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‘Fifty Years of Flicking Football’ is a concise history of the game of - table football - ‘Subbuteo’, from its inception in 1946 to the modern day. The book will appeal to, and bring back memories, to countless boys (aged 8 to 80), worldwide, who at one time have played the game, and indeed still do. The author Richard Payne, a lifetime enthusiast, had the benefit of the personal recollections from the inventor of Subbuteo, the Late Peter Adolph, together with the memories of several famous football personalities. The book also relates the development of the game over the decades, the offshoots of Subbuteo to other sports, hints on collecting and is well illustrated with nostalgic advertisements, action shots, etc.

‘The Ultimate Directory of English and Scottish Football Grounds (1888-2005)’ is a 240 page best selling book (with several reprints since it was first published in 2005), which provides the reader with information relating to the 323 grounds in total (206 in England and 117 in Scotland) on which League matches have been played from the first, in 1888. The famous, together with the obscure are here, including the precise location of every venue with map (especially for those wishing to visit the sites or the grounds), plus a host of interesting facts of every ground, Including, are potted histories and the statistical details of every League club that has played at each, with records of the first and last games at each venue, the highest and lowest attendances, the biggest victory and the worst defeat, plus many photos. Two alphabetical indexes aid finding the club/ground. An invaluable travel guide, a ‘coffee table’ book and a good read!

This is a story about a Pirate mouse who meets a posh lady mouse and saves her from disaster.

It was 1973 and the bomb that exploded at the Railway Station triggered a memory for Janet Foster, taking her back in time to the 1950’s when she was a young girl.The post war years in London’s East End was a tough time for families still clearing up from the blitz and struggling to come to terms with the loss of loved ones.The Foster family and their relations in Hall Road, Stratford were no exception and were looking forward to celebrating the Queen’s Coronation with great gusto.Will Foster grinned at his family, “It will be a time of great rejoicing for everyone” he said “It will be a time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future”As the Coronation day dawned and the Celebrations began however, a different kind of struggle was to take place in Hall Road, a struggle that threatened to break the ties of love and tear the once close knit families apart.

Eric Barton, a village boy for all of his life, was born in Nayland, Suffolk and remained by the picturesque River Stour for 30 years. After marrying, he and his wife June moved over the county border into the beautiful village of Great Horkesley in Essex. Inspired by his life’s surroundings, Eric spent many evenings telling interesting and friendly countryside wildlife stories to his two sons and more recently his seven grandchildren. This was always a great way to relax them and encourage those tired eyes to shut. With the arrival of Isla Daisy King, the author’s first great grandchild, it was time to put those imaginative wildlife stories into print.

This new book describes the life of Mary and William Howitt’s eldest surviving son, Alfred, who travelled to Australia with his brother, Charlton, and their father William in 1851. They travelled to Australia to join the gold rush where Alfred remained while Charlton returned to England with his father. Alfred retrieved the bodies of Burke and Wills, following the failed expedition into the red centre from the north coast of Australia. Alfred was a self-taught geologist, a botanist, a very early anthropologist, an official member of an Aborigine tribe, and received an honorary degree from Cambridge University. Charlton, later in his short life, ended up in New Zealand after agreeing to help a family friend sort out some business problems, only to be drawn into an expedition which proved fatal.The young men had benefited from their parents’ interesting life and their support for emigration as there were no jobs for people in England especially for non-conformists who were banned from any professional work. The cost of education and the cost of living were very expensive particularly then in the middle of a recession!The parents of Alfred Howitt were known for their literary work and for their translations. William tranlated from German, and Mary translated from Danish and Swedish.Mary Howitt’s life was quite simply extraordinary: she was the daughter of a strict Quaker family in Uttoxeter, who at the end her life became a Roman Catholic, being welcomed into the faith by the Pope himself at the Vatican; she was a children’s author who was the first to translate the works of Hans Christian Andersen into English; she was a feminist and anti-slavery campaigner with influential friends such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens; she and her husband also associated with the Pre-Raphaelite artistic brotherhood.I was fascinated with Mary from the time I first heard about her from my mother-in-law. It has been an honour to bring her family’s story into the light and was a source of great interest for my husband and me, inspiring us to carry out wider research into local history.It is interesting that one family from the small Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in England should have had such a major impact on the development of Australia and New Zealand, so far away.

"With the ball about to cross the line, Spanner took an almighty kick at it, missed, followed through and kicked himself full in the face, ever the competitor, he had his arm in the air claiming a foul before he had even hit the floor." If you''ve ever been involved in kids football; Manager, coach, bucket-carrier, supporter, parent, player, whatever, this book will bring it all flooding back, the good, the bad, and the downright funny.

Autobiography of my life from earliest childhood memories to my upbringing in the Cameroons. From Soldier to bricklayer and finally to oil rig worker.