 |
A Good Living - Hugh Barrett
Paperback book, 198 x 128 mm,
272 pages, 25 illustrations
In his personal view of English
farming from 1937 to 1949, Hugh Barrett takes us back to the assortment of
farms with which he was involved from his late teens. Managing pig units,
arable enterprises and horticultural ventures, he encountered gentlemen
farmers, land settlement smallholders, wartime profiteers and refugees,
until he came to Appleacre Farm in West Suffolk.
£11.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Chewing The Cud - Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 128 pages inc. 74 cartoons & 48 verses
Farming cartoons and verses from the master of farming humour; Henry
Brewis.
£9.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Clarts and Calamaties -
Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 256 pages inc.
22 drawings
A fictional but very believable farming year in diary form: ‘This is a
year in the life of a bloke who’ll never drive a Porsche, seldom wear a
tie, and doesn’t commute to work, because he’s there already. He’s
been there since the first ewe lambed, the first cow was milked and the
first field harvested … and he still hasn’t made any money (or so he
says).
£9.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Claas Chronicle - Gorg &
Kemper
Hardback book, 297 x 210 mm, 240 pages including 458 illustrations.
Claas can justifiably claim to be Europe’s leader in harvesting
technology. In the early 1920s their patented knotter was giving them the
edge in straw trussing equipment...
£33.95 including 1st Class Recorded P&P
|
 |
Country Dance - Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 208 pages inc.
34 drawings
As the 1990s progressed, Henry Brewis bore witness to the new rural life
he saw around him. This is his wryly humorous fable of the changes one
traditional farm and village underwent as farming declined, ‘the story
of a family farm being dismembered and developed, of newcomers
face-to-face with the old peasantry.’
£9.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
The David Brown Tractor
Story Pt 1 - Stuart Gibbard
Hardback book, 275 x 215 mm,
216 pages inc 305 illustrations.
this work begins by tracing the
roots of this famous Yorkshire firm back to Huddersfield and its origins
in wooden pattern making in the 1860s.
£31.50 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
The Doe Tractor Story -
Stuart Gibbard
Hardback book, 278 x 215 mm,
120 pages, 190 photos
This highly illustrated account
tells the full story of this remarkable tractor and the company that
manufactured it. The rise of Ernest Doe & Sons from a humble village
blacksmith’s shop to the largest machinery retail organisation in East
Anglia is traced in detail with full coverage given to the machines it
made.
£22.95 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
Don't Laugh Till He's Out Of
Sight - Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 156 pages
One of the earliest books by Henry Brewis, this perennial favourite is a
confection of stories, poems and cartoons from the early 1980s. In Henry’s
own words, it was ‘a source of reassurance to any established peasant
feeling low, and hopefully amusing to anyone who sees farming as an
interesting (if at times ridiculous) way to almost make a living.’
£8.50 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Down In The Valley - H W
Freeman
Paperback book, 352 pages
The death of his mother
releases Everard Mulliver from a duty-bound life and enables him to follow
his instincts. With a new sense of freedom, his focus shifts from an
inherited grocery business in Bury St Edmunds to an idyllic Suffolk
village, where he buys a cottage.
£11.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Early To Rise - Hugh Barrett
Paperback book, 196 x 128 mm,
176 pages inc. line drawings
This is an authentic first-hand account of life as a sixteen-year-old farm
pupil in the early 1930s. In Suffolk, as elsewhere, the tractor had not
yet displaced the horse, farms were full of labourers and the working day
was long and hard.
£9.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Farmer's Boy - Michael
Hawker
Paperback book, 224 pages
These recollections of farming
and rural life near Barnstaple, north Devon, cover the 1940s and 50s when
agriculture, though it was changing, was still on a human scale. From the
time the author as a twelve-year-old first stooked corn in the harvest
field he was devoted to farming.
£11.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Farmer's Favourites - Royal
Agricultural Benevolent Fund
Paperback book, 116 pages,
illustrated
A mouthwatering compilation of
135 old, new and variations of favourite recipes from the farming
community of Britain.
£8.50 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Farming Day By Day - The
1960s - John Winter
Hardback book, 264 pages inc.
19 photographs
As the 1950s closed and rationing passed, farmers and their workers might
have expected a golden age. After all, everyone acknowledged that British
farming was one of the great success stories of the post-war era.
