Neilston in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map

Includes:: the communities of Neilston & Crofthead, with part of Gateside in the north-eastern corner. Features include Crofthead Mill, Cowdon Hall, Neilston station, Broadlie Bleach Works, Kirkton Bleach Works, Millfield Print Works, etc. Extracts from an early trade directory are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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From bestselling & prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. ` Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories & places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh & important light on a crucial topic.` JONATHAN DIMBLEBY In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler`s command committed to bringing about his death & defeat. Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler`s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War & then to deny Hitler victory. Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler`s plans are revealed. Key strands to the book`s narrative lie with the actions of Abwehr head Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler`s policies once the war had started; the plots to kill Hitler &, finally the systematic passage of key German military secrets to London, Washington & Moscow through MI6, the OSS (fore-runner to the CIA) & the ” Lucy Ring” Russian spy network based in Switzerl&. From 1943 onwards, concerted efforts were made to strike a separate peace with the West to shorten the war & prevent eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke. What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible
- conspiracy, assassination, espionage
- to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country & the survival of liberal & democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today & the nature & central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters & for which they gave their lives.

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Bill Bryson`s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, & journeys from Hamemrfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe & eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture & illuminates each place & person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein. ...

This time Bill Bryson travels Neither Here nor There, across Europe, from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul, Turkey. This is his second trip to the old continent, the first time as a student he wandered around in his own private astonishment, & this time he continues to be amazed by the cultural variety spread across Europe. Along the way he is pick-pocketed in Florence, suffers food-ordering dilemmas in Germany, has hotel nightmares in Luxembourg & navigates the streets of Paris carefully avoiding the lethal motorists. Bryson can be as incompetent as the most useless traveller, & so is continually reassuring. His memories from his past trip are dropped in throughout the hilarious account to create a book that will pick you up on any dull day. ...

Bill Bryson`s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backback, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, & journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe & eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture & illuminates each place & person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein. ...

I`m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I`m going to start here, in this village, & radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don`t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn`t. I`m going to confirm or deny the cliches, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t` before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian Mc Millan would be it. He`s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, & southerners comment archly on his `fruity Yorkshire brogue`. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotl&, making him, as he puts it, only `half tyke`. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber & four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain`s most distinct county & its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire &, of course, who knocks up the knocker up? ...

With an introduction by Robert Plant Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white & one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns & down forgotten roads where the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices, these two men will travel beyond myth & stereotype, revealing an America few people ever get to see. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

A gripping & heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws` loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley`s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother`s footsteps, be called servant & give herself to the family completely. But Nelly is not the only one who must serve. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly`s spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice. Nelly Dean is a wonderment of storytelling, a heartbreaking accompaniment to Emily Bronte`s adored work. It is the story of a woman who is fated to bear the pain of a family she is unable to leave, & unable to save. ...