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Books Cumbria : History : Social

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The Carlisle Floods: A Photographic Record

David Ramshaw
£5.00

On Saturday 8th January 2005 the citizens of Carlisle woke up to the worst flooding seen in the city for almost 200 years. The weather had been exceptionally wet and windy for several days, but no one could have foreseen the extent of the flooding that occurred on that Saturday morning. In a very short space of time the city ground to a halt and by lunchtime the whole city had lost electrical power.

Published by : P3 Publications
Published date : 2005
Format : Paperback.

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The Carlisle Floods: One Story

Martin Daley
£7.99

The great Carlisle flood of January 2005 didn't just end when the waters subsided. Martin and Wendy Daley were left, like thousands of others, with a derelict house. They had to watch day by day as their home was taken apart and then reconstructed.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2006
Format : Paperback.

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The Carlisle State Management Scheme

Olive Seabury
£15.00

In 1916 the pubs and breweries in the Carlisle area were taken over by the Government. The aim was to civilize the drinking habits of this dissolute city.

Published by : Bookcase Carlisle
Published date : November 2007
Format : 168mm x 244mm paperback

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The Creighton & Margaret Sewell Schools

Mary Scott-Parker
£12.00

The Creighton and Margaret Sewell Schools were well regarded educational institutions during their reign in Carlisle from 1940 until their merger in 1962 and final demise with the opening of Trinity School in 1968.

Published by : M & D Publications
Published date : October 2011
Format : 210mm x 148mm paperback

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The Cumberland Coast

Neil Curry
£10.00

From the marshes of the Solway to the cliffs of St. Bees, the Cumberland coast is an area rich in character and history. Neil Curry has walked the coast and met the people. He knows the beauty of this remote and unguarded country.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : October 2007
Format : 148 x 210mm paperback

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The English Lakes - Memories of Times Past

Colin Inman & Rosemary Anderson
£7.00

REDUCED FROM £14.99

This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1905 colour book 'The English Lakes', offers a new way of looking at the landscape and social history of a much-loved region.

Published by : Worth Press
Published date : November 2006
Format : 250mm x 277mm

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The George

John Hurst
£9.95

A fascinating history of the George Hotel in Penrith, which has served an impressive range of roles in the spheres of public entertainment, law and order, local government, sport, agriculture, personal health and the property market.

Published by : Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
Published date : 2006
Format : Large paperback.

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The Ghosts of Cumbria

Laurie Kemp
£6.99

Ghosts inhabit every corner of the ancient counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. Laurie Kemp has ventured fearlessly among the lakes and fells to uncover the stories of the uneasy spirits that lurk in dark and eerie houses.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2005
Format : Paperback.

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The Gosforth District - Its Antiquities and Places of Interest

Dr C A Parker
£25.00

for over eighty years 'Parker's Gosforth' as this book is affectionately known, has been a treasured book on the shelves of those lovers of the history and antiquities of this remotely beautiful part of Cumberland.

Published by : Michael Moon
Published date : New impression 2009
Format : 140mm x 210mm hardback

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The Great Flood

Dawn Robertson and Peter Koronka
£20.00

The exceptional weather which hit Cumbria so hard in January 2005 touched everyone in the county. Suddenly the focus of the international media was on Carlisle and people struggled to cope as the greatest ever flood hit the city. Feeling that this tragedy should be recorded, author Dawn Robertson and photographer Peter Koronka set out to interview and photograph those involved.

Published by : Hayloft Publishing Ltd
Published date : 2005
Format : Large paperback.

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The Heritage of the Solway Firth

James Irving Hawkins
£12.99

The Solway Firth is a major estuary and has been a communication route and a source of food for the inhabitants of its shores from the Mesolithic period to the present day. In times of war and border unrest the Firth and its major rivers have been used as natural lines of defence.
This book contains a collection of photographs and information gathered from many individuals and organisations.

Published by : Friends of Annandale and Eskdale Museums
Published date : 2006
Format : Large paperback.

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The History of Lead Mining in the North East of England

Les Turnbull
£8.99

This is an invaluable introduction to lead mining and smelting with fascinating period photographs. It also has two suggested tours of the region.

Published by : Ergo Press
Published date : 2006
Format : small paperback

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The History of the Coniston Foxhounds 1825 - 1925 - 'In The Steps Of Mighty Men'

Neil Salisbury
£25.00

Nowhere in the country has the sport of hunting been more associated with an area than in the Lake Counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and North Lancashire.