To decide whether the 1960s was in fact a golden decade, turn to this
selection from John Winter’s reports in the Daily Mail which were
written so that literally anyone would find them interesting, both the
millions of lay readers and the specialist farmer or agriculturalist.
£17.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Fifty Years Of Farm Tractors
- Brian Bell
Hardback book , 246 x 189 mm,
256 pages, inc 320 illustrations
Going A-Z by manufacturer, this
book describes the host of tractor models used on British farms since the
end of the Second World War. It includes machines produced before 1945 but
still in common use and it also shows a wide range of imported marques.
£24.95 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
Footsteps In The Furrow -
Andrew Arbuckle
Paperback book, 344 pages
including 24 pp photographs
Would you like to know why they used a wheel-barrow to catch pests in the
turnip field? Or where they spread fish – much to the delight of the
seagulls; or where you might have found ‘loupers’? You will find these
and hundreds of other facts from a farming heritage in this book.
£13.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
The Ford Tractor Story Part
One - Stuart Gibbard
Hardback book, 275 x 215 mm,
192 pages, 366 photographs
Starting with the early
experiments that in 1917 led to the Model F at Dearborn, Stuart Gibbard's
absorbing text is accompanied by a wealth of photographs, many rare and
previously unseen.
£31.50 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
The Ford Tractor Story Part
Two - Stuart Gibbard
Hardback book, 275 x 215 mm,
224 pages, 380 photographs
Part Two, covering 1964-1999 is
32 pages longer than the earlier book and has 380 illustrations, most of
them colour photographs from Ford’s archives.
£33.50 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
Funnywaytmekalivin - Henry
Brewis
Paperback book, 128 pages inc.
130 cartoons & 14 verses
It contains 130 cartoons on
timeless subjects familiar to Brewis devotees: sheep with a death-wish,
the long-suffering farmer’s wife, the experts and officials who plagued
farmers twenty years ago as they still do today.
£9.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Harry Ferguson, Inventor
& Pioneer - Colin Fraser
Paperback book, 216 x 138 mm,
320 pages, 20 photographs
Fraser's book provides a
thorough account of the development of the system and tractors that are
Ferguson's permanent memorial. It also covers Ferguson's early days as an
aviator and motor car pioneer, his business dealings, the tumultuous
relationship with Ford and the merger with Massey.
£13.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Harvey And The Handy Lads -
Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 48 pages inc.
58 colour illustrations.
Writing to entertain his young
grandchildren, Henry Brewis created a delightful story of animals securing
safe passage across a busy road. This is the only Brewis title with colour
illustrations. This farm animal book makes a great present for children
and adults alike.
£6.50 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Joseph And His Brethren - H W
Freeman
Paperback book, 384 pages
Joseph and his Brethren is an English novel, following the story of a
Suffolk farming family through two generations.
£11.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Just A Moment - David
Kindred & Roger Smith
Paperback book , 243 x 169 mm,
128 pages inc 200 photographs
The photographs in this
collection were taken in Suffolk between 1925 and 1935. The majority of
the shots are of workmen paused for a moment in the course of their normal
days. Farm scenes include horsemen with their teams at plough, carting
roots, drilling corn or returning from a day’s labour. Town scenes show
carriers and deliverymen.
£13.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard
Paperback book, 155mm x 105mm,
88 pages with 41 photographs
In this book Jack Byard takes
us alphabetically through 40 of the breeds which are the most likely to be
seen on British farms.
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Know More Sheep - Jack Byard
Paperback book, 88 pages with
40 photographs
This second book takes in the
first-cross Mule sheep you will find on your walks in hill-farming country
as well as some of the rarer breeds and recent imports to be found across
the United Kingdom.
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Know Your Cattle - Jack
Byard
Paperback book, 96 pages inc.
44 photographs
The range of cattle to be seen on British farms is surprisingly wide, a
mixture of traditional breeds and imported stock. From Ayrshire to Wagyu,
Jack Byard shows and describes the 44 breeds farmed in Britain.
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Know Your Combines - Chris
Lockwood
Paperback book, 96 pages with
43 photographs and 3 cutaways 155mm x 105mm (landscape)
Chris Lockwood shows a representative sample of the combine harvesters
which are most likely to be seen working in Britain’s fields.
