An illustrated history of one of Britain's finest counties - Cheshire. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.

Paul Hurley has been a freelance writer since 2002 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has had magazine and local and national newspaper credits and has written several books on the local history of Cheshire. Since retiring from the police in 2002 he has amassed a CV that takes in a three part article in the Steam World magazine, one in the Backtrack magazine, and many other magazine articles not relating to the railway scene.