Epsom & Ewell Through Time
Jeremy Harte
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Description for Epsom & Ewell Through Time
Paperback. 96 pages, 184 illustrations incl 92 colour. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Epsom & Ewell have changed and developed over the last century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESR; WQP. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 10. Weight: 306.
Epsom and Ewell have been attracting visitors since Henry VIII built his lost Palace of Nonsuch in the Surrey countryside. Known worldwide as the home of the Derby and Epsom Salts, the district has sheltered many strange characters, from a clergyman who campaigned for polygamy to a Prime Minister who valued horses before politics. Epsom was a spa town in the days of Charles II, and its assembly rooms and mansion houses still echo to the tread of elegant ghosts. On the windswept Downs, nine successive grandstands have let royalty and riffraff view the world's greatest horse race, never forgotten ... Read more
Epsom and Ewell have been attracting visitors since Henry VIII built his lost Palace of Nonsuch in the Surrey countryside. Known worldwide as the home of the Derby and Epsom Salts, the district has sheltered many strange characters, from a clergyman who campaigned for polygamy to a Prime Minister who valued horses before politics. Epsom was a spa town in the days of Charles II, and its assembly rooms and mansion houses still echo to the tread of elegant ghosts. On the windswept Downs, nine successive grandstands have let royalty and riffraff view the world's greatest horse race, never forgotten ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445603407
SKU
V9781445603407
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Ref
99-6
About Jeremy Harte
Jeremy Harte is the curator at the Bourne Hall Museum which provided the archive images for his books.
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