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Big Potato - A Biography of Joseph Austin Towers

Big Potato - A Biography of Joseph Austin Towers

Peter John Towers

“The trouble with the Towers family was the stubborn streak…” This is the biography of Joseph Austin..

£10.95

Bombs & Betty Grable

Bombs & Betty Grable

John Wilcox

John Wilcox has written seven novels of historical adventure and ..

£12.95

Came the Day

Came the Day

Ed. Jean Smith

Grenville J Davies, a young man from the Welsh Valleys who came to li..

£10.95

Carry On Car Making

Carry On Car Making

Ian S. Pogson

Everyone knew that MG Rover needed a big partner if it were to surviv..

£14.95

Chequered Chances - A Portrait of Lady Luxborough

Chequered Chances - A Portrait of Lady Luxborough

Audrey Duggan

Born in 1699, into an aristocratic family, Henrietta St John as s..

£12.95

Don’t Worry ’Bout The Bear - From the Blues to Jazz, Rock & Roll  and Black Sabbath

Don’t Worry ’Bout The Bear - From the Blues to Jazz, Rock & Roll and Black Sabbath

Jim Simpson with Ron Simpson

Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records has been involved in the music business for nearly 60 years, as musi..

£17.95

Down to Earth (Women’s Land Army)

Down to Earth (Women’s Land Army)

Nancy Cooper

In Down to Earth, Nancy Cooper gives us a glimpse into the real life of a seventeen year old young w..

£8.95

Dunkirk Diary of a Very Young Soldier

Dunkirk Diary of a Very Young Soldier

Wilf Saunders CBE

Dunkirk Diary of a Very Young Soldier, is the personal account of a Bir..

£8.95

Edward Walter Locke – Master Potter 1829-1909

Edward Walter Locke – Master Potter 1829-1909

Tom & Lillian Willis

This book is the result of the first in-depth research on Locke..

£14.95

Eliza Asbury - Her Cottage and Her Son

Eliza Asbury - Her Cottage and Her Son

David J. A. Hallam

Eliza Asbury lived between Birmingham and the Black Country dur..

£8.95

Enter Drum and Colours - Memories of National Service in the 1950s

Enter Drum and Colours - Memories of National Service in the 1950s

Alan Brewin

This book tells the story of one young man's National Service i..

£9.95

Finally Meeting Princess Maud

Finally Meeting Princess Maud

Seamus Dunleavy and Shirley Thompson

From around the Second World War onwards, a new migration from the ..

£14.95

Finding Thomas

Finding Thomas

John Fisher

The true story of a Black Country family torn apart in the 1960s, w..

£10.95

Forgotten Brummies: The men and women who shaped today’s Birmingham...

Forgotten Brummies: The men and women who shaped today’s Birmingham...

Les Williams

People make history in the place they call home. This book briefly describes the lives of twenty-n..

£14.95

Fort Dunlop Remembered

Fort Dunlop Remembered

Chris Jukes

Fort Dunlop, in the Erdington district of Birmingham, was the original tyre factory and main office ..

£9.95

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