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Parkgate & Neston Through Time
Vanessa Greatorex
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Description for Parkgate & Neston Through Time
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Parkgate & Neston has changed and developed over the last century. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
Tossed by the tides, fêted by the fashionable, murdered by the marshes... Who could have guessed that a huddle of shacks outside the gates of a deer park would become a premier port and modish resort traversed by world-famous prodigies like Handel and Turner? Picturesque Parkgate, on the Wirral peninsula, is the perfect place to explore the dramatic and dynamic way in which landscapes evolve when man collides with nature. From its slender red-brick tower (built by a pharmacist) to its converted corn mill and very own Carnegie library, neighbouring Neston is a market town of stunning architectural surprises. ... Read more
Tossed by the tides, fêted by the fashionable, murdered by the marshes... Who could have guessed that a huddle of shacks outside the gates of a deer park would become a premier port and modish resort traversed by world-famous prodigies like Handel and Turner? Picturesque Parkgate, on the Wirral peninsula, is the perfect place to explore the dramatic and dynamic way in which landscapes evolve when man collides with nature. From its slender red-brick tower (built by a pharmacist) to its converted corn mill and very own Carnegie library, neighbouring Neston is a market town of stunning architectural surprises. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Through Time
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445608990
SKU
V9781445608990
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Ref
99-10
About Vanessa Greatorex
Vanessa Greatorex is a freelance writer, editor and local historian who has lived in Cheshire for over thirty years and grew up in the vicinity of Wilmslow. She spent sixteen years working for publishing companies before going solo. Her back catalogue includes a long-running series on place-names in Cheshire Life, a couple of historical short stories in fiction anthologies, and ... Read more
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