Author: Simon Stanford
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398119385
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rare and previously unpublished photographs celebrating the preserved buses of this iconic operator.
Southdown Buses in Preservation
Author: Simon Stanford
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398119385
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rare and previously unpublished photographs celebrating the preserved buses of this iconic operator.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398119385
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rare and previously unpublished photographs celebrating the preserved buses of this iconic operator.
Southdown Buses
Author: Michael Hymans
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663015
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A collection of previously unpublished images of Southdown buses.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445663015
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A collection of previously unpublished images of Southdown buses.
Chichester in the 1960s
Author: Alan H.J. Green
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750963255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Chichester is the archetypal Georgian town, with streets of elegant buildings gathered closely around the ancient cathedral. It usually appears to today's first-time visitor that the city has been largely untouched by the hand of time – particularly the destructive hand that guided the 1960s. However, this is not the case: in the 1960s, Chichester faced the same challenges as all historic towns, and much was lost – but the brakes were applied in good time and it became one of the first conservation areas in the country. This book, the first of its kind, looks at how Chichester fared in that turbulent decade, how it gained its status as a city of culture with a new theatre and museum, and how it expanded to meet the demands of its growing populace. Historical research blends with personal anecdote to produce a heartfelt portrait of the decade.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750963255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Chichester is the archetypal Georgian town, with streets of elegant buildings gathered closely around the ancient cathedral. It usually appears to today's first-time visitor that the city has been largely untouched by the hand of time – particularly the destructive hand that guided the 1960s. However, this is not the case: in the 1960s, Chichester faced the same challenges as all historic towns, and much was lost – but the brakes were applied in good time and it became one of the first conservation areas in the country. This book, the first of its kind, looks at how Chichester fared in that turbulent decade, how it gained its status as a city of culture with a new theatre and museum, and how it expanded to meet the demands of its growing populace. Historical research blends with personal anecdote to produce a heartfelt portrait of the decade.
Fareham Revisited
Author: Michael Stephenson
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1909183938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Fareham Revisited started out as a poem, which Michael Stephenson was inspired to write when he was reflecting on how much his home town had changed since the 1950s and 1960s. The poem and its sentiments struck a chord with so many people that he decided to write a book about Fareham that would evoke more of these memories. The book was privately published in 2004. This new revised and expanded edition will delight anyone who remembers the town in its heyday - and will also intrigue newcomers. Part-memoir and part-history, Fareham Revisited perfectly captures the allure of the shops and cafés along the ‘Golden Mile', the alleyways or ‘drokes', the old cottages, the market with its livestock, the coal barges at the Quay and the well-known characters, including dairy boss Tom Parker who drove around Fareham in a four-horse-power carriage, though his milkmen still used the horse-and-cart. For bus and railway enthusiasts this, too, is the perfect book, as the author casts an expert eye on the bus companies that plied their trade in Fareham, with their distinctive livery, and remembers the last days of steam trains, of which he had a privileged view, as the house in which his family lived was next to the railway line.
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1909183938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Fareham Revisited started out as a poem, which Michael Stephenson was inspired to write when he was reflecting on how much his home town had changed since the 1950s and 1960s. The poem and its sentiments struck a chord with so many people that he decided to write a book about Fareham that would evoke more of these memories. The book was privately published in 2004. This new revised and expanded edition will delight anyone who remembers the town in its heyday - and will also intrigue newcomers. Part-memoir and part-history, Fareham Revisited perfectly captures the allure of the shops and cafés along the ‘Golden Mile', the alleyways or ‘drokes', the old cottages, the market with its livestock, the coal barges at the Quay and the well-known characters, including dairy boss Tom Parker who drove around Fareham in a four-horse-power carriage, though his milkmen still used the horse-and-cart. For bus and railway enthusiasts this, too, is the perfect book, as the author casts an expert eye on the bus companies that plied their trade in Fareham, with their distinctive livery, and remembers the last days of steam trains, of which he had a privileged view, as the house in which his family lived was next to the railway line.
Creatures of Our Time, in a Land Fit for Heroes
Author: Dave Diss
Publisher: Dave Diss Publishing
ISBN: 9780646467214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is the second volume of autobiography, after Dizzy. Far from bobbing up and down on the seven seas in the Royal Navy, as had previously been his wont, Dave Diss is trying his luck as a newly married civilian in the Big Smoke, among the toppers and bowlers still worn in the city in those days of 1955, working in the still Blitz-scarred capital of The United Kingdom of Great Britain, pushing a pen as a poorly paid underwriter for The Yorkshire Insurance Company, in Cornhill, just around the corner from The Royal Exchange and The Bank of England, where the big nobs hang out, and The Stock Exchange, in Throgmorton Street.
