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Introducing
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MONTGOMERY'S BUSES -
An Empire of Independents
by Brian Poole
£15.95
Research often starts with a concept for a single essay and this is the case
with this work. Brian Poole started by
interviewing Bill Cross who was a young fitter when Mid-Wales Motorways was
created in 1937. He quickly realised that there was a very big story hidden
within the families of the Montgomeryshire bus and coach industry and many
others have recounted their memories ....
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YESTERDAYS PAPERS - Vol 3:
Life in England between the wars 1918 - 1938 From the pages of the Isle of Wight
County Press
by Alan Stroud
£13.95
Like the previous volumes in this
series, this is a dip into the archive of the Isle
of Wight County Press, this time for the years 1918 to
1934, to give a view of events and attitudes of those times from a
contemporary perspective – an unvarnished version of the truth free from
modern day judgements.
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Neath Enginemen - Reminiscing
Steam in South Wales
compiled
by
Bryan King
£13.95
The
stories in this book have been collected by Bryan King from the close-knit
community of West Glamorgan railwaymen. They tell of life on the railway in
another era, primarily working from the two Neath engine sheds - Court Sart
and N&B - but also included are stories from Swansea and Margam. The many
incidents and accidents are recalled by those who were there.
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The Wisbech & Upwell
Tramway
by Peter Paye
£15.95
Passengers arriving by the Great
Eastern Railway for the first time at the fenland port of Wisbech before the
Great War, intending to travel to the canal side villages to the south-east
of the town, could be forgiven for disbelieving the sight which greeted
them. They would be cajoled to join the service standing in the back
platform, which was unlike any other they had encountered
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The Ross,
Monmouth & Pontypool Road Line
by
Stanley Charles Jenkins
£11.95
The turbulent history of the
South Wales borderlands produced a romantic and picturesque landscape of
castles and villages. In Victorian times, this attractive, Anglo-Celtic
district contained a network of local branch lines, which opened-up the area
to tourists and visitors. This book was first published in 2002, and this
revised and enlarged Second Edition has an extra 24 pages
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A
Pictorial Guide to Alpine Railways
by Mervyn Jones
£16.95
/ €26.00
This first Pictorial Guide by
the author is radically different from his previous publications. In
researching about alpine railways, in addition to information about the
railways, he has chosen to include interesting facts about the places
through which trains pass.
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