The River Test
This book is a collection of paintings and sketches, together with commentary, by the artist as he explores the valley from its source near Ashe, to the estuary at Southampton Water.
Newport Pagnell during the First World War
Like every other community in the country the ancient market town of Newport Pagnell was affected by the Great War which began on August 4th 1914. Nobody could have anticipated the change it was to bring about in society and Newport Pagnell was a very different place 100 years ago. In this important book historian […]
StonyStratford during the First World War
In 1914, Great Britain, as it liked to call itself, had enjoyed a long period of peace and prosperity and Stony Stratford was not excepted from this general well being. An assassination in far off Sarajevo would hardly seem to disturb that, but it did trigger a series of events that led to Britain entering […]
Only on the Hills
Peter Bennet, a boat builder in Cornwall, naively undertakes some unfinished business for a friend, who has just been murdered by a hit man in mysterious circumstances. Before long he finds himself in the midst of the murky world of arms dealing, drug smuggling and working with British Intelligence in Afghanistan. The year is 1982. […]
I Grew Up in Wolverton Too
This second volume of Facebook converstaions brings together well over 250 Wolverton people of all genera-tions and from many parts of the world to discuss the Wolverton they once knew and the Wolverton they now live in. In this volume we focus on Wolverton in transi-tion, essentially the post-Milton Keynes years, when Wolverton changed from […]
Meon
Bryan Dunleavy’s portrait of the Meon Valley takes us on a journey from the river‘s source in the Hampshire Downs and follows its progress to the Solent. On the way he explores the main attractions of this scenic valley and investigates some of its hidden corners. The paintings and sketches in this book comprise a […]
Inns of Stony Stratford
Stony Stratford was an important stopping place on the Watling Street and soon after its foundation at the end of the 12th century it became an attractive resting place for royal entourages. The town was the scene of some famous events in English history and from the 18th century to the arrival of the railways […]
Honey Still for Tea
“What is it about Yembury?” wonders Joyce Agate, now a detective sergeant, as she tries to solve yet another murder in Yembury.In this third excursion into the apparently cosy Dorset village of Yembury, Geoffrey Lloyd takes us deeper into the geteel and not so genteel lives of Yembury’s inhabitants, and their apparent propensity for leaving […]
First Impressions
On September 17th 1838 the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, together with other dignitaries, steamed through Wolverton to celebrate the opening day of the new railway line. Wolverton’s destiny was therefore to change from a rural community to a forward looking industrial town.That event took place 175 years ago and today Wolverton […]
Manno’s Manor
Wolverton came to national attention in 1838 when the London to Birmingham Railway was completed and this small rural community developed into the railway town that enjoyed some fame in the great rail-way age. This heritage has perhaps obscured a longer and richer history and in this book Bryan Dunleavy traces the story from Bronze […]