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676. Gallefor a Family
£9.99
Terence Ted Beckett
Terence Beckett was born on the twentieth of April, 1944 (a birthdate shared with Adolph Hitler) in the front parlour of his grandma's house at 235 Blackwell Road, in the border city Carlisle. . . . more
Published by: Terence Ted Beckett   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 148mm

677. Souls of Lonely Places: Some Sequestered Spots in Cumbria
£25.00
James Deboo
The Lake District has been many things, real and imagined: the floor of a long-extinct ocean, a range of limestone mountains of colossal height, an ice-cap. Then came the hunter-gatherers, then the celts. The Romans came, then the Norsemen. The Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, it was later part of Strathclyde. Comprising the historic counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands, the Romantic landscape of the Lake Poets has also yielded iron, coins, slate for the roofs and millions of bobbins to drive the mills of the Industrial Revolution. . . . more
Published by: Hayloft Publishing   Format: Paperback; 235mmx 154mm

678. The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time
£14.99
Alan W. Routledge
Coal was the very bedrock on which Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town - shipbuilding. . . . more
Published by: Amberley Publishing   Format: Paperback; 233mm x 162mm

679. All the world comes to the Lakes
£10.00
Mark Flinn
Tourists have prized the lake District for over two hundred years. The eighteenth century traveller was followed by the tourist coming by rail and then by motor car. The first guide to the Lakes was published by Thomas West, in 1778. Countless others, from Wordsworth to Wainwright, followed. . . . more
Published by: Bookcase   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 148mm

680. The Keswick Painting
£12.00
Ros Roberts
In 1870 Joseph Brown painted a picture showing 45 named inhabitants of Keswick standing in front of their Moot hall. . . . more
Published by: Bookcase   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 145mm

681. Josiah Relph of Sebergham: England's First Dialect Poet
£15.00
Stephen Matthews
Josiah Relph (1712-1743) described the life of the Cumberland peasant in his own language. It was an act of intellectual daring. The worlds of Theocritus and Horace, the fields of Sicily and the hills of Rome, became the Cumberland countryside. . . . more
Published by: Bookcase   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 145mm

682. Timbertown Girls: Borders Women and the First World War
£10.00
Chris Brader
In 1916, young women did essential and dangerous war work. They poured into the vast munitions factory at Gretna from all parts of the country. And they also poured out onto the streets, into the pubs and cinemas and, controversially, onto the football fields. . . . more
Published by: Bookcase   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 145mm

683. Lake District High Level and Fell Walks
£9.99
Vivienne Crow
This guidebook collects the best 30 high fell walks in the Lake District. Every route is graded for difficulty and ranges between 7-23km, and includes annotated OS maps and variant routes. . . . more
Published by: Cicerone Press   Format: Paperback; 172mm x 116mm

684. The Cumbria Way
£12.95
John Gillham
A guidebook to the Cumbria Way, a 73-mile long distance path through the heart of the English Lake District from Ulverston to Carlisle. The route is largely low-level, and accessible to new trekkers, but this guide offers alternative mountain days to climb some of the famous fells en route. . . . more
Published by: Cicerone Press   Format: Paperback; 172mm x 116mm

685. The King Edward I Monument - A History and Description
£7.00
John Bargh
On Burgh by Sands marsh stands a lone pillar of stone to commemorate the death of one of England's kings, Edward I. Some basic historical information is given at the monument but there is much more. . . . more
Published by: P3 Publications   Format: Paperback; 210mm x 149mm

686. The Warbirds of Walney - A concise and lavishly illustrated history of No.10 AGS
£14.99
John Nixon
Much more than simply a local history book this lavishly illustrated work will delight aviation enthusiasts, genealogists, and amateur historians alike. . . . more
Published by: Pixel Tweaks Publications   Format: Paperback; 243mm x 170mm

687. Wings Over Sands
£18.99
John Nixon
A history of the Cark airfield site - from the proposed airship factory development in 1916-1917 to its wartime uses as RAF Cark. . . . more
Published by: Pixel Tweaks Publications   Format: Paperback; 243mm x 170mm

