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The date was Good Friday, April 23rd in the Year of Our Lord 1014.
The most ferocious battle ever fought in Ireland was about to
begin... In the three decades since Morgan Llyweyln wrote the
bestselling novel Lion of Ireland, she has studied the legendary
life of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland. Often dismissed as a
mythical figure, as all the known facts about him are contained
within the several Irish annals. But thirty years of research have
led Llyweyln to conclude with certainty that Brian Boru actually
lived, a great battle took place in 1014: and Ireland won. Read
about the life of Brian Boru and the battle that changed the course
of Irish history in this exciting and accessible account.
A pictorial history of Winslow, presented through a series of
photographs and images. It also includes historical captions.
THIS unique collection of over 150 old photographs of Winslow has
ben compiled largely from the collection of local historian Terry
Foley, a former Mayor of Winslow. His own photographs are
supplemented by many postcards loaned by friends in the town. Other
images are supplied by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies in
Aylesbury. The photographs are accompanied by authoritative
captions based on Terry's extensive interviews with older members
of the community and the research of Julian Hunt, the former Local
Studies Librarian for Buckinghamshire, who also lives in Winslow.
The history of this small market town is traced from the eighth
century, in which it was granted by Offa, King of Mercia, as an
endowment for St Albans Abbey, to more recent centuries when
Winslow society was dominated by the Lowndes family, builders of
Winslow Hall. The authors include photographs of old farmhouses in
Sheep Street and Horn Street, and of the historic Market Square,
where cattle were sold until the end of the nineteenth century.
They explain how the rural landscape was transformed following the
enclosure acts of the mideighteenth century, and how the northern
part of the town developed with the building of the workhouse in
1827 and the opening of the railway in 1850. This evocative
collection of Winslow photographs shows residents at work and play,
and will give pleasure to those old enough to remember many of the
scenes portrayed and to those young enough to be intrigued by the
history of the town.
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