Winter Hill Scrapbook

A book about Winter Hill near Bolton in Lancashire UK. The history of the hill, its geology, past industries, plant life, underground tunnels, archaeology etc. In a nutshell .... all you ever wanted to know about Winter Hill - and much more! ALL profits from the sale of this book go to the Bolton Mountain Rescue Group.

A book about Winter Hill and Anglezarke, near Bolton in Lancashire UK. The history of the area, its geology, past industries, plant life, underground tunnels, archaeology etc. In a nutshell .... all you ever wanted to know about Winter Hill and Anglezarke - and much more!

This book is a collection of ALL the "official" photographs taken at Boothstown Youth Club in Salford over the years 1982 to approx 1993. The book is ONLY in black and white. This book has been produced purely in order to preserve these photo's .... although I hope that some of the individuals in the book may appreciate the photo's as well!

As evidenced by the incredible success of Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk, and the legions of fans of Pale Male, the incredible red-tailed hawk of 5th avenue, we are full of rapture for raptors. James Macdonald Lockhart, is among the many who have sought out these incredible birds, and in this lyrical work of natural history he seeks out 15 different raptors, in 15 different landscapes across England: a journey in search of raptors, a journey through the birds and into their worlds. Raptors are by nature scarce and extremely elusive. Of Pandionidae (osprey), Accipitridae (broad-winged harrier, eagle, buzzard, red kite) and Falconidae (peregrine, sparrowhawk etc.) only widespread buzzards, kestrels and kites are easily seen. Lockhart follows loosely the trail of 19th-century Scottish naturalist and artist William MacGillivray (1796-1852), As Philip Hoare wrote of it, James MacDonald Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. This is in-the-moment writing, raw in beak and claw. With its gorgeously felt sense of life and place, Raptor rips at its words, turning them into exquisite portraits of the utter wild, shaping soaring, obsessive beauty out of the British landscape and its imperial birds"

In 2003, NASA launched two Mars Exploration Rovers named "Spirit" and "Opportunity" on a voyage of discovery to the Red Planet. Both Rovers had a projected lifetime of just 90 days in which to collect scientific data and photographs. The Rovers excelled in every respect and worked on the Martian surface for many years. This book is the third volume in a series which records the exploration of the Rover "Opportunity". This volume records the period from when Opportunity had arrived at Victoria Crater, it's explorations into the crater and it's departure from Victoria heading for Endeavour Crater. These volumes are created from the sol by sol (day to day) logs provided t us all by the NASA web sites along with the photographs taken by the different cameras on Opportunity.

An indispensable book for anyone researching the family history details of the surname TUDGE in the UK. This volume contains the indexes for every Birth, Death and Marriage listed in the UK General Records Office at Kew from 1837. The Births go to 1958, Deaths to 1945 and the Marriages to 1976.

But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features of urban skylines. Television (or 'the idiot's lantern', depending on your feelings about it) has created controversy, brought coronations and World Cups into living rooms, allowed us access to 24hr news and media and provided a thousand conversation starters. As shows come and go in popularity, the history of television shows us how our society has changed. Armchair Nation reveals the fascinating, lyrical and sometimes surprising history of telly, from the first demonstration of television by John Logie Baird (in Selfridges) to the fear and excitement that greeted its arrival in households (some viewers worried it might control their thoughts), the controversies of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign and what JG Ballard thought about Big Brother. Via trips down memory lane with Morecambe and Wise, Richard Dimbleby, David Frost, Blue Peter and Coronation Street, you can flick between fascinating nuggets from the strange side of TV: what happened after a chimpanzee called 'Fred J. Muggs' interrupted American footage of the Queen's wedding, and why aliens might be tuning in to The Benny Hill Show.