Old English Towns Classic Reprint

Author : William Andrews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 048425393X

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Old English Towns (Classic Reprint) by William Andrews Pdf

Excerpt from Old English Towns AN attempt is made in this work to give descriptive and historical accounts of the more important of our Old English Towns. Their rise and the chief buildings of past ages, remarkable episodes and phases of old-time social life, receive 'con sideration. It will be shown how towns have risen under the protection of castles, how others have grown under the care of religious houses, while others have advanced under royal patronage. Old customs linked with the lives of the people receive attention. The Cathedrals of the country are fully dealt with in other volumes in this series, and are, therefore, not described at length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred Rimmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1332849431

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Our Old Country Towns (Classic Reprint) by Alfred Rimmer Pdf

Excerpt from Our Old Country Towns IN calling attention to a subject that always interests a traveller, a few words of preface may be desirable. The chapters of this work are the result of a few excursions in the now unhappily neglected country parts of England - such parts as are not seen from. A railway train. The appreciation for' such subjects is not new, for I find articles in the Gentlemen's Magazine that date as far back as 1745, in which the writers point out interesting parts of England, for the guidance of ingenious travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hildegarde Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1331302331

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Old Seaport Towns of New England (Classic Reprint) by Hildegarde Hawthorne Pdf

Excerpt from Old Seaport Towns of New England This informal and personal account of a trip through a group of towns with whose story the brave beginnings of our history are linked, seems to ask for a prefatory word because of this very informality. The book is more in the nature of an afternoon tea chat than any serious presentment of fact; and I feel, therefore, like establishing at the threshold an easy and friendly note with such readers as may decide to drop in and share with me the impressions of a spring outing whose keynote was the spirit of vacation. Here, where the long Pacific roller breaks its majesty on the shores of California, I look back with a deep feeling of affection to that Atlantic coastline where my forefathers began their great American job. There is a masculine fibre to that rocky and winter-bitten coast lacking on this Western shore - complemented, rather, by a softer a feminine, quality, that has its own charm. As for beauty, who shall say? Beauty is everywhere, with its thousand aspects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0282932534

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The Story of Our English Towns (Classic Reprint) by Peter Hampson Ditchfield Pdf

Excerpt from The Story of Our English Towns With the beginning of the seventh century a new and mighty force began to work its bene ficent influence among the Saxon invaders. Up to this time they had been fierce pagans, and, from all that appears, pagans with no religious faith or religious Observances maintained by the teaching or ritual services of an organised priest hood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1333669984

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The Old Town of Berwick (Classic Reprint) by Sarah Orne Jewett Pdf

Excerpt from The Old Town of Berwick Two currents of life flow through the consciousness of every New England town. The one threatens to carry away that grand prestige and dignity that comes only with age; the other, still a tributary by comparison, continuously deepens its channel and, now and then, overreaches its banks to enrich-the glory and pride in modern progress by strengthening the roots of history which enliven this ancient land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Julia Patton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0265175313

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The English Village by Julia Patton Pdf

Excerpt from The English Village: A Literary Study; 1750-1850 But the English village has a very great deal to do with the war. For remote as the sleepy stillness of village life is, in ordinary times, from the hurry of active affairs, there is not one among the most distant and old-world of English villages but has been stirred out of its quiet by the great war. The villagers of England have been swept into the mid-current of national life by the events of the past four years. They have taken a Splendid part in the great struggle, and their interests and concerns have m turn become m a new sense those of all England. For a century and a half certain great problems of village life have been growing in seriousness, and pressing with more and more insistence for attention and solution. It is inconceivable that after the war these problems should continue long unsolved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ernest C. Pulbrook
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0331747324

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The English Countryside (Classic Reprint) by Ernest C. Pulbrook Pdf

Excerpt from The English Countryside WE live in times when change is so rapid that customs and institu tions of even a decade ago are no longer familiar. Everywhere the old is giving place to the new, and the methods of our forefathers are too leisurely for this hurrying age. The whole face of England is being rapidly altered, and this is perhaps more noticeable in the country, even in the most remote districts, than in the towns, where we look for change and improvements. So many old landmarks are being swept away that it seems time to call a halt and at least to take a survey before the old is banished by the new. In the towns it is perhaps almost too late to begin to preserve the buildings of the past, but in the country it is different. During most of the nine teenth century the country stagnated while the towns grew and prospered, but now ease of communication and the desire to see the country has brought about a change the city is being regarded only as a workshop and the country as the place in which to live. People, too, are beginning to understand that rural England is, and has always been, as important as the towns, and that scattered up and down the land are places not only beautiful in themselves, but full of the associations of the past. Each has played its part in the making of England as we know it to-day, and each has some story to tell, if we can only learn to read. An old rubbish heap may contain a wealth of romance, and a commonplace custom may have had its origin in the days when the inhabitants of these islands were little better than barbarians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mrs. Frances A. Breckenridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0428999166

