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Midget Car Racing
It was by chance that the author stumbled across a long lost programme for the opening meeting of Hanley Car Speedway for 21 July 1938. The programme had been hidden away in family papers for almost sixty years and it sparked an enduring interest in Midget Car Speedway. Motor sport had been the preserve of the rich and glamorous, but now the ordinary man could build a car and race it on a shoestring budget. It was the start of motor racing as we know it today and without the development of midget car racing, we perhaps would not have seen the Formula Three, Formula Ford and other series that we take for granted today. Although a short-lived craze that hit the UK during the 1930s, midget car racing was an incredible motor phenomenon with some races and events attracting over 60,000 people from all over the country. Derek Bridgett's Midget Car Racing chronicles this bizarre but immersive little-known motorsport. Focusing specifically on the Belle Vue Speedway, this incredible book is profusely illustrated with photographs from the period.
The Usual Saga
Jase is doing a gym work out and as he comes to a finish a couple of guys ask him about his portable Lap top computer. It is immediately clear to Jase that these guys are up to something. Jase is not big on strangers although he will hear them out. At the same time he is very vigilant in doing so.
Midget Car Speedway
Looking at the midget car speedway races immediately before the Second World War
Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl'
Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her successes against men led to a ban on women competing against them in the UK, but Fay Taylour carried on, racing around the world. She also built a new career in long distance car racing and carved a name for herself in the new sport of midget car racing. All of this came to a halt with the outbreak of the Second World War, which, controversially, saw Fay Taylour join Oswald Mosley’s fascist movemen...
The BSA Front Wheel Drive Cars
The first book about the ground-breaking BSA front wheel drive cars.
Tales of The Strange Child: Book One - Orphaned
Born in darkness, Sile Dane is about to receive some terrible news: her family is going to die. The residents of The Grey House, dead though they are, have known this for years, but have been too afraid to tell their adopted daughter. But the family is a miserable one, they say, and deserve to die for all the abuse Sile has suffered by them. Sile, however, is too morally tied to her abusers and will not allow it to happen. With her will be the demon that is devoted to her, the monster that helped design existence,and her illustrious yet perpetually absent godfather: Death. It is the journey that will define The Strange Child as we will know her through these many tales, starting with how she became Orphaned. This is not for children.
Bradford Born and Bred
Derek Lister has already established a reputation for chronicling the history of his native Bradford. Here, he tells us the story of his own upbringing in the 1940s and 50sa personal tale of hardship and loss, friendships, loves and youthful adventures. Personal it may be, but its an account of a life that manages never to be self-centred or isolated from the rest of the world. A surprising number of public figures contribute cameos and walk-onsLaurel and Hardy, Richard Todd, even the public executionerand Derek surrounds his own experience with all the minutiae of life we all recognise from those special times and places. The author is an extraordinary man, who has gone on to lead an extraordinary life but, above all, it is the ordinariness of his upbringing in that era of order, certainty and simple pleasure that is at the heart of our latter day nostalgia and sense of loss that he brings back to life in this delightful memoir.
The Billy Palmer Chronicles
Billy Palmer grew up in a sleepy rural village, but his dreams were always for something else, something beyond the world he knew. As a child, this desire for the unexplored got him into trouble, as a teenager it drove him to adventure, and as an adult it propels him across the Atlantic to the dazzling lights of Manhattan, where the excitement he's craved seems finally to come within his grasp, but at what price? Engaging, evocative and flawlessly paced, The Billy Palmer Chronicles is a pitch-perfect tale of one man's search for the life he's imagined.
