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Series  from the pages of the Local Past:-

Topics from the pages of the Local Past:-

Oral History Notes - J. Ruffell
1. Introduction
2. Alcester Milk Deliveries
3. Alcester Gasworks
4. The Swan Hotel
5. Buntings, Grocers of Alcester
6. Mr. Sam Bowen
7. Arrow Recollections
8.
9. Arrow Carriage Works
Archaeological Sites of the Area (series)
1. Roman Fort at Oversley
2. Roman Roads
3. Haselor's Hermitage
4. Oversley Castle
5. Spernal Gypsum Pits
6. Wyke Moat
7. Studley Castle
8. Kinwarton
9. Broom
10. Coughton
Potted Histories of Villages in the Lower Arrow Valley (series)
1. Weethley
2. Sambourne
3. Spernall
4. Kinwarton
5. Haselor
6. Exhall
7. Arrow
8. Salford Priors
9. Coughton
10. Great Alne
11. Morton Baggot
12.
13. Alcester
14. Oversley
15. Bidford-on-Avon
16. Wixford
Bridges of the Area
1. Introduction and Bidford - on - Avon
2. Gunnings Bridge - Alcester
3. Oversley
4. Wixford
5. Cane Bridge - Coughton
6. Great Alne
7. Spernal
8. Studley
9. Salford Priors

Advice to local Historians

Retirement and Local History   1991 Sum
A Chinese Philosophy   1991 Win
Getting to the Truth of Things   1995 Aut
Studley - A case in point   1995 Win
A local example   1997 Aut
A friendly Record Office   1997 Sum
Varsity Boffins'   1997 Sum
Churches and Clerics
Some Local Curches   1990 Aut
Faces of Old England 2 - Clerics   1990 Aut
ABC of Church Parts   1990 Spr
Some Interesting Gravestones 1990 Spr
Holes in the wall   1990 Sum
John Sing's Shillings   1990 Win
Arrow Church   1990 Win
Some out of the ordinary Clerics   1992 Aut
A 1927 Parish Guide   1992 Aut
Studley Particular Baptists   1992 Spr
A Monk of Alcester   1992 Spr
Coughton Bells   1993 Aut
The Quincunx   1993 Spr
Potted Histories 8 - Salford Priors 1993 Spr
Ritualistic Curate   1993 Sum
A Neglected Church   1995 Aut
Local Ripples - Rev R.D. Seymour 1996 Sum
St. Mary's Gardens - Studley   1996 Aut
Parson or Gentleman ?   1997 Aut
Parish Magazine of 1905   1997 Spr
Local Gretna Green 1997 Sum
Warden's Accounts 1997 Aut
Sports
Cricket Recollections   1990 Aut
Long on and Long off   1990 Sum
An Alnecestre Victory   1993 Aut
Cricket, lovely Cricket   1994 Aut
Alcester Bowling Green   1994 Aut
Entertainment
Rural Cinemas   1990 Aut
Faces of Old England 1- Minstrals   1990 Sum
19th Century Christmas Concert   1990 Win
Rural Cinemas - Studley   1990 Win
Memories of the Mop   1992 Spr
More Mop Memories   1992 Sum
Turks Head Social Club   1994 Aut
The Alcester Reading Room   1994 Aut
Recreation through the ages   1995 Sum
The community spirit of Alcester lives on   1995 Sum
Coughton Christmasses   1995 Win
Folk Song Verse   1996 Spr
Different verse   1996 Spr
Pubs
Inn Names   1990
Some Curious Pub Names   1991 Spr
Oral history Notes 4. The Swan Hotel 1993 Spr
Some Pubs Never Die 1993 Winter
Turks Head Social Club 1994 Aut
Studley pubs of the 1950's 1995 Spr
Pub Names of the Area   1995 Win
Pubs   1996
Shops & Retailers
Oral History Notes 2 - Alcester Milk Deliveries   1992 Aut
Oral History Notes 6 - Mr Sam Bowen   1993 Aut
Oral History Notes 5 - Buntings of Alcester   1993 Sum
Annie Hirst's Shop 1994 Aut
High Street Map 1989   1994 Aut
Studley shops of the 1950's   1995 Spr
An Old Etching 1996 Win
Bowens Store - A varied History   1997 Sum
Trades and Industries
A Studley Crucible with a question mark 1990 Sum
Faces of Old England 3 - Carriers 1990 Win
Alcester Trades 1991 Aut
Faces of Old England 4 - lamp Lighter & Town Crier 1991 Spr
Woodfields Joiners 1991 Sum
Alcester Unions and Guardians 1 1991 Win
Alcester Unions and Guardians 2 - The Workhouse 1992 Spr
Oral History Notes 2 - Alcester Gasworks 1992 Win
Oral History Notes 9 - Arrow Carriage Works 1994 Aut
A Local Agreement 1995 Aut
Workshops 1995 Win
Local Ripples;- Houtons - 17th C. clockmakers 1996 Aut
Old Industries of the Area - Needlemaking 1996 Spr
A Drapers book 1996 Sum
Old Industries of the Area - Memorial Stones 1996 Sum
Small Print - the connection with Long Crendon 1997 Spr
A 17th Century Alcester Pewterer 1997 Sum