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GREATER LOVE
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£6.50
This is Ztan’s last
book which he completed just before he passed away. Written at the
request of Brinsley Parish Council, this book records those Brinsley
servicemen who gave their lives before, during and after the two
World Wars. This year, 2018, is the centenary of the ending of the
First World War and this book is a commemoration of those brave men.
If you would like a
copy of the book, price £6.50 (incl. p+p) it is available from
Christine Smith, e-mail christine@powercomp.co.uk. All profits from
the book are for the benefit of St James Church, Brinsley.
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 | BRINSLEY AND ST JAMES THE GREATprice £2.00 The story of a church and also the village of Brinsley near Eastwood in Nottinghamshire – an area where writer D H LAWRENCE’s grandparents lived and where his father, uncles and aunts were brought up. His father Arthur and his Uncles worked in Brinsley Pit whilst his grandfather made moleskin clothing for the miners. It was the everyday life in and around the mining community of Brinsley and Eastwood that inspired the writer DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE and colours his early works. LAWRENCE was very fond of Brinsley and Eastwood - an area he called “The Country of My Heart”. |
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BRINSLEY SCHOOLDAYS
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£2.00
This book, in light hearted
manner, traces schools in Brinsley
from earliest times, through the Dame School, Mission School, Church
and Board Schools to the modern village school of today.
Very little trace is left of the
earlier schools, but we do have pictures and the fascinating memories
of elderly residents of the village to tell us what life was like as
a scholar in
Victorian and Edwardian times and also between the two Great Wars.
At the end of the book there are
extracts from the amazing War Time Log Books of the Moor
C of E School,
which makes for
compulsive reading. It’s hard to imagine what life must have been
like when it was necessary to hide from air raids beneath school
desks on a daily basis.
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BRINSLEY PUBS
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£2.00
The tiny village of Brinsley had eleven pubs over the years, as coal
dust was notorious for developing prodigious thirsts.
“Brinsley Pubs” tells the
entertaining and sometimes strange stories of former landlords,
landladies and customers of the village pubs over the last 200 years
Stories include: gory goings on in a pub that used to have a
doctor’s operating theatre in the basement; pub ghosts; Auntie
Polly and her soup kitchen; the miracle doctor; The Company
Store; Egg Week; bizarre accidents; Coroner’s Inquests
and much more.
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BRINSLEY WAY BACK
price £2.00
This is a fascinating
book about bygone Brinsley Characters. These include:
Granny
Smith, midwife and layer out extraordinaire
The Old Folk’s
Committee and their doings.
Sid and his paper
collection
Tamar and child
miner Matthew Wilson.
Hospital Parades and
Float Judges
Golden Slipper men
and a tragedy
Ida Andrews and the
Blacksmith
Mrs Dovey and her
powders
The man who signed a
King’s Death Warrant
and much more
besides
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BRINSLEY -
MEN AND MAYHEM
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£2.00
Such
goings on in and around Brinsley! No wonder D H LAWRENCE had so
much to write about!
There
was the time when there were high jinks on the lake at Lamb Close
House and the terrible day that Lawrence’s uncle had his accident
at the pit.
Then
there was William Purdy who wrote to the King about unsafe mines and
had so much trouble patenting his safety lamp.
And
how about the tragic Gilbourne family – and the sorrows of poor
Kate?
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BRINSLEY
– SAINTS & SINNERS
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£2.00
Another
book about bygone Brinsley and its fascinating Characters.
These include :
Early
Parish Council days
Horace
Pryor and a Soldier’s Fate
Ganger
Edward Flint’s Sad End
1926
Strike and the Lighter Side
Francis
Purdy the Beggarlee Bulldog, bare knuckle prize fighter and
Champion of three Counties.
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BRINSLEY
– FAITH & FATE
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£2.00
More about bygone
Brinsley and its fascinating Characters.
These include:
Revd Starmer in War and Peace -
the humour and the sadness.
The WW1 casualty without a
memorial
Stoney Lane brickyard
Night soil men and a battling
woman
Grandy Cosford—a life
Paradise refound
Brinsley’s old time lamplighters
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BRINSLEY – THROUGH THICK &
THIN
price £2.00
This
book features
Valentine Yates and the lighter
side of being a sanitary inspector – especially during the War.
John Ball’s War.
Train Journey from Nottingham
to Eastwood and Brinsley before 1914.
Brinsley’s Ancient Coffin
Walk over the fields – an annual event each July.
