Discover the history of the brave settlers who faced and survived innumerable hardships in the unforgiving St. Croix River Valley.

In this album, Mick Webber gathers some beautifully evocative photographs showing buses, trams and trolleybuses of London Transport at work during the period from 1933, when the organisation was formed, until 1969. In doing so he shows changes not only to transport in the capital but to London itself. Whilst primarily a black and white album, there is also a 1950s colour section. Much of the period covered by this book is looked back with nostalgia as a golden age for transport interest, but the times were often far from golden to live in. As the 1930s progressed the threat of war increased, only to become reality at the end of that period. With Britain at war in the first half of the 1940s and struggling to recover in the second half, that decade was difficult to live through for most Londoners. Poverty and slum-dwelling was widespread and it was only in the 1960s that the country fully recovered from the damage suffered by war. This was a period of mass rebuilding - often in a style not appreciated today - and parts of London were to change their appearance dramatically from then on. Many of the places shown in this album are still very recognisable today but others have changed completely.

Few American phenomena are more evocative of time, place, and culture than the drive-in theater. From its origins in the Great Depression, through its peak in the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately its slow demise in the 1980s, the drive-in holds a unique place in the country's collective past. Michigan's drive-ins were a reflection of this time and place, ranging from tiny rural 200-car "ozoners" to sprawling 2,500-car behemoths that were masterpieces of showmanship, boasting not only movies and food, but playgrounds, pony rides, merry-go-rounds, and even roving window washers.

Hi, Hope you enjoy my horrid 'Whoops Apostrophe' findings - WHOOP'S in the title for the humour; ... in the title as there are lots of other errors in here, shock

Apostrophe errors are my favourite horror, but I have 'snapped' so many others...and have 'chaptered' them, to file similar types of errors together. I suppose that you could say some spelling errors are more typesetting mistakes...but hey somebody's to blame in there, every time

Plenty more in my mobile phone's memory, and every day I see and capture more...for posterity ? In shop windows, in cafes, in businesses, in pubs; on cars, vans, on the TV...in Scotland, England, Ireland; in Amsterdam recently, and all over Europe ('and' Turkey ). Australia...

Thought long and hard about adding witty and / or informative 'captions' under many of the images, especially as regards locations; but in the final analysis decided to let the visual nature of the 'humour' speak for itself

And oh I know it's our modern world's 'fault' really, really? Technology - texting, e-mails, Facebook...leads to phonetic spellings and not 'bothering' with Capital letters... Mobile phones especially - I've got to press at least 6 times to even get to an '

Apostrophes don't seem even to be taught anymore either, certainly not in any continuous form.

Smile, and learn?

MLP (March '13)

(Read any of MLP's BOYLE-BREATH series of books yet? Three so far; 4 and 5 on their way All also published by authorhouse.com).