Earlier this year the latest Brian Turner book, Via Marton, was released and with only 100 copies printed there were lots of disappointed individuals who couldn’t get their hands on a copy. But fear not as there is now a second – and probably final – print run of 100 books which are now available.
Details of the book are:
VIA MARTON – The last traditional street tramway in Blackpool – and in Britain – closed on 28 October 1962. It ran from Talbot Square to Royal Oak, both destinations being followed – in Blackpool’s distinctive diagonal format – by the evocative suffix Via Marton.
The trams followed an exceptionally varied semi-circular route which took them through the busy town centre, out via the leafy suburbs of Marton, and back to the flat rectangularity of South Shore.
This hardback book, with 85 colour and 150 black-and-white photographs on 114 A4-size pages, follows the same journey during the last years of the Marton tramway. Only 100 copies have been printed.
To find out more, email brian.r.turner@live.com: “Please send me details of Via Marton.”
The first 100 sold out within a week so if you want to add this excellent book to your collection be quick!