Local and family history, nostalgia

Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The River Forth is one of Scotland's great waterways.

Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history.

The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years.

CASTLETON today is a busy tourist village at the west end of the Hope Valley in the Peak District.

The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement.

Newport Through Time highlights the journey of a city that began over 700 years ago when the first mayor took office in AD 1314.

Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the facades of the familiar and hidden from view .

The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth.

The Great War (1914-1918), later known as the First World War, brought together the major European countries and their empires into the world's greatest conflict so far seen.

Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop sit on top of the Midland coalfield, stretching from Nottingham into Yorkshire and the mining industry in this area once supported tens of thousands of jobs in collieries dotted across the landscape.

The culmination of some forty years of research sees Ken Wain tell the story of the mining industry in this part of South Yorkshire.

Edinburgh's New Town, built between 1767 and 1850, is one of Europe's finest neoclassical neighbourhoods, a triumph of town planning, with UNESCO World Heritage status.

The 1950s.

The pubs of Stoke are numerous, and each has its own fascinating tale to tell.

As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were planning a whole series of extensions to destinations such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cornwall and South Wales.

Waterford is located on the sunny south-east coast of Ireland.

There is a history of East Grinstead that is hidden from view, lost under the modern town's bustling surface.

Richmond upon Thames was the first borough to be known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', before Ealing or Surbiton were known by this sobriquet.

Nestled in the rolling Border hills, at the meeting of the River Teviot and Slitrig Water, Hawick is deserving of its title as 'Queen o' a' the Borders'.

'Where do flies go in the winter?

The market town of Altrincham, historically a part of Cheshire but now part of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, has a rich history.

Ind Coope & Samuel Allsopp Breweries: The History Of The Hand charts the fortunes of two Burton upon Trent brewing giants: Samuel Allsopp, founded in the town in 1742 by Benjamin Wilson (Senior) and Ind Coope, who expanded to Burton upon Trent from Romford in 1856.

Wigan grew rapidly during the nineteenth century as a major cotton mill town and centre for coal mining, aided by the construction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which passed through the town.

Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotland.

The River Don in South Yorkshire flows through a changing landscape.

Runcorn's position on the Mersey was identified as early as 915, by the Saxon princess Ethelfleda.

One of the remnants of the great lost estates of the United Kingdom, Cassiobury Park is now the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the principal park of its primary town, Watford, covering an area twice the size of Hyde Park in London.

Over the past 400 years more than 800 pubs have opened in the city of Preston.

This book examines the areas of Sussex that played an important part in the Second World War.

The ancient town of Wilton traces its origins to early Saxon times and was, possibly as early as the seventh century, the royal capital of Wessex.

Wilmslow has played host to wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, children's broadcaster Romany and several worldfamous footballers.

This is a fascinating and diverse collection of images from the author's extensive photographic archive recalling Wigton's rich heritage both past and present.

Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, with an urban area population of 57,663 in 2004.

The name Wickford is of Saxon origin, Wick meaning a winding river and Ford being a shallow river crossing.

Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice are two towns on the North East coast with fascinating histories.

The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels.

Whitehaven and the Borough of Copeland have seen many changes over the centuries, but the pace of their transformation has been breathtaking over the past decade.

To visit Whitby's 'Yards' is to step back in time.

Famous for its attractive scenery, abbey, trademark jet jewellery and Dracula, it could be argued that Whitby needs little introduction.

Dominating the seaport of Whitby from its headland site, the imposing and brooding ruins of Whitby Abbey date from the seventh century.

Whalley is sheltered by the wooded hillside of Whalley Nab on the banks of the beautiful River Calder.

Weymouth Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of England's most treasured towns.

Until the railways arrived, Westonsuper- Mare was a town without a history.

During the eighteenth century the plight of those considered insane was dismal.

Located in central England, the West Midlands is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging.

This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as locations for airfields in times of conflict and war.

The Welsh Harp Reservoir is an important lung of open space in north-west London.