HEBDEN BRIDGE

PACE EGG PLAY

The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play- a social history: Eddie Cass, £13.95
A detailed study of the origins of the different components of the Pace-Egg Play as we know it today and the different versions on record. Rochdale is the nearest place to the Calder Valley to be discussed.

Calder Valley Pace Egg Play video, £12
Documentary plus recordings of two versions of the Calder Valley Pace Egg Play in 2004, researched and produced by a group of young people at Calder High School. Includes interviews with one of the leading experts and some of the performers.

A Race through Time (video/DVD) - Nick Wilding, DVD £12.99, video £9.99
From the "Tale of Two Towns" team, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd's first road movie - a high-speed fast-film car journey from Cragg Vale to Heptonstall Road shot in 1947 by Kenneth Crabtree with members of the Literary & Scientific Society, placed alongside a modern version shot in autumn 2003. The film also includes archive photographs and commentary and memories from Lloyd Greenwood, Doris Hurst, Donald Crossley and Clara Manning who died last year at the age of 103.

Mill, Murder and Railwayby Peter Thomas, £3.00
"The story of Gibson Mill; the Hawdon Hole Murder; and the Hardcastle Crags Railway" - revised edition of 1973 booklet with contemporary photographs

The Old Stones of Elmet - Paul Bennett (£13.95)
"A total guide to the archaeology, folklore and geomancy of the ritual stone sites in an old Yorkshire kingdom", foreword by Aubrey Burl. Catalogues with photos and sketches many of the old stone sites of Elmet, including Todmorden, Mytholmroyd, Luddenden, Hebden Bridge, Blackshawhead and Halifax area.

Seen on the Packhorse Tracks by Titus Thornber pub. South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust. £15.00
With colour and b&w illustrations, it tells the history of the packhorse tracks and how they coped with different kinds of terrain, and examines the features still visible today - bridges, causeways, guidestoops and marker posts. paperback.

Aspects of Calderdale, ed. John Billingsley, £9.99
Subjects covered include Early Prehistory, External decoration on 17th-century houses, Ted Hughes, Alice Longstaffe, and the impact of modern technology

OUT OF PRINT

Pennine Valley: a History of Upper Calderdale - Hebden Bridge WEA Local History Group, ed. Bernard Jennings

MYTHOLMROYD & CRAGG VALE

Cragg Vale: a Pennine Valley
- Stephen Welsh, £4.95
Back in stock, this history of settlement and conquest from prehistoric times to the 20th century.

OUT OF PRINT

Clip a Bright Guinea - the Yorkshire Coiners of the 18th Century - John Marsh

TODMORDEN

The Fieldens of Todmorden: a 19th century business dynasty Out of print when current stock sold
Brian Law, £20.00 hb.
The contrasting personalities and lifestyles of the influential Fielden family through the generations.

Annals of Todmorden 1552-1913
A record of people, events and circumstances from earlier times (£19.95)
Compiled by Dorothy Dugdale from Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Historical Almanacks
Full of fascinating detail, including visits by John Wesley and road-building in the earlier records and a rich and varied community life in the Victorian period, with brass bands, picnics, pigeons, canaries, cricket and days out amongst other occupations. Getting knocked down by trains and horses-and-carts and drowning also seem to have been common occurrences.

Cloth Caps and Cricket Crazy: Todmorden & Cricket 1835-96 by Freda, Malcolm & Brian Heywood*, £16.00
The fortunes of Todmorden Cricket Club from 1835, including financial crises, riots, a players' strike, intense rivalries with Bacup, Burnley andRochdale, a visit by W G Grace and matches against the United England and All England elevens. All thanks to John Fielden! With 130 photographs, maps and reproductions of original documents.

OUT OF PRINT

John Fielden's Todmorden - Linda Croft

FROM TODMORDEN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

Walsden Words: how we used to live and speak (£1.00) OUT OF PRINT
Todmorden Cameos - People of Note from a Small Town (£5.50)
Walsden - A Century of Change 1780-1880 (2.50)
Stoodley Pike (£2.50)
Portrait of a Town - Mid-19th Century Todmorden (£2.50)
Development of Todmorden, 1750-1896 (£3.50)

HALIFAX

Halifax - John A. Hargreaves, £20.00 hb
First full-length history of Halifax ever published, with many illustrations.

