Local and family history, nostalgia

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Eastern Region is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the 1970s, with coverage of both diesel and electrics from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the London Midland Region is a photographic album depicting the 1960s with coverage of steam, diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the London Midland Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electrics from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days in the Western Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulics from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days: Chasing the Westerns is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the final few years of the Class 52 Westerns from 1974 to the latter 1970s.

Conwy and its district has a history stretching back to Neolithic times.

The district of Wimbledon has become synonymous with its world-famous tennis tournament held here since 1922.

For centuries, Nottingham had a reputation for brewing good ale.

The bustling market town of Honiton nestles on the southern banks of the River Otter in beautiful east Devon.

It is fascinating to think that many hundreds of generations of Londoners lie beneath the city without us knowing.

Museums play an important part of twenty-first-century life for residents of the United Kingdom.

The Kent coastal towns of Whitstable and Herne Bay are 5 miles apart, but are very different in character.

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom.

In these days of ubiquitous, non-stop media and information you would think that there were few secrets anywhere left to reveal, but when it comes to Chatham there remain a surprising number of facts and idiosyncrasies that, over the years, have remained obscure.

British Rail's Modernisation Plan was published in December 1954.

Bolton has its roots in Lancashire where it was established as a textile town from the Middle Ages, but it was during the Industrial Revolution that it grew to become one of the major cotton manufacturing centres of the world.

Today Cirencester is an attractive market town at the heart of the Cotswolds, and has been a thriving place since Roman times when as Corinium it was a regional capital.

Letchworth Garden City was founded in Hertfordshire in 1903.

The Festival and King's Theatres are two of Scotland's most historic theatrical venues and both have their own engrossing stories to tell.

The seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex is famous for its modernist 1930s De La Warr Pavilion but has a wealth of other fascinating stories connected with its history.

Buildings are among the crucial features that define a city.

Doncaster has always benefited from its location.

Daniel Vickery, the editor of the Western Flying Post, wrote in A Sketch of the Town of Yeovil (1856) that 'The town is surrounded on the South East by three remarkable hills - Babylonhill, Windmill-hill [Wyndham Hill], and Newton-hill.

Yarmouth & Gorleston History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of these two Norfolk towns, both now part of Great Yarmouth, which face each other across the River Yare.

Hebburn History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this South Tyneside town.

Guildford History Tour provides a unique insight into the country town of Surrey.

Dorchester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Dorset town.

Chichester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous West Sussex town.

Norfolk in the Great War explores the story of the county of Norfolk, its military forces and the impact of the war on local people through a fascinating selection of over 200 photographs, many of them previously unpublished, from the archive of Neil R.

Over the past 1,000 years Hurley, in the County of Berkshire, has experienced its fair share of historic events, from royal visitations to the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

At the northern end of the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove and Butt Lane were quiet and rural areas of scattered settlements that became an industrial centre of great importance in the economy of North Staffordshire.

Helensburgh's history begins on the 11 January 1776 when Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, on the shore of Loch Lomond, advertised land to be divided into building plots on the south-facing slope overlooking the Clyde.

In the early eighteenth century, Lochee consisted of a small community of weavers who had settled along the banks of a burn.

There are many books written on Bury St Edmunds, some academic, others having a more simplistic approach.

The main role of the tug is to assist vessels in the river or within the dock system by moving them by pushing or towing.

Yorkshire is not only the largest county in England, it is also the most beautiful; just ask anyone living there.

Northwich Through the Ages offers a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country with a completely new set of past and present images.

Folkestone, a port town located on the English Channel, has an interesting history and has experienced many changes over the centuries.

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

Sheffield is the fourth-largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest.

In recent years a number of Norfolk's mills have been restored - sometimes to full working order - by private owners, councils and windmill trusts.

Victorian Sunderland developed a unique form of housing to accommodate its hardworking population.

Derby's history goes back almost 2,000 years, despite a refoundation on a revised site in the tenth century.

From Roman times, rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone.

Bristol, 'Queen of the West Country', is a city founded on manufacturing and trade.

Bagnall, Endon, Stanley and Stockton Brook are situated to the north-east of the Potteries conurbation in North Staffordshire and form a rough triangle pointing towards Leek.