Timpsons Towns of England and Wales
John Timpson is a master of searching out the unusual, the eccentric and the bizarre.
In Timpson’s Towns he looks at the lesser known features of Towns, unearthing a rich collection of fascinating and surprising items – the Crest in Cleveland which commemorates a monkey hanged by townspeople as a French spy, the public gardens in Yorkshire created over the mass grave of cholera victims, the bridge in Mid Glamorgan which was built with holes in the brickwork to stop it falling down, and the castle in Dyfed which has its own Wogan…
The book is written in John Timpson’s immensely readable style and is illustrated with specially commissioned colour photographs and line illustrations, with handy reference maps.