BIRCH, MEL.

Origins of Suffolk Place-Names.

Mendlesham: Castell, 2003. 0948134631. 1st edition. Compiled by Mel Birch, including work on the subject by the late Claude Morley. Pp.76. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 47776

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Birch Origins Suffolk Place Names Towns Villages Hamlets Manors Rivers Hundreds Parishes East Anglia 49256 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BIRCH, MEL.

Suffolk's Ancient Sites - Historic Places.

Mendlesham: Castell Publishing, 2004. 0948134518. 1st edition. "A comprehensive gazetteer to over 6,000 places of historic and archaeological interest in Suffolk by parish including: ancient settlements, camps & forts, tumuli & cemeteries, industrial sites, ancient tracks, Roman roads & villas, battle sites, earthworks, castles, monastic buildings, chapels & shrines, guildhalls, almshouses & workhouses, hospitals, schools & colleges, historic houses, water & windmills, gibbets & crosses, ancient woodland, moats & springs, greens & commons, deer parks, fairs & markets, medieval recreation sites, lost & deserted villages, etc with manors and place-name origins." Pp.440. Green cloth, dustwrapper has minor creasing to rear (printing fault), and is in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/VG.

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Book number: 49456

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Birch Suffolk Ancient Sites Historic Places Gazetteer Camps Forts Tumuli Cemeteries Industrial Tracks Roman Roads Battle Earthworks Castles Monastic Chapels Guildhalls Almshouses Workhouse 51201 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BIRCH, MEL.

Suffolk's Ancient Sites - Historic Places.

Mendlesham: Castell Publishing, 2004. 094813450X. 1st paperback edition. "A comprehensive gazetteer to over 6,000 places of historic and archaeological interest in Suffolk by parish including: ancient settlements, camps & forts, tumuli & cemeteries, industrial sites, ancient tracks, Roman roads & villas, battle sites, earthworks, castles, monastic buildings, chapels & shrines, guildhalls, almshouses & workhouses, hospitals, schools & colleges, historic houses, water & windmills, gibbets & crosses, ancient woodland, moats & springs, greens & commons, deer parks, fairs & markets, medieval recreation sites, lost & deserted villages, etc with manors and place-name origins." Pp.440.32 black & white illustrations. Paperback, crease to lower rear corner. Scarce. G+.

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Book number: 38783

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Birch Suffolk Ancient Sites Historic Places Gazetteer Camps Forts Tumuli Cemeteries Industrial Tracks Roman Roads Battle Earthworks Castles Monastic Chapels Guildhalls Almshouses Workhouse 51606 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BIXLEY, STEVEN R.

Sudbury & District News 1875-1930.

Little Waldingfield: Steven R.Bixley, 1981. A collection of quaint old newspaper stories gleaned from the archives of the Suffolk Free Press and the author's own library. Also contains advertisements and pictures gathered from the Sudbury area. 24.5cms x 16.5cms. Pp.48, words and pictures in sepia. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 45507

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Steven Bixley Sudbury District News History Suffolk Free Press Newspaper Articles Photographs Advertisements 52226 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLACKWOOD, GORDON.

Tudor & Stuart Suffolk.

Lancaster: Carnegie Press, 2001. 1859360785. 1st edition. "Concentrates on the impact on the county of Suffolk of three momentous events: the Reformation of the sixteenth century; the Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century; and the 'Glorious Revolution' at the end of the Stuart era..Also covers topics as varied as population, government, the Church, witch-hunting, the Interregnum, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the Restoration". Pp.xvi/351, 17 maps. Black boards, dustwrapper has minor wear to top edge. VG/VG.

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Book number: 50005

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Blackwood Tudor Stuart Suffolk Topography Population Economy Government Reformation Papists Puritans CIVIL War Interregnum Restoration Families Scandal Lavenham Witch Hunting 51525 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLAKE, COLIN.

The Beccles Portraits.

Beccles: Colin Blake, 1992. 0951799908. 1st edition. "A compelling collection of black and white photographs recording Beccles and its inhabitants during the nineteen eighties and early nineties. 'The Beccles Portraits' cover a diverse selection of styles which in addition to portraiture includes architectural, aerial and candid photography." 27.5cms x 22cms. Pp.95, black & white photograph illustrations throughout. Paperback, slight creaseing to spine. Scarce. VG.

