In the original dustsheet. Binding the same as the dustsheet.

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One of the best local history books

Featuring the stories and events that make up the town’s fascinating history, learn about the personalities, past and present – including benefactors, tradesmen and businessmen – whose energy and innovation have played a vital role in shaping the community. Illustrated with Frith photographs and specially commissioned modern photographs, you can enjoy an enthusiastic appreciation of the new community that is developing before your eyes. Topic Boxes and Fact File boxes cover subjects of particular local interest and will test your local knowledge to the full. Printed in full colour.

Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, attending Quaker schools at Ackworth and Quaker Camp Hill in Birmingham (c. 1828–1838), before he started in the cutlery business. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1843, recuperating over the next two years. In 1850 he started a photographic studio in Liverpool, known as Frith & Hayward. A successful grocer, and later, printer, Frith fostered an interest in photography, becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853. Frith sold his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He journeyed to the Middle East on three occasions, the first of which was a trip to Egypt in 1856 with very large cameras (16″ x 20″). He used the collodion process, a major technical achievement in hot and dusty conditions.