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Marston Green
Graham E Crawford

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Marston Green – From Olden Days to the Present Day gives a comprehensive and fully detailed account of all the post war housing built in the village, including Lyndon Croft, Digby Drive, Aylesford Drive to Moseley Drive and the numerous fill in cul-de-sacs which have appeared around the village. The book also includes the most recent building projects...

£14.95 PB - More info


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Anna Seward's Life of Erasmus Darwin
Philip Wilson et al.

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In 1804, at a time of industrial, political and intellectual ferment, Anna Seward (1742–1809) published the first biography of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802). Darwin, Charles Darwin’s grandfather, was one of Britain’s foremost physicians, scientists, poets and observers of nature. Anna Seward was a leading poet, critic and commentator...

£14.95 PB / £19.95 HB - More info


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A Mile for the Milk
Alison Hartfield

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Alison Hartfield spent her childhood in an isolated North Wiltshire village during the nineteen twenties, and subsequently trained as a teacher of young children in Salisbury. Set in the nineteen twenties A Mile for the Milk traces the impact of rural upbringing and a now vanished way of life upon the author and her sisters...

£11.95 PB - More info


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If Only
Jean Debney

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Sal and Issie would never have met had it not been for WWII; their lives were completely different, Sal living a leafy-suburban existence in Birmingham, working in a dress shop, Issie coming from the poorer part of the city. Sal longed to work at ‘the aero’ with all the sophisticated girls making munitions and earning good money. As the war approaches she gets her wish and meets the vivacious Issie. There starts their longest most enduring friendship...

£6.95 PB - More info


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Bombs and Betty Grable
John Wilcox

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John Wilcox has written seven novels of historical adventure and two books of non-fiction. Now, however, he tells the story of how he grew up as a maths-hating boy in the back streets of Birmingham during the war, dodging the German bombs but pledging his undying love for an iconic Betty Grable...

£12.95 PB - More info


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Dunkirk Diary of a Very Young Soldier
Wilf Saunders CBE

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Dunkirk Diary of a Very Young Soldier
, is the personal account of a Birmingham boy, Wilf Saunders. He joined 48th Divisional Signals at Hall Green T.A. as a 19 year old Signalman in February 1939, shortly before the outbreak of war. Saunders recounts his experiences during the lead up to World War II, the ‘phoney war’ and finally the B.E.F. advance through France and Belgium, with the subsequent retreat to Dunkirk...

£8.95 PB - More info


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Return to Duty
Fran & Martin Collins

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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...

£10.95 PB - More info


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The Streets of Brum – Part Five
Carl Chinn

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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...

£13.95 PB - More info


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Palmers Hill
Ian Morris

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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...

£8.95 PB - More info


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

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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...

£14.95 PB - More info


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Inseparable Siblings
Elizabeth Oakley

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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...

£12.95 PB - More info


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Warwickshire's Wildflowers
Steven J. Falk

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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...

£15.95 HB - More info


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Tolkien's Bag End
Andrew H. Morton

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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...

£9.95 PB - More info

   
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