Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Secret Stoke-on-Trent PDF full book. Access full book title Secret Stoke-on-Trent by Mervyn Edwards. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Tom Quinn Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 160765248X Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 570
Book Description
This alternative tour of Britain offers more than 150 fascinating and beautiful, yet obscure and less-visited places that receive little coverage in more conventional guides.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019957703X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
When beautiful Lucy Graham becomes Lady Audley, her future looks secure. But her past is shrouded in mystery, and the disappearance of a young man sparks an investigation that will reveal her dark secret... This new edition explores the novel in the context of nineteenth-century sensation fiction and the lively debates it provoked.
Author: Alan Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Stoke-on-Trent was the name given to the amalgamation of six famous Potteries towns, the other five being Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton and Tunstall. This book deals with the entire City, illustrating its wide variety of industries and the way of life of the people in the past. The world-wide reputation of Stoke was secured by the products of the pottery manufacturers. The innovations of men like Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode and the Adams family - who had been making pots since the 15th century - built up a world-beating industry. The author vividly records much of the characteristic Potteries scene, of bottle-kilns, pit-heads and workers' cottages; and of the workers themselves, as they earned their living or enjoyed their recreations. Arnold Bennett, the City's literary giant, would have loved this book.
Author: Sean Smith Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1471102246 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Top celebrity biographer Sean Smith tells the story of national treasure Gary Barlow, one of the UK's greatest songwriters and musicians. Throughout a stellar career, nobody has been more misunderstood than Gary Barlow. When he first found fame, he was perceived as too arrogant. Then, after a spectacular slump and amazing recovery, he adopted a modesty that underrates his lifetime achievements. In this book Sean Smith redresses the balance by revealing the real man, the romances that shaped his life and the passion for music that drives him. A singer and virtuoso keyboard player who performed in working men's clubs from the age of thirteen, Gary Barlow would go on to achieve phenomenal success as the musical force behind Take That, the most popular boy band of all time. Now recognized as one of the greatest songwriters and musicians the UK has ever produced, Gary is among the best-known faces on television, returning as head judge on the X Factor in 2013. Featuring original interviews with many people who have never spoken before, Gary is a celebration of a complex and unique talent.
Author: Robert Hume Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526738619 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
An in-depth look at the lives of the women murdered by the infamous, 19th-century London serial killer. Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, but there is no mistaking the infamy of Jack the Ripper. For nine weeks during the autumn of 1888, the Whitechapel Murderer brought terror to London’s East End, slashing women’s throats and disemboweling them. London’s most famous serial killer has been pored over time and again, yet his victims have been sorely neglected, reduced to the simple label: prostitute. The lives of these five women are rags-to-riches-to-rags stories of the most tragic kind. There was a time in each of their lives when these poor women had a job, money, a home and a family. Hardworking, determined, and fiercely independent individuals, it was bad luck or a wrong turn here or there that left them wretched and destitute. Ignored by the press and overlooked by historians, it is time their stories were told. “Hume presents us with clear and concise biographies of the Ripper’s victims, and while it is tempting to think of them as all being prostitutes . . . their backgrounds, gone into in this much detail, shows them as something completely different. You will have to, you must read this brilliant book, it puts a whole new perspective into the canon of literature about the most infamous murderer of the last two centuries.” —Books Monthly
Author: Matthew Rice Publisher: White Lion Publishing ISBN: 9780711231399 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Mathew Rice's detailed architectural watercolours illuminate a heartfelt, occasionally critical, and often amusing history of Stoke on Trent and the pottery industry.
Author: Mervyn Edwards
Author: Mervyn Edwards
Author: Tom Quinn
Author: Mike Smith
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Author: Lucy Jeacock
Author: Stephen Humphries
Author: Alan Taylor
Author: Sean Smith
Author: Robert Hume
Author: Matthew Rice