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The Peaton Shadow Factory

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781008912007
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Peaton Shadow Factory written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Second World War, the British Air Ministry needed more aircraft . An arrangement was made with motor manufacturers to make aircraft components. The Shadow Factory Scheme was introduced whereby experienced automobile engineers 'shadowed' aircraft engineers to learn their skills. Existing machines were modified and specialised new equipment was installed in the motor works. Hurry Water Heaters of Birmingham had a contract to make the fuel tanks for Short Stirling bombers. The finished products were taken to be fitted in the Austin Motor Company's Works in Bromsgrove. 'When Hurry's factory was bombed, the undamaged machinery and many of their skilled welders and riveters were relocated to an empty cow house in the remote hamlet of Peaton, near Diddlebury, Shropshire. Local men and women were recruited and between 1941 and 1945, fuel tanks were made and transported by lorry to the 'Aero' works where they were fitted into the wings and tail planes of the Stirlings. Bernard O'Connor has researched the history of this shadow factory using accounts found in local history books and magazines and interviews with local people who remembered it.

The Shadow Factory

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732952853
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Factory written by Paul Collins and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadow factory

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420264296
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Shadow factory written by Paul Collins and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blowing Up Iberia: British, German and Italian Sabotage in Spain and Portugal

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244550360
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Blowing Up Iberia: British, German and Italian Sabotage in Spain and Portugal written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the British military and intelligence agencies had plans in case Germany invaded Spain and Portugal. This involved training British and Spanish agents to be secretly infiltrated to undertake sabotage operations on important lines of communication and liaising with pro-British locals. At the same time the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence agency, paid young Spanish and Portuguese collaborators to undertake sabotage missions against Allied military and economic targets in Iberia but they had limited success. Italian saboteurs from the Decima Flotigglia MAS were more successful using underwater divers to attack Allied shipping. Using declassified files from Britain's National Archives, autobiographies, biographies and newspaper articles, this documentary history sheds new light on an unusual aspect of Iberian history telling a human story of international diplomacy, political intrigue, secret agents, clandestine warfare, military strategy, nationalism, and deception.

Women of RAF Tempsford

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445604343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Women of RAF Tempsford written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Tempsford Women.

Agent Fifi and the Wartime Honeytrap Spies

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445660189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Agent Fifi and the Wartime Honeytrap Spies written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Agent Fifi, whose mere identity was only disclosed in September 2014 as Marie Chilver.

Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244850194
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, paid young Spanish men to undertake over sixty sabotage attacks on military installations and shipping with limited success. The Italian Decima Flotilla MAS, a specialist team of underwater frogmen, launched eight attacks which were relatively successful and Spanish Falangists made several unsuccessful attempts. The British Secret Intelligence Service endeavoured to stop or at least limit such attacks. Using contemporary files from the National Archives in Kew, autobiographies, biographies, histories and newspaper articles, this documentary history investigates the successes and failures of these attacks on Gibraltar and the roles played by intelligence officers, agents, double agents in discovering and preventing such acts. The book sheds light on an unusual and largely overlooked aspect of Gibraltar's history.

Agent Rose

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445615819
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Agent Rose written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and poignant death of one of Britain’s bravest women. Eileen Nearne, or Agent Rose, was one of forty women sent into France by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Churchill’s top secret wartime ‘spooks’ organisation.

History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire

Author : Samuel Bagshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire written by Samuel Bagshaw and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forbearance as Redistribution

Author : Alisha Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107174074
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Forbearance as Redistribution written by Alisha Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal welfare provision and a more effective means to mobilize the poor than conventional state social policies.

Churchill's Most Secret Airfield

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445606903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Churchill's Most Secret Airfield written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the mysterious Tempsford airfield used to ferry secret agents into occupied Europe.

Metternich’s Europe

Author : Mack Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349005606
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Metternich’s Europe written by Mack Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1968-06-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Laird of Logan, Or, Anecdotes and Tales Illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Deserted Medieval Settlements of the Clee Hills, Shropshire

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781387694808
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Deserted Medieval Settlements of the Clee Hills, Shropshire written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two centuries after the Norman invasion, Britain's population more than tripled. Demand for food meant more land had to be brought under cultivation. As the climate was generally warmer than it is today, it was possible to grow cereals and vegetables on higher land. On the Clee Hills in Shropshire, between Ludlow and Bridgnorth, woods were cleared and the timber used in construction of new houses. Boulders and rocks were moved from the soil and used for building walls. The newly exposed soil was ploughed, seeded, weeded and harvested to feed the growing population. Many new settlements grew up on the slopes below the Brown Clee, Abdon Burf and Titterstone Clee. Some of them are still in existence but a number have been deserted. Studying deserted medieval villages began in the 1960s and Maurice Beresford, Trevor Rowley, Neha Patil and other historians and archaeologists have researched and written about those in Shropshire. Whilst many believe that the Black Death was responsible for massive rural depopulation, there were a number of other reasons why people deserted these settlements including economic hardship due to climate change, crop failures, animal diseases and wealthy landowners wanting the land for sheep grazing, for parkland and to remove unsightly buildings which spoilt their view. Bernard O'Connor's Deserted Medieval Settlements on the Clee Hills uses extracts from books, the Alchetron, OpenDomesday, the Victoria County History, Shropshire History, British History, Historic England, English Heritage and other websites to detail the deserted settlements of Abdon, Ashfield, Balsam's Heath, Bitterley, Bockleton, Broncroft, Brookhampton, Lower Cleeton, Cleestanton, Coldgreene, Cold Weston, Ditton Priors, Downton, Egerton, Heath, Holdgate, Kinson, Lackstone, Lawton, Leverdgrene, More, Neen Savage, Newton, Great Oxenbold, Ruthall, Thonglands, Tugford, Wheathill, Witchcot and Yelds.

Air Crashes on the Clee Hills, Shropshire

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716493270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Air Crashes on the Clee Hills, Shropshire written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clee Hills in Shropshire are designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty but few residents and even fewer visitors are aware that it is claimed that more people have been killed in air crashes on these hills than on any other highland area in Britain. Bernard O'Connor's research reveals that there were 19 air crashes on the Clee Hills between 1937 and 1975 with the loss of 43 lives. Whilst 23 were killed on the Brown Clee during the Second World War, Titterstone Clee claimed 11. It needs to be remembered that 17 survived their crashes. Those who lost their lives were 28 British personnel, six Germans, four Americans, four Canadians and one New Zealander. Four Avro Ansons came down, three Bristol Blenheims, two Vickers Wellingtons, a Flying Fortress, a Tiger Moth, an American Mustang, a Miles Magister, a Hawker Typhoon, an Airspeed Oxford, a Jet Provost, a Harrier Jet, a Junkers 88 and a Heinkel. It also needs to be stressed that many local people came out to help after the crashes, agricultural labourers, farmers, the Home Guard, Anti-Aircraft crews, Searchlight crews, troops from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, the local police as well as staff from the RAF Maintenance (Rescue) unit and RAF Accident investigators. Local hospital staff, clergy, gravediggers and crematorium staff played an important role. Local photographers made a record of many of the crashes and reported from the local, and sometimes national, press ensured readers were provided the details. Using contemporary sources and the research undertaken by aviation historians, Philippa Hodgkiss, Glyn Warren, Adrian Durnell and Tom Thorne, this documentary history provides the human story of these many disasters and near disasters.

Cities for People, Not for Profit

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136625046
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Cities for People, Not for Profit written by Neil Brenner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.

Antiheroes

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636442
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Antiheroes written by Ilan Stavans and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation of the author's psychoanalytic beliefs and experiences inchild psychoanalytic therapy.