Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Bloody Paralyser" tells the story of the largest British bomber aircraft of World War 1 & the men who flew them. In 1915 the biggest plane ever seen in Britain the Handley Page Type 0 took flight for the first time a twin engine monster with a 100 foot wingspan designed to be a 'bloody paralyser' to the Germans. Operating mainly at night the Handley Page bombers attacked German & German-occupied towns & cities with near impunity disrupting the enemy's industry & crippling its war effort. The men that flew in the bloody paralysers were the forerunners of the crews of Bomber Command in World War 2 & now their story is told in their own words. Bristling with Lewis guns the lasting legacy of the aircraft was such that for many years after the war any large aircraft came to be called a ' Handley Page' in Britain." ...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Kingston upon Thames over the years. The book offers an insight into the daily lives & living conditions of local people & gives the reader glimpses of familiar places during this century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Kingstons recent history are covered famous occasions & individuals are remembered & the impact of national & international events is witnessed. Drawing on detailed local knowledge of the community & illustrated with a wealth of photographs this book recalls what Kingston upon Thames has lost in terms of buildings traditions & ways of life. It also acknowledges the regeneration that has taken place & celebrates the character & energy of local people as they move through the first years of this new century. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Indulge your fantasies with this tantalizing & mouth-watering selection of 40 flirtatious & alluringly decorated cookies. With inspirational photography each cookie means that you can tease your friends with kitsch creations. Kinky Cookies helps you to create tasteful burlesque-inspired & sumptuous treats to bring the naughtiness back into baking. ...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator licensed bonded insured; white female age thirty-two unmarried & physically fit. That Monday morning I was sitting in my office with my feet up wondering what life would bring when a woman walked in & tossed a photograph on my desk. Somebody killed my husb&. Thirty one years since A is for Alibi was first published Sue Grafton presents Kinsey & Me her first compendium of short stories. It features nine Kinsey Millhone short stories each a gem of detection as well as autobiographical pieces written in the decade after Graftons mother died. Together they show just how much Kinsey Millhone is a distillation of her creators past even as they reveal a child who free of parental discipline read everything & roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance.. . Kit walked through the empty house listening to her footsteps resounding against the pale dead floors.. .the windows stood open to the summer heat & a wind that smelled of lilacs touched at the screens. From her bedroom she could look out into the side yard where the cherry tree had blossomed every April since time began.. . And now the house was being sold & the land their mother was dead their father remarried: all of life everything was breaking apart breaking down being levelled destroyed razed rendered obsolete that childhood that life that family as odd & unhappy as it had been.. . Published in the UK for the first time this dazzling & often moving collection displays the depth & range of Graftons writing & reminds us of her unique talent as a storyteller. ...

Kintyre poet & historian Angus Martins interest in placeanames extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements plus many others of Norse Scots & English origin. Over 1200 individual place-names are examined from the well-known to the obscure & forgotten. These names are drawn from a diverse range of sources from mid-19th century Ordnance Survey maps & field notebooks to fishermen & shepherds whose store of names contained many known only to themselves. As well as looking at the origin & meaning of place-names Martin also looks at their historical associations
- the events & families connected with them
- to provide a full & fascinating account which will illuminate the landscape of his native Kintyre. This then is a book which will interest not only students of place-names but also archaeologists local historians genealogists naturalists & anyone with a passion for Kintyre & its colourful past.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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The Kinver Light Railway once linked the Black Country to Kinver an inland resort to which local people flocked on high days & holidays. On some occasions over 20 000 people were carried by tramcar in one day! Part conventional street tramway part cross-country electric railway the line withered & died as those it branched from closed. Yet despite having been gone for many years much survives from the tramway & its echoes are still around. After charting the lines history this book recreates a ride along the line to Kinver using a plethora of historic photographs many of which have not been published before. Kinvers delights are highlighted before the return journey is made in the present day pointing out the many features & objects from the tramway that survive along the way. ...