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SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 1

THE EARLY YEARS 1851-1962

By: George Richard Pearson

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SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 1

THE EARLY YEARS 1851-1962

By: George Richard Pearson

A catalogue of postmarks used on mail posted at congresses, exhibitions, shows etc, and for anniversaries from 1851-1962.

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BRITISH POSTMARK SOCIETY

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0900214023

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9780900214028

A Railway History of New Shildon

From George Stephenson to the Present Day

By: George Turner Smith

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A Railway History of New Shildon

From George Stephenson to the Present Day

By: George Turner Smith

An “extraordinarily informative and profusely illustrated” history of how a town built a railway, and a railway built a town (Midwest Book Review). On September 27, 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees, England. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the “Locomotion No.1.” It set off from a settlement that consisted of just a set of rails and four houses, none of which had been there a year before. The four houses became a town with a five-figure population, a town that owed its existence to the railway that made its home there—the Stockton and Darlington (S&DR). Some of the earliest and greatest railway pioneers worked there, including George and his son Robert; the Hackworth brothers, Timothy and Thomas; and the engineer William Bouch. Their story is part of New Shildon’s story. The locomotive works, created to build and maintain steam locomotives, morphed into the world’s most innovative works, whose demise had more to do with politics than productivity. This book covers Shildon’s years between 1820 and today, including the war interludes when the Wagon Works was manned by women and the output was mostly intended for the Ministry of Defense. The story of the creation of the town’s railway museum and the arrival of Hitachi at Newton Aycliffe brings the history up to date and, to complete the picture, there is also a description of the ongoing new build G5 steam locomotive project on Hackworth Industrial Estate, the very site where the S&DR locomotive and wagon works was located. It is the story of a railway town—and also the story of the people who lived there and made it what it is today.

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258

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Pen and Sword

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1526736403

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9781526736406

Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year M.D.CCC.LXXXIII

By: Frederic George Kitton

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Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year M.D.CCC.LXXXIII

By: Frederic George Kitton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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150

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338530976X

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9783385309760

Some Kind of Hero

The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films

By: Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury,George Lazenby

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Some Kind of Hero

The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films

By: Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury,George Lazenby

For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family run business has been crowned with box office gold and recognised by motion picture academies around the world. However, it has not always been plain sailing. Changing financial regimes forced 007 to relocate to France and Mexico; changing fashions and politics led to box office disappointments; and changing studio regimes and business disputes all but killed the franchise. And the rise of competing action heroes has constantly questioned Bond’s place in popular culture. But against all odds the filmmakers continue to wring new life from the series, and 2012’s Skyfall saw both huge critical and commercial success, crowning 007 as the undisputed king of the action genre. Some Kind of Hero recounts this remarkable story, from its origins in the early ‘60s right through to the present day, and draws on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew of this iconic series.

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751

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The History Press

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0750966505

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9780750966504

George Cole - The World Was My Lobster: The Autobiography

By: George Cole

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George Cole - The World Was My Lobster: The Autobiography

By: George Cole

The World was my Lobster tells the story of George Cole's more than 70 years in the acting profession that began with a walk-on part at the age of 14 in the stage musical The White Horse Inn in 1939, and continues today having included such roles as David Bliss in the radio and television versions of A Life of Bliss, Flash Harry in the St. Trinian's films, and Arthur Daley in television's Minder.Adopted when he was only 10 days old, George Cole grew up in south London in the 1920s. On the day he left school he saw a newspaper advertisement seeking a small boy to join the cast of The White Horse Inn and was selected the following day. A year later, he found himself in the West End play Cottage to Let playing a cheeky wartime evacuee. Here he met legendary comic actor Alastair Sim who, with his wife, took him as an evacuee in their country house and coached him in the finer skills of acting. A flurry of films and theatre performances in the late 1940s, after his RAF service, culminated in a memorable role as a young Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic 1951 film Scrooge alongside Sim. Henry V, Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor), Don't Forget to Write, Blott on the Landscape, Henry Root, and Dad are among other titles for which he is well known. But it was in 1979 that he landed the role that would elevate him to international recognition when he was offered the role of Arthur Daley in Thames Television's new series Minder alongside Dennis Waterman. In The World was my Lobster, a title taken from a classic line in a Minder episode, George Cole talks candidly, humorously and sensitively about his adoption, his life, his roles and many of the people he has worked with throughout his long career.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782198180

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9781782198185

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SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 1

SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 1

A Railway History of New Shildon

A Railway History of New Shildon

Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year M.D.CCC.LXXXIII

Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Norvicensi. A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the City of Norwich in the Year M.D.CCC.LXXXIII

Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

George Cole - The World Was My Lobster: The Autobiography

George Cole - The World Was My Lobster: The Autobiography

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