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Book number: 49089

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Colin Blake Beccles Portraits Photographs Art Suffolk 50574 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLATCHLY, JOHN.

The Town Library of Ipswich.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989. 0851155170. 1st edition. The Town Library of Ipswich. Provided for the Use of the Town Preachers in 1599. A History and Catalogue. "A detailed study of a closed collection of about 1000 books published between 1474 and 1760.The ephemeral characteristics of the books are detailed: their former owners, donors and gift inscriptions, manuscript additions and graffiti, bindings and bookstamps..In addition, new light is thrown upon the history of Ipswich School, a 14th-century foundation; on its Masters and Ushers, who assisted the Preachers in the care of the Library; and on the School's own 17th-century library." 28.5cms x 22cms x 1.5cms. Pp.x/199, 5 tipped-in colour plates + 11 figure illustrations. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has rippling to front edges and wear to top edges. VG/Good.

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Book number: 48052

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Blatchly Town Library Ipswich Suffolk Preachers History Catalogue William Smarte Samuel Ward Cave Beck Robert Coningsby John King Patrons Donors Books Bindings Manuscripts 49528 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLATCHLY, JOHN.

The Town Library of Ipswich. Provided For The Use Of The Town Preachers In 1599. A History And Catalogue by John Blatchly .

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989. 0851155170. Signed 1st edition. The Town Library of Ipswich. Provided for the Use of the Town Preachers in 1599. A History and Catalogue. "A detailed study of a closed collection of about 1000 books published between 1474 and 1760.The ephemeral characteristics of the books are detailed: their former owners, donors and gift inscriptions, manuscript additions and graffiti, bindings and bookstamps. In addition, new light is thrown upon the history of Ipswich School, a 14th-century foundation; on its Masters and Ushers, who assisted the Preachers in the care of the Library; and on the School's own 17th-century library." 28.5cms x 22cms x 1.5cms. Pp.x/199, 5 tipped-in colour plates + 11 figure illustrations. Gift inscription from John Blatchly to Betty Birkby to front endpaper. Siged "John 11 May' 89". Brown cloth, dustwrapper has rippling to front edges and light wear to top edges. Now protected by a removeable clear plastic wrap. VG/G+.

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Book number: 49610

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: 50866 Blatchly Town Library Ipswich Suffolk Preachers History Catalogue William Smarte Samuel Ward Cave Beck Robert Coningsby John King Patrons Donors Books Bindings Manuscripts East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLOORE, PETER AND MARTIN, EDWARD. (EDITORS).

Wingfield College and its Patrons. Piety and Prestige in Medieval Suffolk.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. 9781843838326. 1st edition. "A major contribution to our understanding of this largely forgotten area of medieval Suffolk; casting new light on the remarkable lives of Sir John Wingfield and the de la Pole family; and adding significantly to a wider understanding of the role of aristocratic patronage of chantry colleges and church monuments, the scale and prestige of which reflected both piety and wordly power." Pp.xvi/249, 27 colour plates + many figure illustrations, DVD in pocket to rear, signed by co-editor Edward Martin to title page. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 50006

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Peter Bloore Edward Martin Signed Wingfield College Patrons Piety Prestige Medieval Suffolk History de la Pole Alice Chaucer Wars Roses Digital Reconstruction Dvd 51526 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLYTHE, RONALD.

Aftermath. Selected Writings 1960-2010.

Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2010. 9780954928698. 1st edition. "Here are extracts from his major works, from Akenfield and Divine Landscapes, The View in Winter, his introduction to Hazlitt and Henry James and volumes of war poetry. Here too, for the first time, are essays and reviews - of novels, literary biographies, letters and diaries, anthologies of landscape writing both sacred and topographical". Pp.487. Black boards, dustwrapper not price-lipped. VG/VG.

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Book number: 50096

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Ronald Blythe Aftermath Selected Writings Akenfield Diaries Woolf Conrad Mansfield Wodehous India John Clare Hillaby Travel Literature Hazlitt Pye White Mabey War Poets Divine Landscapes 51616 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BLYTHE, RONALD. (EDITOR).

