Search Results: LOCAL HISTORY from Chilton Books

Leicestershire: Duplitype Offset. n/d.. These anecdotes have been picked up over the past 65 years. The entire accuracy cannot be guaranteed, but they are, an account of what has been passed on from the original teller". Pp 63. Some b/w illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

Sunderland: S.A.Forster, 1910.. Papers Ordered to be Printed by The Sunderland Antiquarian Society. Vol.X. 1909. Contents: I.The History of the Sunderland Beef-steak Club, founded 1828 by G.W.Bain; II.The Old Presbyterian Chapel in Maling's Rigg by Robert Hyslop; III.Notes on the Parish of Seaham by R.Anderson Aird; IV.Notes of the Life and Works of John Laurence, Rector of Bishopwearmouth, 1721-32 by G.O.Bellewes; V.The Literary Works of Sir Cuthbert Sharp, Collector of Customs at Sunderland, 1823-45 by B.Rowland Hill; VI.The Poor Laws - with Special Reference to Sunderland Workhouses by James Ketts; VII.Notes on Bowmaker's Mill by Robert Hyslop. Pp.xvi/213, black & white frontispiece and 221 further plates. Grey card covers, crease to lower front corner, wear to spine. G+.

Baldock: Egon Publishers Ltd, 1991.. 1st edition. . The Town as Remembered by Baldock People in Conversation with Edna Page and Nora Penfold. The book is an attempt to record and preserve the memories of people living in Baldock during the first seventy years of the twentieth century. 24.5cms x 18cms x 1.3cms. Pp.160, over 150 black & white photographs + double page map to end,photo illustrated endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has uneven sunning to spine and edges. Plus 8 page booklet guide to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Baldock, Hertfordshire, loosely enclosed). VG/Good.

Wimborne: The Dovecote Press, 1991.. 1st edition. "More than 150 photographs, from Victorian times to the present, that superbly illustrate the changing character of one of the most rural and fascinating areas of Britain." 25.5cms x 20cms. Unpaginated, with 150 black & white photographs throughout. Paperback. VG.

Buckingham: Barracuda Books Limited, 1985.. Limited edition of which this is No.185. "An impression, painted with a broad brush, of Durham's changing past, that combines the evidence from excavations, standing buildings both great and small and the incredibly rich documentary sources. " 26.5cms X 21cms X 1cm. Pp.144, black & white frontispiece + many further illustrations and photos, list of subscribers to end, map illustrations to endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed with chipped tears to top of spine. VG/G+.

Bradford on Avon: Ex Libris Press, 1988.. Noted for its Saxon Church, medieval Tithe Barn and ranks of stone houses clinging to the hillside overlooking the river, Bradford on Avon is a most attractive small town. Once an important centre for wool and cloth manufacture Bradford on Avon retains many of its old buildings connected with this former industry. The first thorough history of Bradford on Avon to appear since Canon Jones published his in 1859. Includes a comprehensive collection of illustrations and contemporary b/w photographs by Adam Tegetmeier. Paperback, Pp.136. Illustrated colour front cover showing stone houses, minor crease to front, title to spine. Tex clean throughout, neat embossed private library stamp to front endpaper. V. Good.

Bury St Edmunds: Gresham College, 1998.. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College "a unique and remarkable educational institution which has been called 'a Renaissance jewel in the City of London'." Pp.100, portait frontispiece. Red cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Winchester: Privately published, 1986.. Short history traces the account of the spiritual and pastoral care of staff and patients through the centuries and was published to co-incide with the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital's foundation. 24cms x 15cms. Pp.72, frontispiece + 8 further black & white plates. Paperback, minor wear to spine edge. VG.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1950.. 1st edition. "Mr Newton takes the reader through streets and byways to old and long-forgotten churches, pointing out landmarks, illustrating old Catholic customs and ways of life, discoursing on London saints, prelates and eminent Catholic citizens, reviving memories of martyrs and more humble sufferers for their faith uner Tudor and Penal laws, and finally bringing us to the rebuilding of Catholicism in this one-time great Catholic city." Pp.348, 33 black & white plates, minor spotting to endpapers. Dark red cloth, dustwrapper (design by Val Biro) has 1cm loss to top front edge and minor wear to other edges and is in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

Chichester: Phillimore, 1999.. 1st edition. "Chatham grew from a tiny, medieval fishing village into one of the nation's most important military centres. The author...has incorporated the lastest findings and interpretations into this lively and entertaining account of the growth of the town as a military-industrial complex, with fascinating detail of the life of its inhabitants. No punches are pulled." 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.xiv/129, 138 black & white photo illustrations, map to front endpapers, vintage newspaper and notice to rear endpapers. Navy blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

[London] : Printed for The Chelsea Society, and sold in aid of The Carlyle's House Endowment Fund, 1934 .. An original 1934 pamphlet. 10.0" x 7.5". pp.23 . Brown card covers, edges rubbed and chipped. Black titles and portrait illustration to front cover. Sepia coloured portrait frontis (of Thomas Carlyle). Clean text throughout, well illustrated with line drawings and black & white pictures. G+ . * "Writer and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), nicknamed the Sage of Chelsea, together with his wife Jane moved to 5 Cheyne Row in 1834 and lived there until 1881. The Queen Anne house was purchased by public subscription in 1895 and the Carlyle's House Memorial Trust was formed to administer it, opening to the public in 1896. It was transferred to the National Trust in 1936. It contains the Carlyles' furniture, pictures, books and other possessions, and behind the house is their Victorian walled garden. Carlyle often sat here, and in hot weather wrote in the garden, an awning occasionally… Read More

Ashford: The Invicta Press, 1959.. Publsihed by The Coalbrookdale Company to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Coalbrookdale Ironfoundry. Pp30, map too end. Yellow card covers. VG.

Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1994.. Volume II in a series of publications in honor of Carlton C.Brownell printed by the Little Compton Historical Society. "Compton-land is our name for the enchanting countryside in the southwest of England that vies with East Anglia as the region contributing most to the founding of New England....Compton-land...- a region, unknown to the tourist literature, containing almost every village in England called Compton." Landscape format. 16cms x 23cms. Unpaginated(27pages), 4 illustrations (2 in colour), inscribed "For Joy and Alan Rowe, with the compliments of the authors, Alan and Mary Simpson" to front free endpaper, colour folding map loosely enclosed. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to front. Scarce. VG.

Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1970.. 1st ed. by Leicester University Press. (First published in 1939 as part of the Oxford Historical Series.) "The author has combined constitutional and economic analysis with political narrative and explanation, and has aimed to set the local history in its wider national context." Pp. 4/152. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w chipped at edges. VG/G+.

Cheltenham: This England Books, 1990.. 1st ed. An illustrated guide to more than a thousand oddities to be found in the Traditional Counties of England. Pp. 303, b/w illustrations throughout + 1 map. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

Studley: Brewin Books. 1983.. 30cms x 21cms. Pp 111, many b/w illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

Liverpool: The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1955.. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.107, 1955. Pp.23-39, creasing and small marginal tear to pp.25/26. Grey wraps, rusting to staples. Good.

St. Ives: James Pike. 1975.. 1st ed. "When living was a simpler more direct affair and men concerned themselves with their own survival and prosperity the men of Devon excelled in adaptability......Many activities were persued by West Country workers". Pp 32, 5 b/w illustrations, 1 sketch map. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+.

St. Ives: James Pike. 1975.. 1st ed. "Smuggling is a profession which has never been able to parade its accomplishments......Fortunately a few details have come down to us of the procedures employed by the smugglers of the past together with many colourful accounts of the heroic rascals who practised them". Pp 32, 6 b/w illustrations, 1 sketch map. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+.

London: Heath Cranton Ltd, 1937.. Aims to tell of a village life now passing (or passed) away particularly revolving around the Village Inn. A nod is given to the Devon way of speech, but it is not written in full dialect. Pp180. Green cloth, a few bleach spots to the top of the front cover, slightly rubbed. G+.