Download or read book Wirral Smugglers Wreckers and Pirates written by Gavin Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first authoritative, illustrated, full-length account of smuggling and related activities in Wirral. Covering the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it represents the first book-length account concerning this important chapter in Wirral's heritage. Not only does it describe familiar facts in great detail - Mother Redcap and her smugglers' tavern on the Wallasey shore, the labyrinth of smugglers' tunnels stretching from the Red Noses in New Brighton throughout Wallasey, and the wreckers who used to prey upon Liverpool-bound shipping - it also covers the less well-known aspects of Wirral's piratical past, including smuggling in Parkgate and Heswall, and the swashbuckling adventures of Captain Fortunatus Wright - the Wallasey privateer.
Download or read book The Pirate Encyclopedia written by Arne Zuidhoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirate Encyclopedia, as the essential companion for scholars, students, and a general audience intrigued by tales and facts, offers the most complete body of data available on the legitimacy of more than 7.000 adventurers as subjects of investigation.
Download or read book The Sands of Dee written by Gavin Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Blacon Point to Hilbre A squirrel could leap from tree to tree." -Old sayingTHE SANDS OF DEE is a collection of legends and traditions recorded in or about the Wirral Peninsula, from Celtic and Viking prehistory, through tales of medieval banditry, smuggling, wrecking and highway robbery, to such urban legends as the Phantom Hitchhiker of Spital and the Prenton Dolls' House.Retold by the author of WIRRAL SMUGGLERS, WRECKERS AND PIRATES.
Download or read book The Liverpool Underworld written by Michael Macilwee and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the social and economic conditions and events that gave Liverpool a reputation for being the most crime-ridden place in the country in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Twelve written by Mark Slade and published by Horrified Press. This book was released on 2013-11-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to get lost, as the time-traveler and his assistant venture into dark space. It's time for authors from around the world to unofficially pay homage to the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, and unleash their own tales of futuristic terror.
Download or read book Tales of the Undead Suffer Eternal Anthology written by Nathan J.D.L. Rowark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Undead - Suffer Eternal contains some of the best names in modern horror. Together, we will discover the works of over twenty new and established authors. Steady yourselves, and prepare for unholy terror. It's time to meet the masters of the macabre. Author list Nathan J.D.L. Rowark, Rita Dinis, A.J. Huffman, Nels Hanson, David S. Pointer, Jeremy Rowe, Rishan Singh, David F. Daumit, Gavin Chappell, Omar Zah Zah, Paul Bamborough, Jacqueline Doyle, Changming Yung, Robert Lee Frazier, Benjamin Robinson, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Frank A. Schury, Mel K. F, Constantine Mountrakis, Mathias Jansson, Stephen R. Wilk, Glen Damien Campbell, Mark Slade, Paul J. Rehac, Jennifer Ostromecki, Wol-vriey
Download or read book British Drama of the Industrial Revolution written by Frederick Burwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it been told in terms of the theatre of the period. To understand the play lists of a theatre, it is crucial to examine the community which that theatre serves. In the labouring-class communities of London and the provinces, the performances were adapted to suit the local audiences, whether weavers, or miners, or field workers. Examining the conditions and characteristics of representative provincial theatres from the 1790s to 1830s, Frederick Burwick argues that the meaning of a play changes with every change in the performance location. As contributing factors in that change, Burwick attends to local political and cultural circumstances as well as to theatrical activities and developments elsewhere.
Download or read book Merseyside Tales written by Ken Pye and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside's history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women 'smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors', the true tale of the 'man in the iron coffin' and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from Birkenhead – uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary facets of the area's history and heritage. Richly illustrated and compiled by Liverpool's own historian Ken Pye, this book will delight residents and visitors alike.
Download or read book Criminal Wirral written by Daniel K Longman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Wirral is an intriguing and entertaining collection of some of the strangest, most despicable and comical crimes that took place on the Wirral peninsula from the Victorian era up until the early twentieth century. Daniel K. Longman's painstaking research has uncovered many fascinating cases that have been long forgotten, and he sheds new light on local causes celebres. The tales are supported by a number of maps with many contemporary and modern photographs, which help to bring these events and the people featured in them to life. Criminal Wirral will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the darker side of Wirral's history.
Download or read book More Merseyside Tales written by Ken Pye and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local historian and broadcaster Ken Pye has collected a further fifty true tales that celebrate the weird and wonderful side of Merseyside's history.From the subterranean munitions factory at New Brighton and the bird-man of Speke, to wild tigers at Tranmere and a mysterious leprechaun, you are sure to uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary stories here.Richly illustrated, this fantastic collection will delight everyone interested in finding more about Merseyside's strange and curious heritage.
Download or read book Wirral Walks written by Anthony Annakin-Smith and published by Sigma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting over 20 walks in Wirral, this title discovers the best of the local landscape, with sights spanning thousands of years of history, from ancient tracks to remnants of industrial past - from woodland heath to an expansive saltmarsh.
Download or read book Lost Wirral written by Les Jones and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated description of the Wirral’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
Download or read book A History of Wirral written by Stephen J. Roberts and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva, then settled by Celts, Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians. Its growing medieval population mainly lived by farming and fishing, but the 19th century brought dramatic changes-colonisation by wealthy Liverpudlians, then the rapid growth of the great urban and industrial centres of Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Every aspect of the past lives of its people is explored, and how they moulded today's Wirral.
Download or read book Slavers Traders and Privateers written by Frank Howley and published by Countyvise Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a factual and fascinating portrait of Liverpool during the slave trade.
Download or read book The Admiral Benbow Ballads Smugglers Pirates Wreckers written by Arthur Caddick and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pirates Smugglers written by Moira Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seasfrom the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Seaand the loot they plunder and smuggle.
Download or read book Tales of Smugglers Wreckers and Buccaneers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
