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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the first five series of the tv show presented by michael portillo that traces historic railway journeys across britainportillo travels to destinations including holyhead, newcastle, york and sheffield, stopping to visit historic landmarks and to talk to those whose lives have been changed by the railway systemthe second series sees the former politician take as his guide 'bradshaw's handbook', a pamphlet on the burgeoning british railway system written by 19th-century cartographer and publisher george bradshawin the first series portillo sets out to chart how the nation's love affair with the railways began, travelling from liverpool to scarborough, preston to kirkcaldy, swindon to penzance and buxton to london, amongst other journeyssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the third, fourth and fifth series portillo traces more historic rail journeys across britain including 'great yarmouth to beccles', 'darsham to felixstowe', 'sudbury to southend', 'ballymoney to derry', 'high wycombe to stratford-upon-avon', 'woking to clapham junction', 'london victoria to abbey wood', 'stirling to invergowrie', 'manchester to birkenhead', 'southport to leyland', 'preston to rochdale', 'haworth to huddersfield', 'honley to chesterfield', 'london euston to cheddington', 'bletchley to newport pagnell', 'northampton to nuneaton', 'leicester to loughborough', 'nottingham to leeds', 'southampton to basingstoke', 'winchfield to crowthorne', 'wokingham to bradford on avon', 'chippenham to gloucester', 'cheltenham to wolverhampton', 'norwich to brandon', 'ipswich to chelmsford', 'ilford to rochester', 'faversham to dorking' and 'brighton to chichester'
50 €
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The railway carriages displayed a distinct burgundy-red livery with the mitropa logothis mitropa railway coffee set is available for collection only in etwall, derbyshirewhat i am offering here is a mitropa german railway badged coffee set comprising serving tray containing a badged coffee pot, badged cream jug and badged coffee potthe price i am asking for this mitropa coffee set reflects the damaged spoonetwall is just a short journey from derby, burton-upon-trent, swadlincote, uttoxeter, stoke-on-trent and the areas that surround these townsfounded in , the name "mitropa" is an abbreviation of mitteleuropa (german for central europe)if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact memitropa was a catering company best known for having managed sleeping and dining cars of different german railways for most of the 20th centuryit seems from my research that these spoons are often lost or broken sadlyall the items are porcelain and each item cleverly snuggles into the tray sadly, the badged porcelain spoon broke into two clean pieces in a house movethe two pieces could certainly be repaired using an appropriate adhesive
22 €
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railway vintage bench its made from recycled parts from the railway one end is in need of small repair to the end just need gluing simple job photo taken one of a kind bench length 55 inches depth 22 inches height 32 inches
52 €
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Reclaimed railway sleepers, proper old fashioned railway sleepers direct off the railway line all grades availablegrade a softwood/oak -£28 grade b oak/softwood £20 grade c oak/softwood £15 half sleepers and offcut prices on requestviewing welcome delivery available any question call read moresoftwood and oak sleepers are treated with creosote and care should be taken where they are used, hardwood azobe and jarrah are untreatedgrade c are still while but may have rot or damage to one side and one edge but should always have 2 good sidesgrade a are good all round best quality sleepers and have square edges, grade b have 3 good sides but may have damage or decay to one side but are still solid, edges may be rounded also
15 €
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Reclaimed railway sleepers, proper old fashioned railway sleepers direct off the railway line all grades availableviewing welcome delivery available any question call read moresoftwood and oak sleepers are treated with creosote and care should be taken where they are used, hardwood azobe and jarrah are untreatedgrade c are still while but may have rot or damage to one side and one edge but should always have 2 good sidesgrade a softwood/oak -£25 grade b oak/softwood £20 grade c oak/softwood £15 half sleepers and offcut prices on requestgrade a are good all round best quality sleepers and have square edges, grade b have 3 good sides but may have damage or decay to one side but are still solid, edges may be rounded also
15 €
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Jigsaw - where's wally puzzle railway station (250 pieces) **never used item** a fantastic 250 piece jigsaw puzzle based on the popular books "where's wally" the puzzle image places wally at the railway station with dozens or more people doing a variety a different things can you find wally hidden within the puzzle image? the prefect gift idea for children finished puzzle measures 335mm x 496mm shrink wrapped sealed and never used read more
5 €
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He was still in his teens when he began photographing the extension work to britain's last main line railway - the great central railwaysignificantly, in addition to photographing the railway and its associated features, he also recorded rural life in the villages along the course of the line
25 €
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Colour print of the railway engine "great northern railway no 1" of with full written description on the back of the black wooden frameframe size is 45
