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  • South Yorkshire Mining Villages

    A History of the Region's Former Coal Mining Communities

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Sheffield

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    Covering thousands of years and a multitude of topics, the book tells the story of the development from a group of small agricultural settlements into a town and then a modern city. It covers success, disappointments, miserable periods and glorious episodes that have marked the city's evolution. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family

    by Melvyn Jones, Joan Jones, Stephen Cooper ...
    It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trees and Woodland in the South Yorkshire Landscape

    A Natural, Economic & Social History

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    If you stop and look around you will see trees everywhere: not only in woods and plantations, in parks and gardens and in hedges but also along streets, beside motorways, on old colliery sites, around reservoirs, in the centre of villages and larger urban settlements and standing alone or in small groups in such diverse places as churchyards, in the middle of fields or on high moorlands.This ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secret Sheffield

    by Professor Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Melvyn Jones ...
    Series series Secret
    Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities and for having the biggest shopping centre in Europe, yet there is so much more to know about this proud South Yorkshire city. In Secret Sheffield, the authors pull back the carpet of history to reveal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • That Contentious Doctrine

    Studies in the history of holiness teaching

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    In his Foreword to this book, Dr John Coutts writes:The author considers in detail the links between first-generation Salvationists and the ‘Higher Life’ movement which flourished in Great Britain in the 19th century, as well the Army’s relationship with Pentecostalism in the twentieth.Many questions, some contentious, were asked and variously answered. Does a Christian’s commitment to holy living ... Read more

    $7.40 USD

  • Secret Rotherham

    by Melvyn Jones, Anthony Dodsworth ...
    Series series Secret
    Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an enviable industrial history: Nelson’s HMS Victory was armed with Walker cannons made at Masbrough, the iron plates for Isambard Brunel’s steamship the Great Eastern were manufactured at Parkgate Iron & ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • In & Around Rotherham From Old Photographs

    by Melvyn Jones, Michael Bentley ...
    Series series From Old Photographs
    The Rotherham area has undergone profound change in the last century or so. There has been much demolition and rebuilding in the town centre, the town has grown outwards in all directions and the surrounding settlements – rural and industrial – have been transformed in many cases. Many working patterns and workplaces have disappeared, means of transport have changed beyond all recognition and even ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Nuneaton & Bedworth Coal, Stone, Clay and Iron

    by Peter Lee ...
    On the edge of the Warwickshire coalfield, coal had been mined in Nuneaton since the fourteenth century and the town was a centre for quarrying and brick-making too. Coal had been mined in the Stockingford and Griff area of Chilvers Coton for five centuries, and by the mid-1860s, new capital, increasingly efficient mining methods, together with the building of the railways, brought about a golden ... Read more

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  • Canals: The Making of a Nation

    by Liz McIvor ...
    Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Telford Through Time

    by Allan Frost ...
    Series series Through Time
    The designated 'new town' of Telford in Shropshire received its name in 1968; in fact, it is not a new town but rather a conurbation of townships and villages whose story goes back 3,000 years. In recent years, the area governed by Telford & Wrekin Council has been extended to include a wider area - and history - than originally conceived. The Telford landscape is an ever-changing canvas in which ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • London's Industrial Heritage

    by Geoff Marshall ...
    Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind the many industries found in the capital is described in this unique book. London once had scores of breweries; the world's first plastic material was synthesised in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus