Stefan Buczacki

Denys Ovenden

Chris Shields

The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.

Collins Fungi Guide: The most complete field guide to the mushrooms and toadstools of Britain & Ireland

This magical place, once the haunt of Queens and future Kings. Of Emperors, Empresses, Princes, Princesses, Dukes, Duchesses, Mayors, Nobility, Gentry, Aristocrats, Politicians, Writers, Artists and Poets. With its opera singers, musicians, magicians, tightrope-walkers, balloonists, gymnasts, dancers, acrobats, archers, jesters, jugglers, sword-swallowers, military bands, singing minstrels, gypsy fortune-tellers, ventriloquists, lasso demonstrators and a leopardess with dogs. Boasting its medicinal well spring, thatched wigwam, fine dancing lawn, octagonal reading room/refreshment room/Swiss confectionary, luxuriant foliage, terraces, rustic seats, fanciful summer-houses, arbours, heath-sheds, benches, rosery, maze, camera obscura, rustic bridge over lakes with waterfowl, tents and marquees, flagpoles, archery ground, picnic parties, fireworks and grand fetes. Here's a new look at the history of the Royal Beulah Spa and Gardens in Upper Norwood, South London written by Chris Shields. Visitors today, once unaware of the amazing history and secrets held by these grassy slopes, can now view the Beulah Spa History Lectern and Beulah Stone which both mark the exact spot of the Beulah Spa well.

The Beulah Spa 1831-1856 A New Pictorial History

The Beulah Spa 1831-1856 A New History

South London musician, composer, writer and historian Chris Shields investigates his varied and unusual family tree. ?I spent my childhood asking questions about my family's past. This led to tales of Romanies, of the Northamptonshire Smiths, Loveridges, Scarrotts and Boswells and the discovery of Charlie Chaplin's birth in a caravan on the Black Patch.Then to the French Mazoyers and a watchmaker's shop in Soho. Stories of Evans and Wormull ? surgical instrument makers to the Army and government. Then the Baker family of Eastbourne and Herstmonceux. Seaside concert parties ? Fred Austin's Merrie Middies. Then to war and Stalag IVb POW, buzzbombs and blackouts. The Snell family of Mortimer and the Arlotts of Watership Down. The Shields family of Peckham ? pie, mash and poverty. Then to music - the '60s and The Twilights and the Star Club, Hamburg. This information shared here was told to me directly from the mouths of those involved ? who lived, breathed and experienced all of this.""

Chris Shields

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