The first of two volumes, Wildfire through Staffordshire presents the very best from Osborne, Wild and Roscoe, who each published their own early Railway Traveller's Guides shortly after the opening of the country's first ground-breaking trunk line, the Grand Junction railway, on the 4th of July 1837. This publication is lavishly and uniquely supplemented with commissioned poems by Ian Henery as well as many antique views, vistas and rare maps from the period, and covers the first half of the journey from Birmingham to Liverpool or Manchester. The second volume continues as the Wildfire...