Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a history of East Grinstead with a difference. Read it and you will find out what really shaped your locality. In this authoritative and highly readable text the author recounts the stories and events that together make up East Grinstead’s history and relates them directly to what you can still see on the ground today. Throughout are carefully chosen photographs from the world-famous Francis Frith Collection the archive that is renowned for the fine quality of its images. These are supplemented by specially commissioned colour photographs showing the locality as it is today. Topic boxes cover subjects of particular interest and the Did You Know boxes will test to the full your local knowledge. TEASE Learn too about East Grinstead’s worthies past and present whose energy and innovation have played such a vital role in shaping the locality. History is not just a phenomenon of the past – it is in the making at this moment. The author also celebrates the living breathing organism that is the community today and gives us a timely and enthusiastic appreciation of the new East Grinstead that is developing before our eyes.