Download or read book The Warbirds of Walney written by John Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Warbirds of Walney An illustrated history of RAF Walney and No.10 Air Gunnery School This lavishly illustrated work will delight aviation enthusiasts, genealogists, and amateur historians alike. Providing an accessible and engaging reading experience for those seeking to understand the construction and wartime usage of this South Lakeland airfield. This book is sure to become a valuable and much sought-after resource for anyone with even a passing interest in Cumbria's aviation history.
Download or read book The Warbirds of Walney written by John Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flypast written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walney Island Girl written by Katie Percy and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walney Island Girl is a charming memoir, full of eloquent recollections of family, friends and neighbours.
Download or read book A Goldstar Century written by Ian Hall and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for a Squadron engaged at the forefront of military activity for the past 100 years. With a number of events lined up to celebrate this important anniversary, former Commanding Officer of the Squadron, Ian Hall, has set himself the ambitious task of penning the Squadron's entire history, from formation right up to current-day activities. This lively and informative narrative is interspersed with first-hand accounts taken from interviews conducted with the men who made/make up the Squadron. The first twenty-five years of the Squadron's history were spent on India's North-West Frontier, hence the Squadron motto 'First in the Indian Skies'. During the Second World War, it was occupied mainly in the Middle East and North Africa, before moving to the Burma theatre for the remainder of the war. Upon returning to the UK in 1948, the Squadron performed communications duties until, in 1955, it joined the Cold War in West Germany, operating successively in reconnaissance and strike/attack roles. Operational deployment in recent years has seen the Squadron deployed during the Gulf War, the Iraq War, in Kosovo, and Afghanistan. With troops pulling out of Afghanistan in 2014, 31 Squadron have now completed a circular history, and there seems no better time than now to commit it to print.Each and every facet of this long and varied history is relayed in a style that serves to provide an account that is at once celebratory and objective when it comes to recording not only the facts of the various deployments but also the personal stories of the men behind the headlines.
Download or read book Wings Over Sands written by John Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Cark airfield site - from the proposed airship factory development in 1916-1917 to its wartime use as RAF Cark. Including: No1 Staff Pilot Training Unit from 1942-1945 No 9 Light Artillery Unit 650 Squadron Anti-Aircraft Cooperation Unit from 1942-1944. Also RAF Grange-over-Sands Equipment Officer's Training School based in the Cumbria Grand Hotel from 1941-1944. A lavishly illustrated and at times humorous journey through the history of these establishments. This book will transport the reader far beyond Cumbria to such diverse locations as Iceland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, America and even Blackpool. In recognition of the avid interest which still exists concerning the war years this book is the author's attempt to illustrate what the conflict meant to the South Furness peninsula and to engage the reader in his long-standing and undiminished fascination with our local wartime airfields.
Download or read book The Moral Foundations Of Educational Research written by Sikes, Pat and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers what is distinctive about educational research in comparison with other research in the social sciences. As the contributors all agree that education is always an essentially moral enterprise, discussion about methodology starts, not with the widely endorsed claim that educational research should be 'useful' and 'relevant', but with the attempt to justify and elaborate that claim with reference to its moral foundations.
Download or read book Redcoat 1812 written by John Nixon and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When James FitzGibbon dons the British army's redcoat, little does he know that he will be sent to backwoods Upper Canada just prior to a war that will shape the North American continent. FitzGibbon's memoire details his experiences during the War of 1812, from his service as adjutant to heroic General Isaac Brock, to his own use of deception during the Battles of Stoney Creek and Beaver Dams, through the bloody conflicts at Crysler's Farm, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie where his attitudes change. His story reveals how outnumbered defenders are able to repel an American invasion and their resistance gives life to a new nation - Canada. Redcoat 1812 is an action-filled tale of leadership, valour, duty and sacrifice that blends the best elements of The Book of Negroes and The Red Badge of Courage.
