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  • av Alan Davies
    397,-

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    147 - 188,-

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    143,-

  • av Alan Davies
    165,-

    A powerful, moving and darkly comic memoir from the brilliant comedian, actor and broadcaster Alan Davies, star of QI and Jonathan Creek.

  • - A Guide for Researchers, Physicians and Informaticians
    av Julia Mueller & Alan Davies
    727 - 1 039,-

  • av Alan Davies & Tentatively A Convenience
    219,-

  • - Around the World in 4,000 birds
    av Alan Davies
    275,-

  • - The Walkden Yard Connection
    av Alan Davies
    398,-

    The old Bridgewater Trustees mineral railways were to become the Central Railways of the huge Manchester Collieries concern, which was formed in March 1929. The landscape with its changing, suddenly abrupt and often fierce gradients was to be a cruel one for these colliery locomotives which were worked virtually constantly to their limits. From Worsley to Linnyshaw Colliery, east of Walkden, the average gradient had been 1 in 52 with the occasional 1 in 30 stretch! The locomotives were varied but post-war included many of the Hunslet-designed Austerity, as well as a series of ex-North Staffordshire Railway locomotives. Alan Davies, in a companion volume to his previous work on Walken Yard itself, tells the story of the locomotives that were based there, were maintained and repaired there and that sometimes finished their working lives at Walkden Yard.

  • - The Lancashire Central Coalfield Workshops
    av Alan Davies
    225,-

    Located close to the Ellesmere Colliery, the Walkden Yard ultimately became the NCB Central Workshops for Lancashire. From here the workshops served the Bridgewater Trustees' collieries, providing engineering support as well as maintaining the numerous railway locomotives and the many hundreds of wagons that the company owned. Opened in 1878, Walkden Yard transferred to the National Coal Board upon nationalization after the Second World War and its importance grew as it served the other Lancashire collieries too. At Walkden there were a machine shop, joiners' shop, electricians' shop, paint shop, tinsmiths', locomotive repair shop, wagon sheds and wagon machine shop. The yard itself employed hundreds of men and boys but was closed in 1986 with the decline of the Lancashire coalfield. A housing estate now sits atop the site of the Walkden yard and it is hard to remember that the site once serviced the many locomotives that belonged to the NCB, or that the Coal Board and its predecessors operated many locomotives over their own lines as well as the railway company ones and that a huge industry was maintained at Walkden yard, repairing locomotives and rolling stock. In this book, Alan Davies tells the story of the Walkden yard and the locomotives of the Lancashire coalfield.

  • av Alan Davies
    225,-

    When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad. 'What are we going to do with you?' they would ask - as if he might know the answer.Perhaps it was because he came of age in the 1980s. That decade of big hair, greed, camp music, mass unemployment, social unrest and truly shameful trousers was confusing for teenagers. There was a lot to believe in - so much to stand for, or stand against - and Alan decided to join anything with the word 'anti' in it. He was looking for heroes to guide him (relatively) unscathed into adulthood.From his chronic kleptomania to the moving search for his mother's grave years after she died; from his obsession with joining (going so far as to become a member of Chickens Lib) to his first forays into making people laugh (not always intentionally); Teenage Revolution is a touching and funny return to the formative years that make us all.

  • - From Practice to Theory
    av Alan Davies
    371,-

    Language and language problems affect all of us and are an integral part of our social experience. In this foundational textbook, Professor Davies takes this simple fact as his starting point and sets out to show that applied linguistics is better understood by doing it than studying it or reading about it.

  • av Alan Davies
    206,-

    A history of the pit brow women of Wigan Coalfield

  • - The Man Who Created Dr Finlay
    av Alan Davies
    383,-

    AJ Cronin, author of some of the best-loved novels of the mid-twentieth century and the creator of Dr Finlay, has been unjustly overlooked by literary biographers. This title tells the story of Cronin's Scottish childhood as the son of a Protestant mother and Catholic father, his subsequent medical career, and his rise to literary prominence.

  • - Testing English Proficiency 1950-1989 - The IELTS Solution
    av Alan Davies
    822,-

    This volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK.

  • av Alan Davies
    206,-

    Through documents, the Wigan area can trace its coal mining activities as far back as 650 years, and for a brief spell in the late 19th century Wigan itself was proudly known as 'Coalopolis'. This book provides an insight into the lives and working conditions of Wigan area miners, and offers a testament to the region and its coal mining legacy.

  • av Alan Davies
    262 - 1 213,-

    Applied linguistics is understood to deal with language in use, particularly where institutions and interventions are involved. This alphabetic guide provides definitions and discussion of key terms used in the field. The selection of items offers a view of applied linguistics as an activity in its own right and therefore helps define it.

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