In 1952, theWaverleyjoined the British Railways Caledonian Steam Packet Co Clyde coast fleet, a role she remained until the company’s end in 1972. Briefly subsequently part of Caledonian MacBrayne’s fleet offering Clyde cruises and ferry duties, she was withdrawn from service in September, 1973...
The Oasts of Kent,by Richard Crowhurst The Villages of Surrey,by Jean Bellamy Journeying Through Time on Lake Windermere,by Pearl Harris See the Complete "Countryside" Menu... The Ashbrittle Yew·Burnham Beeches·Horatio Nelson's Norfolk·Ilkley Moor·Kent's Smuggling Heritage·Lincolnshire Windmil...
with Swinburne playfully referring toBradshaw’s Railways Timetableas ‘the present writer of double acrostics’. The second from 1907 (Swinburne died in 1909), written at ‘The Pines’ in Putney, is addressed to his last surviving sister, Isabel. It accompanies a facsimile edition of Coleridge...
Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK, but still exists in the wilds of New Zealand, descended from a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century. A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson’s passionate drive to ...
The state is organized into three counties—from north to south, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex—all established by 1682. Its population, like its industry, is concentrated in the north, around Wilmington, where the major coastal highways and railways pass through from Pennsylvania and New Jersey...
neighborhoods that contrasted sharply with such wealthy West End districts as Mayfair and Kensington. The outlying metropolitan area, which was girded by Surrey and Kent to the south and Middlesex and Essex to the north, had experienced rapid growth with the advent of suburban railways in the ...