Country Rambles Around Romford
Author | : George E. Tasker |
Publisher | : Christian Publishing Services |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : George E. Tasker |
Publisher | : Christian Publishing Services |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : George Edward Tasker |
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Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Herbert Winckworth Tompkins |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Alan Simpson |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473834120 |
A quarter of a century before the Blitz of 1940, the inhabitants of south-west Essex were terrorized by an earlier aerial menace. Over the course of four years, German Zeppelins, Gothas and Giants flew above their homes, unleashing hundreds of highly explosive and incendiary bombs on London. During three of these raids, bombs were dropped on Leyton and many others landed elsewhere in south-west Essex. These early air raids are now largely forgotten in local memory, but for the inhabitants of the time the attacks were unprecedented, unexpected and lethal. In the years since the Great War a great deal of literature has been published on London's first air raids and about the defence network that evolved around the metropolis, but what happened in the capital's eastern suburbs and the nearby Essex countryside has received less coverage. This meticulously researched and insightful book attempts to put that right, looking at the area which, in 1914, was part of south-west Essex, but now comprises the London boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Newham, and Barking and Dagenham. Focussing in particular on Leyton and Ilford, this is the first book to ever examine what happened before and after the raiders reached and bombarded the capital. The author has included a wide range of contemporary letters, diaries and newspaper reports from local sources, plus several previously unseen photographs. To set the story in its wider context, the book also contains a wealth of information about the defence of the London area generally and vivid reports from combatants on both sides.
Author | : A. Winton Thorpe |
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Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Essex (England) |
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Author | : Edward Arthur Fitch |
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Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Essex (England) |
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Author | : George Edward TASKER |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Essex (England) |
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Author | : Jules Pretty |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0801455316 |
Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia’s coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region’s cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.