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GoldenEye (Blu-ray disc)
Izabella Scorupco, Judi Dench, Gottfried John, Minnie Driver, Pavel Douglas, …
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Pierce Brosnan makes his 007 debut, replacing Timothy Dalton as
Britain's most celebrated secret agent. On his first post-Cold War
mission, Bond is sent to blow up a Soviet chemical weapons factory
with agent 006 (Sean Bean). Nine years later, Bond becomes involved
in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and soon finds himself
involved with a blitzkrieg of stolen helicopters, beautiful female
assassins, Russian Mafiosi and the race for a vital piece of
weaponry - the credit-card sized 'GoldenEye'.
This book examines the history of Boston in Lincolnshire as
reflected in its buildings and townscape from medieval times to the
present day. Boston has a position as an important market from
medieval times and as a major port with links with Europe and
America. The homes and warehouses of its citizens show the evidence
of this. Boston's religious and public buildings are discussed, and
its physical expansion throughout the 19th and into the 20th
century are examined. Other important influences on the town's
development include fen drainage, the role of agriculture and
manufacturing, and transport links. Bringing the story up to date,
problems created by the town's remoteness from large centres of
population, a low-wage agricultural economy and the impact of 1970s
redevelopment are discussed, where they have affected the physical
appearance of the town. A final chapter looks at how successful
regeneration projects have been in Boston and how these can be
built upon to promote a more prosperous future for the town that
recognises the important role heritage can play in achieving it.
Although goods traffic accounted in many cases for a higher
proportion of railway companies' revenue than passengers, the
buildings associated with it have received very little attention in
comparison to their passenger counterparts. They once played as
important a role in distribution as the 'big sheds' near motorway
junctions do today. The book shows how the basic design of goods
sheds evolved early in the history of railways, and how the form of
goods sheds reflected the function they performed. Although goods
sheds largely functioned in the same way, there was considerable
scope for variety of architectural expression in their external
design. The book brings out how they varied considerably in size
from small timber huts to the massive warehouses seen in major
cities. It also looks at how many railway companies developed
standard designs for these buildings towards the end of the 19th
century and at how traditional materials such as timber, brick and
stone gave way to steel and concrete in the 20th This building type
is subject to a high level of threat with development pressure in
urban and suburban areas for both car parking and housing having
already accounted for the demise of many of these buildings.
Despite this, some 600 have been identified as still extant and the
book will, for the first time, provide a comprehensive gazetteer of
the surviving examples.
The arrival of aerial photography came at a particularly
significant moment in terms of the visual appearance of England.
This selection of photographs makes use of the Aerofilms
collection, acquired by English Heritage in 2007 and subsequently
digitised and made available on the Britain from Above website.
When Aerofilms fliers first went up in the skies in 1919, they
captured a country that, with the obvious exception of some large
scale structures such as aircraft hangers and munitions factories,
had more or less been preserved in aspic in 1914. What we are
looking at in many of the earliest photographs in this book is
essentially Edwardian England, with towns and villages generally
quite compact, with fields reaching almost up to the High Streets
in many cases, and little sign of the sprawl that was to engulf
them in the 1920s and 30s. The streets of many towns, especially
the seaside resorts that provided the aerial photographers with
many of their earliest subjects, have an orderly, almost pristine
appearance to them, with the Victorian and Edwardian houses
undisturbed by any out of place redevelopment. The purpose of this
book is to show just how radically that position changed over the
ensuing half century. We trace the outward expansion of places
brought about by the availability of the car: the new suburbs and
ribbon development. We see how new arterial roads came into being
to meet the needs of motor transport and how the centre of cities
start to be rebuilt to accommodate it. We witness the growth of
sprawl around road junctions on the edge of built up areas and the
arrival of new types of building there to service both cars and
people: the filling station, the roadhouse. We see how the car
encouraged more people to go further afield for sport and pleasure:
to the seaside, the races or to new forms of attractions such as
the amusement park in the country. And we see how public transport
changes over the period from trams to buses with the advent of new
facilities such as bus stations. The scale of traffic congestion
becomes apparent by the late 1930s. In addition, the impact on the
landscape of large motor factories and provision for motor sport is
made clear.
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Roseville (Hardcover)
John Minnis, Terry Minnis
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R842
R691
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a
luxury item with little practical purpose-drivers couldn't travel
very far or quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began
a transformation that has affected the architecture,
infrastructure, and even the natural environment of the country.
Carscapes relates the history of the car's impact on the physical
environment of England from its early beginnings to the modern
motorway network, focusing especially on its architectural
influence. The authors offer a detailed look at the litany of
structures designed specifically to accommodate cars: garages, gas
stations, car parks, factories, and showrooms. Presenting a
comprehensive study of these buildings, along with highways,
bridges, and signage, Carscapes reveals the many overlooked ways in
which automobiles have shaped the modern English landscape.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway evokes many
different images, for it was essentially a railway of contrasts -
for some it represented holidays to the South Coast resorts of
Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings and Worthing that were all in their
heyday, and for others it was a commuter line, taking them on their
daily journey through the sprawling South London suburbs to work in
the City. This album seeks to capture these contracts from the
urban landscape of South London to the heart of rural Sussex, from
the rolling Downland to the wooded valleys of the Weald and from
high society on a visit o the races at Epsom to day-trippers
escaping the dirt and grime of London for the sea air of Brighton.
As well as the variety of landscapes and passengers which gave the
line its character, this book also looks at the development of the
LB&CSR's locomotives over some sixty years. Because of their
stylish appearance and the fact that many of them wee named after
districts served by the railway, they had a particular appeal to
the public that was not limited to the railwayists of the day.
Trains, too, varied greatly - from the sublime in the shape of the
magnificent 'Southern Belle, to the rather more prosaic suburban
services.
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