The only Not in Heckmonwike Heckmondwike second hand book shop
Just a few of the titles available for £2.50, granted Snowdonia is not near Yorkshire but you can get there in a couple of hours, traffic permitting that is.
Odd Corners in the Yorkshire Dales – William T Palmer
5th edition 1948 112 pages with 15 illustrations by J Hardman. Through the post to any UK address
£4.00
BIG Ears in the Kingdom of Kirklees
“A jaundiced look at our Lords and Masters – Yorkshire Politicians and Bureaucrats through the eyes of Big Ears” 94 page illustrated book soft bound. Through the post to UK addresses or sometimes by bicycle if in the Spen Valley
£9.00
Churches and Chapels of Kirklees – A Ronald Bielby
Published in 1978 by Kirklees Libraries and Museum Service this 116 page book is well illustrated. This is a clean tight copy with no inscriptions. Through the post to UK destinations.
£7.50
HUDDERSFIELD OFFICIAL HANDBOOK (1960)
Now there are Handbooks and Town Guides, but this is something on a different level, published by Pyramid Press Limited (London) in 1960 (undated but the mayor who signed off this book served a959-1960). 272 glossy pages with advertisements from most of the prominent businesses of the time. A 30 page history well illustrated and fold out maps of the town. 10X7, this copy has tape (neatly) to the spine and page edges of the cover, does not detract from the quality. Through the post to UK destinations
£15.00
Pennine Journey by William B Stocks
Being the History of the Railways, Tramways and Canals in Huddersfield and District. Printed and Published by THE ADVERTISER PRESS LTD> Huddersfield 1958. Card covers 98 pages tight clean copy no inscriptions. Posted to UK address
£7.50
The Charter Our Right! Huddersfield Chartism Re-Considered (2018) edited by John A. Hargreaves
https://undergroundhistories.wordpress.com/the-charter-our-right-book-review/ 128 pages published by Huddersfield Local History Society, still in print though ABE, Amazon and Waterstones don’t have a copy. I am offering this copy, through the post to any UK address for £10.00
£10.00
A Pictorial History of the Huddersfield & District Police Force – By Steve Holberry
Print City. Soft Cover, 200x210mm. Huddersfield Police Force from the earliest records to the present day. 82pp plus covers. Illustrated in black and white. Very Good. Price below includes UK P&P
£15.00
Huddersfield Norman Culley, 1939. Blue cloth with printed title to front cover. Not dated, but the drawings are dated 1938 and 1939. With 25 pencil drawings. The collage distorts the illustrations as most are landscape format. A nice tidy copy for £10.00
The Second Book of Huddersfield – A Sketch Book
Huddersfield Norman Culley, 1939. Blue cloth with printed title to front cover. Not dated, but the drawings are dated 1938 and 1939. With 25 pencil drawings. The collage distorts the illustrations as most are landscape format. Price below includes UK P&P
£12.50
Guide to the Calder and Hebble Navigation and the Huddersfield Broad Canal
The book is not dated and credits no author but credits members of Inland Waterways Association. Later additions credit David Taylor and this addition has a dedication to Alan and Jean Taylor so I suspect he had a part in writing this. Though undated as this copy is pre-decimal it is earlier than copies I have seen for sale. 28 pages with maps drawings and photographs. I can supply through the postal system for the combined price of £7.50 to UK locations.
£7.50
Colne Valley Labour Party – Souvenir Centenary History
Colne Valley Constituency Labour Party, 1991. Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 84pp with illustrations. Colne Valley Division Labour Union was formed in 1891 – the second oldest independent labour party organisation after Bradford; a founder of the ILP in 1893.Tom Mann was its first parliamentary candidate and Victor Grayson its first MP. Delivered to any UK address for £20.00
£20.00
Slavery in Yorkshire
This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explores the links between Richard Oastlers extraordinarily influential campaign against child labour in Yorkshire after 1830 and the remarkably successful campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade led by Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce before 1807. With contributions from D. Colin Dews, Dr John Halstead, Dr John A. Hargreaves, Dr Janette Martin, Professor Edward Royle and Professor James Walvin, it evaluates the distinctively Yorkshire context of both movements and offers a re-assessment of Oastlers contribution to their success. It reveals how Oastlers associations with both evangelical Anglicanism and Nonconformity, especially Methodism, stimulated and sustained his involvement in the ten-hour factory movement and examines the role of the regional press, local grass-roots organisation and Oastlers powerful oratory in helping to secure a successful outcome to the campaign. In a foreword, the Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, a leading figure in both the regional and national commemoration of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 2007, commends this wide-ranging historical study with its broad perspective as an important contribution to making us all more informed on the whole theme of slavery today. Delivered to UK Address £15.00
£15.00
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary – CARNIVAL AND GALA WEEK -1928
Official Souvenir Handbook 48 pages mainly adverts with a few hospital related photographs. Posted to any UK address £5.00
£5.00
Local Transport 1870 – 1940 Kirklees Camera
62 pages of local transport photographs good quality. Posted to UK addresses
£7.50
History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry by W B Crump
1935 132 pages with illustrations. County Borough of Huddersfield The Tolson Memorial Museum Publications. To any UK address
£9.00
ANGELS, DANES and NORSE in the District of HUDDERSFIELD by WG Collingwood
Published in 1921 soft cover 64 pages with illustrations Posted to any UK address
£8.50
Dewsbury as it Was and Spen Valley a landscape of hamlets, written by Christopher Scargill and Richard Lee (I worked with Richard at Metro in the early eighties before it was sold off for a bargain price).
