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Region: Britain - W. England

Contents of this issue - The Devil’s Coyt, St Columb Major; A Beaker Mound on the Lizard Peninsula; Field Systems on Bodmin Moor; The Silver Cup from Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany; The Porth Cressa Cist-Graves, St Mary, Isles of Scilly; The Bar-lug-Pottery of Cornwall; A Post-Medieval Cottage at Carn E

Region: Britain - Midlands

An illustrated and descriptive gazetteer of dovecotes extant at the time of publication with grid references and notes on structure, date, access and condition.  Each is illustrated in b&w photographs.

Region: Britain - Isle of Man

A visitor’s handbook to twenty prehistoric sites on the Isle of Man – predominantly Iron Age, Viking or Early Christian – each described with grid reference and excellent ground plans.  1995 edition.  Paperback.  40 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3866

Region: Britain - N. England

A gazetteer of museums (now out-of-date) and a more significant descriptive gazetteer of industrial heritage sites - iron works, canals, fulling and silk mills, aqueducts, docks, foundries, watch maker, copper mines, corn mills, limekilns, salt works and railway architecture.  Paperback.

Region: Britain - S. England

A biography of noted C17th bellfounder Joseph Hatch and his Ulcombe foundry in Kent dating back to 1585 and now no longer extant.  Includes a long list of bells cast at the foundry and four b&w plates showing the casting process (courtesy of Whitechapel bell foundry).  Paperback.

Region: Britain - W. England

A descriptive walking itinerary taking in Tiverton's industrial heritage - cotton mill, lace factory, tollhouses, corn market, canal wharf, lime kilns and street furniture.  Illustrated with drawings and archive photographs.  Very good condition.  Cat No 3861

Region: Britain - W. England

A descriptive walking itinerary taking in Exeter's industrial heritage - breweries, mills, warehouses, canal wharfs, gasworks etc.  Paperback.  36 pages.  Illustrated with drawings and archive photographs.  Very good condition.  Cat No 3860

Region: Britain - N. England

A sixteen page Bulletin whose main article is devoted to descriptions of six C19th ice houses, four of which are illustrated.  A short note on three C18th Durham corn mills is also included.  Paperback.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3859

Region: Britain - N. England

The text of a lecture summarising the history of C16th fulling mills, C16th lead mines, C18th iron foundries, industrial rail roads, canals, and C19th steam engineering works in Derbyshire, as well as the individual entrepreneurs who drove the innovations.  Paperback.  20 pages.

Region: Britain - N. England

A summary of the history of printing on cotton in the Sett Valley Derbyshire, where a plentiful supply of pure water was available, and the evolution of steam-driven cylinder presses powered by coal from local coalfields.