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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Folkestone & Dover

    by Martin Easdown, Linda Sage ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lancashire's Seaside Piers

    Also Featuring the Piers of the River Mersey, Cumbria and the Isle of Man

    by Martin Easdown ...
    In this, a companion volume to his definitive history of Yorkshires pleasure piers, Martin Easdown turns his expert attention westward to the Lancashire coast. His highly illustrated survey of the piers constructed at famous resorts like Blackpool, Morecambe, Southport and St Annes-on-Sea celebrates structures that are among the most exuberant and evocative of the Victorian age. Each of these ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pier Railways and Tramways

    by Martin Easdown ...
    The nineteenth-century craze for building pleasure piers around the coast of Britain has left a legacy of seaside fun unmatched around the world. Although some of Britain’s piers have succumbed to fire and storm damage over the years, over fifty of these remarkable structures are still standing today. A number were built with railways and tramways to convey holidaymakers to the end of the pier, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Amusement Park Rides

    by Martin Easdown ...
    Series Book 693 - Shire Library
    A ride on a rollercoaster is the highlight of any trip to an amusement or theme park, and such attractions have been entertaining the public for well over a century.From the first mass-produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through to the giant wooden coasters of the inter-war period, seaside historian Martin Easdown uses historic postcards and photographs to chart their development and ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Piers of Wales

    by Martin Easdown, Darlah Thomas ...
    Wales is known for its green hills and valleys, narrow gauge steam railways and medieval castles, but not, it appears, for its pleasure piers. This is a shame, as the country has some of the finest surviving piers in England and Wales, with three particularly fine examples. Llandudno, 'Queen of the Welsh Resorts', has an elegant pier to match that title. The pier is Grade II listed and has ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hythe Through Time

    by Martin Easdown, Linda Sage ...
    Series series Through Time
    Hythe is situated on the south-east coast of Kent, just 25 miles or so from France. One of the famous Cinque Ports, Hythe also became a popular seaside resort in the Edwardian era, providing fetes, fairs, donkey derbies, and bathing huts for its many visitors. Like all settlements, Hythe has had to alter and change, but unlike many, it has managed to retain its charm as a small English town ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hythe History Tour

    by Martin Easdown, Linda Sage ...
    Series series History Tour
    Hythe History Tour is a unique insight into the fascinating history of this attractive seaside town on the south-east coast of Kent and shows just how much it has changed during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readers are invited to follow local authors and historians Martin Easdown and Linda Sage as they guide them along its streets, canal-side and seafront, pointing out the ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • The Extraordinary Daddy-Long-Legs Railway of Brighton

    by Martin Easdown ...
    The unique, but sadly short-lived, Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway must have presented quite an amazing spectacle, even during those late Victorian days of engineering excellence. Affectionately known as the ‘Daddy-Long-Legs’, ‘spider car’ or ‘sea car’, the railway resembled a piece of seaside pier that had broken away and was moving by itself through the sea. Although closed over ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hythe The Postcard Collection

    by Martin Easdown, Linda Sage ...
    Series series The Postcard Collection
    The attractive seaside town of Hythe, on the south-east coast of Kent, is one of the famous Cinque Ports. With an illustrious history of guarding this vulnerable corner of England, Hythe blossomed into a quiet seaside resort famed for its Royal Military Canal, attractive old High Street and macabre collection of skulls and bones in the parish church crypt. The beauty and charm of Hythe was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fashionable Folkestone

    The Golden Age of a Kent Seaside Resort

    by Martin Easdown ...
    Over the course of the nineteenth century Folkestone was transformed from a little fishing village into a popular seaside resort, complete with large hotels to accommodate its many wealthy visitors, a theatre, bathing establishment and pleasure pier. ‘Fashionable Folkestone’, as it became known, thrived during the golden years of the second half of the nineteenth century but its popularity with ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Cliff Railways, Lifts and Funiculars

    by Martin Easdown ...
    One of the most evocative reminders of Victorian ingenuity at the British seaside is the much-loved cliff lift. This simple method of transporting people up and down the cliff side has been a feature of our coast, and a few inland towns, for over 150 years and has recently undergone a renaissance at places as varied as the National Coal Mining Museum, Legoland and the Centre for Alternative ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Piers of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight

    by Martin Easdown, Linda Sage ...
    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. The area's association with piers dates right back to 1814 with the opening of Ryde Pier, often regarded as the earliest in the United Kingdom. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD