Return to Duty
Fran & Martin Collins

Return to Duty tells the story of three U.S. Army hospitals located at Brickbarns Farm, Merebrook and Wood Farm in the Malvern Wells area of Worcestershire during World War II. All three hospitals were built by British contractors in 1943 and used by American hospital units until the end of the war in Europe; Brickbarns Farm was occupied until December 1945...

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The Streets of Brum – Part Five
Carl Chinn

Birmingham’s streets, roads and lanes are an absorbing aspect of our history. They call out to us about long dead landowners, notable figures from the history of England, Brummies long forgotten, farms that have been swept away by the outpouring of our city, remarkable physical features, distant battles, intriguing foreign places and mysterious happenings...

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Palmers Hill
Ian Morris

Worcestershire brothers, Mac and Barry Goodwin’s, true story told from a bedrock of fact but as living flesh. Their mastery of the air as teenagers and then as RAF pilots in 605 (The County of Warwick) Squadron and 609 (West Riding) Squadron in WW2 flying Hurricanes and Spitfires is set against a privileged family background...

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Edward Walter Locke – Master Potter 1829-1909
Tom & Lillian Willis

This book is the result of the first in-depth research on Locke & Co. Ltd. and will fill a void in the history of porcelain in Worcester. A common belief was that the Locke family came from Bristol or Swansea. In fact, Edward Walter Locke’s grandfather, Joseph, was born at Kempsey, a few miles from Worcester...

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Inseparable Siblings
Elizabeth Oakley

Clemence was a younger sister of A.E. Housman, classicist and poet. When, aged 22, she left her comfortable Victorian middleclass Worcestershire home to go to London to look after her rebellious, artistic younger brother, Laurence, it was a slightly shocking thing to do. From then on, devoted to each other, their lives and creative careers were always interlinked...

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Warwickshire's Wildflowers
Steven J. Falk

Warwickshire’s Wildflowers provides a modern snapshot of the flora of Warwickshire and reflects heavily on recent changes, both losses and gains. It is as much a book about Warwickshire (defined here as including Coventry, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and much of east Birmingham) as about the plants themselves...

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Tales out of School
Ed. Val Hart

Memories of schooldays are special. Everyone has them but they are infinite in their variety. The memories in this book span a century and were collected and recorded from 120 different people mainly connected to Balsall Heath in some way. Some of the older memories recall times of strict discipline in the old Board Schools or describe the challenges of school during the Second World War...

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Adrift in Paradise
Shirley Thompson

Fiona Eastley, an attractive young widow, is recovering from the trauma of her husband’s sudden death. Holidaying on the beautiful island of Skiathos, in the middle of the Aegean Sea, she meets not one, but two handsome strangers, who are destined to transform her life. But the Sirens of Greek Mythology are intent on luring the three main characters onto the rocks...

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Tolkien's Bag End
Andrew H. Morton

In Tolkien’s Bag End, Andrew Morton sets out to uncover the significance of the Worcestershire manor house that famously gave its name to the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. During the 1920s, when J.R.R. Tolkien was beginning to formulate the stories that found their way into The Hobbit, Bag End was owned and farmed by his influential aunt Jane Neave...

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Matthew Boulton: A Revolutionary Player
Ed. Malcolm Dick

Matthew Boulton: a Revolutionary Player explores the life and importance of the industrialist and entrepreneur, Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), a central figure in Britain’s Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. He promoted new technology and manufacturing techniques to produce buttons, buckles, silverware, ormolu, coins and medals in his Soho Manufactory and Mint near Birmingham...

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No Place To Moor
Joan McAdam

Having cruised the stretch of the River Thames from Limehouse to Reading some years ago in her 60ft narrowboat, Katyman. The author set out in the summer of 2007, with the help of many friends, and her family, to explore the Thames from Reading to Lechlade. This proved to be a time of extreme weather and the book tells of the pleasures, and the difficulties, along the way...

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Monument Lane Loco Shed
Tony Higgs

For ten years Tony Higgs researched the history of Monument Lane Locomotive Shed. Monument Lane existed for around 110 years, having opened in the 1850s. It was responsible for both passenger and freight services, the pick of which were main line trains from Birmingham to London, Liverpool and Manchester...

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From Bromsgrove to Aston Fields – A Story of Victorian Expansion
Jennie McGregor-Smith

This absorbing and liberally illustrated book tells in a light-hearted way the story of the origins of Aston Fields and the Victorian development of the eastern side of Bromsgrove. It all started with the coming of the railway – before then there was nothing but a narrow winding lane, fields, and half a dozen houses...

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