Transport: general interest

Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying.

Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery.

No other moving object has carried as many people in one voyage (over 16,000).

Queen Elizabeth 2: The Last Great Liner tells the story of the Cunard liner.

On October 20, 1910, RMS Olympic was launched at Belfast.

Many people remember with great fondness the pleasure steamers that plied the River Thames in the years after the end of the Second World War.

When Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage she carried two cousins.

The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s.

'Port of Southampton' is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the 1840s.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world.

This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to seaplanes and tailwheel conversions.

Wales is known for its green hills and valleys, narrow gauge steam railways and medieval castles, but not, it appears, for its pleasure piers.

From Gigha in the south to Lewis in the north and St Kilda in the west, Alistair Deayton covers the piers of the Hebrides and other outlying islands in the companion volume to his West Highland Piers.

Despite their popular association with fun and frivolity, the function of piers as both an amusement centre and landing stage was varied, and nowhere was this better illustrated than on the coasts of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and east Dorset.

Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to the world's most famous bear, named after the station.

In 1837, P&O, or the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, won a lucrative mail contract to the Iberian peninsula.

In 1995, P&O introduced the 70,000grt Oriana into service.

Pleasure steamer cruises along the scenic North Wales coast from Liverpool disappeared some fifty years ago.

For well over a hundred years all around the coast of Britain there were located a series of nautical training ships.

Built in 1949 in Southampton for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

In this charming sequel to the successful local best-seller Salt Marsh & Mud, the skipper and his mate meander gently around the coastline of East Anglia, exploring the marshland from North Kent to Suffolk in their tan-sailed, wooden clinker sloop, Whimbrel.

The very first issue of the - still current - magazine, The Autocar was on 2 November 1895.

Intended for the British Army as a contract for a small, Jeep-like, air-portable vehicle, the Mini Moke was a failure at this role and found its success as a fun, sunshine toy, equally at home on the beach as in the mountains.

From Whitstable, with its oyster beds and fishing fleet, to Chatham and Rochester, the Medway and Swale areas have seen a diverse variety of shipping over the years, from the fishing smacks to men of war, Thames barges, sailing vessels, submarines, pleasure steamers, ferries and cargo ships.

Maidstone Corporation fi rst began operating trams on 14 July 1904, in conjunction with the municipal electricity supply.

It is now just over a century since Lusitania made her maiden crossing of the North Atlantic.

London City Airport was first conceived as part of the regeneration of the London Docklands at the start of the 1980s, a pilot landing on Heron Quays to prove it could be done.

The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years.

The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America.

Introduced into RAF service in December 1959, the English Electric Lightning was and still is one of the most iconic of British fighter aircraft.

The Humber lifeboat station is unique.

Opened in 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, Leeds-Bradford Airport is the largest in Yorkshire.

In 1948, on the Isle of Anglesey, the first prototype Land Rover was put through its paces.

The first Lake District steamers were designed to serve the numerous villages and settlements along the side of the lakes.

King's Cross station was the terminus of the Great Northern Railway and was opened in 1852.

In 1906, brothers Benjamin and William Jowett designed and built their first car.

On 26 June 1954 a small private venture development aircraft built by Hunting Percival Ltd made the first of three proving flights at Luton.

Somerset has played an important part in the history of British aviation.

The first ex-military jet flew in Britain in the late 1960s, restored by Jet Heritage of Bournemouth.

The Port of Holyhead has a long history and is now operated by Stena Line Ports Ltd.

Harwich lifeboat station operates two modern, state-of-the-art lifeboats,operated by 28 volunteers and two full-time members of staff.

The Golden Age of Liner travel was from the early 1900s to the 1950s, a period dominated by black and white photography, with little colour views.

Originally opened in August 1879, Central Station became a Glasgow landmark and one of Scotland's great buildings following a rebuild between 1901 and 1905 supervised by Caledonian Railway chief engineer Donald Matheson.

Harley Crossley paints for the major shipping lines, with his work adorning many cruise ships.

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France.

An airfield was first established at Filton, just north of Bristol, in 1911 after the establishment of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company.

Fife Scottish was established in the 1960s as part of the Scottish Bus Group, a state-owned company which operated bus services throughout Scotland.

Built as the London terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway in July 1837, Euston was London's first intercity railway station.

Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas.

In 1980, the first of the Deltics was withdrawn from service.