The Railway Navvies
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.
Terry Coleman Livres
Les vastes voyages de Terry Coleman l'ont mené dans quarante-six pays, lui permettant de faire trois fois le tour du monde et de forger une perspective unique sur le monde. Sa carrière de correspondant étranger pour des journaux de premier plan lui a permis d'interagir avec un large éventail de sujets, des personnalités mondiales aux icônes culturelles. Cette riche tapisserie d'expériences imprègne son écriture d'une compréhension approfondie et d'une voix narrative captivante. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des aperçus tirés d'une vie vécue aux premières loges des événements mondiaux et d'une observation fine de l'humanité.
The Liners
- 232pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The Southern Way Special Issue
- 96pages
- 4 heures de lecture
The Old Vic
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912, under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and Laurence Olivier. This book tells the story of the Old Vic.
Presenting the very best unseen imagery from British Railways Southern Region in the period up to around 1967, this book features stunning portraits of stations, engines and trains, the main lines, cross county lines and branches, plus docks and sheds. All the photographs are accompanied by extended, informative captions, with details of dates and workings where known.