The pages are not numbered but there are 66 illustrations. Given how big Dewsbury is this should be the more common book but isn’t. published 1985. £7.00
Dewsbury As It Was by Christopher Scargill and Richard Lee
The pages are not numbered but there are 66 illustrations. Given how big Dewsbury is this should be the more common book but isn’t. published 1985. The Price below includes UK P&P
£9.00
96 (Dewsbury) Squadron Air Training Corps 25 Years 1941 – 1966
52 page booklet telling the history of 96 ATC well illustrated. By post to UK addresses £6.00
£6.00
Reet Champion – The Development of Health Care in the Heavy Woollen District
Post and Package to all UK addresses included in this price
£7.50
BIG Ears in the Kingdom of Kirklees
“A jaundiced look at our Lords and Masters – Yorkshire Politicians and Bureaucrats through the eyes of Big Ears” 94 page illustrated book soft bound. Through the post to UK addresses or sometimes by bicycle if in the Spen Valley
£9.00
Yorkshire Puddin’ Readings and Writings by John Hartley
This copy published by Watmoughs Limited , Idle, Bradford. 380 pages, a tight copy but at some stage the spine must have come off and has been scruffily stuck back on. Owned at one time by Sidney Beaumont Senior (a relative of my grandma). The price includes postage to any UK address.
£20.00
The years I can find are 1869 1871 1878 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1896 1898 1900 1901 1902 1903 1905 1907 1910 1912 1914 1915 1928 so let me know what year you desire.
Clock Almanack
Please specify year – The price is a single copy delivered to any UK address, for more than one copy add £2.50 per copy, if PayPal lets you. If not please e-mail me.
£4.00
Published by J W Roberts and Son in Slaithwaite in 1957 this is a 96 page booklet of Yorkshire dialect stories. Though about half the pages are adverts for local businesses, giving a snapshot of business in the valley in the mid-fifties. Well read but complete. It helps to read it out loud but it is nowhere as difficult as the Clock Annuals, in fact it can probably be read and understood by non-Yorkshire folk.
For example;
“Tha should ha’ towld t’company that,” she said, “asteed o’ leeavin’ em all strung up in t’middle on it!”
or in a poem about John Henry;
His wahfe sed he wor musical :
He bowt a big trambooane
He blew it all shapes ivvery neet
Joe Willy’s and Throng as Thropp’s Wife Annual 1957
Published by J W Roberts and Son in Slaithwaite in 1957 this is a 96 page booklet of Yorkshire dialect stories. Though about half the pages are adverts for local businesses, giving a snapshot of business in the valley in the mid-fifties. Well read but complete. It helps to read it out loud but it is nowhere as difficult as the Clock Annuals, in fact it can probably be read and understood by non-Yorkshire folk.
£10.00
Yorkshire Brass by a Yorkshire Lass by Kate Glover
Undated 24 pages of Dialect Poetry and Reminiscences decorated by A R Clark. Through the post in the UK
£4.00
The Dalesman was first published in March of 1939 as “The Yorkshire Dalesman”. From March 1939 to 2003 I have all but 6 months in stock, along with other “Dalesman” publications I have a total of 973 items in stock offered for sale.
The Dalesman is still going strong and is the UK’s best selling regional magazine, I would obviously claim it is the best regional magazine as it is about the best County in England or indeed the world.
