Waterloo & Seaforth in 1925 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. 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. In this title: the map covers Waterloo, a few miles north of Liverpool, plus the northern part of Seaforth & western part of Litherl&. Coverage stretches from Milton Road southward to Clarement Road, & from the coast inland to Litherland Park. Features include Waterloo Park, Seaforth Barracks, Lewlithia Park, railway with station, Christ Church, Marine Terrace Green, tramways, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Litherland Tannery, Sefton Tannery, sugar refinery, Diamond Laundry, etc. On the reverse is sheet 98.12 which extends coverage eastward to include the Oxford Drive area, plus a section of the railway timetable for the Crossens-Southport-Liverpool service in 1929. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Waterloo & Seaforth in 1925 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 covers Waterloo, a few miles north of Liverpool, plus the northern part of Seaforth & western part of Litherl&. Coverage stretches from Milton Road southward to Clarement Road, & from the coast inland to Litherland Park. Features include Waterloo Park, Seaforth Barracks, Lewlithia Park, railway with station, Christ Church, Marine Terrace Green, tramways, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Litherland Tannery, Sefton Tannery, sugar refinery, Diamond Laundry, etc. On the reverse is sheet 98.12 which extends coverage eastward to include the Oxford Drive area, plus a section of the railway timetable for the Crossens-Southport-Liverpool service in 1929. 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. ...

Waterloo & Southwark in 1872 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. Three versions of this map cover the same area, which

Includes:: much of Lambeth & Southwark, & the area now known as the South Bank. Coverage stretches from Waterloo Bridge eastward to Borough High Street, & from Waterloo Bridge southward to Lambeth Palace & Elephant & Castle. A small stretch of Westminster is also here, including the Houses of Parliament & New Scotland Yard. Other features include Lambeth Bridge, Hungerford Bridge; Charing Cross, Waterloo, Necropolis & Elephant & Castle stations, with many junctions & sidings; St Thomas`s Hospital, Bethlem Hospital, Southwark RC Cathedral, Metropolitan Tabernacle, St George`s Circus, Anchor Brewery, & countless factories, wharves, streets, prisons etc. 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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Waterloo & Southwark in 1894 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 neighbours & or family. Three versions cover this area which

Includes:: much of Lam & Southsteak, & the area now known as the shawshank redemption. Coverage stretches from Waterloo Bridge eastward to Borough High Street, & from Waterloo Bridge southward to Lambeth Palace & Elephant & Castle. A small stretch of Westminster is also here, including the Houses of Parliament & New Scotland Yard. Other features include Lambeth Bridge, Hungerford Bridge; Charing Cross, Waterloo, Necropolis & Elephant & Castle stations, with many junctions & sidings; St Thomas`s Hospital, Bethlem Hospital, Southwark RC Cathedral, Metropolitan Tabernacle, St George`s Circus, Anchor Brewery, & countless factories, wharves, streets, prisons etc. 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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Waterloo & Southwark in 1914 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. Three versions cover this area which

Includes:: much of Lambeth & Southwark, & the area now known as the South Bank. Coverage stretches from Waterloo Bridge eastward to Borough High Street, & from Waterloo Bridge southward to Lambeth Palace & Elephant & Castle. A small stretch of Westminster is also here, including the Houses of Parliament & New Scotland Yard. Other features include Lambeth Bridge, Hungerford Bridge; Charing Cross, Waterloo, Necropolis & Elephant & Castle stations, with many junctions & sidings; St Thomas`s Hospital, Bethlem Hospital, Southwark RC Cathedral, Metropolitan Tabernacle, St George`s Circus, Anchor Brewery, & countless factories, wharves, streets, prisons etc. 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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Waterloo Bridge & the South Bank area of London in 1874 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

In The Battle of Waterloo Experience, well known military historians, journalists & broadcasters Peter & Dan Snow tell the story of one of the most dramatic & captivating of all military encounters. Unique to this book readers are able to relive this extraordinary moment in history by holding & examining replica rare or previously unpublished sketch maps, letters, orders, official papers & proclamations held by the National Army Museum & other archives & museums around Europe. In the book, Peter & Dan Snow examine the strengths & weaknesses of the leaders & the armies & weapons they had under their comm&. Like all the greatest battles, Waterloo is steeped in controversy
- the battle ended in decisive victory, but it might so easily have turned out differently. The Snows explore all the questions the battle raised. Who made mistakes? Whose victory really was it? Would Wellington have won without Blucher & his Prussians? What was the main cause of the French defeat? The Battle of Waterloo Experience contains: 20 rare or previously unpublished removable documents of historic importance, 80 period paintings, etchings & illustrations, 20 colour photographs of Waterloo militaria from the National Army Museum`s unparalleled collections & 6 specially commissioned full-colour battle & campaign maps.
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Waterloo Station & Lambeth Marsh area of London in 1872 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

An evocative image of Waterloo Station on a cushion from a sophisticated & decorative collection by We Love Cushions, designed to bring life & style to any room setting. The image comes from a collection of vintage posters held in the National Railway Museum. The cover, printed using archival inks to get the brightest finish possible, with a super soft cotton linen mix, & comes complete with the cushion pad washable at 30º. To see other cushion designs in this series please lick on the series link. ...

Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris & Swimming Studies, creates an authorly & artistic response to travel, work & being a passenger
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. ” Leanne Shapton has updated the stream of consciousness method of Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway to give us the appearance & thoughts of different passengers
- about work, sex, family, what they are reading.. . Thus you eavesdrop on a hubbub: all that mental life going on secretly all the time”. (Evening Standard). ” Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O` Farrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually they`re delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city”. (Evening Standard).” Exquisitely diverse”. The Times ` Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed”. (Tom Cox, Observer). ”A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books”. (A Common Reader blog). ” The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw”. (Londonist). A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes
- some personal, some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, & just the right amount of grit”. (Fabric Magazine). `A collection of beautiful books` Grazia Leanne Shapton is an artist, illustrator, & writer who was born in Toronto & lives in New York. She is the author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, & Jewelry. Her latest book, Swimming Studies, is published July 2012.


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