Resultados de búsqueda: EAST ANGLIA / ESSEX from Chilton Books

Farnborough: Saint Michael's Abbey Press, 1984.. It is most unusual for a town to be able to point to a specific date and say 'That's when our history started'. But the date 18 July 1871 could be said to be such a date for Clacton-on-Sea, for it was on that day that the S.S. Queen of the Orwell arrived at the newly opened pier to disembark the town's first day trippers from London." 20.5cms x 29.5cms. Pp.40, sepia photographs throughout cover the period 1871-1939. Stiff card illustrated covers have fading to front spine and lower edges. G+.

Colchester: Revelstone Publishing, 1988.. Published to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of Britain's Oldest Recorded Town. "not only traces a long and eventful history, it also charts the dramatic face of modern Colchester, its industry and trade, its people, its garrison, its sporting life, its role tomorrow." 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.96, over 60 photographs and illustrations, many published for the first time, 16 major articles written by Colchester authors. Pbk. VG.

Nelson: Hendon Publishing, 1977.. 2nd impression. "...an attempt to put on record some of the life and times of the period from the birth of photography to the 1920's." 21cms x 28cms. Unpaginated, b/w photo and other illustrations throughout accompanied by explanatory text. Paperback, scuff from removed sticker to front cover. G+.

Lowestoft: Tyndale + Panda Publishing, 1989.. 1st edition. 25cms x 20cms. "Colchester is a town richer in history than most in England...The period of the town's greatest change has been the last hundred years - a period which has seen a huge garrison built on what was once the outskirts; "Jumbo", trams, motor cars, huge building projects (with the demolition that goes with them) and changing patterns of shopping and leisure. For Colchester is not a town which sees itself as a museum but a place where people live, work and play and make today's activities tomorrow's history." Pp.112, black & white photo illustrations throughout, owner's label to inside front cover. VG.

By author. 1969.. Pp 30, signed by author to title page. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1980.. 1st ed. "The book is of interest both to students of Essex and to those who will see it as helping to illuminate a significant aspect of the nation's history." 25cms. x 16cms. Pp.206, 18 black & white illustrations, street maps to endpapers. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine Limited, 1985.. 1st edition. "Handbook...compiled principally for those forgotten few - the car-less family who are nevertheless explorers...The oldest recorded town in England, Colchester - which the Romans established as their first British settlement in AD 50." Pp.47, 10 black & white illustrations. Illustrated yellow card covers, minor creasing to top front corner. G+.

Colchester: East Anglian Daily Times, nd. (c.1950s).. What may have increased the receptivity of Colchester people to accept the teaching of George Fox, and to build an important Quaker stronghold in the East of England, was the repression and privation suffered during the Civil War, particularly during the siege of Colchester...." Pp.193, owner's name to front free endpaper, notation "Agnes Crisp" to top of p.78 with pen marks next to chapter subject "Steven Crisp". Blue cloth, gilt title to front, speckled discolouration to lower front board.. G+.

Bridgend: Francis Frith/Waterton Press Limited, 1999.. 1st edition."Set on a ridge above the winding River Colne, the historic character of this fine town is all around: jostling timber-framed and rendered houses, churches, medieval and Tudor suburbs, wide streets and narrow lanes, dominated by the superb Town Hall and Jumbo, the giant water tower, contrasting with the spacious Castle Park." Around 90 photographs of Colchester from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, all selected from the Francis Frith Archive, accompanied with informative and enlightening text. 30cms x 22cms. Pp.77, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Maroon laminated boards with matching illustrated dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Hadleigh: Keith Avis Printers, 2020.. 1st edition. Victoria County History (Clacton VCH Group). The Victoria Road World War Two aeroplane crash on April 30th 1940."In the 1930s the seaside resort of Clacton on Sea in Essex was one of the most popular holiday destinations in Britain. But in April 1940, shortly after the outbreak of World War Two, the town came into prominence for a quite different reason when a German Heinkel bomber, engaged in mine-laying activities along the East Coast, crashed on the residential houses of Victoria Road. One of the sea-mines which it carried exploded, causing catastrophic damage to the area and the first civilian fatalaties on mainland Britiain during the Second World War". Pp.iv/21, many black & white and colour photos throughout. Paperback. Scarce. VG.

Colchester: Benham and Company Limited, 1922.. 1st edition. Pp.viii/372, frontispiece map + 21 further illustrated plates (including 8 in colour) by the author, front free endpaper has been removed. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 2009.. Gives a flavour of the enormous effort that turned a popular seaside resort into a fortress ready to resist an invasion. Pp.viii/48, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Paperback. VG.

Saffron Walden: The Talbot Press. nd.. Pp.31, 2 colour and 2 b/w illustrations. Pbk, slight scuff to edge of covers. Scarce. G+.

Coggeshall: John Lewis, 2013.. 1st edition. Produced through the 2009-13 Discovering Coggeshall project. "Coggeshall was a major centre of the late medieval cloth trade. Its prosperity at that time has given it a legacy of fine timber-framed buildings...This book sets the buildings in their historical contexzt, covers the tree-ring dating programme, gives a full account of the dated buildings, and describes the creation of a map of the town based on a manorial survey of 1575". 28cms x 21cms x 1.5cms. Pp.230, many colour photographs, maps and figure illustrations throughout. Paperback. Scarce. VG.

Chelmsford: The County Planner, Essex County Council, 1990.. Contents: I.Introduction: (i)Windmills in Essex; (ii)Mill Preservation and Restoratio; (iii)Windmill Types. II.Mills open to the public: (i)Mills in the care of Essex County Council; (ii)Other windmills in Essex open regularly to the public. III.Mills not open to the public, but visible from public roads. IV.Some significant mill remains. V.The first Essex Windmills: (i)Mediaeval mills; (ii)Mill mounds; (iii)Some early mill mound locations. VI.The millers. Pp.28, colour and black & white photos + line drawings. plus black & white photo (tower mill?) loosely enclosed. Paperback. VG.

Chelmsford: Threadneedle House, 1974.. The Report of the Essex Education Committee for the years 1964-1973. Pp.177, occasional black & white photographs throughout. Stiff blue card covers with old tape mark to front cover. G+.

Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1976.. 1st edition. Third volume in a series publishing the rich source material in the Essex Records Office. Pp..x/364. Black cloth, dustwrapper title faded to spine an has edge tears and chipped losses. VG/G.

London:G.Bell, 1915.. 1st ed. Part 1: Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Essex. Part 2: Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Colchester. Pp.14/196. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine,edges rubbed. G+.

Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1960.. 2nd edition. A picture-book of church buildings and furnishings. Unpaginated, colour frontis. + 54 b/w plates. Pbk. VG.

Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Pub, 1993.. 1st ed. "This vaired collection brings together personal reminiscences, and extracts of fiction, folklore and poetry which look at the celebration of Christmas over the years in the county of Essex." Pp.159, some b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG.