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2007 - NEW RELEASES
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Gaskin
Paul Bedford
For many people the name Gaskin is synonymous with a brutal
murder at Hednesford, Staffordshire in 1919.
Now for the first time, the full story of Gaskin’s
tragic life is told, shedding light onto a case still
recalled over 80 years later...
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Life
in Brampton with 63 Public Houses
David Moorat
In 1790, there were ten public houses in Brampton, but
by 1845 this number had grown to well over fifty, and
later, to 63. However, following the end of the 19th Century,
the number of public houses in Brampton had fallen back
to that which had existed 100 years previously. This book
sets out the reasons for this sudden mushrooming of new
public houses, and why, some fifty years later their number
declined, almost as rapidly as they had grown...
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The
Lucid Expression of Thought
Charles Wade
Two debating societies were formed in 1846 in the Birmingham
area. The Edgbaston society prospered from the day it
started, but the Birmingham society did not and it survived
for only four years. It was replaced, almost immediately,
by another society with the same name. This second Birmingham
society then merged with the Edgbaston Debating Society
in 1855. One of its stated objectives was ‘to train
members in the art of clear thinking and the lucid expression
of thought’. It has succeeded to do that beyond expectation...
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The
Hill Folk
Iris Bryce
How did a jazz trumpeter and a struggling beginner journalist,
both London bred and born, come to have an Organic Market
Garden in the early Fifties in a rural part of Kent? Owen
and Iris Bryce bought a derelict farm with the idea of
having a beautiful rural caravan site. However with Planning
Permission taking some two years to obtain they started
to grow their own vegetables. A few chickens were bought
and then ‘like Topsy – it just grew’...
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