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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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