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Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets alice has spent her life trying to escapemeanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant hampstead home, the formidable alice edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writesoxfam bookshop cheltenham the lake house by kate morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of the house at riverton and the secret keeperseventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, sadie sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the metropolitan policejune , and the edevane family's country house, loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated midsummer eve partyalice edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excitedshe retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose endnot only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn'tuntil one day, sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a tracean unsolved mysterysee oxfam website for delivery information read morean abandoned housebut by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave loeanneth forever
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'carry on screaming', made in , sees the inept detective sergeant bung (harry hcorbett) and his even dimmer assistant detective constable slobotham (peter butterworth) hot on the trail of a mad professor (kenneth williams) and his sister (fenella fielding), who have been kidnapping young girls and turning them into shop dummiesin it, trouble erupts in a secondary school just as the school inspectors arrivestarring ted ray as the headmaster mr wakefield, with kenneth connor, charles hawtrey, kenneth williams, hattie jacques and joan sims as his teachers, rosalind knight as the inspector, leslie phillips as child psychiatrist alistair grigg, and richard o'sullivan as a pupilalso starring jim dale, angela douglas, charles hawtrey, joan sims and bernard bresslaw'carry on teacher' (made in ) was the third in the seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston more classic slapstick from the 'carry on' team in this double bill cassette
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Prepared and published at the railway clearing house, londonhere is an antique railway "working map" dated , with hand written staffing informationinformation included are staffing levels in all the map area, for instance, how many foremen were employed, clerks, examiners etcparchment, size w 52 inches x h 41 inchesbelieved to be on linen, it holds information about london and its environsit is in good used condition as can be seen from the picturesthis map has been in our family for 75 yearsdrawn & engraved by world famous engravers, j and w emslie, london read morefolds into 16 cm x 22 cm x 3 cm book size
120 €
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[2] the book features the belgian detective hercule poirot and chief inspector japp"death in the air" by agatha christie dodd mead ny - first american edition first printing - 303p, 18cx15cm - condition: good, minor scuff at spine top, name to ffep and stamp to text block, clean internally, comes with fine facsimile dust jacket death in the clouds is a work of detective fiction by british writer agatha christie, first published in the us by dodd, mead and company on 10 march under the title of death in the air[1] and in the uk by the collins crime club in the july of the same year under christie's original titleare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki[2] the us edition retailed at $] and the uk edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
36 €
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A fabulous encyclopaedia of the railway lines of past and presentfind your old local railway line that may now be shut down, look up the stations, tunnels, junctions, together with a map of the routecash on collection
25 €
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New york:the armchair detectivethe armchair detective limited editionthe manchurian candidatemaroon cloth in a maroon cloth slipcaselimited edition / first printingnumber 87 0f 100 copies
500 €
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Includes the following: plastic carry case 1 gameboard 6 movers 6 weapon tokens 6 character cards 6 weapon cards 9 room cards 2 dice 1 detective notebook instructions read moreused cluedo travel edition in hardly used condition
5 €
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Oxfam shop formby official pokemon soft toy for the release of the film 'detective pikachu'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
14 €
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Bradshaw's handbook great british railway journeys reprint harper collins cost £20 new, unused gifthard back with jacket excellent condition unread this would make a great gift for the railway enthusiast isbn read more
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Great display item for the railway enthusiast and genuine not repro rubbishnice original correct southern railway warning sign,it is very heavy so postage is not an option
250 €
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Oxfam shop dumfries railway detectives: 150 years of the railway inspectorate () by stanley hall mcitsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
4 €
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Cast iron railway signideal for the railway fanatic or a decorative item for your gardencondition is excellent for its age and inscription is clear
25 €
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· the finest detective game ever devisedwe do our best to process as quickly as possible· join sherlock holmes to solve 75 intriguing cases
28 €
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge an everyman detective in a witty character rich mystery series see oxfam website for delivery information read more
9 €
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5 double sided detective pages leftbox is worn and cut on 2 corners
