Additions to Stock Summer/Autumn 2008

Bagshaw, Chris - Cumbria and the Lake District.   2008

Birkett, Bill - Scafell. 2007

Brady, Meg - Good Walk, Good Pub (North Lakes). 2007

Brown, Betty - Jane Milbourn in Carlisle Gaol. 2007

Cumberland Geological Society - Exploring Lakeland, Rocks and Landscapes. 2008

Cummins, Lyle - Diesels for the first stealth weapon: submarine power 1902-1945. 2007 

Davies, Hunter & Holman, Tom - The Good Guide to the Lakes.   7th Ed. 2008

Dickinson, John - Misericords of North West England. 2008

Downing, Rosalinde - St Bega’s Way (a short long-distance walk). 2008

Foot, Elizabeth and Howell, Patricia eds - Keswick Characters. Vol 2. 2007

Harrington History Group - Harrington Through the Years Book 6

Harrison, Paul - Carlisle’s Cult Heroes. [Carlisle United] 2007

Heslop, Paul - Cumbrian Murders. 2007

Jones, Clifford - Hadrian’s Coastal Route (Walker’s Guide). 2008

Kendal Rough Fell Sheep; the breed, the people and the future. 2007

Lawrence, Maureen, Editor - Traces; new writing from the Pennines. 2007.

Martakies, Robin - History of the Windermere Steamers. 2007

Master of Them All; Iron Making in Cumbria. Proceedings of a joint conference of the Cumbria Industrial History Society and the Historical Metallurgy Society. 2007

Moss, Tom - Deadlock & Deliverance: The Capture and Rescue of Kinmont Willie Armstrong. 2007

Orton, Fred & Wood, Ian with Lees, Clare A. - Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments. 2007

Quayle, Howard - Whitehaven; the railways and waggonways of a unique Cumberland port. 2007

Richards, Mark - Great Mountain Days in the Lake District; 50 classic routes exploring the Lakeland Fells. 2008

Richardson, Keith - Kirkby Stephen East; a station remembered. 2007

Routledge, Howard - Steam City Carlisle. 2007

Shannon, William D - Murus ille famosus (that famous wall). Depictions and descriptions of Hadrian’s Wall before Camden. 2007

Shelley, Laurence - Off-the-Wall Walking. 2007

Shiels, John - Burneside; an illustrated profile of a Cumbrian village. 2008

Shiels, Sue - Trees of Burneside. 2008

Smith, Alan - The Ice Age in the Lake District. (Landscapes of Cumbria No. 3). 2008

Taylor, Jeff - Keswick. Book 3. 2007

Walker, Frank - John Paul Jones. 2007

Waller, Michael - A Lakeland Climbing Pioneer; John Robinson of Whinfell Hall. 2007

Wilson, Frances - The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth. 2008.

The above books are available for loan through libraries in Cumbria and can be requested at your local library

The below local titles are available for reference only 

The abominable traffic: Cumbria’s connections to the history and legacy of slavery.   A Teacher’s Resource Pack with Case Studies, 2nd ed. 2008 [Carlisle and Kendal – ref only]

Delve, Ken - The Military Airfields of Britain: Northern England. 2006 [Carlisle – ref only]

LancashireParish Register Society; the Registers of Ulverston St Mary 1813 – 1837 and Ulverston Holy Trinity 1832 - 1837. 2007 [Carlisle and Barrow – ref only]

Martineau, Harriet - Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau. 5 Volumes. 2007 [Carlisle – ref only]

Porter, Alan - Carlisle Golf Club 1908 – 2008. 2008 [Carlisle – ref only]

Richardson, Alan - The Roman Surveyors in Cumberland. 2008 [only 100 published]

Wotherspoon, Nick - North-West Aircraft Wrecks. 2006 [Carlisle – ref only]

Additions to Stock Winter/Spring 2007-2008

Barker, Tim - Whatt Fettle, Mun; a celebration of Cumberland dialect. 2007

Bingham, Roger K. - Memories of Heversham; a look back at an historic South Lakeland village. 2007

Birds and Wildlife in Cumbria,   January - December 2006. County Natural History Report. 2007