They make excellent Birthday or anniversary presents, much better than a Birthday card for Yorkshire Lads and Lasses.
The Index for Number one includes; Dales Folk by Ella Pontefract, Historian wanted for Kettleswelldale by C J Cutcliffe-Hyne, A Yorkshire Climbing Nursery by Godfrey Wilson, The Man of the Dales by W Riley, Past and Present in the Dales by M’Duke Miller, Do you know the Hill Brunillo? by Lettice Cooper, Adult Education in Craven, What Town Planning Means by F R Birkhead, It was still raining by Leonard Cooper, The Vacant Wine-Red Moor by Donald Boyd, The “Three Peaks”, Stories of Craven’s Grand Old Man by Norman Thorner and Public Access to Mountains by A Creech Jones MP.
I do have an ambition to list all the idiocies in a searchable data-base, but as I say, that is an ambition.
I do have a copy of number one with half the front page missing (cover) I am willing to sell that for £5 with a photocopy of the missing piece.
Dalesman Number one April 1959
Not one of the recent reprints
£10.00
I now have 1,101 “Dalesman publications” catalogued (large numbers of “Cumbria” yet to do) please contact me if you are looking for anything in particular.
Movie Makers and Picture Palaces – GJ Mellor
An interesting and definitive history of the film industry in Yorkshire, regarded as ‘The Cradle of the Industry’ by many in the profession. Includes history of film making and film making pioneers, film equipment used, important films made, and the development of cinema in the region. Soft covers, p.324, illustrated with b&w photographs. Very good condition. Posted to any UK location
£12.00
On the Trail of the Luddites by Lesley Kipling & Nick Hall Illustrations by Eric Richardson
56 page illustrated booklet published by the Pennine Heritage Network in 1982 Through the post to any UK destination £7.50
£7.50
Tramways in West Yorkshire by H Brearley – Locomotion Papers No. Thirteen
44 page illustrated booklet. Price through the post in UK
£7.00
Published by The Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury, Albion Street, we think in 1907
. Hard back binding in publisher’s original black paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Landscape 8vo. 6½” x 8¼”. Contains 119 printed pages with map, captioned monochrome photograph to every right hand leaf and good descriptive text opposite
Villages of Yorkshire
Hard back binding in publisher’s original black paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Landscape 8vo. 6½” x 8¼”. Contains 119 printed pages with map, captioned monochrome photograph to every right hand leaf and good descriptive text opposite
£10.00
Pennine Journey by William B Stocks
Being the History of the Railways, Tramways and Canals in Huddersfield and District. Printed and Published by THE ADVERTISER PRESS LTD> Huddersfield 1958. Card covers 98 pages tight clean copy no inscriptions. Posted to UK address
£7.50
Rail Centres: Leeds/Bradford by Stephen Batty
The Usual Ian Allen Quality 160 pages well illustrated well written and well indexed. Quality paper and quality reproduction of photographs. A fine hard back and a fine (clipped) dj Through the post to any UK destination £9.00
£9.00
A Century of Public Transport in Bradford 1882-1982 by DJ Croft
24 page Occasional Local Publication No. 4 Bradford MC 8X6 illustrated Posted to any UK Address
£5.00
Thornton in Times Past by Alan Whitworth
48 pages mainly illustrations with explanatory text published 1987. The quality of the reproduction of the photographs is much better than illustrations in other books in the same series. A couple of places a previous owner has underlined text. The price includes UK P&P
£6.50
WIKE – “Where they’re all alike”
60 pages well illustrated undated Price below includes UK P&P
£12.50
Written by Geoff J Mellor in 1983 , printed in Huddersfield, this is 64 soft covered publication that attempts to list, in most cases with photos the sixty or so cinemas the city (including Shipley) has possessed. Not all at the same time.
A good solid reference work.
The Cinemas of Bradford
The price below includes UK P&P
£6.50
D.G. Wright. Bradford Libraries and Information Service, 1987. £3.00
Since the publication of AJ Peacock’s Bradford Chartism 1838-40, in 1969, there has been a great need of a continuation of the story, particularly to include the events in the tumultuous year of 1848, when Bradford played a crucial part in ‘the greatest mass movement of working class political and social protest in British history’. This opinion was emphasised but never elaborated upon some twenty years ago by FC Mather in his Historical Association pamphlet on Chartism, in which he stated that ‘the Bradford District of the West Riding was perhaps the most outstanding centre of physical force Chartism in England in the spring of 1848’. Until now it has only been possible to follow the story in newspapers of the period or in doctoral theses and so the appearance of David Wright’s booklet is to be greatly welcomed.
