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Becker: Harry Becker 1865-1928 - David Thompson

Becker: Harry Becker 1865-1928 - David Thompson Ref: 500B
Harry Becker’s great passion was to paint the working life of rural Suffolk. In particular he captured farmworkers at their daily tasks ploughing, ditching, hoeing and leading horses in the first decades of the twentieth century... 

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Price:    £19.95



Bells Beneath the Sea: photographs of the Suffolk Heritage Coast - Carl White

Bells Beneath the Sea: photographs of the Suffolk Heritage Coast - Carl White Ref: 587B
Legend has it that if you put your ear to Dunwich cliff on a stormy day you can hear the long-submerged bells of the town’s churches ringing under the waves. Such is the rich, haunting quality of this coastline, whose past resonates strongly in its present. 

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Price:    £19.95



Britains Farm Model Balers and Combines 1967-2007  - David Pullen

Britains Farm Model Balers and Combines 1967-2007 - David Pullen Ref: 571B
David Pullen describes all the baler and combine models produced by Britains since they were first added to its product range, and provides details of their development. As well as the standard models he gives details and photographs of rare and prototype ones. 

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Price:    £16.99



Britains Farm Model & Toy Tractors 1998-2008  - David Pullen

Britains Farm Model & Toy Tractors 1998-2008 - David Pullen Ref: 584B
This absolutely outstanding book is going to set the benchmark for any future writing about models. The bulk of its 496 pages is given over to a catalogue of over 200 tractor models and versions. These represent tractors produced by 25 different Original Equipment Manufacturers from Allis-Chalmers to Valtra Valmet. 

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Price:    £29.99



Britains Model Tractors 1948-1998 - David Pullen

Britains Model Tractors 1948-1998 - David Pullen Ref: 501B
Britains - long-established as soldier and farm model makers - launched their first model tractor, the Fordson E27N, in 1948... 

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Price:    £17.95



Cattle Lameness and Hoofcare: an illustrated guide 2nd Edition - Roger Blowey FRCVS

Cattle Lameness and Hoofcare: an illustrated guide 2nd Edition - Roger Blowey FRCVS Ref: 502B
The second edition is a complete revision. Roger has provided more information about the impact on lameness of changes that occur at the time of calving. He describes new conditions such as toe necrosis and heel ulcers.
 

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Price:    £19.95



Chaffinch's - H W Freeman

Chaffinch's - H W Freeman Ref: 503B
Coming from a family dispossessed from the land by the 19th century Enclosure Acts, Joss Elvin craves to be an independent farmer... 

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Price:    £6.99

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Charismatic Cows and Beefcake Bulls - Sonia Kurta

Charismatic Cows and Beefcake Bulls - Sonia Kurta Ref: 559B
Cows staging protests, puzzle-solving geese and a rebellious mopper-upper. These are just a few of the engaging characters who Sonia Kurta met during her time in farming. ... 

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Price:    £6.95



Chewing the Cud - Henry Brewis

Chewing the Cud - Henry Brewis Ref: 504B
‘The sheep are on the road again, the cows are in the corn,
the bank is on the telephone, the pigs are on the lawn.
The combine’s standing idle and we cannot get it fixed... 

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Price:    £5.95



Claas Chronicle - Görg & Kemper

Claas Chronicle - Görg & Kemper Ref: 553B
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. In the 1930s they began to develop combine harvesters suitable for European conditions 

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Price:    £26.95



Clarts and Calamities - Henry Brewis

Clarts and Calamities - Henry Brewis Ref: 505B
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... 

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Country Dance - Henry Brewis

Country Dance - Henry Brewis Ref: 506B
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... 

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Price:    £5.95



County: A pictorial review - Stuart Gibbard

County: A pictorial review - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 507B
Which British company exported its crawlers and four-wheel drive tractors to nearly 150 countries from the Arctic Circle to Australia... 

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Price:    £19.95



David Brown Tractor Story Part One, The - Stuart Gibbard

David Brown Tractor Story Part One, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 508B
The first of three books looking in depth at David Brown and its products, this work begins by tracing the roots of this famous Yorkshire firm... 

