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Art of Mining by Douglas Glendinning, published in 2000
Thomas Harrison Hair (1810-1875) made paintings of the coal mines of North East England. These vividly capture the scenes that the artist witnessed on his travels through the mining communities of the North-East.
Good condition, scuffed cover – 1 copy available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Basil Bunting: a northern life by Richard Caddel and Anthony Flowers, published in 1997
Born and raised in the North East, Basil Bunting is now acknowledged as one of the foremost British Poets of the twentieth century.
Excellent condition – 11 copies available
Price - £25 plus £1.50 postage
Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne by Brian Bennison, published in 1995
Beer has always played a prominent part in Newcastle’s social life and this, the first comprehensive account of the city’s drink trade, traces the history of Newcastle’s brewers and bottlers.
Excellent condition – only 1 copy available
Price - £6 plus £1.50 postage
Catherine Cookson Companion by Cliff Goodwin, published in 1999
Details of the characters and places created by the twentieth century’s master storyteller. Includes a short story and a foldout perceptual map of the imaginary town of Fellburn.
Excellent condition – 3 copies available
Price - £10 plus £2 postage
Down Elswick Slipways: Armstrong’s Ships and People 1884-1918 published in 1996
This book features authentic stories from a colourful era in Newcastle’s history, when the famous Armstrong Shipyard on the Tyne built warships for many nations.
Excellent condition – 7 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
From Walker to the World: Charles Mitchell’s Low Walker Shipyard by Dick Keys and Ken Smith, published 1997
From Walker to the World tells the fascinating story of the Low Walker Shipyard, Newcastle founded in 1852 by Charles Mitchell.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
Ghosts of Grainger Town: further tales from Newcastle’s Darker Side by Vanessa Histon, published in 2001
Explore the sinister secrets of Newcastle’s bustling city centre. Hauntings in shops, offices and other familiar places, mysteries surrounding the Castle Keep, the Victorian fascination with spirit-raising, and the City Library’s most macabre book, all feature in Vanessa Histon’s new investigation of Newcastle’s darker side.
Excellent condition – 11 copies available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
A Ha’penny over the High Level: a Tyneside and Northumberland Childhood by Thomas Knowles Bell, published in 2007
A nostalgic tale of one boy’s life in Gateshead and Allendale before the Second World War
Excellent condition – 10 copies available
Price £7 plus £1.50 postage
Herring Girls and Hiring Fairs: memories of Northumberland Coast and Countryside by Maureen Brook, published in 2005
Maureen interviewed over forty people from the fishing, farming and mining communities. They remember the days when the doctor performed operations on a scrubbed kitchen table, men and women travelled to annual hiring fairs to find farm work, and the wives of fishermen helped haul the boats ashore, working up to their waists in water.
Excellent condition – 5 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Lost Weekends; A History of Newcastle’s Public Houses. Vol. 3; the West by Brian Bennison, published in 1998
Lost Weekends is the third and final volume of Brian Bennison’s History of Newcastle’s Public Houses. After an exploration of the licensed houses of Arthur’s Hill and Westgate , the investigation moves westwards – via the legendary pubs of Elswick and Scotswood Road – and on through Benwell and Scotswood.
Excellent condition – 6 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Mauretania: Pride of the Tyne by Ken Smith, published in 1997
Packed with photographs, this book tells the exciting story of the Mauretania’s career, from her launch at the Wallsend Shipyard in 1906 to her final voyage in 1935.
Excellent condition – 6 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Newcastle Now, published in 1987
A selection of full colour photographs portraying the spirit of Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1980’s
Excellent condition – 10 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Newcastle upon Tyne: a selection of the Earliest Photographs by Frank Manders, published in 1995
This is the first time that almost all of the surviving views of Newcastle upon Tyne in the period 1850-1870 have been brought together in one volume.
Excellent condition – 6 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Nightmare on Grey Street: Newcastle’s Darker Side by Vanessa Histon, published in 2000
Nightmare on Grey Street reveals Newcastle’s darker side – ghostly monks, wicked witches, dastardly deeds and mysterious tales from the city’s past.
Good condition – 2 copies available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
Northern City: an architectural history of Newcastle upon Tyne by Lynn F. Pearson, published in 1996
Good condition – 3 available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Not Just Bricks and Mortar by Jimmy Donald, published in 1994
A look at some of Newcastle’s most interesting dwellings.
Good condition – only one available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Out of One Eye: the photography of Jimmy Forsyth by Anthony Flowers and Derek Smith, published in 2002
This book is the work of an insider, an ordinary man observing the community in which he lived. His photography celebrated the vitality and humanity of Tyneside in transition, and are unique in their passion and authenticity.
