Burton upon Trent - Geoffrey Sowerby

This fascinating selection of 'Tales from the Town' delves into a wide assortment of archive material to recount, in words and pictures, many scenes and occasions from Burton on Trent's past. More than just an evocative collections of nearly 200 photographs, a series of themes tells little known stories of the town from 1837 when Queen Victoria ascended the throne up to the send of the Second World War.

This compelling volume reveals Burton's earliest 'theatre'; introduces an artist who recorded scenes before there was any local photography; tells the tale of Edward, the pupil-teacher of 1848; looks at Burton honouring Shakespeare and making music; discovers the saga of the Horninglow Smell; investigates 'lost' breweries; goes along the River Trent and recreates the opening night of the Opera House. Twenty scenarios with illustated texts brings alive many previously unpublished accounts of people, events and lift around the town.

Geoffrey Sowerby and Richard Farman are well known local historians and writers. This, their second volume in The Archive Photographs series, will appeal to all those who know and love this historic town.