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In Search of Colchester's Past.

By: CRUMMY, Philip.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Colchester: Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, 1984. 0950372757:

Seller ID: 43561

ISBN: 0950372757

2nd edition, revised and enlarged. "Describes the major archaeological discoveries in one of Britain's most important historic towns". Pp.80, illustrated throughout. Paperback. VG.
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City of Victory: The Story of Colchester - Britain's First Roman Town.

By: CRUMMY, Philip.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Colchester: Colchester Archaeological Trust, 1997. 1987719051:

Seller ID: 37896

ISBN: 1987719050

1st edition. "Roman Colchester was the first 'capital' of Britain. The Romans grandly called it 'Colonia Victricensis' (loosely meaning 'City of Victory'). Its brief was to help control the newly-conquered territories in Britain and promote the Roman way of life....Fully illustrate throughout. It features a series of specially-commissioned reconstruction paintings by Peter Froste as well as many of the finest objects discovered in and around the town." P.160, illustrations in colour and black & white throughout. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
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The Essex Weather Book.

By: CURRIE, Ian. DAVIDSON, Mark and OGLEY, Bob.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Westerham: Froglets Publications. 1992.:

Seller ID: 22434

1st ed. "Throughout history, Essex has experienced tempests and tornadoes, hailstones, and heatwaves, floods and freezes, deluges and dust devils. It remains the driest county in England yet, perversley, it floods more than most". 26 cms x 21 cms. Pp 168, full of b/w illustrations. Pbk. VG.
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The Real Maria Marten. A Historical Novel.

By: DEARY, Terry.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine. 1979.:

Seller ID: 25682

"For over 150 years William Corder has been portrayed as a cold-blooded and brutal murderer. It is the medium of fiction which has so maligned his memory - this is an attempt, through fiction, to remove some of that tarnish from his image". Pp 56, some b/w illustrations, black marks to verso front cover and title page. P/b, tear to lower edge of front cover with slight crease to corner. G+.
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Cavendish Contrasts.

By: DEEKS, Richard.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Glemsford: Suffolk Identity Systems(Printer), 1990. 095158300X:

Seller ID: 38035

ISBN: 095158300X

"An attempt to portray some of the assets of Cavendish in old and new photographs." Pp.33, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Stiff card covers with colour photograph of the famous cottages at "Hyde Park Corner" Cavendish to the front. Scarce. VG.
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The Matmaker and the Magistrate. (Long Melford 1885).

By: DEEKS, Richard.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Halstead:Colne Valley Printers, 1980. 0:

Seller ID: 46121

The author has conveyed his intimate knowledge of the area in which he was born and has lived all his life, and his affection for ordinary East Anglian people. "Further-more, he has uncovered a rich vein of local history in the life of Victorian Glemsford... the lives of industrial and agricultural workers; their dawning political consciousness; the significance of the 1885 general election which first gave the vote to working men in the countryside; the enthusiasm of the new voters which rapidly soured into frustration and anger; the ugly violence which broke out on polling day in several...
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Magnificent Melford in Old Photographs.

By: DEEKS, Richard. (compiler).

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Long Melford: R & K Tyrrell, 1981.:

Seller ID: 44636

1st edition. Landscape format. 20cms x 29cms. Unpaginated. Black & white photographs throughout. Paperback,, minor corner creases and edge wear. Good.
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The Restless Spirits of Langenhoe. (The Exciting True Story of a Haunted Essex Church).

By: DENING, John C.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Brandon: Rev. John C.Dening, 2000. 0952810727:

Seller ID: 44498

ISBN: 0952810727

"In this monograph on the haunting of an Essex church the author believes that he may have a distinctive contribution to make to the literature of Psychical Research in that very few if any books on the subject of ghosts have beem written from a strictly Christian standpoint." Pp.231, signed by the author to title page. Paperback, creasing to rear corners of cover. G+.
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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Colchester.

By: DENNEY, Patrick.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Barnsley: Wharncliffe Books, 2005. 1903425808:

Seller ID: 45316

ISBN: 1903425808

"Takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten." Pp.176, many black & white illustrations and photos. Paperback. VG.
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A Suffolk Childhood. (Illustrated by J.S Goodall).

By: DEWES, Simon.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Woodbridge: Barbara Hopkinson, 1985. 0950796379:

Seller ID: 27867

ISBN: 0950796379

"Although these memories concern a small Suffolk village, it is a scene which was typical of any part of England and can be read with enjoyment and nostalgia throughout the country". Pp 214, some b/w illustrations. Paperback, crease to front cover. G+.
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Suffolk. (Little Guides series).

By: DICKINSON, P.G.M.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1957.:

Seller ID: 45516

Sixth edition. Based on the original guide by W.A.Dutt. 16cms x 10cms. Pp.xii/398, 50 black & white photo illustrations + folding map of Suffolk to rear. Orange cloth, gilt shield motif to front board, slight sunning to spine. VG.
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The Church of Saint Giles Great Maplestead and the Round Church Little Maplestead in the County of Essex.

By: DICKINSON, Phillip G.M.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Parochial Church Councils of Great & Little Maplestead, 1967.:

Seller ID: 35823

Fourth edition, revised. "Great Maplestead Church is of exceptional interest, not only because so much early Norman work has survived, but also because of its comparatively rare ground plan." "Little Maplestead Church is of the greatest importance in the study of church history and architecture by reason of its circular plan...It consists of a spacious aisleless chancel terminating in a semi-circular apse - the only 14th century example of this type now existing in England - a sixsided "nave" surmounted by a low belfry and surrounded by a circular aisle, a modern west por...
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Folktales and Legends of Suffolk.

