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Books Cumbria : History : Social

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


£10.00

REDUCED FROM £17.99............
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
£13.99

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 Langdales: Landscape and Prehistory in a Lakeland Valley

Mark Edmonds
£15.99

For over two centuries, the Langdales have attracted the interests of painters, poets and tourists. Prominent in the Romantic imagination, the crags and dales still draw thousands in each year: some to sketch and paint, others to ramble or to climb.

Published by : Tempus Publishing
Published date : 2004
Format : Large paperback.

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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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The Parish Registers of St James, Burton in Kendal 1653-1837

Peter Gaskins
£15.00



Published by : CWAAS
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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The Solway Coast - Powfoot to Caulkerbush

David Carroll
£7.50

The Solway Coast has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most picturesque parts of Scotland, characterised by castles, villages and beautiful countryside.

Published by : Stenlake
Published date :
Format : 240mm x 174mm paperback

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The story of a Lead - Mining Family

Norma L. Smith
£9.50

Based around the Thomson family of The Bell, Newbiggin, Teesdale,the author has written a short history of the rise and fall of lead-mining on the Cumberland and Northumberland border where living conditions were invariably hard and the landscape harsh.

Published by : Mosaic (Teesdale)
Published date : 2007
Format : 145mm 210mm paperback

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The Story of Appleby in Westmorland

Martin Holdgate
£15.95

To the casual visitor, the appearance of the little town of Appleby in Westmorland as a typical little English county town is deceptive. From Danish settlers a thousand years ago, through English and Scottish kingdoms and a Norman baronacy it has a rich and varied history. Until 1974 it was England's smallest County Town, never more than 3000 inhabitants, but for all that it produced Archbishops, Generals, Lord Mayors and MP's, including William Pitt. This book describes it all - clearly , simply and with good humour!

Published by : Hayloft
Published date : January 2007
Format : 155mm x 215mm hardback

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The Story of St John's - in - the - Vale

Geoffrey Darrall
£5.00

This is a book that needed to be written. Together with its companion 'Wythburn Church and the Story of Thirlmere' they provide lasting information about these Lakeland parishes.

Published by : Piper Publications
Published date : February 2010
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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The View from a King Street Window

John Hurst
£9.50

An illustrated miscellany of items from a weekly column in the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald

Published by : Cumberland Westmorland Herald
Published date : November 2008
Format : 210mm x 297mm paperback

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The Visitor's Guide to St Bees

Donald Brownrigg
£15.00

This is a facsimile edition, with additional material. One of the delights of this book is to read the marvellous advertisements, with their huge variety of elegant and eye-catching typefaces, which give us a snapshot of what people bought in those days.

Published by : Donald Brownrigg
Published date : 2005
Format : Hardback.

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The Wall - Rome's Greatest Frontier

Alistair Moffat
£16.99

Hadrian's Wall is the largest single Roman monument in the world and the most impressive Roman legacy north of the Alps.

Published by : Birlinn
Published date : May 2008
Format : 234mm 156mm hardback

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The War Years - Life in Cockermouth and at Moota POW Camp

Gloria Edwards
£8.99

This book looks at everyday life in Cockermouth during the years of World War 11 through first hand accounts, official records, photographs and newspaper extracts.



Published by : Little Bird Publications
Published date : November 2009
Format : 200mm x 248mm paperback

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The Wartime Diary of Frank Fowler

Frank Fowler
£5.95

Frank H Fowler was an artist, writer, and keen angler, who kept a wonderful sketchbook diary recording the final years of the Second World War.

Published by : Awards for All
Published date : 2007
Format : 146mm x 210mm stitched paperback

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The Websters of Kendal: A North-Western Architectural Dynasty

Angus Taylor; Janet Martin (ed)
£45.00



Published by : CWAAS
Published date : 2004
Format : Large hardback.

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The Williamson Diaries Part 1 - Arthuret & Longtown

Ted Relph
£5.95

Interesting excerpts from a curate's diaries covering the years 1742 to 1781. In this book, part one of two, we have six diaries for the years George Williamson was at Arthuret parish near Carlisle.

Published by : Ravensgill Press
Published date : 1997
Format : A4 paperback

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The Williamson Diaries Part 11 - Crosby Ravensworth

Ted Relph
£9.95

Following on from Part 1 of George Williamson's Diaries we find the (not so young) curate adapting to live in his new parish of Crosby Ravensworth, near Appleby in Westmorland.

Published by : Ravensgill Press
Published date : May 2009
Format : A4 paperback

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