Aldeburgh Anthology.

Aldeburgh: Snape Maltings Foundation Ltd, 1972. 0571100031. 1st edition. Published in association with Faber Music Ltd. A collection of essays and reminiscences, pictures and poetry that have grown up around twenty-five years of the Aldeburgh Festival. Pp.xiv/437, over one hundred black & white photographs, sepia photo illustrated endpapers. Brown cloth, has wear to top and tail of spine, dustwrapper has edge wear and sunning to spine. VG/G+.

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Book number: 49129

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Blythe Aldeburgh Anthology Festival Crabbe Sweeting History Music Peter Pears Forster Suffolk Opera Britten Poetry Hardy Grainger Sutton Hoo Donald Mitchell 52341 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BOSWELL, P.G.H.

Geology of the Country Around Woodbridge, Felixstowe and Orford.

London: HMSO, 1972. 2nd impression of original 1928 edition. "Re-issue of the present memoir provides interesting geological and physiographical background material on various changes in the coastline between Aldeburgh and Harwich Harbour, certain of which were influenced by man's activities." Pp.vi/83, 2 pages of black & white photos + 15 figures/maps in the text, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Bright orange cloth, dustwrapper with illustration of Orford Castle, has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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Book number: 37803

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Boswell Geology Country Woodbridge Felixstowe Orford Aldeburgh Harwich Harbour Suffolk Coastline Erosion Cretaceous Eocene Ondon Clay Box-Stone Bed Coralline Crag Chillesford Glacial Drift Early 38610 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BOTELHO, L.A. (EDITOR).

Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield 1640-1660.

Woodbridge: Suffolk Records Society / The Boydell Press, 1999. 0851157599. 1st edition. Suffolk Records Society Vol. 42. "The unusually full set of churchwardens' accounts edited here offers a detailed view of life in an East Anglian village during the English civul wars..The introduction recreates the demographic, economic and social structure of early modern Cratfield, and the volume concludes with a number of appendices, including short biographies of those named in the accounts." Pp.xii /177, inscribed by Lynn A Botelho to front free endpaper, 3 maps. Green cloth, dustwrapper has 1cm tear to top edge. VG/G+.

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Book number: 45065

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Botelho Signed Churchwardens Accounts Cratfield Suffolk Records English CIVIL War East Anglia Social History 46538 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BOTTOMLEY, ALAN AND CHADD, MARGARET.

Senescali Sudwoldienses Being Lives of the High Stewards of Southwold 1505-1989.

Southwold: The Southwold Press, 1989. Brief history of the title of High Steward followed by short biographies of holders of the office of High Steward of Southwold through the ages. 25cms x 19cms. Pp.viii/41, 8 portrait illustrations/photos + armorial shields of each of the High Stewards. Stiff yellow card covers. VG.

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Book number: 46344

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Bottomley Chadd Senescali Sudwoldienses High Stewards Southwold Sackville Bedingfield North Postle Neale Thomson Betts Bransby Carthew Prime Howse Buckle Chambers Harvey Jermyn Firth Wake Loftus 47920 East Anglia: : Suffolk

BRIGHT, FRED & DOREEN.

Twenty-Nine Years in the Licence Trade - Our Story.

Privately published, 2008. Memoirs of former pub landlord Fred Bright, who along with his wife Doreen ran the Swan, Long Melford (Suffolk) for 8 years (1983 to 1991), and before that the Napier Arms, the Three Pigeons, and the Conservative Club all in Halstead, Essex. The book is full of photos covering nearly 30 years of village life. 29.5cms x 21cms. Pp.54, black & white and colour photographs throughout, signed by both Fred and Doreen to inside front cover. Paperback, minor crease to lower front corner. VG.

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Book number: 43021

Catalogue: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Keywords: Bright Twenty Nine Years Licence Trade Swan Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk Halstead Pub Publican Napier Arms Three Pigeons Village Life Floods Murder Celebrity Visits Licenced Victualler 44369 East Anglia: : Suffolk