Solway plain - past and present

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Holme St Cuthbert History Group

Both of our books are now available again

Each costs only £9.95
plus £2.00 post and packing

£1.00 from each copy of 'More Plain People' will be donated to the Holm Cultram Abbey Restoration Appeal

OR BUY BOTH BOOKS
FOR ONLY £19.75
POST FREE

Holme St Cuthbert History Group,
Nook Farm,
Beckfoot,
Silloth, Cumbria, CA7 4LG

Cheques and Postal Orders only, payable to Holme St Cuthbert History Group.

Overseas customers and those wishing to use credit cards should use the link to Books Cumbria in the right hand panel.


Betty is waiting for your order!

What the papers said about 'More Plain People'

"Well thought-out and executed social history of the Cumbrian Solway coast . . . a portable archive for future historians and generations of Plain People to treasure"

- Times and Star

"An entertaining anthology of local scraps and snippets . . . a very special picture of life on the Solway Plain"

- Cumberland News

"Packed with interest for Cumbrians . . . a rich variety of topics . . . will fascinate readers"

- Cumberland & Westmorland Herald

Plain People Contents

The Solway in ancient times
Romans on our coast
From Romans to Normans
The Abbey and Edward I
The Manor Times

Local Places
Farming
Buildings
School Days
Worship
Keeping the Records
Families
Making a Living
Domestic Life
Transport
Food through the ages
War
Social Life
Special Times
Glossary

More Plain People Contents

A few of the Plain People
Seaside Visitors
Solway Smugglers
Business People
Horsemen
The Parish Poor
Offcomers
Golfers
Saltmakers
Roundheads and Cavaliers

Allonby
Beckfoot
Causewayhead
Edderside
Mawbray
Silloth
Skinburness

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