The Golden Road to Bogota
During the late 1940s, Colombia, South America, was in turmoil. In the capital, Bogota, rivalry between the republic’s two leading political parties had ...
From The Mersey With Love: The Story of Hovercraft Travel
During the late-1950s the aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe built and tested the firstpractical hovercraft, the SR-N1, thereby validating ...
Manchester United? Who Were They?
The story of how Manchester United were saved from going bust. How Manchester Central tried and failed ...
The Potters, the Pie Man & the Throne of Albania – Football History
Clive Hardy looks at how games in the 1890s, both involving Stoke (the Potters) and the 1902 ...
Sealed with a Kiss – England vs France 1920
European international football matches are for the captains to exchange pennants & shake hands before kick off. ...
Big Bertha – Railway History
Big Bertha - the largest and most powerful engine designed and built by the Midland Railway.
Little Willie – Railway History
Discover our lost railway history, Little Willie, and the role Gorton played for this engine that could!
Back in the USSR – Gorton’s Steam Exports
The story of the biggest steam locomotive ever to be constructed in Europe.
British Rail in Steam at NCB Williamthorpe Colliery
Situated near Holmewood in North Derbyshire, NCB Williamthorpe Colliery in 1967 was the place where several British ...
Manchester Liverpool Road Station – Lost Stations
An anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the Science and Industry Museum, Liverpool Road, ...
Get fell in! The vital defence role played by Britain’s ‘Gunner Girls’
At the beginning of July 1940, the UK’s anti-aircraft strength stood at 157,139 men, 1,200 heavy and 549 light guns, and 3,932 searchlights. ...
How Lord Beaverbrook gave aircraft production wings!
On 14 May 1940, Winston Churchill appointed the Canadian-British Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, as Minister of ...
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