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Price:    £24.95



Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford 1833-1850, The - Transcribed by Joan Foster & Dr Michael Smith

Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford 1833-1850, The - Transcribed by Joan Foster & Dr Michael Smith Ref: 562B
William Brewis farmed at Throphill Hall, near Mitford, Northumberland. He was also an overseer of the poor and a high constable for the west division of Morpeth. His diary entries cover the progress of his farming against the background of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Fairs and markets, weather, crops and livestock are all included. 

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Price:    £9.95



Doe Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard

Doe Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 509B
The Doe Triple D became a legend in its own lifetime. With its two engines, four-wheel drive and an articulation of nearly 90 degrees... 

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Price:    £17.95



Don’t Laugh Till He’s Out Of Sight - Henry Brewis

Don’t Laugh Till He’s Out Of Sight - Henry Brewis Ref: 510B
One of the earliest books by Henry Brewis, this perennial favourite is a confection of stories, poems and cartoons from the early 1980s... 

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Price:    £5.95



Down in the Valley - H W Freeman

Down in the Valley - H W Freeman Ref: 552B
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. 

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Price:    £7.95



Early to Rise - Hugh Barrett

Early to Rise - Hugh Barrett Ref: 511B
This is an authentic first-hand account of life as a sixteen-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s... 

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Price:    £6.95

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Farm and Workshop Welding - Andrew Pearce

Farm and Workshop Welding - Andrew Pearce Ref: 555B
Almost anyone can weld, cut or shape metal. That’s the starting point for this supremely practical book which, through tips, suggestions and fault-finding, helps the beginner to improve and the intermediate operator to broaden technique ... 

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Price:    £19.95



Farm Machinery - Brian Bell

Farm Machinery - Brian Bell Ref: 512B
For students of agriculture or others needing a sound introduction to the full range of farm machinery and tractors in current use, this book provides a straightforward guide... 

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Price:    £19.95



Farmer's Boy - Michael Hawker

Farmer's Boy - Michael Hawker Ref: 549B
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.  

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Farmers' Favourites - Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

Farmers' Favourites - Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution Ref: 561B
Best loved recipes gathered from Britain’s farming families

A mouthwatering compilation of 135 old, new and variations of favourite recipes from the farming community of Britain. 

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Price:    £5.95



Farming and Forestry on the Western Front 1915-1919 - Murray Maclean

Farming and Forestry on the Western Front 1915-1919 - Murray Maclean Ref: 544B
This fine collection of photographs from the First World War shows how the British army tried to reduce its imports of forage, food and timber by supplying itself from the French land... 

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Price:    £17.95



Farming Day by Day - The 1960s - John Winter

Farming Day by Day - The 1960s - John Winter Ref: 513B
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... 

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Price:    £12.95



Ferguson TE20 in Detail  - Michael Thorne

Ferguson TE20 in Detail - Michael Thorne Ref: 574B
For Mike Thorne, owner of the Coldridge Ferguson collection, this book was a labour of love, illustrated with 263 photographs. These include well-chosen archive photographs as well as new shots by Andrew Morland. 

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Price:    £35.00



Ferguson Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard

Ferguson Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 514B
The little grey Fergie was the machine that finally replaced the horse on many farms and it became Britain’s best-loved tractor... 

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Price:    £19.95



Fifty Years of Farm Machinery - Brian Bell

Fifty Years of Farm Machinery - Brian Bell Ref: 515B
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... 

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Price:    £14.95

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Fifty Years of Farm Tractors - Brian Bell

Fifty Years of Farm Tractors - Brian Bell Ref: 516B
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... 

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Price:    £19.95



Ford Tractor Conversions - Stuart Gibbard

Ford Tractor Conversions - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 520B
County, Doe, Chaseside, Muir-Hill, Matbro and Bray were all well-known British companies and leaders in their own fields of engineering design and innovation... 

