- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing (25 Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848689012
- ISBN-13: 978-1848689015
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 656,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rutland Through Time contains 180 photographs of Rutland, of which 90 are old photographs. Some printed in a sepia tone and some printed in full colour. These photographs are printed alongside a contemporary full colour photograph which illustrates the same scene. The contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed and developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate shops, schools, garages, churches, houses and street scenes, each photograph is captioned and the book has an introduction which gives a brief overview of the history of the town. As you browse through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number of vehicles on the road, shops that once sold new goods are now estate agents or charity shops. Green fields have been transformed into industrial estates, houses or ring roads.
From the Author
It has been a genuine and real journey of discovery, tracing the locations of the images I selected from the Jack Hart Collection in the Rutland County Museum.
Although I thought I 'knew' Rutland - and I live just ten miles from the county border - I managed to get lost several times! And what a great experience that was. Being lost in a very beautiful and unique corner of England.
So many times I felt I had found the most beautiful village in England, only to drive no more than three or four miles and find another hamlet or settlement which made me revise my opinion.
Rutland is more than a collection of pretty villages with thatched cottages, stately homes and welcoming inns. It is home to RAF stations, it provides stone and cement for building projects across England and further afield, and perhaps most significantly, at its heart is Rutland Water, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in Europe, which has brought a new-found prosperity to the area.
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Both my wife and I are natives of Rutland and both of us thought the book was a first class work. The artwork was first class and the way the old photographs were mirrored by modern ones was brilliant.If you want a pictorial insight into England's smallest county, this is the one.
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