Books about Leicestershire
Reprint publish the following books about Leicestershire:
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A Brief History of the Great Central Railway and Victorian Season Tickets
Price: £2.00
This publication is small but holds many historical points of the GCR.
An ideal gift or souvenir from this fantastic steam railway.
Includes some 1899 season tickets in their ornate Victorian … [more]
Price: £4.50
With over 600 questions and answers, divided into short sections, this is a fascinating book which will test your knowledge of all things Leicestershire. It is also a treasure-trove of county trivia, … [more]
A Miner's Child Talking Book 6CDs
Price: £10.00
Jane, my eldest granddaughter listened with interest as I often related my childhood memories to her. "Grandma, why don't you write a book?" she asked. I looked into her eyes. She was quite … [more]
A Walk From Leicester to the East Coast (1915)
Price: £6.00
In frank and sometimes flowery language the author describes a walk from Belgrave in Leicester to the East Coast, undertaken for the sake of his health. His many adventures and observations are … [more]
Accident? Suicide? or Murder? In Leicestershire!
Price: £6.00
Accident, Suicide or Murder is a murder story set around a murder story.
Tony and Veronica have moved from Lower Cloisters to Leicestershire to retire until a man asks them to use their efforts to … [more]
All Lands on Dek: A Year in the Life of a Gardener's Boy, 1942
Price: £6.00
From the Introduction by the author:
"This book is not intended as an autobiography, but rather as a chapter out of the life of a boy who, due to his dislike of school, had the opportunity to start … [more]
Anecdotes of Bygone Leicestershire & Other Stories
Price: £4.50
When we look back at the many authors who have left their mark in the form of publications on Leicestershire's history, one name stands out above the others, that of the late Colonel Pen Lloyd, CBE, … [more]
Price: £3.50
A most in depth account of this little known event in the village church yard some of the villagers today are decendents of those people who took part in this riot.
Bradgate Groby and Lady Jane Grey
Price: £3.50
Nowe in those same Streetes, the verie same Folkes who did shoute so vehementlie, 'God save oure righte nobel Quene Jane! From the Tablette Booke of Lady Mary Keyes, owne sister to the misfortunate … [more]
Bradgate House and the Grays of Groby
Price: £6.00
Contents
I-The Woodvilles.
II-Bradgate House.
III-The First Marquess of Dorset.
IV-The Second Marquess.
V-The Third Marquess and The Lord Thomas Seymour.
VI-Lady Jane Grey.
VII-The Marquess … [more]