Published by : Ryelands
Published date : 2008
Format : 215mm x 300mm hardback

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The Horses of Appleby Fair

Heidi M Sands
£9.95

Each June the gypsy, Romany, and travelling community converges on the sleepy Cumbrian town of Appleby where for a few days the horse is king.

Published by : Old Pond
Published date : May 2011
Format : 147mm x 210mm paperback

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The Illustrated Guide to the Holiday Resorts on the Furness Railway (circa 1900)


£10.00

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This is the greatly awaited and lavishly illustrated facsimile of the classic guide, first published in 1900 by Furness Railway.

Published by : Handstand Press
Published date : November 2007
Format : 215mm x 278mm paperback

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The Journal of a Short Tour to the Lakes in 1822

Ian Broadway
£10.00

When Ian Broadway discovered John May's Journal in an auction it was in a parlous state. But the names Coleridge and Southey leapt out at him.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2007
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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The Lake District: The Story of Old Lakeland

Andrew Leitch
£9.95

The fascinating story of Lakeland in the old days, capturing the atmosphere of what life was like: the poverty, the packhorses and stagecoach and the coming of the railway.

Published by : Andrew Leitch
Published date : 2005
Format : DVD

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The Lanes Remembered

Compiled by Mary Scott-Parker
£15.00

The Lanes had simply always been there, unchanged for centuries, at the centre of Carlisle life.

Published by : M&D publications
Published date : April 2010 second edition
Format : 154mm x 215mm hardback

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The Last Shepherds


£14.99

A captivating glimpse of a fading era, The Last Shepherds follows Dave, Stewart and wife Gwen as they tend their flocks on the rugged Cheviot Hills in Northumberland. Inspirational and evocative, this fascinating look at shepherding traditions chronicles a way of life that is destined to become a distant memory.

Published by : Northern Heritage
Published date : 2004
Format : DVD

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The Last Shepherds: A Vanishing Way of Life on Britain's Traditional Hill Farms

Charles Bowden
£7.99

This book tracks down a handful of shepherds still working in Britain today, and paints an extraordinary picture of a vanishing era, preserved in a tight-knit rural community in the remote hills of Northumberland.


Published by : Granada Media Group Ltd.
Published date : 2005
Format : Paperback.

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The Lost Shanties of Ribblehead

W R Mitchell
£7.00

This is the second edition of a popular booklet in which W R Mitchell condensed many years of research into life in the 'hut-villages' built for the men who created Ribblehead viaduct and Blea Moor tunnel, on the Settle-Carlisle Railway (1869-76).

Published by : Castleberg
Published date : 1996, 2006
Format : 125mm x 197mm paperback

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The Memoirs of Lizzie Adams - The Life and Times of a Victorian Prostitute - Sex in the Victorian City of Carlisle

Marie K Dickens
£14.99

In seeking to bring back to life the streets of Carlisle from a bygone era, The Memoirs of Elizabeth, 'Lizzie' Adams combines both fact and fiction to follow the life and times of a Victorian Carlisle Prostitute.

Published by : Cats Whiskers Publications
Published date : November 2009
Format : 210mm x 297mm paperback

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The Mighty Mite: Water Power around Eskdale and Miterdale

David Bradbury
£4.99

Wander round the beautiful valleys of Eskdale and Miterdale in the English Lake District, and you'll find all sorts of reminders of a time when people made very effective use of renewable energy, in the form of water power. The advent of coal-powered steam technology put a stop to all that during the course of the 19th century, and many of the old sites, like Linbeck Mill, are now vanishing. This book is an attempt to keep at least the memory of them alive for the future.

Published by : Past Presented
Published date : 2006
Format : Small Paperback

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The Mining and Related Tokens of West Cumberland

Michael Finlay
£50.00

Since the publication in 1922 of 'Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland' by Davis and Waters, which listed without illustrations some 70 mining and related tokens from West Cumberland with their varieties, little has been written on the subject apart from a few short articles.

Published by : Plains Books
Published date : November 2006
Format : 220mm x 305mm hardback

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The Oxenholme Hounds - , When, Where and How They Hunted - Season 1934-5 - The Illustrated Diary of Hermione Drew

Hermione Drew
£16.99

The Oxenholme Hounds is a fascinating narrative of The Oxenholme Stag Hounds.

Published by : Amberley
Published date : December 2009
Format : 178mm x 252mm hardback

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