Download or read book Call Me Red written by Hannah Jackson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Times bestseller Lessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn't set foot on a farm until she was 20-years-old. But she'd always loved animals and on a visit to the Lake District, she saw a lamb being born and had a light bulb moment - a burning desire to succeed as a farmer - and never looked back. In Tales of a Shepherdess, Hannah gives us a unique insight into farm life and the values it has taught her that we can use in our everyday lives to change ourselves and our world for the better - from connection, communication and community, to leadership, patience and resilience. Hannah will show us how becoming a lambing and farming contractor in a male-dominated and traditional world taught her grit and determination; how training her loyal sheepdog Fraser taught her to trust; and how sometimes failure can teach us more about ourselves than success. Hannah's journey also teaches us how we should find what sets our hearts on fire and throw everything into it. Hannah's simple and universal wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement will inspire you to achieve your goals, follow your dreams and focus on what's really important in life.
Download or read book Honister Slate Mine written by Alastair Cameron and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the private archive of Honister Slate Mine, Cameron and Withey offer a fascinating insight into this iconic landmark of the Lake District.
Download or read book The Complete Story of the Transvaal From the Great Trek To the Convention of London written by John Nixon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Story of the Transvaal, From the "Great Trek" To the Convention of London: With Appendix Comprising Ministerial Declarations of Policy and Official Documents IN presenting a history of the Transvaal, and of our connection with it, I have to apologize for many shortcomings. The work has been compiled under considerable difficulties. The bulk Of it was written in a small up-country town, at a distance from all Official sources of information, and in the intervals of professional duties. It has been delayed by the loss at Port Elizabeth of nearly all the material I had collected, and by the difficulty of procuring correct and trustworthy accounts of the facts narrated. It has no pretension to any graces of style, and it does not aim at being more than a convenient book of reference. If it enables the readers to mete out blame where blame is due, and to accord praise where praise is merited, the object of the work will be effected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Bad Tempered Dragon written by Jennifer Clark and published by Pixel Tweaks Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do dragons exist? ... well Jack knows, because he saw a real one stuck in a hedge on his way to school! From then on the day became an unbelievably strange adventure for all involved. George the dragon is very grumpy, he's not having a good day - he's lost his mum and is now stuck with this small human who has taken him to school - that's when the troubles really begin. George is usually invisible to all humans except his new ally and he changes colour when he gets grumpy ... which is a lot! This story book teaches children about morality and emotional intelligence, through the use of narrative and colour showing how colours affect our behaviour. A great resource for facilitating group discussion.
Download or read book The History of RAF Millom written by John Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the airfields' wartime service from 1941 and brief reoccupation of the station in 1953 to its eventual conversion into HMP Haverigg. Extensively illustrated with over 260 photographs and including over 50 first-hand accounts of life at RAF Millom, Cumbria, England. This extremely accessible history will engage a broad readership and provide a historical treasure for future generations. The units' primary purpose was the training of aircrew for Bomber Command and those airmen who passed through the station went on to have many and varied experiences of aerial warfare. At the heart of them all lies a small and windblown airfield which served Sovereign and country through the dark days of WWII and beyond. Drawing on extensive historical, official and anecdotal material in this, his fourth and final book recording the history of the South Cumbrian airfields, the author has, without doubt, produced his finest and most comprehensive work to date.
Download or read book Ore Mining in the Lake District written by Alastair Cameron and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Cameron and Liz Withey explore the fascinating world of metal mining in the Lake District.
Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Download or read book Pilot s Flying Log written by Robert Stanford-Tuck and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until he was shot down and taken prisoner in January 1942, thus curtailing his probability of being the top-scorer.
Download or read book Faster Than the Sun written by Peter Twiss and published by Grub Street the Basement. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Peter Twiss first achieved national prominence in March 1956 when, as a test pilot, he gained the World Air Speed Record in the Fairey Delta 2, flying at a speed of 1132 mph over Chichester in Sussex. Seventeen years earlier, in 1939, he had joined the Fleet Air Arm to serve his country in war, seeing action in Fulmars over the convoys to Malta in June 1942, in Seafires during the Operation Torch landings in NW Africa, and as a night fighter flying Mosquitoes.
