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Lost Portsmouth - Softcover

Cook, R. J.; Close, K. C.

 
9781445699035: Lost Portsmouth
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1445699036 ISBN 13: 9781445699035
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Located mainly across Portsea Island on the South coast, the city of Portsmouth is best-known for its maritime heritage and association with the Royal Navy. Its strategic location presented obvious importance in wartime, which saw Admiral Lord Nelson sailing from the harbour to his victory at Trafalgar and his doom. Today it is still a busy port, but the ships that set sail are for tourism, business and friendship, not war.In this book, author Charles Close provides a fascinating visual chronicle of how much the city has changed across the last century. Using sepia, black-and-white and colour photographs he shows how the city expanded and developed across the decades. Readers will glimpse lost and forgotten scenes from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, through both World Wars and right up to more recent times. In addition to the streets, buildings and industries, together with the naval and military connections, the book offers a fascinating record of the people of the city and their constantly changing way of life.‘Lost Portsmouth’ is an engrossing look back in time that will appeal to residents, visitors and all those with links to the city.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Close is a graduate of the University of East Anglia where he read Social Sciences, majoring in economics and economic history. He has worked in a number of jobs including teaching and journalism. His published work includes local books and articles on Portsmouth, Havant, Hayling Island, Southampton, Aylesbury and Buckingham, as well as books on transport subjects. As a journalist he was involved in the campaign to reopen the Oxford-Cambridge line in the 1980s.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1445699036
ISBN 13 
9781445699035
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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