LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS
LANDY PUBLISHING
Northward was written by Anthony Hewitson, a Preston journalist, and was published in 1900. It has been reprinted several times, most recently by me in 1993, the book has been out of print for most of the last 10 years.
Northward is concerned with "historic, topographic and scenic gleanings etc between Preston and Lancaster ". It is illustrated with almost a hundred drawings Most of the townships east and west of the A6, the Lancaster Canal and the Wyre between Preston and Lancaster are mentioned. No local history book has a higher reputation than Northward. It records village life and traveling on roads before the advent of motor cars half a century before the M6 appeared on any map, and now a full century ago.
I anticipate publishing 1000 copies of the book, a facsimile of the 1900 edition with the folding map, as a 160-page high quality paperback at £18. Postage will be free if payment accompanies the order (UK only - overseas should add £3 to the order total not per copy - for postage and should pay in sterling). Cheques should be payable to Landy Publishing. I cannot accept credit card payments.
There are all sorts of things in a mixture. This book has all sorts in it - all of them being something to do with Preston. I have compiled essays, (with a few poems and not a few pictures) from local writers on a variety of subjects - trains; Bond cars; ballooning; the Preston Pilot; public health; popular entertainment; Farrington Park; the Scientific Society; St Walburge's Church; the railway station in wartime; the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge; the Castle Hotel in Market Square, and on a variety of people such as Anthony Hewitson who wrote as "Atticus"; the centenarian Mrs. Kirby; The Ducketts, a father and son who were master sculptors; Mr. Harris who gave the town its library, a museum and orphanage and Patti Mayor, an artist and suffragette.
There's a poem about Tom Finney, a knight to remember. The photographs are captioned to interest and inform. It's a history book with a difference. The various sections are interspersed with pictorial letter headings from tradesmen of yesteryear, many of them bearing the Lamb
A Preston Mixture is a high-quality 160 - page paperback book which sells @ £12 Postage is free if payment is sent with the order. (UK only - overseas customers should add £3 to the order and pay in sterling). I cannot accept card payments. Cheques should be made out to Landy Publishing.
My trading motto is "My integrity is your guarantee".
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Here is a list of books published by Bob Dobson to November 2003. Postage is free except to overseas customers, who are asked to add £3 to their bill to go towards postage costs.
These prices apply only to copies, which are supplied direct to the customer. Some of the books are not available through bookshops. But will be pleased to sign and date any book written or edited by Bob and marked with an asterisk on this list. It can also be inscribed as a gift for someone and if that is the case please mark so and write the details on a separate letter.
Bob prefers to deal direct with customers rather than bookshops for small orders. Please do not order these books from bookshops if they are not in stock there.
Blackburn in Focus by Alan Duckworth & Jim Halsall. Photos taken by Blackburn photographers John William and Alfred Shaw a century ago. Some have been ‘zoomed in on to give a look at a street scene, and some have been newly taken by Jim taking a shot from the same spot.
48pp pbk £6
Blackburn Tram Rides by Jim Halsall. Photographs with captions take you back in time. Six tram routes.
60pp pbk £6
*A Blackburn Miscellany edited by Bob Dobson. A history book with a difference. Short pieces on many aspects.
A5 168pp ills £10
Preston in Focus by Stephen Sartin. Fifty photos taken in the old borough in 1911 by a Blackburn father-and-son team called Shaw. Stephen Sartin has written captions which captivate.
48pp pbk £6
A History of Pilling by F A Sobee. A reprint of the schoolmaster’s masterly work to which has been added some old photos and a new introduction. In laminated boards.
168pp £18
Bygone Bentham by Joseph Can. 26 essays on the native village written for the Lancaster Guardian between 1871 and 1893. Peter Marshall has added photos and old adverts.
168pp pbk £15
A Century of Bentham
compiled by David Johnson. 100 photos of the village(s) from the 1970s to the 1970s.
A5 64pp pbk £6
*Accrington Observed by Brian Brindle and Bob Dobson. 111 old photos with captions and ‘flavour’
. A4 64pp pbk £6
*Accrington‘s Changing Face by Frank Watson & Bob Dobson. 64 pages of photos and captions along the lines of Accrington Observed
A4 64pp pbk £6
Accrington‘s Public Transport 1886-1986 by Robert Rush. Both local history and transport. Many photos.
60pp pbk £6
Bolland Forest & the Hodder Valley by Greenwood & Bolton. Reprint of 1955 history book with new names index and photos. Limited to 1000 copies
160 pp pbk £15
Cockersand Abbey by Brian Marshall. This abbey was knocked down by Henry VIII in 1539. It started as a hospital run by a hermit.
A5 pbk 64pp ills £5
Hackensall with Preesall: A Thousand Years of a Lancashire Parish by Brian Marshall. Published in two parts, up to and from 1479.
A5 pbks 80/136pps ills each £6
Sketches of Grange and Neighbourhood. First published in 1850, now reprinted. To the original have been added a new introduction and some contemporary engravings.
A5 pbk 128pp £l0
Northward by Anthony Hewitson. First published in 1900, this covers the history of the area between Preston and Lancaster. Monumental. Limited to 1000 copies
157pp & map pbk £18
*A Preston Mixture edited by Bob Dobson. Pieces on history, events, characters. well illustrated.
A5 pbk 160 PP £12
Oswaldtwistle Observed: Gawping at Gobinland by Mike Booth & Albert Wilkinson. Photographs with captions. The first Ossy book for over 10 years.
60pp pbk £6
Contract: LANDY PUBLISHING
Bob Dobson, "Acorns", 3 Staining Rise, Staining, Blackpool FY3 0BU Tel. & Fax.01253 895678 Publisher and Book Dealer
I'm sure he can help with any enquires about book and others for both local and overseas customers.
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Copyright © 1996, Rob O'Gara : rmo@prestonian.co.uk : First issued 3rd March
1996.