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Price:    £24.95



Ford Tractor Story Part One, The: Dearborn to Dagenham 1917-64 - Stuart Gibbard

Ford Tractor Story Part One, The: Dearborn to Dagenham 1917-64 - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 518B
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... 

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Price:    £24.95



Ford Tractor Story Part Two, The: Basildon to New Holland 1964-1999 - Stuart Gibbard

Ford Tractor Story Part Two, The: Basildon to New Holland 1964-1999 - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 519B
Anyone who has read Stuart Gibbard’s Ford Tractor Story Part One 1917-1964 will realise that it is an exceptional volume... 

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Price:    £26.95



Footsteps in the Furrow - Andrew Arbuckle

Footsteps in the Furrow - Andrew Arbuckle Ref: 576B
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. 

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Price:    £9.95



From Buddy to The Beatles - Stephen Foster and David Kindred

From Buddy to The Beatles - Stephen Foster and David Kindred Ref: 546B
From 1958 to the mid 1960s the Ipswich Gaumont (aka the Regent) played host to a wonderful array of stars, among them Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Little Richard, The Kinks, The Everly Brothers, Marty Wilde, Helen Shapiro, Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles... 

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Funnywayt’mekalivin’ - Henry Brewis

Funnywayt’mekalivin’ - Henry Brewis Ref: 547B
funnywayt’mekalivin’ was the first Henry Brewis’s titles to be published by Farming Press, in 1983, since when it has reprinted on numerous occasions. It contains 130 cartoons on timeless subjects familiar to Brewis devotees... 

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Price:    £5.95



Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book, The: 4th edition - Peter Dunn MRCVS

Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book, The: 4th edition - Peter Dunn MRCVS Ref: 521B
Practical and easy to use, The Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book has served as the standard veterinary reference work for a full generation of goatkeepers. The emphasis of the book is preventive care.  

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Price:    £17.95



Good Living, A - Hugh Barrett

Good Living, A - Hugh Barrett Ref: 522B
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... 

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Price:    £7.95



Hack Goes West, A - Dylan Winter

Hack Goes West, A - Dylan Winter Ref: 557B
As travelling companions on his 2,000-mile journey along the Oregon trail, Dylan Winter chooses Rocky, a retired rodeo horse, and Roland, a mixed up Appaloosa with a fear of bridges, bin liners and heights. 

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Hadleigh: the Portrait of a Suffolk Town. The photographs of Peter Boulton - Selected by David Kindred

Hadleigh: the Portrait of a Suffolk Town. The photographs of Peter Boulton - Selected by David Kindred Ref: 586B
Commercial photographer and film-maker Peter Boulton recorded Hadleigh and its people in the 1940s and ’50s. This thriving country town, ten miles west of Ipswich, gave him scope to photograph the activities that were typical of so many towns at that time. 

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Harry Ferguson before the plough - Michael Clarke in collaboration with Jack Woods

Harry Ferguson before the plough - Michael Clarke in collaboration with Jack Woods Ref: 591B
Colin Fraser’s standard work, Harry Ferguson: inventor and pioneer, sketches in the great man’s early adventures in less than twenty pages. This new book, dealing mostly with the period 1906-13, completes the story. 

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Harry Ferguson: inventor and pioneer - Colin Fraser

Harry Ferguson: inventor and pioneer - Colin Fraser Ref: 523B
Packed with fact, but simply put together and easy to read, Colin Fraser's 'Harry Ferguson - Inventor and Pioneer' is essential reading... 

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Harvey and the Handy Lads - Henry Brewis

Harvey and the Handy Lads - Henry Brewis Ref: 524B
Writing to entertain his young grandchildren, Henry Brewis created a delightful story of animals securing safe passage across a busy road... 

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Price:    £3.95



I Walked by Night - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard

I Walked by Night - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard Ref: 592B
Subtitled ‘the philosophy of the King of the Norfolk poachers, written by Himself’, this pot-pourri of autobiography, rural verse and philosophising has long been recognised as a rural classic. The superb illustrations by Edward Seago bring the text to life and remain long in the reader’s memory. 