12 €
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This is for the pokemon detective pikachu 4k blu-ray + blu-ray steelbook - limited uthis is a beautifully designed glossy steelbookadd it to your collection while you can as these are now very rare
24 €
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"early in the railway age, william wordsworth mused wistfully in a letter from london to his family in the north, 'o that there was a railway to take me to kendal or lancasteror preston'internally clean and brighton an august day eight years later, after the 'iron road' had reached many parts of england, the johnson family from essex caught a train at euston station and, within little more than twenty-four hours, were gazing in rapture at their first view of mountain scenery" includes a reproduction of the map from the guidebook used by the johnsonssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe illustrated record of their sojourn in the lake district, now in the wordsworth trust collection, contains an engaging account of their adventures, often enriched by their use of wordsworth's own 'guide to the lakes' and enlivened by unique glimpses of the poet himself and members of his family minimal shelf wear, only a tiny blemish on the reverse cloth spineoxfam shop kendal as new with an unbroken spine
30 €
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He left the railway and became a consulting engineer; his many works include printing presses for several newspapers and magazinesborn into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, maw was taken into the workshops of the eastern counties railway as an assistant before progressing to the design office as a draughtsmanbeing a short but complete description of the duties of the young engineer in preliminary and location surveys, and in constructionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe was made the head of the office and designed the first outside cylinder locomotive for use in indiain he founded the journal engineering and remained an editor for the rest of his lifehe was president of the civil and mechanical engineers' society, the institution of mechanical engineers and the institution of civil engineersmaw was a british civil engineer and astronomer" small thin octavo, pp (ii), 75, with the errata slip loosely attached after the title page, with blank pages at the rear for notes (unused), original green cloth, the corners very slightly worn, a very faint mark on the upper coverpage 49 has been neatly annotated (see illustration)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store] a rare book, and in remarkably good condition[with the signature on the front endpaper of william henry maw, ()the title concludes:- "catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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I full service record and invoices available to buyer i the watch was presented to its original owner who worked for over 40 years on, and managing the railway system for the beckton gas works (ni movement the watch features the high grade calibre 280, with 17 jewels beating at bph and holds a very useful power reserve of 42hrscarrying the makers gold hallmarks i dial original bright and elegant longines signed, silver 'sunburst dial in perfect conditiongold baton hour markers and outer minute track matching, all original gold hands including sweep-second hand in lovely conditionthe service starts with a total strip-down of every component before being ultra-sonically cleaned and then re-built with a new main spring, the correct lubricants, seals and a new crystali 348 dornier 217 bombers pounded industrial and other sitescirca i case solid 9ct gold case; made for longines by di longines presentation box watch purchased by myself in the london area in , proof of purchase availableshackman & sons, (ds&s) england who were esteemed goldsmiths making watch cases also for rolex, omega and other high-end brandsi movement serial # i the watch has recently completed a full service by a world-renowned watchmakergenuine and original longines solid gold wristwatchthames gas board) i this was the largest plant in europe, now known as london's 'docklands' the works produced gas from coal - and was one of the first targets for the german luftwaffe on the first night of the london blitz (7 sept ) now known as 'black saturday'this is not a quick or cheap process ! i the movement of course winds freely and has been regulated for highly accurate time-keepingfollowed later in the day by a second group and for the next 79 days ! i the last coal train arrived at beckton on 16th april and production ceased on 16th june with the final train running into the gas works on 1st june
599 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiresting on hoof feethigh quality parisian cabinetwork, circaopening with 6 drawers (including one with secret) and a cylinder with cut-off sides, discovering a superb internal theatresuperb charles x period so-called "railway" scriban chest of drawers in speckled mapleplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefolding worktopstepped upper part with a bookcase shelfcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabledimensions: h upper shelf with sculpture, probably added in the second half of the 19th century
355 €
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He is brutally tortured and forced, along with his fellow captives, to build the thai-burma railwaywhile serving in the second world war, british army officer eric lomax (jeremy irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the japanese
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The railway starter set is an ideal jumping on point! use the stop and go signal to stop the train and let passengers on boardsuitable for ages 3 years and upmanufactured to brio's high standards and from fsc certified wood
43 €