Good condition – 1 copy available
Price - £25 plus £2.00 postage
Peaceable Kingdoms: Allotment gardens in Newcastle upon Tyne. Photographs by Peter Fryer and Text by Graeme Rigby, published in 1992
This book looks at the people who keep these small but important pieces of land, which provide leisure, escape, work pleasure, friendship and freedom, as well as food.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £10 plus £1.50 postage
Smoke Fire and Steel: Newcastle 1640 - a novel by Harry Child, published in 2001
A gripping tale set in 1640 of murder, betrayal, love and revenge.
Excellent condition – 9 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.50 postage
Spanning the Tyne: the building of the Tyne Bridge, 1925-1929 , first edition only, published in 1993
Photographs of the building of the Tyne Bridge which opened in 1928.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
Steam and Speed: Railways of Tyne and Wear from the Earliest Days by Andy Guy, published in 2003
Track the story of railways in the North, from the Steam Elephant to modern times.
Excellent condition – 6 copies available
Price - £15 plus £2.00 postage
Steamers at the Staiths: Steam Colliers of the North East 1841-1945 by Dick Keys and Ken Smith, published in 2000
Packed with fascinating incidents, Steamers at the Staiths spotlights the exciting and sometimes tragic stories of ships and men who delivered those vital black diamonds from the North-East coalfields.
Excellent co ndition – Only one copy available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
Swans of the Tyne by Ken Smith and Ian Rae, published in 1994
This book is a pictorial tribute to the achievements of Tyne shipbuilders Swan Hunter.
Good condition – Only one copy available
Price - £8.00 plus £1.50 postage
Tyne to Titanic: The story of the Rescue Ship Carpathia by Ken Smith, published in 1998
Tyne to Titanic tells the story of Carpathia, the Tyne-built ship which rescued the survivors of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
Excellent condition – 8 copies available
Price - £15 plus £1.50 postage
Voices from Vickers: The workers’ Story compiled by Phil Kitchen, published in 2001
In Voices from Vickers, some of the men and women who worked at the Scotswood and Elswick factories between the 1930s and the 1980s look back on their experiences – as apprentices, as wartime workers, as engineers and draughtsmen.
Excellent condition – Only one copy available
Price - £15 plus £1.50 postage
Water under the Bridges: Newcastle’s Twentieth Century, published in 1999
From coal to culture, from food to football, from politics to pleasure, Water under the Bridges examines the way the turbulent Twentieth Century has transformed Newcastle – and the lives of the people who live, work and play there.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £15 plus £2.00 postage
What’s in a Name…? by Anna Flowers and Maria Hoy, published in 1992
Street signs were first used in Newcastle in 1783. Since then many people have been fascinated by the origin of some of the names. The selection of photographs in this book provides some interesting snippets of information and an insight into some aspects of the history of Newcastle.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £8 plus £1.50 postage
Wheels by Noel Hanson, published in 1996
Wheels, takes a look at all types of wheeled transport in use in the City in times gone by, from prams to trams, and from tr ains to trolleybuses.
Excellent condition – 9 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Looking Back At… Tyne Liners, published in1991
Photographic review of outstanding passenger ships built on the Tyne up to 1962.
Excellent condition – 4 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Looking Back At… Scotswood Road Pubs with photographs by Jimmy Forsyth, published in 1988
One of Newcastle’s most famous riddles asks’ How many pubs were there on Scotswood Road?’ This booklet attempts a fair answer, but whatever the exact number it certainly seems there were enough to quench quite a considerable thirst.
Excellent condition – 3 copies
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Looking Back At… The Great War 1914 – 1918 by Frank Manders, published in 1989
This photographic record shows the City of Newcastle during the unexpectedly long and devastating First World War.
Good condition – 4 copies
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Looking Back At… Celebrations, published in1987
In this collection of photographs the aim is to show Newcastle people having fun and feeling good.
Excellent condition – 5 copies available
Price - £3 plus £1.00 postage
Gone… but not forgotten: The Sixties, published in 1992
Excellent condition – 1 copy available
Price £5 plus £1.00 postage
Gone…but not forgotten: Trams, Trains, Trolleys, published in1985
A selection of photographs of public tran spo rt in Newcastle, 1900-1958
Excellent condition – 3 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Gone…but not forgotten: Newcastle between the Wars, published in1992
The years between the two World Wars provide a part of the North-East’s history which has aroused more interest than any other period.
Excellent condition – 2 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Gone…but not forgotten: The Fifties by Douglas Bond, published in1989
From post war austerity to “never had it so good”, the 1950s presented a series of contrasts in Newcastle. The city centre was still grimy and compact, but plans were being laid for its re-development.
Excellent condition – 1 copy available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage
Gone…but not forgotten: The Forties by Barbara Stephenson and Frank Manders, Published in1991
Emerging victorious after the massive col lective effort of over five years of war, people expected “blue skies” which one war-time popular song had led them to hope for. Instead, due to the country’s massive indebtedness, these years were grey and joyless.
Excellent condition – 3 copies available
Price - £5 plus £1.00 postage