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Cheshire contains some of the earliest inland saltworks, industrial canals, and purpose-built mechanised textile mills in Britain.

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board was created in 1858, becoming a limited company in 1972.

Rickmansworth is an attractive small town in south-west Hertfordshire with its origins as farmsteads owned by the Abbey of St Albans.

A key part of the Great Western Railway's network was the main line to the North through Birmingham.

This important stretch of railway line through the Midlands connects England's second city with the strategically important railway centre of Derby.

The Western Region of today is not without its modern followers, but four to five decades ago it was a very different story.

The Leyland Atlantean was in production from 1958 until 1986 and around 15,300 buses of the type were built over this period.

The first trams ran in Bournemouth in 1902 but the efforts to introduce trams into the Bournemouth and Poole area began in the 1880s.

Dating back to the 1720s and still partly in use today as the preserved Tanfield Railway, the line has a justifiable claim to be the world's oldest railway, running on the track bed that 300 years ago was travelled over by horse-drawn coal waggons on wooden rails.

Over half of the Wirral's built environment is Victorian; the era has left a huge imprint on the area.

Designed to provide a greater load capacity within the successful Land Rover range, the Forward Control models were also adapted for a variety of other uses, including for the emergency services and the military.

Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, formerly known as the Brecon Beacons, founded in 1957, is a hugely popular area of South Wales.

On the night of 14-15 April 1912 RMS Titanic sank with the loss of around 1,500 people after hitting an iceberg.

Class 126 diesel multiple units were introduced to Scotland from 1956.

This comprehensive guide to reinforced concrete structures has been fully revised to cover 2025 updates to the ACI 318 Structural Concrete CodeReinforced Concrete Structures, Third Edition, presents concise explanations of reinforced concrete design principles, along with practical analysis, design, and detailing methods.

This comprehensive guide to reinforced concrete structures has been fully revised to cover 2025 updates to the ACI 318 Structural Concrete CodeReinforced Concrete Structures, Third Edition, presents concise explanations of reinforced concrete design principles, along with practical analysis, design, and detailing methods.

While bus services in Britain have generally been in decline since the heady days of the early 1950s, there has been one area of bus operation that has seen significant growth.

The modern city of Southend-on-Sea has come a long way since its eighteenth-century origins as an oyster fishing hamlet at the south end of Prittlewell parish.

The North Staffordshire Coalfield is concentrated around the Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme areas, with a small outlying area around Leek and Cheadle.

The market and university town of Loughborough has a long, varied and often unexpected history.

Gloucestershire is a county rich in beauty, history and a high level of spiritual, mysterious and paranormal activity.

Clapham and Battersea, both medieval villages to the south-west of London, enjoy rich and fascinating histories.

Jersey's landscape and history are steeped in its folklore and legends.

Truro grew up around its medieval castle, deriving its wealth as an inland port, lying on the confluence of two rivers 9 miles from the sea, and as a stannary town.

Chester's history goes back 2,000 years, from the Romans to recent times, and in the course of the centuries the city has witnessed many dark deeds and events.

St Albans is a city rich in history, with its origins in the Iron Age and known as Verulamium following the Roman conquest in ad 43.

The London & Birmingham Railway was the first intercity line in Britain to travel from London.

The nineteenth-century craze for building pleasure piers around the coast of Britain has left a legacy of seaside fun unmatched around the world.

During Roman times, Northwich was known as 'Salinae' or the 'salt works', and later by the Celtic name 'Hellath Dhu', or the black salt town by the Ancient Britons.

Medieval Macclesfield was a small market town in Cheshire but industries, particularly button manufacturing, started to develop in the Tudor era.

Scottish railway history began in 1722 when William Dickson commenced work on the Tranent-Cockenzie Waggonway.

The Rover P5 and P5B were the flagship Rover models throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

In the late Middle Ages, Walsingham in Norfolk was the most important pilgrim destination in England.

St Helens was a giant of the Industrial Revolution, transforming itself through invention and innovation to become a leading voice around the world.

Maidstone is the county town of Kent.

Pennine hills, unspoilt moorland, dramatic dales, picturesque villages, market towns and a magnificent coastline are all part of the scenery of County Durham.

Traffic congestion has become a major problem in many of England's towns and cities.

Ranging from the monoplanes and biplanes of the early twentieth century to the hi-tech supersonic jet fighters used by air forces across the world today, the vast range of military aircraft that have been and are still in use today are documented here.

Brighton and Hove is one of England's most recent cities and also one of its most colourful and eccentric.

In this companion volume to Northern Electrics: EMUs in the North of England, Martyn Hilbert showcases the huge variety and types of first- and second-generation Diesel Multiple Units that have operated in the North of England, including many items of rolling stock that have passed into history.

Railway disasters were a new phenomenon in early Victorian England.

Humor abounding, the stories of High on the Vine feature thrice-removed cousins, Tami & Evi Maki, who often contemplate how their lives would be vastly different, if only they did not bear the burden of marriage to Toivo and Eino.

The town of Malvern grew around a medieval Benedictine monastery at the foot of the Malvern Hills.

By 1938 Warrington, like the rest of Britain, was preparing for war with Germany.

Middlesbrough boasts a rich, diverse history and heritage that brings together tales of unprecedented industrial development, rapid urban expansion, the cultivation of new cultural institutions and a proud sporting heritage that has helped put the town on the map.

Launched in 1960 with design by Pininfarina, the Peugeot 404 proved to be a highly successful model that helped to enhance Peugeot's reputation for building durable cars.

The period 2010-2019 was one of change and colour in Reading's bus services.

In the eighteenth century, Liverpool's position as a favoured port for Britain's growing Atlantic trade to the West Indies and America allowed it to expand rapidly.

In 2011, Devon County Council outlined plans for a rapid-transit-style rail network, the Devon Metro, to be achieved through improvements to services and facilities, including the opening of new stations.

Bristol's importance in medieval England was demonstrated when it became the first borough in the country outside of London to be given county status in 1373.