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Bishop Auckland is an attractive market town with a rich collection of buildings dating from many centuries and an archaeological legacy spanning two millennia. This book brings together recent research into the town's archaeology, history and architecture and is a celebration of what makes this important town so special.

This attractively-illustrated book casts new light on Ramsgate's rich maritime and seaside heritage. It charts the resort's growth - and its colourful architectural heritage - over the past 300 years. The book will appeal to a wide audience, particularly readers with an interest in the history and popular culture of the English seaside.

For most of us, school was our first detailed experience of a building outside the homes of our parents, friends and relations. Many people react emotionally when their old school, charged with so many memories, is closed or demolished.

Illustrates various aspects of Gateshead's historic fabric, showing how these combine to give the town a strong sense identity. Offers a plan for informed management of the radical change imminent within the town as it adjusts to the 21st century.

This book charts the history of the town centre of Britain's first new town - Stevenage - looking at its planning, development, design influences, significance and survival. The town centre area, with its pioneering and influential pedestrian shopping precinct, was designed and planned from 1945 and largely complete by the early 1960s.

A synthesis of recent English Heritage research on the vernacular buildings of the parish of Alston Moor, Cumbria, considering the very special examples found there of the bastle.

Examines the history of Boston in Lincolnshire as reflected in its buildings and townscape from medieval times to the present day.

Bridport is the home of an ancient industry, the manufacture of goods from flax and hemp. The local townscapes of this industry are of great historic significance and provide the building blocks for the regeneration of its historic industrial areas.

Two centuries ago Weston-super-Mare was a small, rarely visited village but its location alongside the Severn Estuary soon made it a convenient bathing place for the wealthy inhabitants of Bristol and Bath.

The book shows how the basic design of goods sheds evolved early in the history of railways, and how the form of goods sheds reflected the function they performed.

The book examines the historic environment of the Hoo Peninsula landscape and describes how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character.

This book is an introduction and guide to Luton's hatting industry and to the distinctive and varied character of its buildings.

Two centuries of tourism has left behind a rich heritage, but Blackpool has also inherited a legacy of social and economic problems, as well as the need for comprehensive new sea defences to protect the heart of the town.

This book celebrates the unique survival of military fortifications on the Isles of Scilly and also serves to illustrate the value and vulnerability of the whole country's coastal heritage.

This book raises awareness of the wide range and varied character of the historic mills, buildings and canals which constitute the Ancoats townscape. It outlines how the area and its community have evolved over the last two and a half centuries.

Nikolaus Pevsner described Berwick-upon-Tweed as 'one of the most exciting towns in England' [Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Northumberland (1957), 88] - a place where an absorbing historical tale can still be read in the dense fabric of its old streets and buildings.

Examines Margate's seaside heritage and looks at its development as a destination for holiday-makers. By examining Margate's historic identity the book proposes that Margate will be able to successfully renew itself to face future challenges.

Stourport's canal infrastructure has been a defining element in its development. Stourport's regeneration depends partly on the protection and presentation of its historic environment and this book celebrates the town's unique qualities and character.

An up-to-date and accessible introduction to Coventry's post-war buildings.