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The Amiable Mrs Peach

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ISBN -13; 078-0-9933069-0-7

Lasse Press, Norwich NR2 1NS; 2016.

As the daughter of one clergyman and wife of another, Betsy Reading (later Leathes, then Peach) (1748-1815) knew everyone from dukes to the destitute, but she was happiest among the gentry and lower aristocracy, and it was to them that she wrote her lively letters. Her provincial;life of card parties, tea parties and balls was that of aJane Austin heroine, and she too was preoccupied with marriage and money. She also showed pride,and predujice, sense and sensibility.

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Bathing Beauties, Knobbly Knees and Music by the Sea'

The Marina, Great Yarmouth  1937-1979.

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ISBN 978-1-909796-58-4

Poppyland publishing, Lowestoft, NR32 3BB; 2019

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Anyone holiday-making in Great Yarmouth in the years immediately following World War Two will have fond memories of the Marina Theatre, an open-air music auditorium in a central position on the promenade that was once described as being the most wonderful site on the east coast of England.

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The Beat Goes On,

Popular Music and the City of Norwich 1955-60.

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ISBN 978-1-909796-98-0

Poppyland Publishing, Lowestoft NR32 3BB; 2022.

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In the period 1955 until 1960, a revolution occured within the culture of young people in Britain - to their music, fshions, habits and beliefs, but especially to their music. In this book, the author draws on his own experiences as well as contemporary written sources to describe the development of a teenage culture in the city of Norwich during the early years of rock 'n' roll.

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Master and Man: Farmers and Employees in Nineteenth Century Gloucestershire (Celia Miller)

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Barry Stapleton (ed) Conflict and Community in Southern England (1992) Sutton Publishing.

The Gloucester Steam Plough Company 1860-62 (Celia Miller}

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Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeology Society Transactions Vol XCIX (1981) p141

The Gloucester Steam Plough Company (Celia Miller)

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The Road Locomotive Society Journal  Vol 58 Number 4 (2005) p171

The Hidden Workforce: Female fieldworkers in Gloucestershire, 1870-1901 (Celia Miller)

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Southern History, Vol 6 (1984) p139

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