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Know Your Tractors - Chris
Lockwood
Paperback book, 88 pages with
41 photographs 155mm x 105mm
Tractor enthusiast and
photographer Chris Lockwood shows a representative sample of the popular
tractor makes and models which are most likely to be seen working in
Britain’s arable fields. In general he has featured modern tractors –
though there are also one or two classics – and he shows more than one
model from the most widely seen makes
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Land Girls Of The Old
Rectory - Irene Grimwood
Paperback book, 197 x 130 mm,
93 pages inc. 13 photographs
It was 1942 and Britain was
running out of food. Twenty-year-old Irene Gibbs had always fancied
working on the land rather than in the cigarette factory so she
volunteered for the Women’s Land Army. She and her new friends were
high-spirited and adventurous
£6.95 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
A Land Girls War - Joan
Snelling
Paperback book, 96 pages
In April 1941 eighteen-year-old
Joan Snelling, or ‘Pop’ to her friends, volunteered for work in the
Women’s Land Army. Within weeks she was duly employed as a land girl at
Hoveton Fruit Farm, Norfolk. Here she undertook all sorts of farm work
including learning how to drive a tractor.
£6.95 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Last Round-Up - Henry Brewis
Paperback book 170 x 230 mm,
128 pages inc.124 cartoons
First published just before his
death, this is Henry Brewis’s own choice of the best of his cartoons,
selected from 25 years’ work. It also contains some cartoons that were
new in 2000
£9.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Little Bit O' Nonsense About
Sheep - Henry Brewis
Paperback book, 104 x 155 mm,
96 pages inc. 45 cartoons
Compiled from previously
published books and in a handy, pocket-sized format, this is a fresh look
at Henry Brewis’s fondest enemy: the mule yow.
£6.99 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Long Day - David Kindred
& Roger Smith
Paperback book, 243 x 169 mm,
128 pages inc. 200 photographs
From 1925 to 1935 commercial
photographers Leonard and Ralph Titshall toured Suffolk recording farm
workers, tradesmen and villagers as they paused from their labours or
stood at their gates. The result is a fascinating collection of vivid
images of the life of the period in an arable farm setting.
£13.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
The Magic Peasant - Henry
Brewis
Paperback book, 128 pages inc.
99 cartoons & 21 verses
Essentially a rural book, an
everyday story, in pictures and verse of peasant folk – and in
particular a fellow called Sep.’ So Brewis introduced this collection,
an affectionately humorous tribute to hill farmers everywhere.
£9.00 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Modern Tractors - Jonathan
Whitlam & Stephen Richmond
172 pages 273x210mm hard back
book
Travelling from 1990 into the
21st Century, this book shows the amazing evolution of the electronically
sophisticated agricultural tractor and demonstrates how it has grown from
an average 100hp to verging onto the 600hp mark.
£26.49 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
The Nuffield Tractor Story -
Anthony Clare
Hardback book, 275 x 215mm, 192
pages inc 303 photographs
This is the first detailed book
on the organization and its products. Anthony Clare starts with the
preparatory work of 1943 and takes the story up to 1967, the era of the
powerful 10/60 model.
£29.95 including 1st Class
P&P
|
 |
Plant Names Simplified -
Johnson & Smith
Paperback book, 120 pages
This glossary contains well over a thousand entries giving the
pronunciation, derivation and meanings of garden plant names. The aim of
the authors was to remove the ‘awkward obstacle’ that these names can
present. For example: Dahlia, dah-le-a; named after Andreas Dahl, a
Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnæus.
£10.00 including 1st Class P&P
|
 |
Ransomes, Sims & Jeffries -
Brian Bell
Hardback book, 246 x 189 mm, 192 pages, 315 illustrations
Brian Bell shows in some detail the development of Ransomes’
products, illustrates key models and gives clear information about their
features and uses. His interviews with ex-Ransomes employees have produced
fascinating insights into how the company operated at work and play.
£24.95 including 1st Class Recorded P&P
|
 |
Ransomes And Their Tractor
Share Ploughs - Anthony Clare
Hardback book, 246 x 189 mm,
100 pages, 120 photos
Aimed at tractor and ploughing
enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the
wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies.
£19.95 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
 |
The Traditional Farming Year
- Paul Heiney
Hardback book, 266 x 189 mm,
160 pages inc 155 illustrations
For ten years broadcaster Paul
Heiney ran his own Suffolk farm with horse rather than tractor. In this
book Paul draws on his experience in order to describe month-by-month a
farming year that our great-grandparents might have recognized.
£22.95 including 1st Class
Recorded P&P
|
