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Fully illustrated description of Wolverhampton’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.

A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that reflect the changes in Wolverhampton through the decades.

The first great British aero-engine manufacturer Sunbeam made a vital contribution to victory in the First World War. Fitted to the first aircraft to torpedo a ship, the only one to fly at Jutland, they saw service on 3 continents. Sunbeams powered the R.34 airship, the first to fly the Atlantic east to west, and land speed record-breaking cars.

Over 200 old rare and unseen photographs of the trams and buses of Wolverhampton, showing how it has changed over time.

Over 200 rare and previously unpublished illustrations of this iconic aircraft - the Boulton Paul Defiant.

In almost 200 photographs, this book places the aircraft, runways and buildings in the modern landscape, showing how they have been transformed within Staffordshire.

Looking at the fascinating history behind the airfields of Shropshire, which was particularly popular during the Second World War.

This fascinating set of photographs shows how Wolverhampton has changed and developed over the last century.

Molineux is known throughout the World as the home of the Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, the most famous place in Wolverhampton, and this is the story not just of the stadium but the hotel and pleasure gardens which came before, and the private house built in 1720 which lent its name to a City institution.

The Boulton Paul Balliol was the last British aircraft powered by the iconic Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Also, the Balliol was the last piston-powered advanced trainer in both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm, and yet it began life as the world's first turbo-trainer. Conceived in the last days of the Second World War as a new trainer to be powered by a revolutionary turboprop engine, it became the first aircraft to be powered by a single prop-jet, beating the rival Avro Athena into the air by just two weeks. Policy was to change and it went into production powered by the trusty Merlin and Boulton Paul hoped for huge orders with a second production line opened at Blackburn Aircraft. Yet, policy was to change again and in the end only 200 planes were built as the RAF decided to switch to all-jet training. A dozen were sold to the Royal Ceylon Air Force and as yet another footnote in aviation history, the Balliol became the last aircraft built by Boulton Paul who were world leaders in the production of power controls such as its famous machine-gun turrets that saw action in the Second World War