George Bradshaws Travel Guide

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Have been watching the reruns of Michael Portillos Great British Railway Journeys on BBC4, and this week he has been in the Leeds and Batley area. Well I was interested in seeing if the Travel guide was still available and yes it is (well facsimilies anyway). The sections on Leeds nad this area from the 1860s make very interested readingBut you can download section 4 as a pdf which covers this area from here http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=m ... 5192935All the other sections are also available to download as pdfs as well and make excellent reading, along with the adverts from the 1860s.They each average approx 30mb so dont do it on dial up, or if you have a slow connection.
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This was an excellent series, from both a historical and travelogue point of view and I'm grateful for the link.Funnily enough I saw an advert for one of the 're-printed' copies of the guide last week and almost splashed out, so you've saved me a tenner!
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buffaloskinner wrote: All the other sections are also available to download as pdfs as well and make excellent reading, along with the adverts from the 1860s.They each average approx 30mb so dont do it on dial up, or if you have a slow connection. Excellent find.The section on Leeds also includes a map of Leeds city centre, in 1866 not very detailed, but interesting to look at.
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On a related note, Samuel Smiles 'Lives of the Engineers' from the same period is available as a free download for Kindle from Amazon.
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Like most things I found it by accident when searching to see if the book was still available.I found it on this Blog which gives a liitle bit of background info, copies of the book are available but the originals are extremely rare (and expensive)http://tinyurl.com/4u7p7jk
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Buffalo taIt is an interesting series, I caught part of it at Woodlesford.Seen the book, about £7 on Amazon (free delivery I think)On this link you can "look inside" the book.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bradshaws-Handb ... sr=8-1Some older books on various subjects are too expensive for me, but a few (like Thoresby's) are available cheap on disc. I got 'West Yorks Archaeology prehistoric Rock Art West Riding'.    

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Jogon wrote: Some older books on various subjects are too expensive for me, but a few (like Thoresby's) are available cheap on disc. I got 'West Yorks Archaeology prehistoric Rock Art West Riding'.     The site i mentioned the other week Flatcapsandbonnets.com has some bargains Jogon if you haven't looked at it although i admit nothing much on railways.
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Thank you Steve, not one I know so will have a look round it.

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Jogon wrote: Thank you Steve, not one I know so will have a look round it. This is the link:http://www.flatcapsandbonnets.com/index.aspI can recommend their stuff.I have now bought all the Yorkshire and Lancashire stuff and it has some great books on it.All are searchable using Adobe Acrobat which is great when trying to find a particular place.
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