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Recollections of a New England Town (Classic Reprint) by Mrs. Frances A. Breckenridge Pdf

Excerpt from Recollections of a New England Town The interest that attached to the articles on old-time Meriden by Faith (mrs. Frances A. Breckenridge), as printed originally in Tfie Meriden Daily journal, led to the belief that published in book form they would prove entertaining, not only to present and former Meriden people, but to the readers of New England generally; for Meriden as described in Faith's quaint way in the following chapters, is typical of the New England villages of the first and second quarters of the century. To the newspaper articles have been added many chapters on subjects that cannot fail to engage the pleasant attention of all who would like to know What rural New England was like half a century and more ago. One great value that the work has is the absolutely correct historical information that it contains. What is told here is authenticated by carefully preserved family records, and personal knowledge of the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : James Tait
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0267885970

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The Study of Early Municipal History in England (Classic Reprint) by James Tait Pdf

Excerpt from The Study of Early Municipal History in England In impressing upon us that 'those who would study the early history of our towns have fields and pastures on their hands', Maitland did not claim originality. The very word 'town' is an unmistakable finger-post. Beginning as an Old English word for a village, or even a single homestead, it has been narrowed down in this country, though not in New England, to mean an urban as distinguished from a rural community. The transition thus indicated had been noted by Stubbs, but the vivid picture of the agricultural aspects of mediaeval Cambridge in Township and Borough placed it in a new and stronger light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 026522022X

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The Cities of the Past (Classic Reprint) by Frances Power Cobbe Pdf

Excerpt from The Cities of the Past Many of us have learned in our day how good it is to turn our steps out of this crowded, dusty Europe, far away to the calm old lands of the East. Here, indeed, is our real life in the great throbbing heart of the world; here in our own England, where the cloud rests over the million-peopled city, fitly as over the battle-field of humanity. Here are our cares, our labours, our soaring, struggling hopes, our keen, sharp joys, our solemn duties. 'tis a poor choice to give up England in our manhood, and abandon for ever all its purpose and its noble strife for the lotos-eater life of the South. At this hour, when every voice and every arm are needed to grapple with error, and want, and sin - when it is not one course only of effort which we would pursue, but a hundred lives of labour we would fain be allowed to live at once, if so we might do somewhat for the Right and the True, - it is, I say, a pitiful thing to quit the field and wander away to dream, and gaze, and ponder; and live, as perhaps man may have earned the right to live in centuries to come, when Giant Despair and Giant Sin are dead, and righteousness and peace shall kiss B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred Rimmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:587753

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Our Old Country Towns by Alfred Rimmer Pdf

Author : Stewart Dick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0484023454

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The Cottage Homes of England (Classic Reprint) by Stewart Dick Pdf

Excerpt from The Cottage Homes of England IN this volume I have attempted to summarise the history of the old English cottages and farm houses which still adorn the villages and lanes of the countryside, and in some measure to trace the causes which resulted in their present form. With out entering into undue technicalities I have also endeavoured to explain clearly their system of construction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : P. H. Ditchfield
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1330749588

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Vanishing England (Classic Reprint) by P. H. Ditchfield Pdf

Excerpt from Vanishing England Now the wayside inns wake up again with the bellow of the motor-car, which like a hideous monster rushes through the old-world villages, startling and killing Old slow-footed rustics and scampering children, dogs and hens, and clouds of dust strive in very mercy to hide the view of the terrible rushing demon. In a few years' time the air will be conquered, and aeroplanes, balloons, flying-machines and air-ships, will drop down upon us from the skies and add a new terror to life. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world Spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Frederick A. Hubbard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0267691475

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Other Days in Greenwich by Frederick A. Hubbard Pdf

Excerpt from Other Days in Greenwich: Or Tales and Reminiscences of an Old New England Town It has taken twenty-two years to gather the material for this book and now that the work is done the task is laid aside only with a feeling of regret. It has been pleasant to read and talk of the other days; to imagine how some of the characters looked; of What their home life consisted; how conscientious and careful they were and to realize that in many cases, notwithstanding their restricted environment, they builded better than they knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Algernon Gissing
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0656007109

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Broadway by Algernon Gissing Pdf

Excerpt from Broadway: A Village of Middle England The way to Worcester is that which takes us over Broadway Hill. An old news-sheet gives a vivid glimpse of this particular bit of it in the Civil War troubles. On Monday, May 12, 1645, interested readers got this scrap of informa tion. On Saturday last His Majesty in the evening went down by Broadway to Evesham, and Prince Rupert marched in the rear-guard, over Broadway Hill, by the light of Campden House, which they say was then on fire. A notable fire, two miles off, in a hollow to the north, on the Warwick road. The grey old town of Chipping Campden with its stately tower marks the Spot, and is seen from here when the trees are passed. Half a mile farther and you are on the brow of Broadway Hill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.