Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Through Time
ISBN-10
144564052X
ISBN-13
9781445640525
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Imprint
Amberley Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 2014
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
278 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 18.20 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
Local historyPlaces in old photographs
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Derby has changed and developed over the last century.
Derby is an exceptional and underrated city. It was an important centre of the Midlands Enlightenment, boasting Dr Erasmus Darwin and John Whitehurst FRS among its eighteenth-century residents. It produced an artist of international repute in Joseph Wright ARA and has been a centre for the production of fine porcelain and fine clocks for almost three centuries. It was a county town for five centuries and was in its Georgian heyday much admired by writers such as Daniel Defoe.Despite the best endeavours of a peculiarly unappreciative and iconoclastic bunch of city fathers over the years, many of its fine Georgian and Regency features have managed to survive. In 90 pairs of photographs ranging from 1765 to the present, Maxwell Craven has attempted to show why it is still a city of which its citizens can be proud and how it has changed, in places out of all recognition.
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