2007
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gaskin

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 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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  lucid expression of thought 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 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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