688. The Sandstone Heritage of Dumfriesshire
£12.99
James Irving Hawkins
A reprint of James Irving Hawkins 2001 book on the sandstone heritage of Dumfriesshire. . . . more
Published by: The Friends of Annandale and Eskdale Museums   Format: Paperback; 240mm x 165mm

689. Sir John Dunne - Cumbria's First and Most Extraordinary Chief Constable
£14.99
Alan Bryant
The story of a policeman who, from humble Irish origins, became the most senior Police Officer in Victorian Britain. . . . more
Published by: Pixel Tweaks Publications   Format: Paperback; 234mm x 156mm

690. Topographical Map of the Lake District Wainwright Fells
£8.95

A new planning map for the 21st century - designed to show all of the 214 "Wainwright Fells", with their names, as clearly as possible on a high quality topographical base map. . . . more
Published by: Rivers Publishing   Format: Folded Sheet Map; Scale 1:100,000

691. The English Railway Station
£25.00
Steven Parissien
The railway station is one of England's most distinctive and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation's stations have often been overlooked or dismissed, and have suffered accordingly. . . . more
Published by: English Heritage   Format: Hardback; 276mm x 219mm

692. Show Me Colour - Notes on love, loss, grief and renewal
£8.00
Rosalind Gibb
In the own words of local author Rosalind Gibb, Show Me Colour is "about a sudden bereavement, grief and learning to live life again. . . . more
Published by: Citadel Books   Format: Paperback; 203 x 122mm

693. Border Counties Railway Through Time
£14.99
Roy Perkins, Ian Macintosh
The Border Counties Railway ran from the old railway village of Riccarton Junction on the Waverley Route across the Border and through Northumberland to Hexham. Partly intended to provide access to coal deposits at Plashetts, near Kielder Water, the railway was also linked to a scheme by the Duke of Northumberland to alleviate local hardship. . . . more
Published by: Amberley Publishing   Format: Paperback; 235 x 165mm

694. The Life and Works of The Revd. William Carus Wilson 1791-1859
£1.00
Jane M. Ewbank
A biography of the nineteenth-century philanthropist and founder of the Clergy Daughters' School William Carus Wilson. . . . more
Published by: Printexpress   Format: Paperback; 210 x 150mm

695. Cattle Droving, Cotton and Landownership: a Cumbrian Family Saga
£20.00
Peter Roebuck
This book views historical developments in north-western England through the experience of one family. . . . more
Published by: CWAAS   Format: Paperback; 245 x 174mm

696. Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
£6.99
Carol Ann Duffy
Following Bethlehem, Wenceslas, The Christmas Truce, Another Night Before Christmas and Mrs Scrooge, the Poet Laureate offers another delightful and original Christmas poem. . . . more
Published by: Picador   Format: Small Hardback; 138mm x127mm

697. Keswick Book 8
£9.00
Jeff Taylor
The eighth book in Jeff Taylor's series on Keswick's history and characters of this famous Lakeland town. . . . more
Published by: McKanes Printers   Format: Paperback; 163mm x 232mm

698. Carlisle In the Great War
£14.99
David Carter
Already an important railway junction, with industrial and commercial interests reflecting its historical position on the border with Scotland, Carlisle became a key settlement in the Great War. . . . more
Published by: Pen and Sword   Format: Paperback; 155mm x 233mm

699. Farmers Went to Market - Auctioneering History and Livestock Marts in the Northern Counties of England
£12.95
John A Thomson F.I.A. Scot.
Following at least five generations of livestock salesmen and with some sixty years as an auctioneer, John Thomson, with his lifetime experience, is well placed to tell the story of the development of marts and livestock auctioneering over two centuries. . . . more
Published by: J & M Thomson   Format: Paperback; 163mm x 237mm

700. One Girl and The Wainwrights
£9.99
Eleanor Matthews
Alfred Wainwright did not write about how to rescue lambs stuck in barbed wire fences, how to tell a search and rescue dog that - despite all appearances - you don't need to be rescued, and how to cross a bog that sucks you in to your knees. He did write about two hundred and fourteen fells in the Lake District. Eleanor Matthews shares the dramas, woes, and joys of one girl's quest to conquer every mountain on his famous list. . . . more
Published by: Sigma Press   Format: Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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