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Sheila: Unlocking the Treatment for PKU by Anne Green
Booksplease Price: €19.24In 1951 a two year old infant Sheila Jones was diagnosed at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) with a rare condition Phenylketonuria (PKU). There was no treatment but, not accepting this, her... -
Rags for Pennies: Growing Up in Post-War Stechford, Birmingham by David A. Prosser
Booksplease Price: €12.64Brought up in a large family living in a council house in the Stechford area of postwar Birmingham, David Prosser's childhood was not easy, he knew hardships and hunger, wearing worn out clothes and... -
Nine Witnesses for the Colonel: King Charles' Most Faithful Servant by Elaine T. Joyce
Booksplease Price: €12.64Desperate, exhausted after the Battle of Worcester and hunted by Cromwell's troops, King Charles II was helped by the courageous and resourceful Colonel Careless, who in one of history's most... -
Saving a Bit of Old Wood: 19 Victoria Street & 44 Queen Square, Wolverhampton by Anthony Perry 9781858587592
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €8.59Many towns and cities expanded and went through continuous redevelopment during the 19th and 20th centuries, and Wolverhampton was one of these, losing a lot of historic buildings. Fortunately, at... -
The Girl from Guildford Street: Growing up in working class Birmingham 1957-1968 by Grace Caroline Holte 9781858585796
Booksplease Price: €16.91The Girl from Guildford Street describes a working class childhood, growing up in Lozells, Birmingham, 1957-1968. The author and her sister and cousins were the last generation to grow up in the back... -
The Yarnfield Yanks: The sStory of the main American Army Air Force Replacement Depot at Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire during World War 2 by Fran Collins 9781858587752
Booksplease Price: €18.08The Yarnfield Yanks tells the story of the main American Army Air Force Replacement Depot at Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire during World War II and includes many first-hand experiences supplied by... -
Proud to Serve: Embracing Diversity in Policing by Michael Layton 9781858587257
Booksplease Price: €19.24Proud to Serve chronicles the journey of one police officer between 1999 and 2004 as he worked with key community influencers and colleagues to tackle the challenges of policing diverse communities... -
Growing up with Gas: A History of the Gas Industry by Danny Lawrence 9781858587646
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €18.55The UK's energy problems are now centre stage. Growing up with Gas puts them in perspective with a history of the gas industry from its revolutionary origins at the beginning of the 19th century,... -
Birmingham's First Canal 1730-1772 by Ron Dawson
Booksplease Price: €12.64The development of Birmingham into a major modern industrial city can be said to have begun in 1772 with the opening of its first canal. At that time Birmingham was a small and largely rural town... -
Dead Submariner Donald McDonald 9781858587516
Booksplease Price: €12.64A U-boat disappears in the North Atlantic in October 1942 and mysteriously re-surfaces in 1988. Gradually, the Kapitan and crew come to realise they have been propelled through time when radio... -
Birmingham: Remembering the 50s and 60s by Alton Douglas
Booksplease Price: €14.27Birmingham's Got Talent! Well, there can't be any question about that - a shopping centre that has always rivalled almost anywhere in existence, a manufacturing industry with a worldwide reputation... -
Top Secret Worcestershire by Stephen Burrows
Booksplease Price: €19.86Deep in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside lie a number of secret places that played a special part in protecting a generation from the onslaught of a world war. Travellers passing through... -
Down to Earth: Memories of a Young Woman Joining the Women's Land Army in 1943 by Nancy Cooper 9781858585727
Booksplease Price: €10.65In Down to Earth, Nancy Cooper gives us a glimpse into the real life of a seventeen year old young woman who is recruited into the Women's Land Army in 1943. It is a big change from her life at Old... -
Knitted Swimming Trunks: Tales of a Birmingham Boy Growing Up in the 50s & 60s by Andy Harper 9781858587615
Booksplease Price: €15.41Knitted Swimming Trunks is an honest, painful, but ultimately hopeful portrayal of an ordinary boy living an ordinary life. After a traumatic birth, Andy takes us through the 1950s and 1960s, from... -
Haunted!: Ghost Stories from Worcestershire & Warwickshire by Anne Bradford 9781858585994
Booksplease Price: €14.57A mischievous ghost lurks in the Palace Theatre, Redditch; the Technical Manager has seen it three times. The Bull's Head at Inkberrow is haunted by a young seamstress. A female spirit has been seen... -
Beaten Paths are Safest: From D-Day to the Ardennes - Memories of the 61st Reconnaissance Regiment - 50th (TT) Northumbrian Division by Roy Howard 9781858582566
Booksplease Price: €14.57Beaten Paths are Safest - was the motto of The Reconnaissance Regiment. This book tells the story of the 61st Recce Regiment whose own official history was never completed for the period 23rd Feb... -
Brickmaking and Brick Building in The Midlands (1437-1780) by Mike Kingman 9781858587585
Booksplease Price: €19.24Brick building came to the Midlands in the 15th century when its adoption reflected its prestige amongst the aristocracy and episcopacy. This study explores its wider acceptance and diffusion and... -
Class 10's Chance to Shine by Rachael Wong 9781858585604
Booksplease Price: €6.83Alex loves cricket! When Chance to Shine coaches come into school, Alex hopes his friends will discover a love of cricket too. Things don't work out quite how Alex had planned; but with the help of... -
Pubs and Breweries of the Black Country by Steve James 9781858587691
Booksplease Price: €19.24The Black Country has a wealth of pubs and breweries serving the local population of its many towns and settlements. This book is based on a series of articles published in the Black Country Bugle... -
Keep'em Rollin' Keep'em Shootin' Keep'em Supplied: An Account of the U.S. General Supply Depot G-25, Ashchurch, Tewkesbury during World War II by Fran Collins 9781858587127
Booksplease Price: €15.41Keep 'em rollin', keep 'em shootin', keep 'em supplied was the motto of the U.S. Supply depot G-25, which was situated in Ashchurch, Gloucestershire during World War II. Its role was to supply U.S... -
