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UNDERWOOD
OVERTURE
Price £2.00
This
is a fascinating book about bygone Underwood village in
Nottinghamshire and as the title suggests is the first of a series
which will benefit the Tower of St Michael’s church, Underwood.
Contents
include: Phyllis
Carver- Smith – organiser extraordinaire Easter
Day tragedy of Audouin Oakes, former owner of Felley Priory The
Organ and the Organ Blower The
colourful life of Tom Higton from charabanc to RAF gunner Sam
Chambers and a military funeral After
WW2 with the Parochial Church Council Rev
John Bernardi and a Vision realised Teddy
Rayner and his travelling theatre.
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UNDERWOOD & BAGTHORPE
REVISITED
Price
£2.00
Another
Underwood and Bagthorpe book.
Contents include:
Bagthorpe
Schooldays were magic
Showtime in
Underwood
Underwood Village
Clock & War Memorial
Underwood Pit
Children
Pit Children at
Bagthorpe Colliery
Old time joiner
learns his lessons
Blue Skies up
Above – a tragedy
Joyce and the
Flintoffs
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A SPOT OF
BOTHER
AT BAGTHORPE & UNDERWOOD
Price
£2.00
True stories
include:
-
Trouble Looming and Aaron
Smithurst
- The Revd Richard Woods - the Man
from Dry Docking and the building of St Michael’s Church in
Underwood.
- Keeping it Green – old Mr Green
a former caretaker at Bagthorpe School
- Winnie Remembers old time
Bagthorpe and Underwood
- A Spot of Bother and Elias Bramley
- Bullocks at Work on the rails down
to the wharf at Langley Mill - in the bad old days of child miners
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ASSORTED LIVES IN UNDERWOOD
& BAGTHORPE
Price £2.00
True stories
include: Chalk in the Blood – the life of
Ethel Coates Fond Memories of Bagthorpe –
before Pit head baths Empire Day pre 1914-18 War Lizzie Smith- memories at 104
years of age Billy Flint – professional
footballer and cricketer described by Rachel Heyhoe Flint as “the
most talented football to come from Underwood.” Bagthorpe Stack Fire 1908
The Price of Best Butter
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TIMES
REMEMBERED
in Bagthorpe
& Underwood
price
£2.00
This is Ztan’s 22nd local
book, many exploring D H Lawrence’s family village of
Brinsley and it is his 5th Underwood and Bagthorpe book.
This new book delves into the
history and the historic buildings of the villages and includes
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The
Smithurst Family Saga
- The
Blands of Bagthorpe Manor Farm
- Wartime
bombing
- The
Singing Samaritans
- The
Dixie's Arms where local folklore suggests
- D.
H. Lawrence's father drank etc.
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AUNT
EMMA’S SAM
and other
Bagthorpe & Underwood Tales
Price
£2.00
This
book tells the true story of the real Miriam from D H Lawrence’s
“Sons & Lovers” and the life she, her brothers and Lawrence
led on her father’s farm. Other
real life stories include: The
exciting times of Aunt Emma’s Sam… Life
on Stirland’s Row with Ruth the Baker and her neighbours. The
tragic tale of footballer William Smith and the disgraceful
behaviour of Kirkby Rovers Football Club. Old
Time Langley Mill and Aldecar Co-op. The
local blacksmith with his hand operated bellows keeping the coke
fire red hot.” Ginger
Square and the Cobblers hut etc.
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STIRRING STUFF
From Underwood & Bagthorpe
Price
£2.00
True
stories include
The
exciting capture through a local man of Franz von Werra a German
fighter ace. This story was made into a major film.
Charlie
Harris the cricketer who played for England and Nottinghamshire -
described by Dickie Bird as “one of the funniest men to play
cricket.”
The
triumph of Tenny Bowmar, a man unjustly sacked and banned by
vindictive Pit owner
from all his mines.
Joe
Leivers, the boy from Bagthorpe who survived a WW2 Japanese Hell
Ship and a Shanghai jail
Kitty Hankin, the daughter of a
militant trade unionist.
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“Lively Folk” will be Ztan’s eighth Underwood & Bagthorpe book and contains fascinating true stories of folk who enriched the lives of the many people that they touched :-
For instance there was the lady celebrating her 100th birthday; the girl who hand pumped the church organ and the collier who survived a broken back.
Then there was the singer who helped win many Music Festivals; the soldier in Stalag XVIIIA and the man who had his watch stolen.
Finally there was the amazing story of the Freezing Sailor who experienced more horrors and World shattering events during a couple of year’s active service than many experience in a lifetime.
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