Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
Price £5.50.
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Ellis, Chris.
Practical Model Trains:
(Temple Press, 1983).
Hardback. Interior of (otherwise good) dustwrapper slightly stained, otherwise very good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14920
Keywords: 0600349748, model trains, model railways, transport, hobbies, steam, leisure
Price £14.50.
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Mountfield, David.
The Railway Barons:
(Osprey Publishing Ltd, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A8331
Keywords: 0850453216, railways, railway, barons, transport, nineteenth century, 19th, George Hudson, Thomas Brassey, Gould, Fisk, Erie, Empire, trains, iron, steel, railway mania, USA, Europe, Britain, British, history, James Hill, Edward Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, pioneers
Price £4.00.
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Manning-Sanders, Ruth.
Seaside England:
(B.T. Batsford, 1951).
Hardback. Grey cloth somewhat soiled, but a good working copy. viii + 151pp. Order No. NSBK-A13598
Keywords: B0000CHVZC, sea, seaside, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, social history, United Kingdom, UK, spas, bathing places, tourism, tourists, bathers, Brighton, Weymouth, Southport, railways, Bognor, Bournemouth, Torquay, Victorian seaside, holidays
Price £11.50.
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Bagwell, Philip S.
Doncaster: Town of Train Makers, 1853-1990
(Doncaster, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Outsized book, very good+. vii + 136pp. Order No. NSBK-A12364
Keywords: 0906976375, trains, railways, transport, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Doncaster, manufacture, engineering, plant works, factory, factories, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, industry, work
Price £9.00.
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Thomas, David St John.
The Country Railway:
(Penguin Books, 1976).
Paperback. Covers creased, a little brown marking/staining to a few pages not affecting legibility, otherwise good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A8295
Keywords: 0140048278, railways, railway, trains, transport, country, countryside, transport, technology, platforms, bridges, embankments, viaducts, architecture, ninetenth, century, 19th, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, steam
Price £5.00.
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Brooke, David.
The Railway Navvy: That Despicable Race of Men
(David and Charles, 1983).
Hardback. Very good in slightly browned dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13480
Keywords: 071538449X, trains, railways, history, railway workers, railway navvy, navvies, railwaymen, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, construction workers, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Balaklava Railway, Crimea, Crimean War, railway building, locomotives
Price £17.50.
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Wilson, Colin.
World Famous Gaslight Murder:
(Magpie Books, 1992).
Written with Damon and Rowan Wilson. Paperback. Covers creased, otherwise good. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-A5730
Keywords: 1854871536, gaslight murder, killing, police, policeman, policemen, Ratcliffe Highway Murders, John Paul Forster, Anna Zwanziger, Professor Webster, Bender, Charley Ross, railways, Australia, America, detectives, fingerprints, fingerprinting, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, crime, criminals, laws, legal
Price £5.00.
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Hadfield, Charles.
British Canals: An Illustrated History
(David and Charles, 1974).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, ex library with usual library markings. pages 279-290 partially detached, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. 356pp. Order No. NSBK-A7982
Keywords: 0715367005, Britain, British, canals, waterways, water, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, transport, goods, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Pontcysyllte, canal mania, seas, ports, railways, Manchester Ship Canal, borrowed by RAS
Price £8.00.
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Head, F. B.
Stokers and Pokers: or the London and North Western Railway, The Electric Telegraph, and The Railway Clearing-House
(David and Charles, second edition, rpt, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise very good and bright in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14369
Keywords: B000SNG51M, transport, railways, railway, London, electric telegraph, North Western Railway, trains, history, Crewe, locomotives, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century
Price £16.00.
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