This illustrated volume looks at Manchester, a city unlike any other English towns in that it still retains its warehouses. These buildings have an enormous impact on Manchester's streetscape. Writers contribute to describe the full range of Manchester's warehouses and their significance.
Beverley Minster, one of England's greatest churches, is the creation of craftsmen and women over more than seven centuries. This book provides an interpretation of the way in which the 14th-century nave was built, and explains how the Minster was maintained after the Reformation and rescued from collapse in the 18th century.
This book reveals the architecture of the Cold War - the bunkers, airfields and secret underground communication centres which scatterd the English landscape. Many of these are now derelict, and are fascinating monuments to the Cold War era.