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12 produkter
Beastly Merseyside
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2022
173 kr
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Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these animals, and about the roles they have played.Horses have carried us and our weaponry into battle for …
Quirky Liverpool
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2026
178 kr
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Liverpool’s rise to become the second city in the British Empire was directly linked to its development as a commercial port. It was also because of its crucial role as an international trading hub for the transportation and exchange of raw materials, commodities, and manufactured goods. However, …
Quirky Liverpool
Av Ken Pye
E-bok, 2026
176 kr
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Liverpool's rise to become the second city in the British Empire was directly linked to its development as a commercial port. It was also because of its crucial role as an international trading hub for the transportation and exchange of raw materials, commodities, and manufactured goods. However, …
Quirky Wirral
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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The Wirral Peninsula has a fascinating history. Before the development of the docks along the Mersey Estuary to the north, the area was a rural patchwork of communities and villages. The nineteenth century saw the growth of towns on Wirral such as Birkenhead, Wallasey, and Ellesmere Port. …
Quirky Wirral
Av Ken Pye
E-bok, 2026
176 kr
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The Wirral Peninsula has a fascinating history. Before the development of the docks along the Mersey Estuary to the north, the area was a rural patchwork of communities and villages. The nineteenth century saw the growth of towns on Wirral such as Birkenhead, Wallasey, and Ellesmere Port. …
Dark History of Liverpool
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2027
187 kr
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Alongside Liverpool’s rise to becoming one of the most important seaports in Britain and one of its most populous and wealthy cities, runs a thread of darker history. Through the centuries poverty and disease were familiar to many, crimes were dealt with harshly and the slave trade played a …
Liverpool Pubs
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2015
187 kr
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Liverpool was once the epitome of ‘the city with a pub on every corner’, but no longer. As social habits and communities continue to radically change, hundreds of pubs continue to disappear annually, and mostly without trace except in memories. However, not all have been lost. Right across the …
A-Z of Liverpool
Places-People-History
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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The city of Liverpool is famous throughout the world. This once-small fishing village was transformed into a mighty commercial powerhouse, seen by many as the second city of the British Empire. In 1715 Liverpool created the world’s first enclosed, commercial wet dock; eventually there would be …
Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.The tales include ‘Fire in the Menagerie’, ‘Murderous Propaganda Against Prostitution’, ‘HMS Thetis - A Floating …
Even More Merseyside Tales!
Curious and Amazing True Tales from History
Av Ken Pye
Inbunden, 2023
177 kr
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In Ken Pye's third collection of strange and often bizarre tales from Merseyside’s History, prepare to be amazed and entertained, once again.Where on Merseyside was the nonsense rhyme, ‘The Owl and The Pussycat’ written? How did the 'Cast Iron Shore’ or the Cazzie get its name? Is there a lost …
More Merseyside Tales
Curious and Amazing True Stories from History
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2024
160 kr
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Local historian and broadcaster Ken Pye has collected a further fifty true tales that celebrate the weird and wonderful side of Merseyside’s history.From the subterranean munitions factory at New Brighton and the bird-man of Speke, to wild tigers at Tranmere and a mysterious leprechaun, you are …
Merseyside Tales
Curious and Amazing True Stories from History
Av Ken Pye
Häftad, 2025
160 kr
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This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside’s history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women ‘smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors’, the true tale of the …
