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Reprint: local history publishers in Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Midlands

Reprint publish original local history books for Loughborough, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a catalogue of over 300 titles. We also reprint out-of-print and hard-to-find volumes of local interest, as well as postcards and calendars. Want to write a book of local interest? We can publish it for you.

You can order all Reprint books from this website - you can either pay online by debit or credit card or by PayPal, or you can print out an order form and post this to us with payment.

Books

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A Brief History of the Windlass

Malcolm Dark

A study of the boatman's implement to operate lock mechanisms. Incorporated are stories of its other "uses", particularly as a weapon in the murder of Black Jake at Cassiobury Lock.

Reference is made to the specialist windlasses made by J H Cooke of Wheelock, Cheshire which carried his distinctive churchwarden's pipe trademark.

Also included is the short story of Barrow-upon-Soar Riot, 1795 and a Survey of Bridges crossing the River Soar between Mountsorrel and Loughborough.

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Gifts

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Loughborough Sock Man Badge

Unique pin badge featuring the sock man of Loughborough, A real collectable item.

It is proposed that other pin badges will be sold featuring other historical points of interest will be made.

Postage and Packaging Included

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