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England has a long and involved relationship with the sea. It has
provided a final line of defence against invasion, the route over
which the country's global trade has travelled, the source of a
bountiful harvest of fish and seafood that has sustained the
population, the essential links in the empire that saw Britain
emerge as the world's first 'Great Power', and, more recently, it
has fostered the leisure industry. For many, the sea was to provide
their final view of their homeland as emigration took them to
far-flung corners of the world, while for others, perhaps fleeing
religious or political persecution, the sea offered them a route to
safety. For almost a century the photographers from the Aerofilms
company recorded Britain from the air. Alongside the photographs
taken of the great castles and abbeys of the country, the views
also recorded industrial and commercial activity - including the
docks and ports that were an essential part in maintaining
Britain's place in the world. In this book, Peter Waller has delved
through the collection of Aerofilms photographs held by Historic
England to explore the country's maritime heritage. Selecting 150
images, the author looks at how the docks and ports have evolved
since the years immediately after World War I, how traditional
patterns of trade have changed, how the Royal Navy has shrunk and
how the leisure industry has come to dominate.
The final volume in the Regional Tramways' series focuses on the
history of tram operation in the London area. Starting the story
with the pioneering horse tramways operated by George Francis Train
in the 1860s, the book narrates how the various horse, steam, cable
and electric tramways evolved in the period leading up to the
creation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933\. The
primary focus of the book is the period immediately after World War
2 when, following the retention of the tramways for longer than
anticipated, the process of conversion - codenamed Operation
Tramaway' - saw almost 1,000 trams eliminated from the streets of
London in less than two years. Also covered in the book are the two
second-generation tramways - the Docklands Light Railway and
Croydon Tramlink - which now serve parts of the Greater London
area. The book concludes with an overview of those London trams
that survive into preservation.
For almost a century, from its inception in the years immediately
after World War I, the Aerofilms company recorded the changing face
of England from the air. At the start of the era, the railway was
still the predominant form of transport, with a network of main,
secondary and branch lines that stretched to virtually every corner
of the realm. As the 20th century progressed, however, this
dominance declined as the private motorcar and the lorry
increasingly became the preferred mode of transport. The early
railway builders - such as the London & Birmingham - had
invested much in creating impressive stations for this new and
revolutionary form of transport and, during the 19th century, many
of the country's leading architects undertook commissions on behalf
of the burgeoning railway industry. After World War II, however,
many of these buildings were were swept away. The Aerofilms
collection provides a unique vantage point to explore the country's
railway heritage. It is only from the air that it is possible to
appreciate fully how much the railway came to dominate the
landscape; even in relatively small country towns, the railway
station with its platforms and goods yard was significant. Add to
this the construction of tunnels and viaducts, and the railway can
be said to have shaped much of the landscape of modern England.
Drawing upon some 150 images from the collection, Peter Waller
explores various aspects of England's unique railway heritage: from
the major stations in cities like Birmingham to the humble goods
yard and signal box.
This is one of four volumes covering the history of British
Trolleybus systems. This book looks at the networks in Yorkshire.
Bradford and Leeds were the pioneering systems in the country and,
more than six decades later, it was Bradford that was to the final
bastion of this once important form of transport. The author is an
authority on tram and trolleybus systems, with a series of books
already published on the history of British and Irish tram
networks. This volume covers the history and background surrounding
the networks looking at the reasons why they were opened and why
they eventually closed down.
Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of
transport - the trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) -
during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911
that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators
of trolleybuses. There had been earlier experimental users - in
places like Hove and London - and as the tide turned against the
tram in many towns and cities, the trolleybus became a popular
alternative with the trolleybus comping to dominate the provision
of local public transport in places like Derby and Ipswich. This
volume - one of four that examines the history of all trolleybus
operators in the British Isles - focuses on the systems that
operated in Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia.
Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of
transport - the trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) -
during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911
that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators
of trolleybuses. Some of the earliest operators were in Lancashire,
northern England and Scotland; indeed Scotland can lay claim to
having both the first system in Britain to close - Dundee in 1914 -
and the last to open - Glasgow in 1949. This volume - one of four
that examines the history of all trolleybus operators in the
British Isles - focuses on Lancashire, Northern England, Scotland
and Northern Ireland.
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