By: DIXON, G.M.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Peterborough: Minimax Books, 1986. 0906791189:

Seller ID: 40133

ISBN: 0906791189

Contents include: Green Children of Woolpit; Crazy Mary; The Dauntless Girl; Thomas Wolsey; The Red Barn Murder; The Sacristan of Clare; Mary Jane of the Queens Head at Blyford; Three Pipers of Beccles; Black Toby of Blythburgh; The Maid who Gave a Meadow; Flight of the Dragons; John Constable; The Vicar Witch of Brandeston; The Peasenhall Murder; The White Queen; Dunwich: A Lost City; The Wild Man of the Sea; Visit by the Devil; The Battle of Sole Bay: Southwold; and Two Witches from Lowestoft. Pp.64, line map + line illustrations by Shelley Watson. Paperback, minor creasing to corner tips. G...
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Schools and Scholars in Halstead District.

By: DOWNEY, Mary and POTTS, Doreen.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Halstead: Halstead and District Local History Society, 1986. 0:

Seller ID: 28848

1st.ed. "There were "seasons" for activities, such as spinning of tops and bowling of hoops on the way home from school, both down the middle of Halstead High Street! The arrival of the boys and girls travelling on the train along the Colne Valley, the girls to attend Halstead Grammar School, the boys to go on to the Earls Colne Grammar School, all walking from the stations to the schools." Pp.128, many black and white photo illustrations. Paperback. Scarce. VG.
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Morton Mathews 1866-1953: A Halstead Artist & Teacher.

By: DOWNEY, Mary.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Halstead: Halstead & District Local History Society, 2004. 0952516640:

Seller ID: 37482

ISBN: 0952516640

1st edition. "Backyards and gateways feature heavily in Morton's repertoire, a welcome change from what I would call "postcard" views. These were the scenes that never normally got recorded, with the rapidly changing townscape. The people of Halstead can be proud of a man who gave so much to the town, both in his teaching prowess and his exceptional skills as a draughtsman and artist....This book, containing a welcome selection of his work together with a well researched history." (Malcolm Root). Pp.106, black & white illustrations throughout. Pink card covers. Scarce. VG...
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The Journal Of William Dowsing Of Stratford, Parliamentary Visitor, Appointed Under A Warrant From The Earl Of Manchster, For Demolishing The Superstitious Pictures & ornaments Of Churches, &c. Within The County of Suffolk, in the years 1643,- 1644.

By: DOWSING, William / LODER, S. / WALLER, James Green .:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Woodbridge: Printed by and for S. Loder, Bookseller, 1818 .:

Seller ID: 30200

Four (4to) separately printed pamphlets bound together. 28cm x 22.5cm. Original dark green buckram with gilt title to spine: "Varia 4." The first pamphlet is: "The Journal Of William Dowsing Of Stratford... Second edition." (first published 1786) - [4pp.]/pp.19/[1p. - adverts]. Page edges lightly soiled, otherwise clean text . Bound with: "The Roof Of The Church Of St. Andrew, Mildenhall, Suffolk. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by J. G. Waller ... 1895" - 12pp. Bound with: "On The Fate Of Henry Brooke. Tenth Lord Cobham. Communicated to the Society of An...
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The Journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, Parliamentary Visitor, appointed under a warrant from the Earl of Manchester, for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches &c., within the county of Suffolk, inthe years 1643-1644.

By: DOWSING, William / WHITE, Rev. C. H. Evelyn .

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Ipswich: Pawsey And Hayes, The Ancient House, 1885 . 0:

Seller ID: 30201

"A New Edition, with an Introduction, Notes, etc., by the Rev. C. H. Evelyn White." Original binding. Red cloth with bright gilt titles to front board ( including: "Price Four Shillings"), some soiling to front and rear boards. 4to. 25cm x 19cm. pp.61/[3pp. - Errata(1p.) and adverts]. owner's name to title page, small notation to p.17, with a 'Pedigree' for the Dowsing family. Scarce. G+.
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Domesday Havering.

By: DRURY, John.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Upminster: Farthings Publications, 1989. 0951549502:

Seller ID: 39300

ISBN: 0951549502

The London Borough of Havering in the eleventh century as described in the Domesday Book if 1086. "Whereas much of the general detail about the period and the Domesday entries are factual, the interpretation of the information into figures and percentages are my own conclusions. Similarly the maps are my own interpretation based on the limited data to hand."(Author's preface). Pp.viii/87, black & white photos and illustrations + maps throughout. Paperback. VG.
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Felsted Parish Council 1894-1944.

By: DRURY, John.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Privately published, 1994.:

Seller ID: 39861

A review of the first 50 years of parish business on the occasion of the centenary of the parish council, with some notes on interesting personalities and places. Pp.69, black & white photos and facsimile advertisements throughout. Paperback, uneven sunning. G+.
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Monks Eleigh A Thousand Years.

By: DUGUID, Peter.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Monks Eleigh: Monks Eleigh Millennium Fund, 1991. 0951761307:

Seller ID: 46122

ISBN: 0951761307

Published in celebration of the millennium of a Suffolk village. Written and produced almost entirely by the people of Monks Eleigh themselves, in only fifty-six pagaes of verse, prose, sketches and photographs, they give a vivid pen-portrait of life and events in their village from the Battle of Maldon in 991. Pp.56, illustrated throughout with black & white photos and illustrations. Brightly coloured stiff card covers. VG.
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