Stowmarket by Robert Malster

Stowmarket by Robert Malster

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A celebration of the heritage of this Suffolk market town

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Stowmarket by Robert Malster

Stowmarket is an old market town, which in the course of the nineteenth century became a minor industrial centre amid the fields of rural Suffolk. The products of its engineering works reflected the town's agricultural background; those of its guncotton works, which blew up with devastating effect in 1871, did not, although the growth of the explosives industry did indeed stem from the manufacture of artificial fertilisers. Happily, a succession of photographers have captured not only the town's industrial activities but also the town scene, from the fire of 1868 to the redevelopment of the 1960s. Their work is employed in this book to provide a fascinating record of the changes in a country town over more than a century.
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ISBN 13 9780752451954
ISBN 10 0752451952
Title Stowmarket
Author Robert Malster
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The History Press Ltd
Year published 2009-07-20
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.