From Cobbles, Candles and Clogs by Margaret Duffield, £15.00
Memoirs of a Halifax nurse who lived through World War II, with poems and photographs

Thrumhall Greats - Robert Gate (£12.99)
Halifax Heroes 1945-1998: Halifax have enjoyed and suffered wider extremes of success and failure than most clubs. This book gives at least a page plus b&w photo of 100 notable Thrum Hallers from the post-WWII period. The author is a native of Halifax and a Thrum Hall faithful for 42 years.

Halifax County Borough Directory for 1936 (£26.00)
Facsimile reprint , produced for the Macmillan Chemotherapy Unit Appeal for Halifax Hospital.

INDUSTRIAL HISTORY

Yorkshire Cotton: the Yorkshire Cotton Industry, 1780-1835 - George Ingle, £14.95pb
The story of this less well-known aspect of Yorkshire industry during the early years of the Industrial Revolution, with details of all the new mills then built, some still standing.

The Barefoot Aristocrats: a history of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners - ed. Alan Fowler & Terry Wyke, £6.95 hb
Now at a bargain price, this extensive study of the one of the major trade unions in the British cotton industry.

Marriner's Yarns - George Ingle , (£9.95)
The story of the Keighley Knitting Wool Spinners

OUT OF PRINT

From Rule of Thumb to CNC: 200 years of engineering and machine tools in Calderdale - Eric Webster

The Textile Mill Engine - George Watkins

Don't Move the Goalposts: Story of Calrec Audio - Kenneth Farrar,

TRANSPORT

- BUSES

Hebble - D. Bentley, K. Healey & N. Harris, £16.95
Illustrated guide to the stormy history of "one of the best loved of all the many Yorkshire operators" . Services to Heptonstall & Blackshawhead began in the 1920s and by the 1950s the company was running to Scarborough and even Blackpool. (See http://www.busandcoachenthusiast.co.uk for more info.)

The Buses of Halifax Corporation & Joint Omnibus Committee & their successors - David Bentley, £15.99
Late 19th century to the 1990s, with colour & b&w photographs.

Huddersfield: the Corporation Motorbus Story - Peter Cardno and Stephen Harling, £13.50
For the first time ever, the story of Huddersfield buses, with numerous illustrations and pages of colour photos. Landscape format.

- RAIL

British Railways Past & Present: Yorkshire, the West Riding, Part 1 (No. 48) - John Hillmer & Paul Shannon (£15.99)
One of a series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago and comparing them with the same scene today. This one covers Halifax, Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds, plus Skipton, Airedale, Wharfedale, Dewsbury, Harrogate and York.

A Pennine Pioneer: the history of the Summit Tunnel - Allen Holt, £9.99 pb
Takes us from the first mooting of the tunnel in the 1820s to the present day including the fire of 1984. Photographs, maps and contemporary diagrams and pictures.

West Riding Steam 1955-1969 - a pictorial diary by Robert Anderson (£12.95)
208 previously unpublished photographs of 78 classes of steam locomotives around Halifax, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, and further afield in West Yorkshire.

OUT OF PRINT

Manchester & Leeds Railway - the Calder Valley Line .

The Eleven Towns Railway: The story of the Manchester and Leeds Main Line - Jeffrey Wells

Halifax and the Calder Valley: Railway Memories 11 - Jack Wild & Stephen Chapman

CANAL HISTORY

Pennine Pioneer: The Story of the Rochdale Canal - Keith Gibson, £16.95
Follows the life of the Rochdale Canal, from its success to its abandonment, and tells of the more recent battle for its preservation.

The Calder and Hebble Navigation - Mike Taylor, £12.00
The River Calder rises in the Pennines north of Todmorden, receives the Hebble Brook at Salterhebble and reaches the Aire & Calder Navigation at Wakefield. It was made navigable in the 1770s and became part of the Mersey-Humber trade routes. By the 1940s it was in decline, but comercial traffic continued till 1981 when shipments to Thornhill Power Station ceased. The book contains numerous black and white illustrations of canal boats, furniture and activity along the navigation.

A Walk on t'Cut: a Transpennine Journey on the Rochdale Canal
(video £12.99; DVD or US-compatible video £14.99)
A walk along the Rochdale Canal from the centre of Manchester to Sowerby Bridge, showing the changing landscapes, industrial features, boats and wildlife, with interviews and aerial views. From Ray Riches and P J Thornton.

