When rail travel boomed during the early 1900s, it opened the gateway to North Wales for the bucket and spade brigade, showing them that 'happy times were here at last' on their visit to Prestatyn.
The photographs in this fascinating collection enable the reader to explore the differences that passing time has wrought on the urban landscape of Portsmouth and Southsea, and place unrecognisable scenes in context in place and time.
Pontypridd Through Time portrays the history of this iconic market town that sits at the gateway to three historic valleys of the South Wales coalfield.
This book takes a photographic tour of one of the City of Westminster's more distinctive areas, and with a wealth of archive images set alongside comparison photographs from the present day shows how old neighbourhoods have evolved through the decades.
This second volume takes you on another fascinating journey through this city's history, which once bore the name of Medeshamstead until 992 when it was changed to Burgh.
Surrey is a county of contrasting styles with a diverse mixture of rural villages, vast open land, commuter towns such as Guildford and Woking and to the north, the modern sprawl of suburbia, which forms part of Greater London.
Paranormal South Tyneside is the first book to draw over twenty different kinds of paranormal phenomena - all of which have been witnessed or experienced within what has been called the country's most haunted borough.
Published in a handy A-Z format, here you will find accounts of wellknown hauntings, as well as many previously undiscovered paranormal locations in the North East of England.
Norfolk has many associations with the paranormal, from ancient tales of Shuck the hound that has haunted the county's lanes for a thousand years to tales of ghosts from the Second World War and of unidentified f lying objects.
Join Steven Tucker on this unique exploration of the myths and legends, and the tales of the fantastic that are supposed to have happened along the Mersey's shores.
Devon claims so many classic tales of the supernatural and paranormal: the beckoning White Lady of Berry Pomeroy Castle, the terrifying Whisht Hounds of Dartmoor, the notorious Hairy Hands that wrestle with driver's steering wheels near Postbridge, and the melancholy story of Jay's Grave near Widecombe-in-the-Moor to name but a few.
Damien O'Dell's first book about the paranormal brings together his various interests - his Bedfordshire roots, his fascination with the paranormal and his love of history.
