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May 1927 saw the abandonment of Chesterfield's trams and
replacement with trolleybuses. These only lasted until March 1938,
bringing an end to a form of transport never to return to this
Derbyshire town. This history of the system includes many
previously rare unpublished images of the trolleybuses and a full
fleet list of vehicles, with mileages worked.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries barrow digging became a
field sport for local squires and parsons. Their desire for
decorative relics led them to plunder the graves of their
prehistoric ancestors. With a few notable exceptions their methods
were lamentable: their workmen recklessly destroyed remains and
pottery, and few made accurate records. What was most horrifying
was the speed at which they worked - one individual digging over 30
barrows in a day and 9 in the space of two hours! Against this
background it is perhaps amazing that any idea of the importance of
recording provenance and context developed at all. But, in this
fascinating survey of early field archaeology in Britain, Barry
Marsden is able to highlight the careers and methods of the more
responsible barrow diggers - from the first excavations of William
Stukeley in the 1720s to the more orderly and painstaking work of
the main nineteenth-century practitioners, concluding with the
exemplary operations of Lt. General Pitt Rivers in the 1880s and
1890s. This substantially expanded and re-illustrated edition of a
classic work that has been unavailable for many years has
individual chapters on Yorkshire, Derbyshire and the Peak district,
Wiltshire, Dorset and Cornwall.
This is a photographic album covering three long-gone tramway
systems, including many previously unpublished images of the towns
and their public transport from as long ago as the 1890s.
Historical backgrounds are provided, as well as route maps and
stock lists of all trams operated.
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