Black, Nella and Wallace, Eleanor - Nella Lost and Found; the life story of Nella Black a 94 year old deaf/blind lady living in Carlisle. 2007

Bowes, John - Richard Brathwait; the First Lakeland Poet. 2007

Broadway, Ian - The Journal of a short tour to the Lakes in 1822. 2007

Buckley, Norman and Buckley, June - Walking with Beatrix Potter; Fifteen Walks in Beatrix Potter Country. 2007

Clare, Tom - Prehistoric Monuments of the Lake District. 2007

Cross, David editor - Cumbrian Brothers; letters from Percy Kelly to Norman Nicholson. 2007

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions. 2007

Darrall, Geoffrey - Wythburn Church and the Valley of Thirlmere. 2006

Darwell, John - Dark Days. 2007. [Photographs by John Darwell of the 2001 Foot and Mouth   Disease outbreak in Cumbria]

Fisher, Ethel compiler - Seaton Past and Present in Pictures. 2007

Forsyth, Jennifer - Cartmel Fell; a patchwork history. 2007

Fraser, George MacDonald - The Reavers; a hilarious borders burlesque. 2007. [novel set in Elizabethan times]

Garraway, Amanda M - One Hundred and Four Men; the William Pit Disaster, 1947. 2007

Grahamslaw, Trevor - Old Port Carlisle and Bowness on Solway. 2007

Grahamslaw, Trevor - Old Silloth and Allonby. 2007

Gregson, Keith - Tracing Your Northern Ancestors; a guide to the North-East and Cumbria for the Family Historian.   2007

Hodgson, Liz - The Bowder Stone; a History. 2007

Holdgate, Martin -   Story of Appleby in Westmorland. New edition 2006

Holme St Cuthbert History Group - More Plain People and Places on the Cumbrian Solway Plain. 2007

Illustrated guide to the holiday resorts on the Furness Railway. 2006 facsimile of the original 1900 edition.

Keegan, Mark - Ashlack; the history of a small Cumbrian estate. 2007. [near Broughton in Furness]

Longville, Tim - Gardens of the Lake District. 2007

McNamara, Roy - Being Prepared; a hundred years of Scouting in Cumbria. 2007.

Mander, John - The history of Kelsick Grammar School, Ambleside. 2007

Mitchell, W.R. - The Eden Valley and the North Pennines. 2007

Moffat, Alistair - The Reivers; the Story of the Border Reivers. 2007

Nicholas, Cynthia E - In Them Days; memories of a Penrith childhood 1929 – 1944. Nd [2007]

Nixon, Neil   - Carlisle United: Blueseason 2006-07. 2007

Nixon, Philip - Exploring Border Reivers; a history. 2007

Robson, Eric - Outside Broadcaster; an autobiography. 2007

Seabury, Olive - The Carlisle State Management Scheme. Its ethos and architecture; a 60 year experiment in regulation of the liquor trade. 2007

Sharpe, John - John Metcalfe Carleton; Georgian Rake of the Eden Valley. Nd [2006]

Smith, Thomas Fletcher - Jonathan Otley; Man of Lakeland. 2007

Stoddart, G and G   - Over the Stile and Turn Left… in North East Lakes. 2007

Wainwright, Martin - Wainwright; the man who loved the Lakes. 2007

Walker, Frank - John Paul Jones. 2007

Wilson, Martin - Easy cycling around Kendal with a bike rack. 2007

The above books are available for loan through libraries in Cumbria and can be requested at your local library

The  local titles below are available for reference only 

Lagerwaard, JanWillem - The Lake District - a Musical Stroll (Ref only – Kendal Library)

Maxwell-Irving, Alastair - Family memoirs; a miscellaneous collection of historical facts, anecdotes and memories concerning the related families of Irving, Bell, Bruges and Tivey. 2007. (Ref only   - Carlisle Library)

Norton, Maggie - Kurt Schwitters - In Praise of Life. Hand made limited edition   (Ref only - Kendal Library)

Woof, Robert - Treasures of the Wordsworth Trust. 2005 (Ref only - Carlisle Library)