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Inspired by Tilbury House's award-winning, Kirkus-starred book The
Secret Pool (2013). A lyrical narrative voice (the voice of the
Milky Way galaxy itself) is augmented by sidebars filled with
amazing facts and insights about our galaxy, and by extension, our
universe. Features Mike Taylor's extraordinary night sky
photography and breathtaking NASA images of the births and deaths
of stars and galaxies. Combines a read-aloud bedtime story with
accessible, scientifically accurate sidebar features. The perfect
book for a budding stargazer or astronomer. The Tilbury House
Nature Book series brings the natural world to life for young
readers. Each book aims for the highest standards of scientific
accuracy and storytelling magic.
Written by the internationally renowned beekeeper - Ted Hooper,
this work features full-colour photography, alongside practical and
informative hints and tips for beekeeping and gardening. It is a
gift for all gardeners. It is fully revised full-colour guide to
choosing the right plants for a beautiful garden which bees will
love to visit. The Bee Friendly Garden also shows gardeners how to
provide a continuous source of nectar and pollen, as well as how to
maintain the perfect ecological balance in the garden - without
using harmful products. The authors also provide practical
information on where to find and how to keep bees, where to place
hives in large and small gardens, and cultivation notes on over 300
trees, shrubs, and plants. Sections on the safe use of pesticides
and really bee friendly garden design round off this superb new
volume.
This book completes Mike Taylor's three-volume coverage of craft on
the Humber's inland waterways. Volume one dealt with tugs and
towing barges and volume two with tanker barges. This final
instalment concentrates on the story of the dry cargo barges that
plied the Humber waterways from the early days in the seventeenth
century, through their flourishing heyday, to their gradual decline
due to the proliferation of roads and railways. From time
immemorial barges have afforded a means of moving dry cargoes from
place to place on rivers and estuaries, carrying many times the
weight of goods that were transported by cart or packhorse. A
thriving trading network was in place on the Humber waterways well
before the start of the twentieth century and continued to prosper
despite the construction of roads and the coming of railways.
Although the use of waterways transport did eventually start to
subside, some still exists today. In this detailed history, a
wealth of illustrations describe the development of dry cargo
carrying on the Humber waterway from the days of unpowered craft
through to the self-propelled vessels and push-towed craft of later
times, covering keels, sloops, pull-towed vessels and motorised
dumb barges.
The introduction of iron tanks within barges in the early twentieth
century enabled much heavier cargoes to be carried on the Humber
waterways, including liquids such as coal tar or vegetable oils
and, by the 1920s, petrol. By the late 1950s/early 1960s, tanker
traffic flourished on the industrial waterways like the Aire &
Calder and Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigations. Mike Taylor
relates the story of the Humber tankers, widely illustrated and
interspersed with recollections of men who worked on the waterways.
This detailed book provides a overview of the history of these
craft on the Humber waterways, including looking at boatyards,
cargoes, waterway features and the interconversions of dry cargo
craft to tankers.
Features the tugs and towing barges that have moved cargoes on the
Humber's inland waterways from early in the twentieth century to
contemporary times.
Over the years, several books featuring shipping on the River
Humber have been published, but few have viewed their subject from
an inland waterway viewpoint. This book, together with its
companion volume "Shipping on the Humber - The South Bank",
attempts to fill that gap, though sea-going traffic has not been
ignored. Wooden sailing keels and sloops, characteristic of the
region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and
the steel motor barges that came along later, are featured in the
illustrations, together with the shipyards where many of them were
built and maintained. Maps and photographs of inland waterway craft
at work on the docks, havens, rivers and canals of the Humber's
north bank have been selected from locations including Driffield,
Beverley, Brough, Hessle, Hedon, Newport and, of course, Hull.
The River Humber has been used for commercial navigation for
centuries and remains today as one of the busiest stretches of
waterway in Britain. Several books on the Humber concentrate on
Hull, almost to the exclusion of the South Bank of the river. This
collection of images, dating from the late nineteenth century to
the present day, is arranged topographically: travelling from Louth
and Cleethorpes upriver to the Ouse/Trent confluence. Over 150
illustrations feature keels, sloops, lighters and motor barges, all
of which have been present in steadily declining numbers over the
past five decades, together with the Lincolnshire boatyards where
many of them were built and maintained. Other small craft are also
included, such as dredgers, cross-rover ferries, pilot boats, tugs
and some sea-going craft, as well as images of the docks and
waterways themselves. Maps and photographs of several locations
have been selected to feature aspects of the Ancholme Navigation
and Louth Navigation, as well as the waterside areas of Grimsby,
Immingham, New Holland, Barrow Haven, Barton Waterside, Brigg,
Ferriby Sluice, Winteringham Haven, and inevitably, Hull, with
which they all have had cross-Humber links.
The River Calder rises in the Pennines north of Todmorden and flows
to Sowerby Bridge and Salterhebble, where it receives the Hebble
Brook. The river then flows through Elland, Brighouse, Mirfield and
Dewsbury before reaching the Aire Calder Navigation at Wakefield.
The river was made navigable in the 1770s and soon after, with the
construction of the Rochdale, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Narrow
canals, became part of the Mersey-Humber trade routes. Trade was
brisk for many years but by the 1940s the canal was in decline; the
Halifax branch was closed and surrounding canals abandoned.
However, commecial traffic on the navigation soldiered on till
1981, when shipments to Thornhill Power Station ceased. Illustrated
within the pages of the Calder Hebble Navigation are over 200
images of canal boats (both horse-drawn and motor-powered), items
of canal furniture and activity on the navigation's many wharfs.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation linked industrial
South Yorkshire, including Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, with
the ports of Hull and Goole. It played a major part in the export
of coal from the many collieries in the region and the import of
grain, timber, steel and more general cargo. From the improvements
around Sheffield at the end of the nineteenth century, through
neglect during the First World War, public ownership and the
expensive modernisation scheme of the 1980s, as well as the
triumphs and failures of private enterprise, The Sheffield &
South Yorkshire Navigation documents the history and development of
the waterway. Included in this volume in a diverse collection of
over 200 images of the navigation, its traffic, and of the
surrounding area, depicting the historical and present influences
of the traditional industries of the area, from the South Yorkshire
coalfields to steelmaking and glass blowing.
This is a photographic history of the Yorkshire Ouse navigation,
with a wide-ranging collection of images from the early days to
today showing the changes over the years.
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