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Price:    £19.95



Implements of Agriculture, The - J Allen Ransome

Implements of Agriculture, The - J Allen Ransome Ref: 525B
By the 1840s British farmers were benefiting from real advances in the technology of ploughs, drills and other implements... 

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In a Long Day: the Titshall photographs of farm and village life (2nd edition) - David Kindred & Roger Smith

In a Long Day: the Titshall photographs of farm and village life (2nd edition) - David Kindred & Roger Smith Ref: 526B
From 1925 to 1935 commercial photographers Leonard and Ralph Titshall toured Suffolk recording farm workers, tradesmen and villagers... 

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Price:    £9.95



In the Driving Seat - Alex Heymer

In the Driving Seat - Alex Heymer Ref: 581B
Forty-four years driving for a living have given Alex Heymer a wealth of stories ...

Alex always wanted to be a driver, like his father, and learned at a very young age. During his national service he drove for the RAF, and then went on to trolleybuses for London Transport. He returned to London Transport later to drive RTs and Routemasters. He has lots of tales about driver shenanigans on the trolleybuses and buses. 

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Joseph and His Brethren - H W Freeman

Joseph and His Brethren - H W Freeman Ref: 527B
Joseph and his Brethren follows the story of a Suffolk farming family through two generations. When Benjamin Geaiter purchases the run down Crakenhill Farm his presence is soon felt in the neighbouring villages... 

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Juggernaut Drivers

Juggernaut Drivers Ref: 554B
It's the 1970's. Trucker Dennis Richardson (Rich) revels in the laughter and camaraderie of his life on the road. He sets up a transport company, North Kent, with two pals. Benny is the one with the short fuse; Rich tries to calm him down - when he's not winding him up . . . 

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Just a Moment - David Kindred and Roger Smith

Just a Moment - David Kindred and Roger Smith Ref: 558B
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... 

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Price:    £9.95



King of the Norfolk Poachers, The : his life and times - Charlotte Paton

King of the Norfolk Poachers, The : his life and times - Charlotte Paton Ref: 568B
"If I had my time to come over again I would still be what I have been a poacher. So I remain, Gentlemen, The Ex King of the Norfolk Poachers." The name of the poacher was Frederick Rolfe - Charlotte Paton has researched his life and written his biography. 

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Price:    £19.95

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Know Your Cattle - Jack Byard

Know Your Cattle - Jack Byard Ref: 570B
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. 

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Price:    £4.99



Know your Combines - Chris Lockwood

Know your Combines - Chris Lockwood Ref: 578B
Farm machinery enthusiast and photographer Chris Lockwood shows a representative sample of the combine harvesters which are most likely to be seen working in Britain’s fields. In general he has featured modern combines though there are also one or two classics and he shows several models from the most widely seen makes. 

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Price:    £4.99



Know Your Horses - Jack Byard

Know Your Horses - Jack Byard Ref: 579B
In Know Your Horses Jack Byard gives a full-page photograph of each featured breed accompanied by a concise description of the animal’s appearance, uses and history. He also includes fascinating snippets about the role of the breed in human history. Which was the medieval horse of the crusaders? Which was used as a pit pony? The stories are here. 

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Price:    £4.99



Know Your Pigs - Jack Byard

Know Your Pigs - Jack Byard Ref: 583B
For his fifth book, Jack Byard has selected 29 breeds of pigs. These include all those you are likely to see in the UK on farms or at rare breeds centres. 

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Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard

Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard Ref: 564B
From Downland to Longwool, from Dartmoor to Swaledale, the diverse breeds of sheep in Britain reflect local characteristics and geography... 

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Know MORE Sheep - Jack Byard

Know MORE Sheep - Jack Byard Ref: 575B
Know MORE Sheep is a companion to Jack Byard’s first book: Know Your Sheep. 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. 

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Price:    £4.99



Know Your Tractors -  Chris Lockwood

Know Your Tractors - Chris Lockwood Ref: 565B
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. 

