A book of stories relating to Somerset Life and Times which was first Published in 1912. Chapters include; • The Mendip Country • A Son of the Soil • A West Country Village • The Ploughing Match • The Rat Catcher • The Sheep Shearing • plus many others ...
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This survey, compiled in 1525, contains details of tenants and the type of lease held, from the estates in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire which belonged to the Marchioness of Dorset. Lots of information for both family and local historians....
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12 page A4 booklet describing Barnet's boundary over 1000 years, including it's early history and place names....
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Compiled by Gwyneth Fookes. 36 pp, A5. Published 2007. ISBN 978 0 900992 84 1....
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A VERY INDEPENDENT COUNTY: Parliamentary elections and politics in County Armagh, 1750-1800 analyses the background to, and traces details of general elections and by'€elections for the county and borough seats in Armagh. In the eighteenth century, County Armagh was famously referred to as ‘a very independent county'' given the distinctive nature of politics and electioneering in p...
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An 8 page A5 booklet describing a walk around Chipping Barnet (focussing on Barnet Hill), highlighting buildings and other aspects of historic interest along the route, with map and drawings of some of the buildings....
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An 8 page A5 booklet describing a walk around Chipping Barnet (focussing on a route from Wood Street to the High Street), highlighting buildings and other aspects of historic interest along the route, with map and drawings of some of the buildings....
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An 8 page A5 booklet describing a walk around East Barnet, highlighting buildings and other aspects of historic interest along the route, with a map and drawings of some of the buildings....
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An 8 page A5 booklet describing a walk around New Barnet, highlighting buildings and other aspects of historic interest along the route, with map and drawings of some of the buildings...
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Charming tales of a Yorkshireman's adventures in the City, written with wit in simple dialect and easy to read. Amusing!...
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An account of the fertiliser business led by Thomas Proctor, who was active in Bristol politics and philanthropy and donated his house in Clifton as an official residence for the lord mayor of Bristol....
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A Pictorial history of the 13th cathedral like parish church of Leighton Buzzard....
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The story of Leighton Buzzards "first" family told for children. Includes map and a town trail. Lots of Victorian pictures and fully indexed....
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Alan Godfrey Edition Map. 6 inches to the mile...
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by Hazel Pryor and John Hitchens. A hundred years of professional gardeners, 1900-2000...
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Charles Frederick Southwell; Private Thomas Hollinworth and the Battle of Egypt; My Four and a Half Years in the Altrincham LDV and Home Guard; Random Jottings; Colin Spofforth Statue for Altrincham; H W Kearns & Co.1945-1967: Peace and the Aftermath, Part 1; Altrincham Railway Stations...
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The Stamford Hospital (in Dunham Massey Hall); The Death of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO; Masons’ Marks...
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Family Life in Broadheath, 1920s-1930s; Altrincham General Hospital; Sir William Henry Veno; Lord Stamford and the Bombing of Altrincham in December 1940; Maudie Tipping's Third Will...
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Social and Economic Change in late Nineteenth Century Bowdon; The Blitz in Altrincham, 1940-41; East Chinnock Church, Somerset; Altrincham in the 1930s; The Otto Gas Engine and the Crossley Brothers; Social Geographical Divisions in Nineteenth Century Altrincham...
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An Afternoon in Castlefield; The Life and Work of David Herbert Langton: Author and Antiquarian (1858-1918); Random Jottings: Helen Allingham, Heritage map, Alan Turing, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Wonderland Again; Adam Fletcher Fox; James Batchelor, gunmaker, Altrincham; Eating, Clothes and Leisure in Hale 1600-1640...
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Ollerbarrow Farm and New Farm, Hale; Altrincham Town Hall's Stanined Glass Coats-of-Arms; Altrincham and Dunham Memorial Cross; Richmond House School, Bowdon; Two Hale Families in the Mid-eighteenth Century...
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Memories of Dunham Camp; Bent's Inn, Altrincham 1640-1713; Timperley Datestone; The Victoria Cross and the George Cross...
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Articles: A Chase Through Hale Ends in Death; Altrincham's Ancient Charter; Altrincham's Seventeenth Century Inns: Part 2: Eaton's Inn 1600-1753 (aka the Old Market Tavern)...
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Burdett’s Map of Altrincham; The Last Butcher in Altrincham; Plague in Manchester; Development of the Lintoype Estate, Broadheath 1896-1932; A Dialogue Between Two History Detectives!; ‘To Serve in the Warrs’; A Tidbit from the Manchester Constables’ Accounts; Altrincham Town Clock and Market Bell 1663-1707...
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Don Bayliss Obituary; Stamford Rack Rent Dinner 1902; A Timperley Flour Manufacturer in WW1; The History of the Local Landscape; Altrincham’s First Fire Engine...
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