Few historians are better qualified to write upon this subject than Dr Wright, who for over twenty years has made a special study of the social and political history of nineteenth century Bradford, and the booklet does not disappoint. In particular he treads a judicious path between the importance of local details and the wider implications of regional and national events. Most important of all he gives full consideration to the effect Anglo-Irish relationships had upon Bradford’s volatile population during a period of great industrial unrest.
Almost thirty years ago Asa Briggs in Chartist Studies urged historians to recognise that the all-embracing concept of the six points of the Charter motivated different social groups in different times and places with differing degrees of intensity. Dr Wright has produced a model essay on the Briggs pattern in which he analyses Chartism in Bradford, from its roots in the Great Strike of 1825 to the Anti-Poor Law agitation in the late 1830s and on to the first rising in January 1840. But it is in the later events that the author breaks new ground, looking in detail at the Plug-drawing riots of 1842 and the more menacing threats to law and order in 1848. Of particular interest is the changing composition of both the Chartist leadership and its supporters during the whole period. At first the movement was dominated by men with English names, often hand-weavers from the outer townships, especially Horton, but after 1840 it took on an Irish tinge, being increasingly dominated by the bete-noir of the Bradford middle classes, the hard drinking, wife-beating George White, and his fellow-Irishman, John Smyth.
In retrospect Chartism seems to have been a dismal failure, but that point of view fails to do justice to important and enduring aspects of the movement that were without violent intent, notably the Temperance Chartists and those bodies concerned with Adult Education, Co-operation and Social Christianity. It also forgets the powerful radical political heritage which Chartism bestowed on the West Riding, for the radical tradition was nourished by memories of the stirring events of the 1840s. It is no coincidence that towards the end of the century the West Riding became the most important centre of Independent Labour Party activity, with Bradford always to the fore.
J.A.J.
The Chartist Risings in Bradford – D G Wright
74 page booklet Pub 1987′ The price below includes postage in UK
£7.50
Roger of Manningham or The Wild Boar of Undercliffe
1900 (or there about, not the 2020 reprint) Princess Theatre, Bradford, Book of Words 32 page programme with adverts. Complete but tape on the spine. Price is for the item posted to UK address.
£5.00
Textile Voices = Mill Life This Century – Olive Howarth – Bradford Heritage Unit
84 pages well illustrated To any UK abode £7.50
£7.50
The original Clock Hartley by John Hartley
Yorkshire dialect digest, I have others Bound into volumes that need splitting, all these years are complete but a couple of the older ones are a bit tatty. I am asking £3.50 each, post free in UK. For oversees rates please ask.
The years I can find are 1869 1871 1878 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1896 1898 1900 1901 1902 1903 1905 1907 1910 1912 1914 1915 1928
Clock Almanack
Please specify year P&P in UK free please contact me for oversees prices
£3.50
Exploring the Lake District by Malcolm Boyes
Exploring the North Yorkshire Moors by Malcolm Boyes
Exploring the Yorkshire Coast by Barry Mitchell
Lakeland A to Z
Matlock
Peak District Walks by John N Merrill
Roman Derbyshire by Tom Garlick
Shepherd’s Crooks and Walking Sticks by David Grant and Edward Hart
Walking in Airedale
Walking in the Bronte Country
Walking on the Norfth Yorkshire Moors
Walks in Lower Wharfdale by Geoffrey White
Walks in Nidderdale by Geoffrey White
Walks in Upper Wharfedale by Mike Obst
Walks North of York by Geoffrey White and Geoffrey Green
Yorkshire Mysteries and Oddities
Various editions mostly in at least vg condition priced between £2.50 and £5.00
A 72 page booklet (not illustrated) published late 60’s. I worked for Kirklees in the 70’s and recognise many of the departments described, but I am sure that one of my colleagues when I was a councillor, Peter McBride, will remember the whole of this history. There are copies of this available on the net, but not as cheap as the £5.00 I am asking.
Published 1935 132 pages with illustrations, soft cover £9.00
History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry by W B Crump
1935 132 pages with illustrations. County Borough of Huddersfield The Tolson Memorial Museum Publications. To any UK address
£9.00
Also;
Published in 1921 soft cover 64 pages with illustrations
ANGELS, DANES and NORSE in the District of HUDDERSFIELD by WG Collingwood
Published in 1921 soft cover 64 pages with illustrations Posted to any UK address
£8.50