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Price:    £4.99



Know Your Trucks -  Patrick W Dyer

Know Your Trucks - Patrick W Dyer Ref: 582B
The Know Your ... series of books is ideal for novice enthusiasts of all ages. For this book, Patrick Dyer has selected 44 examples to show the wide range of truck types that you are likely to see on British roads. 

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Price:    £4.99


Know Your ... Series, 8 books Know Your ... Series, 8 books Ref: 911S
All 8 in the 'The Know Your ... ' series of books available for £34.95 
Price:    £34.95



Land Girls Gang Up - Pat Peters

Land Girls Gang Up - Pat Peters Ref: 580B
Pat Peters and her Land Girl comrades worked as hard as any man, clearing stones, pulling thistles and cutting broccoli on freezing cold mornings. For this gang of high-spirited young London girls, suddenly transported to rural Cornwall in the 1940s, it was the unending potato harvest that they most disliked. 

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Land Girls at the Old Rectory - Irene Grimwood

Land Girls at the Old Rectory - Irene Grimwood Ref: 528B
It was 1942 and Britain was running out of food. Twenty-year-old Irene Gibbs had always fancied working on the land... 

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Land Girl's War, A - Joan Snelling

Land Girl's War, A - Joan Snelling Ref: 543B
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... 

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Last Round-Up - Henry Brewis

Last Round-Up - Henry Brewis Ref: 529B
When your toes are warming by the hearth and there’s a glass of liquid encouragement t’hand... when life has calmed down a bit... well, if you can’t occasionally see the daftness of it all... 

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Price:    £5.95



Little Bit O'Nonsense About Sheep - Henry Brewis

Little Bit O'Nonsense About Sheep - Henry Brewis Ref: 572B
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.
 

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Machinery for Horticulture - 2nd edition - Brian Bell & Stewart Cousins

Machinery for Horticulture - 2nd edition - Brian Bell & Stewart Cousins Ref: 530B
For students of horticulture, grounds-keeping and estate management, this book offers an unrivalled introduction to the machinery with which they will have to work... 

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Price:    £14.95



Magic Peasant, The - Henry Brewis

Magic Peasant, The - Henry Brewis Ref: 531B
‘Essentially a rural book, an everyday story, in pictures and verse of peasant folk, and in particular a fellow called Sep... 

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Price:    £5.95



Marshall Diesel Tractors 1930-1957 - Peter Anderson

Marshall Diesel Tractors 1930-1957 - Peter Anderson Ref: 567B
Peter Anderson's book, prepared with the help of the late Jeff Bloom, is aimed at owners, restorers and potential buyers of Marshall tractors ... 

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Price:    £24.95



Night Shift - Henry Brewis

Night Shift - Henry Brewis Ref: 533B
The sleepy village of Hindburn looks an easy target for Gazza and his gang of townie thieves. However, in Brewis’s world country beats town every time... 

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Nuffield Tractor Story Volume One - Anthony Clare

Nuffield Tractor Story Volume One - Anthony Clare Ref: 551B
Developed by the Nuffield organization immediately after the Second World War, the Nuffield Universal tractor started to be manufactured at the end of 1948.

This is the first detailed book on the organization and its products. 

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Price:    £24.95



Organic Farming - Nicolas Lampkin

Organic Farming - Nicolas Lampkin Ref: 534B
This book covers the principles of organic farming and the scientific base for them, making it clear that organic farming aims to rely primarily on biological processes... 

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Price:    £24.95

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Peter and Pauline at Hollyhock Farm - R.A.E. Linney

Peter and Pauline at Hollyhock Farm - R.A.E. Linney Ref: 573B
In this reprint of a book from 1951 nine-year old twins Peter and Pauline go from the city to the farm and learn about the countryside. And they find hidden treasure! 

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Price:    £12.95



Plant Names Simplified - A. T. Johnson and H.A. Smith

Plant Names Simplified - A. T. Johnson and H.A. Smith Ref: 569B
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  

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Price:    £7.25



Rabbit Skin Cap, The - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard

Rabbit Skin Cap, The - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard Ref: 593B
The wearer of the rabbit skin cap was George Baldry, born in the middle of the nineteenth century near Beccles on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was a true country lad at a time when youngsters were flocking from the countryside to the town and the old simple ways were disappearing forever. 

