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Malcolm Batten
Explore the rich history of the East London borough of Newham in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
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Rare and previously unpublished images of the Wessex bus scene. This, the second in a pair of books, covers the local authority fleets, independent companies, and the Isle of Wight.
Marking 90 years of London Transport, this selection of images celebrates its buses, trams and trolleybuses in preservation.
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Previously unpublished photos showing the variety of shipping seen along the River Thames since the turn of the century.
With rare and previously unpublished images of the mainland national bus company fleets around Wessex.
A wonderful pictorial record of cargo shipping on the River Thames. This book takes a look at the varying commercial shipping that has worked on the Thames since 2000.
The first of two photographic volumes celebrating the London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run’s 50th anniversary.
Malcolm Batten offers a highly illustrated range of photographs looking at East London buses in the 1990s.
This book takes the freight routes around London geographically. A fascinating selection of images documenting freight in the years after BR Blue.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the London Olympic Games, Malcolm Batten celebrates one of the most unique moments in British transport history.
With previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the variety offered by the local railway scene.
With previously unseen photographs, this book documents buses and coaches after the end of their usual service life.
Telling the story of this unique and popular heritage railway. Explore its story up to the re-opening in 2012 and of the ten years of progress since then.
Malcolm Batten illustrates the story of the Routemaster, instantly recognisable as the typical London bus, as it celebrates its seventy-year anniversary in 2024.
A wonderful tribute to an unheralded part of the nation’s bus network with a variety of trainers and service vehicles.
Previously unpublished photographs looking at steam railways around London over the last fifty years.
Fascinating previously unpublished images documenting these important workhorses of the bus industry.
A varied selection of images documenting the buses used as rail replacement services in London and south-east England.
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich.
A fascinating photographic account of the heyday of the minibus looks back at the rise and fall of the minibus in British bus services.
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend.
Previously unpublished images of this rarely documented part of the bus scene. Looking at a variety of demonstration vehicles, on display, in use, and after being sold off.
Rare and previously unpublished images celebrating preserved steam rollers from different makers that can be seen in Britain.
A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Malcolm Batten observes what has changed in the East London bus scene since the turn of the century.
This book examines the various operators that have catered for tourists in the heart of our capital since 1970 and the vehicles that they have used.
A lavishly illustrated look at the era of privatisation of London’s buses before an all-red livery was imposed.
Malcolm Batten explores the variety of variant liveries carried by the buses of London Transport and its successors since 1969.
Secret Newham explores the lesser-known history the London borough of Newham through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
Explore a fascinating photographic record of European coaches visiting Britain from the 1970s onwards.
Explore some rare and previously unpublished photographs celebrating steam power on Britain's roads.
The second volume of a series that looks back at 50 years of the famous London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run.
Rare and previously unpublished photographs recording heritage trains on London’s Underground system.
Thames in Transition -the changing nature of the Docks and the ships that served them in the 1970s-1980s How and why the Docks adapted to changed cargo handling methods Historical…
How it all began - the story behind traction engine preservation and rallies. How rallies have developed from their early beginnings. Photographs from the rally scene over seventy years, mostly…
How it all began - the story behind bus preservation and rallies. The origins of some of our most prominent UK transport museums. Photographs from the rally scene of the…
London Transport was created in 1933 with monopoly powers. Not only did it have exclusive rights to run bus (and tram and trolleybus) services in the Greater London area, it…
This book takes the form of an anti-clockwise tour around the perimeter of the London Country area, south of the Thames featuring a number of key towns starting at Slough…
Good Quality Photographs, Interesting Text, Long Informative Captions, Useful To Modellers
Malcolm Batten examines the way in which the railways of East London have changed and developed over the years, bringing the story right up to date with the introduction of…