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<?php echo $title; ?> View Details A Garland Of Waveney Valley Tales by David Woodward
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904136 16 8
Let David Woodward - writer, broadcaster and well-known Suffolk character - entertain you with some of his tales from the Waveney Valley.
(paperback 120 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Curiosities Of Suffolk : A Guide To The Unusual by Josie C Briggs
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904136 23 0
An Illustrated guide to the follies, unusual buildings, objects, natural features and street furniture around Suffolk.
(paperback 109 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Newmarket : Town & Turf by John Worrall and Rodney Vincent
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904036 05 2
Mention Newmarket and most people think of horseracing, but without horseracing it is doubtful if Newmarket would have become more than an ordinary market town. Newmarket has a blend of features giving it a unique character that has survived the changes in society. This book illustrates some of the scenes and highlights that make Newmarket the attractive place that it is to visit today, whatever your interest.
(paperback 77 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Ramblings In Suffolks Landscapes by Shiona Hardie
£6.50 ISBN: 0 9526087 1 5
Oh not another walks book! No, this is not an ordinary walks book. The walks are really an excuse for exploring Suffolk and discovering something about the history of its changing landscapes. What happened to the greens and commons, ancient woodlands, moats, marshes, meadow and moorland, heathland and hedgerows? Look at Suffolk with a new eye as you follow these circular walks through the county‘s very varied scenery and discover the remnants of an older landscape. There is information on where to eat, places of local interest and how to get there.
(paperback 160 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Senior Citizens‘ Good Food Guide To Suffolk 2010 -2011 by Cyril Francis
£6.99 ISBN: 978 1 906789 35 0
What‘s more pleasing to senior citizens then saving money when eating out. All over Suffolk there are eating places offering food at hard-to-beat prices, especial for OAP‘s. Facing intense competition, you‘ll find publicans and the like wanting to attract your custom by offering exclusive meal deals and smaller portions at reduced prices. The Senior Citizens‘ Good Food Guide to Suffolk will show you where to obtain dishes to suit all tastes, ranging from light bites to Sunday roasts and three-course meals, mostly at special rates. Nearly all the eating places featured pride themselves in offering food sourced locally and home cooked.

Establishments used in the Guide include an eclectic mix of quintessional English tea rooms, village and town pubs with their own historic interest, coffee houses, farm shops and a garden centre.
(paperback 78 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Ships And Shipyards Of Ipswich 1700-1970 by Hugh Moffat
£17.50 ISBN: 0 9539680 0 6
As long ago as 1294 the shipwrights of Ipswich were building a galley for the King’s Navy, and the town on the Orwell continued to be a leading shipbuilding centre until the 20th century. In the 18th century John Barnard was building warships on the St. Clement’s yard and at John’s Ness, near where the Orwell Bridge now crosses the river, and in the 19th Jabez Bayley was constructing East Indiamen, the largest craft ever to be launched into the Orwell, at the Halifax yard.

A crowd of some 20,000 people watched the launching on 28th August 1817 of the East Indiaman Orwell, the building of which enhanced Jabez Bayley’s prestige. The Orwell made eight voyages to the East and later traded on the China coast, yet when she was broken up in 1840 her timbers were found to be only partially decayed, thanks to the attention her builder had paid to ventilation.

The Indiamen were large vessels for their time, but the output of the Ipswich shipbuilders was by no means confined to large ships. A steady stream of little schooners, brigs, brigantines and ketches came from the riverside yards, and in the later 19th century many spritsail and boomie barges as well. Many of the vessels were built for Ipswich owners, and this book is also the story of more than two centuries or shipowning in the town. It opens a window on a little-known aspect of the town’s history.
(hardback 179 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Suffolk Stallion Leader by Wags Aldred
£15.95 ISBN: 9 780955594 71 7
Charles ‘Wags’ Aldred (born Walpole Suffolk on 8th April 1925) was raised almost in the horse manger and at fourteen was deemed to be sufficiently accomplished a horseman to be allowed to take the stallion that he had grown up with, Beccles Lord Foch, out on the road and from farm to farm for the purpose of serving mares. For the next thirty years this was to be Wag‘s occupation along with working and showing Suffolk horses across the length and breadth of England with his Father, Buller Aldred.