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Price:    £19.95



Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs - Anthony Clare

Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs - Anthony Clare Ref: 536B
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... 

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Price:    £15.95



Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Brian Bell

Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Brian Bell Ref: 535B
Ploughs and tillage machinery, steam engines, grass-cutting equipment, trolleybuses, threshers, tractors, combines, electric trucks... 

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Price:    £19.95



Roadless: The Story of Roadless Traction from tracks to tractors - Stuart Gibbard

Roadless: The Story of Roadless Traction from tracks to tractors - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 537B
The remarkable story of Roadless Traction encompasses over sixty years of design and innovation in the fields of transport and agricultural engineering... 

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Price:    £19.95



Rural World of Eric Guy, The  -  Jonathan Brown

Rural World of Eric Guy, The - Jonathan Brown Ref: 566B
From the 1930s to the 1960s commercial photographer Eric Guy captured the rural world from his base at Basingstoke and Reading. His intimacy with this area enabled him to draw out the character and pattern of farm work and the variety of landscapes in these counties. 

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Scania at Work: LB110, 111, 140 & 141 -  Patrick W Dyer

Scania at Work: LB110, 111, 140 & 141 - Patrick W Dyer Ref: 577B
In the 1970s nearly every driver acknowledged the Scania 141 as the King of the Road. It was the most powerful truck of its day, the favourite for long-haul work throughout Europe. It set a standard for other manufacturers to match and it created a premium image for Scania that still persists. 

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Price:    £19.95



Seventy Years of Garden Machinery (hardback book)

Seventy Years of Garden Machinery (hardback book) Ref: 556B
Covering the period 1920-90 Brian Bell deals with the development of the smaller machines used on estates, allotments, nurseries and large gardens. 

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Price:    £24.95



Seventy Years of Farm Machinery Part One: Seed Time - Brian Bell

Seventy Years of Farm Machinery Part One: Seed Time - Brian Bell Ref: 590B
Brian Bell's Fifty Years of Farm Machinery has long been a standard book for enthusiasts. Although Brian can only show a random sample of the hundreds of implements and machines used on the land, in his new edition he has considerably expanded the work. This is the first of two parts 

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Strong Farmer: the memoirs of Joe Ward - Ciaran Buckley and Chris Ward

Strong Farmer: the memoirs of Joe Ward - Ciaran Buckley and Chris Ward Ref: 585B
Ciaran Buckley uses interviews which Chris Ward conducted with her father Joe to view recent Irish history through the lens of one prominent family. He brilliantly weaves together the threads of history and family memory to tell a tale of farming, politics and unbreakable family ties. 

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Suffolk Steam Railways - David Kindred

Suffolk Steam Railways - David Kindred Ref: 588B
The 200 photographs in this book reflect the diversity and importance that steam once had in East Anglia. For a hundred years it was the main carrier of people and freight, and a major employer, even though Suffolk was a mainly agricultural county with relatively few lines. 

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Tractor Ploughing Manual, The - Brian Bell

Tractor Ploughing Manual, The - Brian Bell Ref: 550B
This official Society of Ploughmen handbook is aimed at two groups of people: newcomers to ploughing who need the basics for farm work, and the growing number of competitors at ploughing matches. 

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Price:    £17.95

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Traditional Farming Year, The - Paul Heiney

Traditional Farming Year, The - Paul Heiney Ref: 545B
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... 

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Truckers North Truckers South - Leslie Purdon

Truckers North Truckers South - Leslie Purdon Ref: 560B
This is a story of a young man starting his career in road transport.
In 1945 17-year-old Shay becomes a trailer-boy on an Atkinson lorry that is noisy, cold and limited in speed. Driver Fred is one of the old school and knows the best cafés, pubs and all the tricks of the trade... 

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