An accessible history of Rotherham from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

An accessible history of Wakefield from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

An accessible history of Darlington from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city’s significant events and people.

This book gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in Rotherham over the past 100 years. It recalls houses and public buildings, shops, factories and pubs that have vanished or been changed almost beyond recognition. The pictures show changing types of transport and fashion, and the developing character of streets and districts as they took on the form that is familiar today. The astonishing periods of growth that occurred during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, and since the Second World War, are particularly well illustrated. Many aspects of the changing town are recalled - hospitals and schools, places of work and recreation, parks and squares, suburban streets and the main thoroughfares - and the pictures record the ceaseless building and rebuilding that characterises the town today. The author has combined a remarkable selection of archive photographs with modern views of the same scenes in order to record the transformation that has occurred. The book will add to the knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of all those who take an interest in this distinctive town.

The publication of this, the third volume in the Aspects of Rotherham series, marks an important development in the ever growing Aspects Series. From its beginnings in 1993 with Aspects of Barnsley 1, the series now has some twenty titles either in print or programmed for early publication. The present volume continues the tradition of bringing a wide variety of well researched material to the attention of the general reader. Furthermore, the text is augmented with numerous photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps, the vast majority of which have never before been published. Continuing the tradition of the Aspects Series, the volume contains contributions from well known local historians and newcomers being published for the first time. Aspects of Rotherham 3 will appeal equally to the reader with a general interest in the town and the serious student of the history of Rotherham and its people.

A history of Rotherham