Search Results: EAST ANGLIA / SUFFOLK from Chilton Books

Ipswich: Civic Centre, 1980.. Illustrates "the striking changes in the methods of public transport in Ipswich over the last 100 years. Unusually for British towns, the electric tram played only a short role and it is the 'trolleybus period' stretching from the 1920s to the 1960s which will be clear in many local people's memories." 24cms x 18cms. Unpaginated. Black & white photos throughout + double page map to centre. Paperback, slightly rubbed. VG.

Ipswich: Ipswich Civic Centre, 1980.. A hundre18cms. Pp.d years of public transport in Ipswich 1880-1980. "Unusually for British towns, the electric tram played only a short role and it is the "trolleybus period" stretching from the 1920's to the 1960's which will still be clear in many local people's memories." 24cms x 18cms. Unpaginated. Black & white photos throughout. Illustrated cream stiff card cover, light spotting to front edges. VG.

Sudbury: Delta Print, 2004.. 1st edition. "Many memories of ordinary people throughout the 20th century, mainly in pictorial form. Many photographs have been collected to provide an interesting record of this Suffolk village which has seen a great deal of change." 23cms x 16.5cms. Pp.124, black & white and colour photographs throughout, errata label to inside rear cover, minor creasing to lower corner of pp.119-122,notation (Xmas, 2004) to reverse of title page. Paperback. Scarce. VG.

Ipswich: Ipswich Buses, 1993.. After starting with a fairly small scale tramway service with allegedly the narrowest trams in Britain (5'8" width on 3'6" gauge track), Ipswich was one of the first major towns to close their tram system in favour of a much larger trolleybus system. This led to the next "claim to fame" by being (in 1950) the last major British bus operator to adopt motorbuses." 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.32, black & white and colour photo illustrations throughout. Green laminated stiff card cover. VG.

Ipswich: S & W.J.King, 1895.. 8vo., pp.viii/320, ownership name of G.H.Martin to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers. Half red calf over red cloth boards, gilt ruling, gilt lettering to flat spine, corners and spine rubbed in spots. G+.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003.. 1st ed. Suffolk Records Society Volume XLVI. "In 1569, thirty years after its abbey had been dissolved, the large town of Bury St Edmunds remained unincorporated. These accounts show how the feoffees (still essentially the medieval Candlemas guild) undertook the responsibility of town government..." Pp.lxx/414, 8 colour plates, frontispiece + 11 further black & white plates, map of Bury St Edmunds c.1621, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper and signed to title page Green cloth, d/ustwrapper. VG/VG.

Privately published, 2003.. 2nd edition.Collection of photographs put together from the five Acton Exhibition mounted between 1976 and 2000. A balancedselection based on three overlapping aspects: the village, the people (some named) and the events. Landscape format. 14.8cms x 21cms. Unpaginated, black & white photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated white stiff card covers. VG.

Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2010.. 1st edition. "Here are extracts from his major works, from Akenfield and Divine Landscapes, The View in Winter, his introduction to Hazlitt and Henry James and volumes of war poetry. Here too, for the first time, are essays and reviews - of novels, literary biographies, letters and diaries, anthologies of landscape writing both sacred and topographical". Pp.487. Black boards, dustwrapper not price-lipped. VG/VG.

London: Minerva Press, 1996.. 1st edition. "An autobiographical account of life on a working farm in north-east Suffolk in the early 1920s, experienced by the author when he was a seventeen year old working pupil....With detailed factual accounts of farming in those daysm using horse-drawn ploughs and harvesting machines, butter churns and so on, including fascinating information on local dialect and breeds of Suffolk Punches and Suffolk sheep and cattle." Pp.100, 10 pages of black & white photos to centre pages + other occasional illustrations. Paperback. VG.

Sudbury, Suffolk: Privately published, nd. (c2015).. Privately published collection of memories of the author's life in and around the Suffolk town of Sudbury. Pp.66, occasional black & white photos throughout. Paperback, portrait photo to front cover. VG.

