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I have no doubt that the civic leaders of the Black Country town (now city) of Wolverhampton thought that using a new fangled aerial photograph of the town centre was very clever in 1932. And there’s no denying that the image, from a historical perspective, is fascinating. The area shown centre would in time be…
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I have no doubt that the civic leaders of the Black Country town (now city) of Wolverhampton thought that using a new fangled aerial photograph of the town centre was very clever in 1932. And there’s no denying that the image, from a historical perspective, is fascinating. The area shown centre would in time be…
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The then independent Borough of Keighley’s offial guide for 1955 has this colourful take on the Borough’s Town Hall – with what looks like the Mayor’s limousine to hand! The town’s motto is a pun on the local river, the Worth – as in the now famous preserved railway, the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.…
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The small mill town of Heywood, part of the larger Metropolitan Borough of Roachdale since 1974, sits almost halfway between Rochdale and Bury. Like all boroughs of the day it too had to have an official borough handbook and this is the cover of the small, c1955 edition of the guide that gives details on…
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The London & North Eastern Railway’s 1939 book describing the facilities at the Port of Hull, one of the major East Coast ports and one of several that the Railway owned. The various main line railways produced superb and detailed guides to docks and ports – and one suspects that they were very useful to…
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