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Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now® provides a visual chronicle of the city's past. Brooklyn possesses a rich …
Known around the world for its famous Royal Regatta, the Henley-on-Thames of today is a picturesque centre for the fashionable and successful. This was not always the case for this …
Phoenix Then and Now takes 70 vintage photos of the city sustained by the Salt River and compares them with the same view today Phoenix’s origins date back to 700 AD, …
Containing photographs that spans over 100 years, this book presents the heritage and history of Brentford. It also includes photographs taken by Fred Turner, who, for forty years, …
Over the past century of so, the face of Leicester has changed dramatically. It did not sustain a large amount of bomb damage in comparison to other British cities during the …
Oxford Then and Now is a historic celebration of the city of dreaming spires. Using archive photography dating back to the 1860s, the book charts the evolution of the city through …
Few would dispute that Mark Twain was a literary genius, a writer unique in his ability to capture the idioms of country speech, yet also write novels that appealed to the powerful …
Originally known as Nashborough, Nashville was named as the capital of Tennessee in 1843. The city’s economic recovery after the Civil War was slow, hampered by two major cholera …
In 1959 John Betjemen described Walsall as ‘a borough which is obviously proud of itself…’ commenting that if the local council turned the High Street ‘into something worthy of the …
Southend-on-Sea has gone through many transformations since its birth in the Middle Ages, when a settlement of farmers and fishermen was established at the southernmost end of the …