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Restoration Home Gavin Weightman

Restoration Home By Gavin Weightman

Restoration Home by Gavin Weightman


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Summary

Provides the information you need to take your own home back in time, to discover who built it, how it was used, and even how it looked. This title includes: how to use maps to track the changing landscape of your area; how to identify the style of your home and when it was built; and, detailed information on key resources.

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Restoration Home: The Essential Guide to Tracing the History of Your House by Gavin Weightman

BBC TWO's Restoration Home goes on an extraordinary journey of discovery with six new owners of crumbling listed buildings, as they restore them into beautiful 21st Century homes, and uncover, layer by layer, a rich and detailed history of the house and its former occupants.

These stories are fascinating, but what lies behind your own front door? What secrets are held in your own four walls? This official companion to the TV series provides all the information you need to take your own home back in time, to discover who built it, how it was used, and even how it looked.

Includes:

How to use maps to track the changing landscape of your area

How to identify the style of your home and when it was built

Detailed information on key resources, including maps, censuses, deeds and Post Office directories,

A photographic checklist of architectural features to look out for

About Gavin Weightman

Gavin Weightman worked for many years as a journalist, writing for New Society and History Today, before joining London Weekend Television where he was a producer and director of many highly acclaimed series, including The Making of Modern London. His books include the bestseller London's Thames and The Frozen Water Trade. His latest book, Children of Light: How Electrification Changed Britain Forever, was published in 2011.

Additional information

GOR003542051
9781849901345
1849901341
Restoration Home: The Essential Guide to Tracing the History of Your House by Gavin Weightman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Ebury Publishing
20110602
224
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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