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Mike Morgan

    Byker
    D-Day Hero
    Lost Industries of the Tyne
    Heaton from Farms to Foundries
    Futuristica: Volume 1
    Where the Monsters Are
    • Where the Monsters Are

      • 98 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      5,0(1)Ohodnotit

      Set in a world transformed by wild magic, Malcolm Tensor, a top spy and leader of a Kill-or-Contain squad, is tasked with hunting down unregistered magical creatures. Sixteen years post-magic explosion, he remains committed to his patriotic duty despite his own transformation. When terrorists disrupt the new order and Tensor's team is reassigned, he becomes suspicious of the government's motives. Determined to uncover the truth, he embarks on a perilous quest, uncovering a sinister evil lurking beneath London that threatens everything he knows.

      Where the Monsters Are
    • Futuristica: Volume 1

      • 370 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      An anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, heart-ache, wonder and the many different sides of love.

      Futuristica: Volume 1
    • Heaton from farms to foundries is a short illustrated history of this popular suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, from its earliest days as a rural settlement above the Ouseburn to the present day. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, it includes the origins of Newcastle United Football Club.

      Heaton from Farms to Foundries
    • Lost Industries of the Tyne explores the dangerous and dirty trades that, over many centuries, made Tyneside the workshop of the world: shipbuilding, glass, pottery, salt, chemicals, iron and steel, ropes, cables, flour, grindstones and much much more. They all depended on coal, and the river Tyne - the superhighway to everywhere else.

      Lost Industries of the Tyne
    • D-Day's only Victoria Cross winner, Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, was, uniquely, twice recommended for this coveted award on 6 June 1944. It was on D-Day that Hollis created history with his inimitable brand of raw courage, being involved in two blistering VC actions. číst celé

      D-Day Hero
    • This detailed and carefully researched book allows you to take a step back in time and explore Byker as you've never seen it before.

      Byker
    • Alan Morgan has lived in the High Heaton area for nearly 90 years and witnessed most of its growth from farmers' fields to the pleasant residential suburb it is today. This book is illustrated with photographs, maps and aerial views to help the reader discover the scale of this development and appreciate the many historic features that remain.

      High Heaton, Cochrane Park, Benton
    • Jesmond, one of Newcastle's leafiest and oldest suburbs, has a varied and fascinating history, from medieval village to favoured residence of famous Victorian industrialists. Archive photos, maps, and street patterns hold clues to the past explored by City Guide Alan Morgan.

      Jesmond
    • A Fine and Private Place

      • 76 stránek
      • 3 hodiny čtení
      3,4(3)Ohodnotit

      This is the story of Newcastle's necropolis and how it came to be built. From merchants to murder victims, the book outlines the lives of some of the more colourful inhabitants of this Highgate of the North, including John Dobson, Christopher Maling, John Fenwick, the Hancocks and Sid Chaplin. schovat popis

      A Fine and Private Place
    • Geordie

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,9(15)Ohodnotit

      He left the SAS in 1972, but could not settle into civilian life and found himself a job as a storeman in the SAS Quartermaster's stores - a job which lasted another 12 years, during which time he equipped many famous SAS characters for their famous clandestine missions.

      Geordie