Author: John Wright
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452501890
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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In this collection, expect to travel. The evolving journey will take us through landscapes beyond borders of county and country, state and shire. Through the window on a slow train of poetry, we encounter scenes of birth and death, grief and joy, cowshed and asylum, often with a hearty whiff of whimsy in the tail. Set in sections like photo albums filled with snaps, readers are invited to experience with the poet, rich morsels of life captured in framed vignettes of verse. Starting with an event in Cheshire on New Years Day 1950, we are taken through farms and fields of childhood, our first day at a village school, then across the sea to Grandads farm in County Mayo where we meet ancestors. We visit Holland on an odyssey of adolescence, walking with canals, riding random railways, blown like a lonely cloud into some sort of self-discovery. Suddenly transported far away from Cheshire rain we join a bewildered migrant under Parramatta blue skies . . . . . . uniformed in cool verandah shade where we meet more interesting fellow souls. Moving to a far backyard on Australias east coast, north of Sydney we celebrate ordinary events like starting a family, mowing lawns, growing potatoes, feeling homesick. We shoot the messenger when the postman leaves no mail, we prove how dreams foretell and answer a loud knock on the door at 2am. Laugh and cry. Be in awe of Nature as the years melt in the glade of Now where we reflect, observe, remember. Enjoy this nightcap of Irish Breakfast Tea in a cup that runneth over. It will never be empty.
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher:
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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List of members in each volume.
Author: C. B. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. In 1540 this was a backward area, poor, underpopulated and conservative. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century the spread of the first cottage industries to the mills and the mines transformed the region into one of the engines of Britain's nineteenth-century greatness. The causes, the costs and the consequences of that transformation are vividly portrayed in this very readable text. Offers a succinct account and analysis of the first region to experience the developed factory system. Discusses the rise, dominance and decline of the region which has parallels across the country and the world. Provides essential background text for the students of local history. Assumes no previous knowledge of the region.
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Author: John Homer Bliss
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : East Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: Richard Henry Greene
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Connecticut. Secretary of the State
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: Trinity College (University of Cambridge)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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