Blogs in February 2021

The Railway Girls 20th February 2021

In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded...

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Cheltenham Then & Now 20th February 2021

Cheltenham Then & Now is a superb collection photographs of the town, compiled by Sue Rowbotham and Jill Waller. Scenes of yesteryear are contrasted with modern colour views to show what has been lost and what remains. This book...

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The Final Round (DI Jim Garibaldi #1) 17th February 2021

Introducing Detective DI Garibaldi, a country-music loving, self-educated detective, and the only cop in the Metropolitan Police who can’t drive a car. On the morning after Boat Race Day, a man’s body is found in a nature reserve beside...

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The Old Enemy 17th February 2021

Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a freakish looking knifeman. It’s clear...

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Liverpool Forgotten Landscapes, Forgotten Lives 17th February 2021

Forgotten Landscapes… Despite the proud boast of the Liverpudlians of today that there has always been a Liverpool and always will be a Liverpool, the truth is that for many centuries the world got on quite well without us,...

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