This virtual book CD resource contains a bundle of Pigot's 1823 Directories; carrying local listings of professions, nobility, gentry, and clergy, of transport and freight services; and information on the education, public services, and public houses of the area. Towns, villages and parishes are listed with background historical and topographical information. A comprehensive resource which gives you valuable insight into the history of London and the Home counties, and enables you to find out wh More Info
The London census bundle contains the sets for the years 1841,1851,1861,1871,and 1891. Each set consists of a pack of PDF documents which contain census page images indexed by street and area.... More Info
The London Census bundle contains the sets for the years 1841,1851,1861 and 1871. Each set consists of a pack of PDF documents which contain census page images indexed by street and area.... More Info
The London census bundle contains the sets for the years 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901. Each set consists of a pack of discs with PDF documents which contain census page images indexed by street and area.... More Info
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A super little guide book to the City, with twenty photo illustrations, four plans and a map. c1924. The book on this CD is machine searchable
A super A5 book about Helmsley, written by Isaac Cooper a little over 100 years ago, in which he recounts not only his own memories, but some stories handed down to him and extracts from the diary of John Pape, a noted diarist of the 18th century, giving us a real insight into life in the town from the middle eighteenth up to the late nineteenth centuries. Isaac Cooper first published his b...More Info
A super A5 book about Helmsley, written by Isaac Cooper a little over 100 years ago, in which he recounts not only his own memories, but some stories handed down to him and extracts from the diary of John Pape, a noted diarist of the 18th century, giving us a real insight into life in the town from the middle eighteenth up to the late nineteenth centuries. Isaac Cooper first published his b...More Info
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
Dr Edward Long Fox (1761-1835) was born into a quaker family in Cornwall. He came to Bristol in 1785. He engaged in local politics, and led an inquiry into the Bristol Bridge riots. He pioneered a humane approach to the treatment of mentally ill people. He built an asylum at Brislington with innovative features and 'romantic' landscape gardens, and a therapeutic spa at Knightstone, Weston super ma...More Info