Red brick publishing (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1985 hardcover with jacket/minor wear on the jacket/light stainning along first few page edges & minor tanning along page edges/clean & unmarked text/new clear archival cover.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condizione: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1983 2nd impression with numerous B&W illustrations; spine and cover uncreased; a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. large paperback, pictorial card covers, age-toning, a good tightly bound copy, final leaf in facsimile form.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 1st edition in soft cover format, 8vo, 100pp, archive photo illustrations of scenes and people with introduction and extended captions from compiler, card covers; G/VG Copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 64 pp bw photos A few marks to covers, corners rubbed - study copy.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A Swindon Retrospect 1855-1930 by Frederick Large, published by Red Brick Publishing in 1984, is a wonderfully specific slice of local history devoted to a town that spent the nineteenth century being transformed from somewhere comparatively modest into one of the great industrial railway centres of Britain. Swindon is not always treated with the breathless romanticism reserved for Oxford, Bath or York. This is unfair. Few places can claim to have been reshaped so dramatically by steam, engineering, workshops and the arrival of a workforce large enough to require streets, schools, pubs, chapels, shops and the occasional committee to complain about all of them. The period covered here, 1855 to 1930 , catches Swindon in the middle of that extraordinary expansion. The Great Western Railway looms large over the story, because for decades the railway works did rather more than provide employment. They shaped the town. They shaped its population. They shaped its streets. And they ensured that an enormous number of local conversations probably began with some variation of ?what shift are you on?? Frederick Large looks back at Swindon as it developed through the later Victorian and Edwardian periods and into the early twentieth century, recording the buildings, people, institutions, businesses and everyday changes that turned the town into something recognisably modern. This is the kind of local history book that becomes more interesting with age. At the time of publication in 1984, many readers would have known the places described. Some may even have remembered the people or the streets. Now, decades later, the book has become another layer of history itself. That is one of the pleasures of local retrospectives. They start by looking backwards. Then time passes. Eventually they become part of the thing they were looking back at. The title may sound modest, but the subject is anything but. Between 1855 and 1930 Britain went through enormous social and technological change, and Swindon experienced much of it in concentrated form. Railways expanded. Industry grew. Public services developed. Housing spread. Motor traffic arrived. And the town had to keep adapting while everyone pretended this was all completely normal. Local history is often where national history becomes understandable. It is easy to talk about industrialisation in the abstract. It is much more revealing to see what it meant in one town: which roads appeared, which institutions opened, where people worked, what was demolished, what survived and how the place physically changed around them. Swindon is particularly good material for this because its industrial identity was so strong. The railway works created not only jobs but culture, routine and civic identity. Generations of families were tied to the railway. The works became part factory, part institution and part gravitational field. Even people who had nothing to do with the railway were living in a town whose shape had been influenced by it. There is also a pleasing irony in a book published in 1984 looking back nostalgically at a period when people themselves were probably complaining that everything was changing too quickly. History is full of this. One generation says the town is being ruined. The next generation wishes somebody had preserved more of it. Then somebody publishes a book. For readers with family connections to Swindon, A Swindon Retrospect 1855-1930 has obvious appeal. It is also a useful book for railway enthusiasts, local historians, social historians and anyone interested in the growth of industrial towns. And if you simply enjoy old photographs, vanished streets and the peculiar satisfaction of discovering what occupied a site before it became a roundabout, you are very much the target audience. Condition: Good. A sound used copy with normal signs of age and handling. Published in 1984, it has now been around long enough to qualify as a minor piece of Swindon history in its own right. ISBN: 0950718262. A detailed and evocative look back at Swindon between 1855 and 1930, covering the years when steam, industry and urban growth transformed the town and nobody had yet invented the phrase ?regeneration scheme? Sold by Crappy Old Books ? preserving local history long after somebody has redeveloped the site.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 109pp, illustrated, VG softback; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, measuring 11" x 8 1/2", a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust jacket that has a very short closed tear at the head of the upper joint, signed with 'best wishes' by all three of the authors on the title page, the text is otherwise unmarked, illustrated throughout, 88pp. Signed by Author(s).…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. large paperback, pictorial card covers, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated throughout, 60pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 88 pages. 585g, Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with over 140 b/w photographs and route maps. A photographic history of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway during the 20th century.

1st edition. Book size - c. 28 x 21 cm., pp.88, numerous b&w photos and illustrations in the text, hardback in dustjacket. Book condition - Fine ; contents clean, no inscriptions, no foxing, inner hinges intact and binding firm ; publisher's black cloth with gilt title on the spine ; very little wear evident, clean back, spine and front , spine complete with ends just a little creased, spine not faded. Dustjacket - Very Good ; a touch of wear at the corners, top edge with a few marks and lightly creased, back clean, spine complete with ends a little rubbed, spine colour slightly faded but the title is complete and clear, front clean ; dj now in clear, removable cover. Please see photos for indications of condition and contents. " . a visual and documentary record of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway during the twentieth century. . The M&SWRJ was many things to many people, but sadly never attained the status . of a major trunk route between the southern ports and the industrial Midlands. . The M&SWJR's fight for life is portrayed in words,ephemera and more than 140 photographs, all of which serve to illustrate the people, places and engines . " (From the inner flap ).…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some light wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book. About the book >.>.> Christ Church, Swindon, has a small stained glass window portraying a G.W.R. engine and also the company's coat-of- arms. St. Barnabas has a modern wall mural showing a railway engine and the Swindon Railway Works, St Augustine's used to have the nameplate of the G.W.R. made engine 'Saint Augustine", but in 1978 it was sold towards funds for the new hail built at the rear of their church! (The two nameplates St. Augustine's Choir gave to the Royal School of Church Music St. Nicholas' and Westminster Abbey Choir School - Westminster Abbey are still cherished by those establishments). It is a pity there were no plates or engines called St. Mark. St. John. St. Saviour, St. Luke or St. Aldhelm. The church that can rightly call itself the railway church is St. Mark's, New Swindon. It was built under the guidance of the G.W.R. Fund to serve the newly built railway village nearby, and soon became a parish church in its own right As the G.W.R. Works at Swindon grew larger, more wo.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial wraps. 87 pp. B/w historical photos. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+.