The Banbury Historical Society has just published an new book called 'Banbury past through artists' eyes' to mark its 50th anniversary It includes: * Paintings, drawings, engravings * Only one photograph! * Text mainly quoting from contemporary sources * 128 pages * 200+ illustrations, over 70 in full colour * 10 x 7½ins It is a unique collection of some two hundred paintings, drawings and engravings of Banbury, Oxfordshire's second town, mainly as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is not a car to be seen, though modernity does creep in with the sight of an 1850s 'Puffing Billy' at the then recently-erected railway station. More details, including the index of people and places, is to be found at www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/books/banbury-past-through- artists-eyes.htm [thanks to Rosemary]. Cheers, Colin Cohen -- 'The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys'. Sir William Preece, General Post Office Chief Engineer, 1878