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Suffolk Poll Book 1790
The 1790 Poll for Knights of the Shire for Suffolk. Digitally enhanced images of the original text. Bookmarked by major headings. Fully printable.... More Info
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St Barnabas Church - The First Hundred Years - 1849-1949
A comprehensive history of the first 100 years of this Victorian Church of St Barnabas built to serve the boom town of new Linslade as it grew up round the canal and railway station. Illustrated.
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War
Leighton Buzzard, a quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began Q Central attracted a dozen other clandestine operations designed to defend the country or to confuse and undermine enemy morale including station X, Bletchley Park and the headquarters of radar for B...More Info
Sand, Planes and Submarines, How Leighton Buzzard shortened the First World War
The role of a town far from the sea played in the WWI effort by building planes, making submarines nets and most of all providing sand for the nation's foundries. Plus life in the town and comprehensive lists and details of those who fought and died. Without the sand the big guns could not have been made for the front; planes allowed the Royal Flying Corps to take on the super German airforce and ...More Info
Change and continuity east of Tudor Bristol
Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 22 8 Barton Hill, Bromley Heath, Downend, Eastville, Easton, Fishponds, Greenbank, Hillfields, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Redfield, St George, Speedwell, Soundwell, Stapleton and Whitehall: all today thriving districts of Bristol. But all that area east of old Bristol Castle was countryside in the sixteenth century. Kathleen Hapgood (author of ALHA N...More Info