This is a history of Douglas with a difference. Read it and find out what really shaped the area. In this authoratitive and highly readable text, Frank Cowin recounts stories and events that together make up Douglas' history relating them directly to what can still be seen today. Accompanying the text are carefully selected photographs from the infamous Francis FirthCollection, the archive renowned for the fine quality of it's images. To complement these are some specially comissioned colour photographs to show the locality as it is today. Frank Cowin not only celebrates the history of Douglas that is in the past but also explores the living, breathing oranism that is the community today, and gives us a timely and enthusiastic appreciation of the new Douglas developing before our eyes. Produced by the Francis Firth Collection.