Publisher: Dave Diss Publishing
ISBN: 9780646467214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is the second volume of autobiography, after Dizzy. Far from bobbing up and down on the seven seas in the Royal Navy, as had previously been his wont, Dave Diss is trying his luck as a newly married civilian in the Big Smoke, among the toppers and bowlers still worn in the city in those days of 1955, working in the still Blitz-scarred capital of The United Kingdom of Great Britain, pushing a pen as a poorly paid underwriter for The Yorkshire Insurance Company, in Cornhill, just around the corner from The Royal Exchange and The Bank of England, where the big nobs hang out, and The Stock Exchange, in Throgmorton Street.
Southdown Ancillary Vehicles
Author: Simon Stanford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445696058
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
With a range of previously unpublished photographs, a unique look at this aspect of the beloved Southdown operator.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445696058
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
With a range of previously unpublished photographs, a unique look at this aspect of the beloved Southdown operator.
London Buses in the 1970s
Author: Jim Blake
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473887186
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
“A compilation of photos taken in the difficult period . . . when LT and London Country were plagued with maintenance problems. A valuable record.” —West Somerset Railway Association Continuing with images from transport photographer Jim Blake’s extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles and having a number of vehicle types which were unreliable—the MB, SM and DMS classes. In 1975, both operators had to hire buses from other companies, so desperate were they. Many came from the seaside towns of Southend, Bournemouth and Eastbourne. This continued until the spares shortage began to abate later in the decade, particularly with London Country. As the decade progressed, the two fleets began to lose their “ancestral” vehicle types. London Country rapidly became “just another National Bus Company fleet,” buying Leyland Atlanteans and Nationals common to most others throughout the country. Having virtually abandoned the awful MB and SM-types, London Transport had to suffer buying the equally awful DMSs well into 1978, but had already ordered replacements for them by that point—the M class Metrobuses and T class Titans—both of which would finally prove successful. However, plans to convert trunk routes serving Central London to one-person operation were largely abandoned. “A very interesting book. The passenger transport crisis in London in the mid-1970s was a major event.” —Miniaturas JM
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473887186
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
“A compilation of photos taken in the difficult period . . . when LT and London Country were plagued with maintenance problems. A valuable record.” —West Somerset Railway Association Continuing with images from transport photographer Jim Blake’s extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles and having a number of vehicle types which were unreliable—the MB, SM and DMS classes. In 1975, both operators had to hire buses from other companies, so desperate were they. Many came from the seaside towns of Southend, Bournemouth and Eastbourne. This continued until the spares shortage began to abate later in the decade, particularly with London Country. As the decade progressed, the two fleets began to lose their “ancestral” vehicle types. London Country rapidly became “just another National Bus Company fleet,” buying Leyland Atlanteans and Nationals common to most others throughout the country. Having virtually abandoned the awful MB and SM-types, London Transport had to suffer buying the equally awful DMSs well into 1978, but had already ordered replacements for them by that point—the M class Metrobuses and T class Titans—both of which would finally prove successful. However, plans to convert trunk routes serving Central London to one-person operation were largely abandoned. “A very interesting book. The passenger transport crisis in London in the mid-1970s was a major event.” —Miniaturas JM
A Smudge on My Lens
Author: Dave Spencer
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781906510787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An adopted post war baby boomer from a Sussex council estate, Dave Spencer was born at a time when reminders of World War II still littered the 50s landscape. Nature was still bountiful, but the landed gentry were selling our heritage before conservation had teeth. His was the first television generation: weaned on the Flower Pot Men, he grew up in an increasingly commercial and libertarian society, which exploded into the colourful 60s. Ill at ease amongst former public school boys, a lurch to the left saw him taking several unsuitable apprenticeships, before a rude awakening led a confrontation with the law and a taste of life on the road. Dave took a ferry across the Mersey and a hippy hike from Cornwall to Manchester, then a final fling in Sussex led to an encounter with a longhaired milkman, in a story which mixes religion, drugs, politics and passion.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781906510787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An adopted post war baby boomer from a Sussex council estate, Dave Spencer was born at a time when reminders of World War II still littered the 50s landscape. Nature was still bountiful, but the landed gentry were selling our heritage before conservation had teeth. His was the first television generation: weaned on the Flower Pot Men, he grew up in an increasingly commercial and libertarian society, which exploded into the colourful 60s. Ill at ease amongst former public school boys, a lurch to the left saw him taking several unsuitable apprenticeships, before a rude awakening led a confrontation with the law and a taste of life on the road. Dave took a ferry across the Mersey and a hippy hike from Cornwall to Manchester, then a final fling in Sussex led to an encounter with a longhaired milkman, in a story which mixes religion, drugs, politics and passion.
Passenger Transport
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buses
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buses
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Southdown Out of Green & Cream
Author: Simon Stanford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445696072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Southdown buses captured in liveries other than the iconic green and cream colour scheme.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445696072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Southdown buses captured in liveries other than the iconic green and cream colour scheme.