Buller Aldred was already a legendary horseman and passed onto Wags stories that had been passed to him and these, together with stories from Wag‘s own experience on the land, at shows and out on the road, are told here in Wag‘s own handwriting. Wag‘s has that rare ability to write as he speaks and although it is not written in dialect, the beauty of it is that it is full of his words, his local and horse sayings a jest in almost every line.

‘The ability to write so fluently and economically is a rare gift .. he speaks diretly to the reader and offers the truth from the horses mouth’
(paperback 490 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Suffolk‘s Lifeboats by Nicholas Leach
£7.99 ISBN: 1 904136 00 1
The history of the lifeboats and lifeboat stations of Suffolk told through postcards and photographs. Detailed captions describe the lifeboats, their crews and the most famous rescues performed off the Suffolk coast.
(paperback 80 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Tatterlegs For Tea by David Woodward
£5.99 ISBN: 0 947630 20 1
A followup to Larn Yourself Silly Suffolk. This book follows the winning format used by the series featuring charactures, cutoms, old remedies and sayings.
(paperback 96 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details The Castles Of Suffolk by Peter Tryon
£4.95 ISBN: 0 946148 68 6
The Castles of Suffolk takes us back to medieval times when the county had wealth, good employment prospects, high quality agricultural land, a sizeable population - and in he mind of the ruling class a need to control any trouble! It had been subject to invasion from Vikings and even the Norman rulers fell out amongst themselves, so defence and of course status were much on the minds of the ruling Barons.

Author Peter Tryon has delved deep into historic records, reviewed many existing published works and visited all the sites in the county reputed to be castles. From the glories of Framlingham and Orford through to the mysteries of the lost castle sites at Ipswich and Southwold, he has pulled together all the evidence in a book which will satisfy both readers at home and the explorers who want to visit the sites themselves.
(paperback 96 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details The Commercial Life of a Suffolk Town : Framlingham Around 1900 by John F. Bridges
£14.95 ISBN: 978 0 9486148 80 6
The Commercial Life of a Suffolk Town focuses on the town of Framlingham around 1900. How did an East Anglian market town operate at that time? What trades where there in the town? How did they work together? Who traded with whom?

Author John Bridges grew up in the town and goes beyond simply recalling the town at the beginning of the 20th century to examine, through period accounts of all the principal businesses, how a typical regional town conducted its business. With many contemporary photographs both from the town and from neighboring communities, he creates a flavor of life before the First World War and has created a first class resource for those interested in East Anglian history.
(paperback 185 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details The Diary Of A Poor Suffolk Woodman by Pip and Joy Wright and Léonie Robinson
£12.95 ISBN: 0 946148 67 8
The Diary of a poor Suffolk woodman features a poor man‘s diary. Few of William Scarfe‘s class in the early 1800s could write well enough to produce more than fifteen years of a journal of his life and village. Now, over 150 years later, we are able to share his world and enjoy the social history of the 1830s through his words.

Pip and Joy Wright and Léonie Robinson have transcribed the words that William Scarfe wrote in the margins of a prayer book he had been given by the local rector, and provided a range of background materials to put those words into context. A must for the local historian, the Suffolk genealogist - and anyone with an interest in East Anglia‘s past.
(paperback 191 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details The Sea In My Blood by William Finch
£9.85 ISBN: 0 947630 24 4
The Sea in My Blood deals with the Lowestoft smacksmen and all who fished under sail in, quote, “The most perilous job of all” – including mining. The author relates his experiences with the warmth and enthusiasm in amazing and fascinating detail. The words are brought to life with a wealth of contemporary illustrations – his own – of men and ships, all now gone. The author’s lifetime love of art and childhood memories of a now bygone way of life combine in this book – an indulgence in pure nostalgia.
(paperback 128 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Walks In The Wilds Of Suffolk by Josie Briggs
£6.50 ISBN: 1 85770 270 7
Explore the wild places of Suffolk with this well illustrated guide to the county‘s Nature Reserves and Conservation Areas. There are directions for 10 walks with details of the wildlife to look out for and places of interest in the neighbourhood.
(paperback 96 pages)


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