Revd Percival Page and the
Pages of History (the Vicar who, thinly disguised, appears in
D H Lawrence’s stories)
Brinsley Mill and the death of
a wind miller
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BRINSLEY
–LIVING & LOVING
PRICE £2.00
More
stories about Brinsley taken from an almost endless fund of memories,
family papers and other materials.
Contents
include:
The
itinerant Rope maker from Broad Lane
The
journeyings of Brinsley Headstocks
A
Brinsley Vicar and the Indian Mutiny
The
Working Man
Sheila
and her Dad (who wasn’t a blackleg)
Joe
Smith and letters to the paper
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BRINSLEY
– VIRTUE & VILLAINY
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£2.00
THE
SUN INN GIRL GUILTY OF MURDER Sarah Barber,
who at one time had worked at the Sun Inn in Eastwood, was found
guilty of the murder of her husband Joseph Barber and was sentenced
to death ….
When
the church clock struck 9 o’clock on the day of her execution there
was a hush in the crowd, but this eventually turned to disappointment
and anger when the big doors at the top of the steps remained firmly
shut even when the clock sounded a quarter past the hour…
This
is just one of the incredible stories in “Brinsley
– Virtue & Villainy” Others include -
The
Man from Canada who came back fifty years later
The
girl who died because of her love of fashion
Fire
on Cordy Lane
Gerald
the Poacher
The
Soldier Boy who drew his pension at 18 and walked to Derby Barracks
every month for the next fifty years
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BRINSLEY
– DOWN TO EARTH
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£2.00
This
book is called "Brinsley - Down to Earth" and is Ztan’s
eleventh Brinsley Book (and 23rd book overall) and the title
“Brinsley - Down to
Earth” says it
all.
True
stories in the book range from inflating cows in the milking
parlour to life on Wharf Row beside the canal (illustrated by a rare
photo of the Row itself)
Then
there is the tragic story of Becky Lowe and the exploits of an award
winning cyclist and champion India Club Swinger.
Also
included in the book is the woman who only wanted a "icckle bit"
of cheese and the demon school dentist who operated in the middle of
a field so that his patient's screams wouldn't be heard by the
headmaster.
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BRINSLEY
– THIS WAS THEN
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£2.00
The
connecting themes running through this book include old time local
cyclists, coal and Pollington Colliery.
The
fascinating stories of the following local folk are included :-
John
William Lee – Pioneer Cyclist George
Bestwick Pearce – Palin’s son. Thomas
Wright – Victorian scholar and pit lad
Gaffer
Thomas Wright and a lump of coal
William
Wright – Cricketer & Union man
Death
of Pollington
Eccentric
Elias Jepson
Charles
Cooke and his motor powered tricycle
Revd
F J Starmer – the cycling Vicar
Carter
Taylor the cobbler
William
Pacey and a spot of bother
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| ODIE THE TERRIBLE Price £2.00
Odie the Terrible – and other aliases,” tells the story of a local miner who achieved fame as a wrestler on the local halls, especially Heanor Town Hall and venues throughout Britain – also on Television at the time of Kent Walton, Big Daddy, Jackie Pallo, Giant Haystacks and other greats.
Odie, as Vince Apollo, one of his aliases, became the undefeated Heavyweight Wrestling champion of Europe and the subject of a film depicting his life and fame. This was a B movie touring major cinemas supporting a John Wayne and Kirk Douglas blockbuster called “The War Wagon.”
As one half of “The Undertakers” – which was a masked tag team that delighted in taunting the crowd - he was never unmasked and met celebrities of the day such as Russ Hamilton, Mike and Bernie Winters, Frank Carson, Bing Crosby, Kris Kristofferson and others.
He also met “Odd Job” from the film Dr No and grappled him for real in the wrestling ring!
Odie the Terrible – and other aliases”, contains much humour and insight into the life of a travelling wrestler.
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| BRINSLEY - TOP TO BOTTOM Price £2.00
This book is packed with true stories of fascinating local characters who lived in and around the village - none more so than pop star, grappler and living legend John Lawrence - grandfather of the famous writer D H Lawrence and Walter Cornell the lamp cabin man and one legged cyclist.
Then there are the stories of Alfred Wilkinson, keeper of the Miners’ Welfare unable to serve ale to local miners; Bill Harris the only resident in the Rookery to own a piano and D H Lawrence’s uncle who stood trial for murder!
Life was never dull in and around Brinsley!
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