Lavenham: Serpenpan Publishing, 2011.. Jim Mott has written a moving memoir of his time working for Alpheton Hall farm....He takes you back to the daily life of a farm labourer at the outbreak of the Second World War, documenting how the conflict, and the arrivalof an American air base, changed the way of life of a sleepy Suffolk village, its elders and its farm boys forever." Pp.216, 8 pages of black & white photos, signed by the author to title page. Paperback, crease to front. G+.

Stowmarket: Pawprint Publishing, 2006.. John Heigham Steggall's autobiography was originally published in 1857, telling of his life as a gypsy, a surgeon, a sailor, a soldier, and finally as a parish priest. "For most of his ninety years, he lived in the villages of central Suffolk, but he also visited India and the South Seas as well as Bury Gaol. Just how much can we rely on the truth of his astonishing life-story? In this new edition, two local historians, Pip and Joy Wright have edited down Steggall's original book for today's reader, adding details of their own researches, and including over seventy illustrations." Pp.168, occasional colour and many black & white photos and illustrations, signed by co-author Pip Wright to title page. Paperback. VG.

Sudbury: Sudbury Common Lands Charity, 2005.. A look at the beauty of the ancient Common Lands of the Suffolk market town of Sudbury, explaining their history, the conservation work which is carried out, and their importance as both an agricultural and recreational amenity. Landscape format. 21cms x 30cms. Pp.27, colour photo illustrations throughout, double page colour map (not to scale) showing footpaths. Ring binding on stiff card covers. VG.

Gloucester: The British Publishing Company Ltd, 1984.. The Babergh District was created on the reorganisation of local government from five former local authorities in South Suffolk. The District takes its name from one of the old Saxon hundreds which was referred to in the Domesday Survey." Pp.80, double page map + 4 further maps and many black & white and 3 colour photographs, original laminated card covers bound in. Maroon cloth, gilt title and motif to front board. VG.

Ipswich: Ipswich Arts Association, 2003.. 1st edition. The story of the creation of eight of the richest and most revealing embroideries, made by Isabel Clover and her teams to celebrate the 800th Ipswich Charter Anniversary. "Each of these jewel-like works of art covers about a century, capacious pigeon-holes for our knowledge of that period". 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.32, colour plates + double page map by Ferial Rogers siting historical buildings featured in the hangings. Illustrated stiff card covers. VG.

Beccles:The Bidnall Press Limited (printers), 2001.. 1st impression. A small survey of dialect words and phrases in Beccles."Besides baldly recording words, we have tried to record how they were used. A conclusion is that the definition of a dialect word is a local word for which there is no single definition". Pp.48. Illustrated yellow stiff card covers, faint sunning to spine edge. Scarce. VG.

Beccles: Colin Blake, 1992.. 1st edition. "A compelling collection of black and white photographs recording Beccles and its inhabitants during the nineteen eighties and early nineties. 'The Beccles Portraits' cover a diverse selection of styles which in addition to portraiture includes architectural, aerial and candid photography." 27.5cms x 22cms. Pp.95, black & white photograph illustrations throughout. Paperback, slight creaseing to spine. Scarce. VG.

Lavenham: Terence Dalton Limited, 1991.. 1st edition. "This heritage coast is rewarding on a visual basis alone, with its seascapes, its vistas of marsh and heath and, inland, sweeps of farmland. However, this is not a guide book nor a history book but a tribute to those who have visited or lived around the mid-Suffolk coast and Sandlings." Pp.x/214, many black & white photo illustrations, maps to endpapers. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Privately published, 2002.. The idea that prompted this book was to paint a widespread picture of Bures between the two Jubilees, using pieces that I, as village correspondent for the local newspapers during most of that time, think are particularly significant in the recent history of the village, both on its own account and in relation to the rest of the country. These may be about unusual or indeed ordinary events and special people." Pp.83, 24 black & white photos, inscribed by the author to title page, small tear to base of pp.71/72. Paperback. G+.

Little Waldingfield, Sudbury, Suffolk: The Churchwardens [Printed by Payn Essex Printers, Ltd., Church Street, Sudbury, Suffolk], 1979 .. First edition. Paperback. [2pp.]/pp.66. 9.75" x 6.75" (24cm x 17cm). Illustrated card covers, edges rubbed with small tear to top of spine.. Good.