A Grammar School Girl: Life and Education in Birmingham 1968-1975 by Grace Caroline Holte 9781858587547
Booksplease Price: €16.91A Grammar School Girl is the sequel to Grace Caroline Holte's The Girl from Guildford Street, which depicted an idyllic Sixties childhood in the working class Back to Backs of Aston and Lozells, at a... -
Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint: Copper to Customer by Sue Tungate
Booksplease Price: €20.42Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was a globally important industrialist who introduced innovative minting practices at this Soho Mint. This book describes the processes involved, from mining the copper to... -
Funny Brummie Pictures: The Art of Robert Geoghegan by Robert Geoghegan
Booksplease Price: €12.64Here is a selection of paintings by artist Robert Geoghegan about his home city of Birmingham where he has lived for all his life. His work is full of the detail and colour of modern urban life,... -
Tales of Guildford Street: A Novel of Birmingham Emilia Williams 9781858587097
Booksplease Price: €12.64This first novel by Emilia Williams is a sweeping family saga of life in the working class community of the Birmingham back to backs. Set between the 1920s and the 1960s, the story of the Holtes and... -
The Real Peaky Blinders: Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s by Carl Chinn
Booksplease Price: €15.41Stylish and dark, the BBC series the 'Peaky Blinders' is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War and tells of the rise to power of Thomas Shelby and his criminal gang. Yet the... -
A Pocket with a Hole: A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s by Brenda Bullock 9781858582931
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €11.42Brenda Bullock, brought up on a council housing estate in Sheldon, holds up a mirror to Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s: she tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie,... -
Birmingham Blitz: Our Stories by Brian Wright 9781858585246
RRP: €16.60Booksplease Price: €15.27During the Second World War Birmingham suffered 365 air raid alerts and 77 actual air raids. These raids took place between the 8th August 1940 and the 23rd April 1943. There were over 9,000... -
Don't Worry 'Bout The Bear: From the Blues to Jazz, Rock & Roll and Black Sabbath Jim Simpson 9781858587004
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €19.65Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records has been involved in the music business for nearly 60 years, as musician, bandleader, promoter, record producer, festival director, manager, journalist and... -
Haunted Pubs & Hotels in and Around Worcestershire Anne Bradford 9781858587080
Booksplease Price: €14.57Over ninety public houses and hotels are featured in this book. There is a brief overview of each one, giving type of inn and the fare on offer. Every inn has a story to tell. Some were patronised by... -
They Also Serve Who Stand and Wait: A History of Pheasey Farms U.S. Army Replacement Depot, Sub Depot of the 10th Replacement Depot. 1942/1945 by Martin Collins 9781858582047
Booksplease Price: €12.64'They Also Serve Who Stand And Wait' tells the story of the U.S. Replacement Depot at Pheasey Farms Estate in Great Barr, Birmingham during World War II. Part of the half-built housing estate was... -
Pubs of Royal Leamington Spa - Two Centuries of History by Allan Jennings 9781858585222
Booksplease Price: €32.56Many books have been written about Leamington's history, but this one is unique - it is the first to document the history of its pubs. The authors have painstakingly researched more than 200 years of... -
Fort Dunlop Remembered by Chris Jukes 9781858585529
Booksplease Price: €12.64Fort Dunlop, in the Erdington district of Birmingham, was the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber which for many years was the jewel in the crown of the Dunlop empire. 'The Fort',... -
King of Clubs: The Eddie Fewtrell Story Eddie Fewtrell 9781858584065
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €18.55Birmingham would definitely not be the place that it is today, without Eddie Fewtrell. Born one of ten children in the 1930s, in the backstreets of Aston, much of Eddie's childhood was spent keeping... -
To Beach or Not to Beach? by Mary E. Wheildon 9781858587738
Booksplease Price: €23.42To Beach or not to Beach? combines the musings of an enquiring mind with a profound love of flora and fauna and a deep compassion for the world's inequalities. Rarely travelling alone, itineraries... -
Fred Karno: The Legend Behind the Laughter by David Crump 9781858585086
Booksplease Price: €34.86If in doubt fall on your arse. That was the mantra of Fred Karno: acrobat, comedian, writer, music hall impresario, film producer and the undisputed king of slapstick. From his famous nursery of... -
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The Real Peaky Blinders: Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s by Carl Chinn 9781858585307 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €2.39Stylish and dark, the BBC series the 'Peaky Blinders' is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after the First World War and tells of the rise to power of Thomas Shelby and his criminal gang. Yet the... -
The Little Book of Slang, Sayings, Jargon & Humour by Michael Layton
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €8.70The definition of slang according to the Oxford Dictionary is'a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal are more common in speech than in writing and are... -
Parmo to the Rescue by Rachael Wong
Booksplease Price: €6.83George and Leila find life very different when Middlesbrough goes into Covid-19 lockdown. They miss their friends, football training, and going to watch Boro. They even miss going to school! Then Mrs... -
65 Brunswick Road: The Musical by Shirley Thompson
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €16.21When Tommy Shelby, Steve Knight's principal character in The Peaky Blinders, first rode onto our television screen, viewers were presented with a battle-scarred, but still relatively young veteran,... -
Proper Brummie: A Dictionary of Birmingham Words and Phrases by Carl Chinn 9781858582276
Booksplease Price: €14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858582276Author Carl ChinnFormat PaperbackImprint Brewin BooksPublisher Brewin Books