The Anatomy of Canals: the Mania Years - Anthony Burton and Derek Pratt, £16.99
Vol. 2 in the series, covering the 1790s to the 1820s when most of the UK's canal network was constructed. Chapter 7 is on "Manchester and the North", including the Ashton Canal, Rochdale Canal (with a special mention for Stubbing Wharf pub) and Huddersfield Canal, amongst others. B&w photos.

Pennine Dreams: the story of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Keith Gibson, £16.99
How and why the canal - which has the longest, deepest, highest canal tunnel in the British Isles - was built, and how it was restored. B&w illustrations.

Canal and River Sections of the Air and Calder Navigation, £9.99
This pictorial history demonstrates how the Calder became one of the UK's most successful inland waterways.

English Canals Explained - Stan Yorke, £6.95
From a life-long narrow-boat enthusiast, the history of the canals, their structures and features, and sites of special interest around the country.

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FAMILY HISTORY

House of Uttley: the story of a Pennine Family - Eileen & John Huckle, £8.95
From John of Utlay, 1320, to the 1990s.

Baptisms at the Chapels of Heptonstall and Cross Stone in the Parish of Halifax, Heptonstall 1594-1812, Cross Stone 1678-1837, ed. Douglas Wilson, £12.50 per vol.
Four vols. A-F, G-J, K-Stancliffe, Stand-Y

Marriages at the Chapels of Heptonstall and Cross Stone in the Parish of Halifax Hepstonall 1594-1812, Cross Stone 1678-1851
4 vols: A-F, G to J, K to Stanclyff, Standheven to Y, ed. Douglas Wilson, M.A. (£12.50 per volume)

Burials at the Chapels of Heptonstall and Cross Stone in the Parish of Halifax 1594-1837, ed. Douglas Wilson, £12.50 per vol.
4 vols: A-F, G to J, K to Stan..., Stansfield to Y, ed. Douglas Wilson, M.A. (£12.50 per volume)

Yorkshire Surnames 3: Halifax & District - George Redmonds , £3.60
Booth, Greenwood, Horsfall, Murgatroyd, Uttley are just a few. Their origins and early examples.

FURTHER AFIELD

HAWORTH

Haworth: a History - Steven Wood, £7.99
Haworth is mainly known for its association with the Brontes, but this book looks at other aspects of its history, its former farming, textile and quarrying industries, its houses, shops, inns, churches, reservoirs and gasworks, 19th-century popular beliefs, and some less well-known aspects of the Brontes connection.

Haworth, Past & Present - J. Horsfall Turner, £7.95
Facsimile reprint of the 1879 original.

Bronte Country, Lives & Landscapes - Peggy Hewitt, £12.99
Updated illustrated version of a book first published in 1985, full of stories and reminiscences from people who have lived and worked around Haworth. Introduction by local author and Bronte authority Juliet Barker.

OUT OF PRINT

Springtime Saunter - Round and about Bronte Land - Whitely Turner
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WEST YORKSHIRE

Lost Houses of the West Riding - Edward Waterson & Peter Meadows, £8.95 pb
Many great houses were demolished from 1900 onwards, especially in the postwar period. This book gives brief details and illustrations.

Stony Gaze: investigating Celtic & Stone Heads - John Billingsley, £10.95
Nationwide, but including the archaic cared heads on farmhouses of West Yorkshire.

The Day the Sun Went Out - John Billingsley, £2
Accounts of the 1927 Eclipse as seen from Yorkshire and the Pennines. Originally published as a background to the 1999 total solar eclipse.

VIDEOS

Calder Valley Pace Egg Play video, £12
Documentary plus recordings of two versions of the Calder Valley Pace Egg Play in 2004, researched and produced by a group of young people at Calder High School. Includes interviews with one of the leading experts and some of the performers.

A Tale of Two Towns: A Chronicle of Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd (video) - Dir. Nick Wilding, artwork Peter Coles, £7.00
Archive footage, including scenery and surroundings, and interviews with local residents. 1 hour, 28 minutes.

Electric Edwardians: the Films of Mitchell & Kenyon, DVD, £19.99
A second and more comprehensive selection of highlights from the 'Mitchell And Kenyon Collection' of films of everyday in Edwardian Britain under five distinct themes. This collection is close to that shown at Hebden Picture House and includes "Tram Ride into Halifax 1902".

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