AYLESBURY THEN & NOW IN COLOUR.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to top left-hand corner of front free endpaper,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,transposed comparative colour+sepia photographic views illustrated front panel of dw/dj with brown+blue lettering,brown spine with white letters,rear panel with historical sepia photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - author's signature excepted.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,4-95pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,note about the author,author's introduction,'Aylesbury Then & Now' in the form of profuse historical sepia (then) and contemporary colour (now) photographic views with accompanying text; plus [unpaginated] title page,dw/dj front photograph repeated to illustrated contents list/table and to reverse of last page,publisher's b/w illustrated advert for other Aylesbury-related available titles.
This book looks back at long forgotten views of the town and takes a look at what is there today.Most will have changed beyond all recognition while a few areas remain much the same.The town has had distinct periods in which there were great changes. The 1860s saw Market Square lose its central buildings and have Great Western Street and Exchange Street appear on the map for the first time.
The 1920s and '30s saw lots of houses being built and the 1960s witnessed unprecedented change with the County Offices and Friars Square Shopping Centre being built,together with the ring road dual carriageway which obliterated historic areas of the town.
As we move into the twenty-first century Aylesbury is undergoing further changes with the building of the new Waterside Theatre.This is the start of a regeneration of the canal basin area.One thing is certain, the town continues to change with every new generation that comes along.These photographs tell that story in vivid detail.
Karl Vaughan is a designer by trade but also a local historian and photographer,and is also the author of six pictorial books on the history of his home town of Aylesbury.He has a weekly column in the local press, the Bucks Herald and in addition to this,runs a popular Facebook site 'Aylesbury Remembered' dedicated to memories of the town in years gone by.
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