The Postcard Collection – serie
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Stirling The Postcard Collection
Av Jack Gillon
Häftad, 2021
187 kr
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Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland’s smallest city, but has an enthralling wealth of architectural and historic heritage that would be the envy of much larger places in the country. Stirling’s heritage dates from the thirteenth …
Liverpool The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2021
187 kr
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Liverpool was a small port on the River Mersey in the medieval period, but started to grow rapidly in the eighteenth century, benefitting from the expanding transatlantic trade. Wealthy merchants built large houses and invested in the city. During the Victorian age, Liverpool was the second largest …
Lincoln: The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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Lincoln can trace its history back to an Iron Age settlement by the River Witham, subsequently a Roman and Viking town. The Norman castle and medieval cathedral, built on a ridge, still dominate the city today, with the suburbs spread out below the hill. Medieval Lincoln was one of the wealthiest …
Bath: The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman’s built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon valley. Bath Abbey was founded in the seventh century but it was in the eighteenth century that the town became the fashion centre of England. Bath’s Georgian architecture is …
Exeter: The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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Exeter has long been an important city in Devon, centred around its medieval cathedral. Much of the historic city centre was lost during the Second World War and subsequent redevelopment, but some scenes of Exeter from the past would still be recognisable today. Historic buildings stand next to …
Middlesbrough: The Postcard Collection
Av Tosh Warwick
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Middlesbrough boasts a rich, diverse history and heritage that brings together tales of unprecedented industrial development, rapid urban expansion, the cultivation of new cultural institutions and a proud sporting heritage that has helped put the town on the map. As Middlesbrough expanded from a …
Whitstable: The Postcard Collection
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Whitstable, lying on the shore of the Thames Estuary on the North Kent coast, has long been famous for its oysters. The world’s first passenger steam railway connected Whitstable to Canterbury in 1830, serviced by a harbour that opened two years later in 1832. These events were the catalysts for …
Dundee: The Postcard Collection
Av Brian King
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Dundee is a modern city with a long history. It became a royal burgh in the late twelfth century, but the town itself long predates this, and human settlement in the area can be traced back many hundreds of years earlier. In its eight centuries of official existence, Dundee has been a medieval …
Birmingham: The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2026
183 kr
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Birmingham expanded massively in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming the second-largest city in Britain. It led the way in new technology and manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, as well as being the cultural centre of the Midlands. Although the centre was severely damaged …
Walsingham and Around: The Postcard Collection
Av Tim Everson
Häftad, 2026
187 kr
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Walsingham is a large village in north Norfolk famous for its shrines of Mary. The original shrine was built there in 1061 and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe. In the Middle Ages, it was said to be the fourth most important pilgrimage place after the Holy Land, Rome and Compostela in Spain. …
Carlisle: The Postcard Collection
Av Alan Spree
Häftad, 2026
187 kr
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Carlisle has long been a strategically important border city. Close to the English border with Scotland, the city was heavily fortified through the centuries, and its medieval castle and cathedral are still prominent. The city was industrialised in the nineteenth century, and the Victorian era saw …
Glasgow The Postcard Collection
Av Adam Smith
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotland. From the early eighteenth century Glasgow prospered as it emerged as one of Britain’s principal transatlantic trade hubs with North America and the …
Lake District The Postcard Collection
Häftad, 2018
181 kr
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The Lake District is one of Britain’s most popular tourist gems, nestled at the heart of the North West. The villages and mountains have been an inspiration for writers, artists and climbers over the centuries, from Wordsworth and Coleridge, to Beatrix Potter and Ruskin. Throughout this period the …
Southport The Postcard Collection
Häftad, 2018
183 kr
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Southport: The Postcard Collection takes the reader back in time to the golden age of the postcard as it illustrates a resort that was one of the most fashionable in the country during the Edwardian era. A variety of cards is included, ranging from street and beach scenes to aerial views, humorous …
British Piers The Postcard Collection
Av Nigel Sadler
Häftad, 2017
293 kr
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Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and early twentieth century, they hark back to a romanticised British coastal holiday – donkey rides on the beach, paddling in the sea and strolling along the …
