Paul Atterbury is a seasoned expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, with a prolific writing career that spans railways, Victorian culture and arts, and numerous other subjects. His work delves into the intricacies of collecting, uncovering the narratives embedded within objects. Atterbury's insightful perspective on history and his skill in connecting the past to the present make his writing compelling for anyone intrigued by the hidden lives of antiques.
Featuring a mix of railway and social history, this work features tiny rural stations and halts as well as those that serve bustling market towns and big cities. A variety of feature spreads stations and animals, great disasters, station clocks, and more.
The first in a series of highly illustrated books that take a nostalgic look at life in 20th-century Britain through amateur photographs, ephemera, and postcards, 'On Holiday' visually explores where people stayed, what they wore, where they went, how they got there, and what they did. Using predominantly amateur photographs from family albums alongside postcards, publicity material, and a range of ephemera from the Edwardian era to the 1970s, this feast of nostalgia offers a delightfully evocative snapshot of holiday life in 20th-century Britain.NB: Despite the dust wrapper and cover of the book stating 'On Holiday', the title page reads 'The Way We Were On Holiday' and that is how it is catalogued.
From the Edwardian golden age of steam to the present, the railway has captured the hearts and imaginations of the British people like no other mode of travel. This title presents one hundred years of the British passenger's story, using full-page imagery with commentary.
A history of one of Britain's greatest railway companies: the London and North Eastern, operator of the world-famous Flying Scotsman.
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Richard Dennis Gallery, London, Spring 1997
Dinky Toys must be some of the most successful and collectable toys ever made. In an affectionate tribute, each model is given its own delightful setting, reflecting a more gentle and innocent era. Visual puns The Landrover, “a fine model of a vehicle designed to go anywhere and do anything,” climbs its way up a staircase, while the Avro York Airliner takes off from the ironing board. An open-top sports car zooms along, fighting the gale-force winds of an electric fan. A sophisticated and stylish design book, this is the ideal gift for the postwar baby boomer.
Examines and illustrates these highly collectible wares.
To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, the Antiques Roadshow team filmed a series of specials at the Somme, where the public brought in their family's war memorabilia and photographs. These 'antiques' weren't financially valuable, or in some cases even very beautiful, but the stories that came attached to these momentoes were priceless.Antiques Roadshow: World War I in 100 Family Treasures takes 100 of the most fascinating and moving stories and shows how they fit in to the wider history that was occuring around them. From Rifleman Frank Edwards, who led the 'big push' in September 1915 kicking a football in front of the troops (and survived to tell the tale) to the formidable Catherine Murray Roy, one of the first 50 nurses to be sent to the front lines in France. The story behind each object paints an intimate portrait of a long-lost relative, and quotes from the modern-day participants in the roadshow provide a moving link between the families then and now.Fully illustrated, and featuring all the stories from the show, this is a truly unique way of telling the story of those ordinary lives that were, by the onset of war in 1914, thrown into the most extraordinary of circumstances.
A Nostalgic Journey Through Railway Station Life
Featuring a mix of railway and social history, this work features tiny rural stations and halts as well as those that serve bustling market towns and big cities. A variety of feature spreads include: stations and animals, great disasters, station clocks, and more.
Visiting the Byways of Britain's Railway Network
The most intriguing and least known of Britain's railways are the minor lines: rural routes and branch lines - some still active if little-used, others long since lost, industrial and docks lines, narrow gauge and miniature lines. This title focuses on these minor railways, once vital to the commercial and social life of Britain but now abandoned.
