Terry Coleman Libri

Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.

In 2008 Terry Cole produced his first color album featuring the branch and secondary lines of Sussex and Hampshire. Now he continues the theme by adding to the Southern Way Special issue series with a volume outlining the sixties. Cole draws upon a further selection of previously unseen color images depicting the railway as it used to be back in a time that some of us remember and others can only imagine. Steam-hauled branch line passenger trains, local goods trains, and the early diesel units-all scenes we took for granted, but now, like the routes themselves, long consigned to history. Cole integrates quality descriptions with a variety of color images to present this fascinating and enchanting look back into sixties.

The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912, under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and Laurence Olivier. This book tells the story of the Old Vic.

Presenting the very best unseen imagery from British Railways Southern Region in the period up to around 1967, this book features stunning portraits of stations, engines and trains, the main lines, cross county lines and branches, plus docks and sheds. All the photographs are accompanied by extended, informative captions, with details of dates and workings where known.