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The latest publication:
A history of the forty years the Downend Folk House has been in existence
14 by 21 cms, 66 pages with 44 photographs
£5.00 plus £1.60 post and packing
Downend Local History Society Publications still in print.
MANGOTSFIELD PICTURE PAST 2 -a collection of reproductions of over a hundred old photographs of Downend, Staple Hill andMangotsfield with a Foreword by David Smith, County Archivist for Gloucestershire.
Price -£3 +£1.05 p&p
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS -former miners, shopkeepers, market gardeners, a vet, a shoe-manufacturer, a school teacher, an employee at Carson's Chocolate Factory, a coach builder and others share their memories of living and working in the Mangotsfield area during this century .This is the best kind of social history! The book contains 25 chapters and 40 old photographs are reproduced.
Price- £5 + £1.55 p&p
GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS -With over 150 years since the birth of W.G.Grace, this book introduces you to his paternal and maternal grandparents, his parents. his brothers and sisters, as well as the great man himself.
Price -£2.50 + 80p p&p
The Society's Monographs
No 1. WILLIAM JOYNER'S NOTEBOOK - A Coroner's View of Gloucestershire Society 1790 - 1823
Price - £2.00 + 50p p&p
No 2. MAKING ENDS MEET - Poor relief in 18th century Mangotsfield.
Price - £2.00 + 50p p&p
No 3. BETTS BARTON - A History of Salisbury Road
Price - £3.00 + 80p p&p
No 4. ROSE ASH -Life in a Devon Rectory around 1947
Price - £2.00 + 50p p&p
Note - New postal rates, as of 6th April 2009.
Please enquire for overseas postal rates.
These books can be purchased by writing to:-.
Books
Downend Local History Society
Lincombe Barn
Overndale Road
Downend
Bristol
BS16 2RW
(England)
Please make cheques payable to Downend Folk House Association
*Please note that it may be necessary to despatch multiple orders as separate items, in order for the quoted p&p rates to be achieved.
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