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"Vintage photographs and 24 contemporary portraits capture the style and flavor of Jackson Street and its jazz legacy. Based on extensive interviews with jazz musicians, this significant new volume documents the smokey rooms, Prohibition antics, wartime parties, and unforgettable riffs that characterized great moments in Pacific Northwest jazz." -- Amazon.com viewed July 8, 2020.
Copiously illustrated throughout, this work presents historic photographs of the places and people who have made up the thriving community of Ashburton and its surrounding parish.
Barnstaple lies on the River Tay estuary some five miles from the sea. This new edition contains a section highlighting what has happened since the book was first published in 2002. The volume includes over 250 historic photos, many of which have never been published, that depict the history and inhabitants of this ancient borough.
Francis Shaxton was orphaned in his teens and was apprenticed into the cloth trade in King’s Lynn. Once he mastered that business he moved into the grain shipping trade. He soon found that he needed the co-operation (and blind eyes) of the customs and other authorities in order to prosper. Palms were greased and he built up a considerable shipping empire. He rose to be Alderman and mayor of King’s Lynn until his temporary downfall caused by someone not taking the bribe. Undeterred, after a brief period of straight trading, he carried on his merry way becoming mayor again until he lost his flagship off the Glamorgan coast in 1583 (she was supposed to be in Hartlepool). His business lost all impetus after this and nothing is known of him since 1586. He died in mysterious circumstances and his death remains unrecorded.
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