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Rigby Road Publishing - Update
By way of advance notification we wish to advise that sales of our two titles - 'Municipal Transport Rationalisation' covering the 1960s...
John Woodman
Aug 27, 2020
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Kenosha, Wisconsin
This small town of around 100,000 souls in the heartland of the mid-west is not usually in the international media headlines. But the...
John Woodman
Aug 26, 2020
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RAF Squires Gate - Hangar 42
There is a small corner of the Squires Gate Airport complex assigned to recapturing an important segment of the Fylde coast's history -...
John Woodman
Aug 24, 2020
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Old Dockyard = New Transport Museum
Constantinople and its Ottoman overlordship Istanbul has been a leading destination for tourists for centuries. The current...
John Woodman
Aug 18, 2020
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Blackpool Transport Takes To The Skies
One of the lighter moments during the war years involvied Blackpool's Corporation Transport Department and the Royal Air Force. In 1942...
John Woodman
Aug 17, 2020
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Blackpool Man Made Transport Manager
But not in Blackpool. In 1931 Leeds City Transport was seeking a Manager to replace Robert Horsfield (who had given his name to the...
John Woodman
Aug 16, 2020
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AUGUST 15 1945 - VJ DAY
Commemorative ceremonies and services of remembrance are taking place all over the UK as well as many other nations who made a blood...
John Woodman
Aug 15, 2020
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Freeport Lisbon
While Freeport Fleetwood (now rebranded as 'Affinity') has expressed interest in the display of one (or more) of the FHLT's trams stored...
John Woodman
Aug 14, 2020
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By Tram To Stanley Park
While Blackpool's Council considered and then rejected proposals in the design for the new ''Stanley Park' in 1925 for an extension off...
John Woodman
Aug 13, 2020
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Swallow Sidecar- Born in Blackpool
Who could have thought that the origins of the Jaguar Motors brand were founded in Cocker Street, Blackpool as Swallow Sidecar ? The...
John Woodman
Aug 12, 2020
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