes horrific, brutal, or merely odd.

Monumental Edinburgh illustrates the history of the capital city of Scotland through its statues and monuments - a permanent display in a city-wide museum.

Buildings are among the crucial features that define a city.

Broadstairs is rightly known as 'the jewel in Thanet's crown'.

Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world.

Stephen Dowle first started taking photographs using a pre-war Coronet Cub given to him by his father.

With a proud history of industry and creativity, Manchester is one of the world's greatest cities.

This is the ninth volume in the ten-part series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Scotland and Wales.

Continuing his series of regional books reviewing the industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland, author Gordon Edgar looks at the railways of what is today Northumbria, County Durham and Teesside, covering a period of the last six decades, with an emphasis upon the former National Coal Board railways.

This sixth volume in the regional series of books looking at the industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland specifically covers Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, a region widely associated with the rapid growth of industry during the Industrial Revolution.

The industrial railways of the Midlands is a neglected topic deserving of greater attention.

Continuing his series looking at the industrial locomotives and railways of England, Wales and Scotland, Gordon Edgar looks at Greater London and the counties of Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire, a region that rapidly expanded during the twentieth century around the traditional shipping routes into London's docklands and the numerous rail routes serving the capital, in particular from the north and west.

Billericay, occupied since the Bronze and Iron Ages, is an established parish in the Basildon borough of Essex.

In this second volume in a regional series exploring industrial locomotives and railways in England, Wales and Scotland, we move on to Southern England and the West Country.

Aberdeen is not a boastful city, preferring to wear its many distinctions lightly.

The Forth packs more interesting historical and geographical attractions into its relatively short length than any other river in Britain.

The church of St Bride was dedicated around 1150, and formed the nucleus to the early community of East Kilbride with agriculture the keystone of the growth of the village.

It was in 1841 that the London & Brighton Railway constructed the line from Norwood (linking with the London & Croydon Railway) to the coast.

In the early nineteenth century, a few scattered farms and cottages were all that could be seen on the site of what is now Crewe.

Wallsend History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Beverley, founded around AD 700 by St John of Beverley during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, was an important centre of trade from the Middle Ages onwards.

As an important crossing point of the River Severn, Gloucester has played an important role in history from Roman times to the present day.

Llandudno is famed as being the 'Queen of the Welsh Resorts' and is now the largest seaside resort in Wales, lying on a flat isthmus of sand between the Welsh mainland and the Great Orme.

From the famous castle to St George's Quay, Jon Sparks takes us on a tour of Lancaster, explaining the history behind the well-known landmarks of this historic town.

Curiosities of London contains an informative and entertaining selection of walks around well-known and some less-visited parts of London, revealing oddities, bizarre connections and strange stories from the past which echo through the city streets.