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Summat & Nowt
£9.99‘Summat & Nowt – Memories of a Yorkshire Editor’
A light-hearted review of his 50 years’ association with The Dalesman magazine, the oldest and most popular of Yorkshire magazines. Bill’s many years of writing about the Dales, which included articles each month following handing over editorship in 1988, gave him a wealth of stories and information of his travels throughout the region meeting Dalesfolk in every corner of this special part of Yorkshire.
168 pages with illustrations by Richard Bancroft – £9.99
W.R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
In 1996 Bill was awarded the MBE for his services to journalism in Yorkshire and Cumbria and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the university of Bradford. In 2007 he was awarded a Golden Eagle Award from the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ Guild which cited him as one of the founding fathers of outdoor writing. Two years later he was voted ‘Greatest Living Icon’ for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Parks.
In 2010 he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dalesman Rural Award ceremony, receiving the award from another advocate of the countryside, John Craven. Bill’s work for Dalesman over four decades is arguably the defining feature of an illustrious career.
Bill died in 2015, aged 87.
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Sunny Day at Alresford – Jigsaw
£21.95Sunny Day at Alresford
A 1000-piece jigsaw from a painting by the late Chris Woods who specialised in Southern subjects. This jigsaw shows the Urie S15 Class No. 506 arriving at Alresford Station on a bight summers day.
£19.95 plus £2 postage for a small parcel.
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Sunny Day at Alresford Greetings Cards
£1.75 – £4.99Greetings Cards, blank inside for your own message. These cards are from a painting by the late Chris Woods, a good friend and a well respected […]
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Surviving Western Region Steam
Allocations and Work’s histories By Richard Derry All the surviving Western Region locomotives in Britain today, with fully illustrated histories of their shed allocations and overhaul […]
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Sutton Loop including Selhurst Cab Ride
£17.95Sutton Loop including Selhurst Depot
Filmed from the cab of Thameslink No. 319186 EMU, we start
from Blackfriars Station and depart on busy commuter lines
towards Mitcham Junction and see the new tram line under
construction to Wimbledon. Progress is made to Sutton and then
on to Wimbledon and then Tooting & Streatham where a change
of trains occurs. We are now on EMU No. 319171 which forms
empty stock to the depot at Selhurst. The cab ride ends with the
train progressing through the depot to the maintenance shed
which has no third rail power source.
This was made in conjunction with Thameslink for
route learning purposes.
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Swanage Railway News Special – Flying Scotsman
£10.00A News Special of the Visit of Flying Scotsman. Background history of the world’s most famous locomotive covering its early times in the 1920s and 1930s from rare British Pathe news films through to its operation following purchase by Alan Pegler in 1963 and various other owners until purchased by the National Collection in 2004. We see the locomotive operating following its overhaul in 2016 and running-in.
We end with the visit of Flying Scotsman to the Swanage Railway in 2019 with many scenes of it operating and in static display at Corfe castle station.
58 minutes duration. Just £10
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Swanage Railway News Special 2002 Dvd
£14.95This dvd is a celebration of the connections to the main line. The first through train for thirty years. Contents: Final rails connecting at Furzebrook on […]
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Swansea In The Past
£12.95Swansea In The Past A nostalgic look at Swansea through rare colour amd black and white film sequences from the 1910s to the 1970s.
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T9 No. 30120 Along the Camel Greetings Cards
£1.75 – £4.99Greetings Cards, blank inside for your own message. These cards are from a painting by the late Chris Woods, a good friend and a well respected […]
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Tales of the Settle- Carlisle
£12.95The famous Settle-Carlisle Railway is well-known for its beautiful surroundings and structures such as viaducts, stations and tunnels, buts just as important to the history of […]
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Taw Valley
£14.95Taw Valley was one of 18 Bulleid light pacifics to escape from Dai Woodham’s scrapyard some 40 years ago. Built in April 1946, a year after […]
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The Barry List No. 12
£4.95We are pleased to announce the latest edition of our famous Barry List which has become the ‘bible’ for heritage railways who have many of their steam fleet from this once ‘graveyard of steam’. This is the 50th anniversary issue 1973 – 2023.
Since the last edition, the eleventh edition, there have been many changes to the locomotives that escaped from Dai Woodhams’ yard at Barry. More have steamed into further service; many have changed locations; some have been scrapped to make way for new-build projects and dozens have now been withdrawn for overhauls.
‘The Barry List – Twelfth Edition’ details all of the changes up to date in April 2023; full list of locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers at Barry; those of the 213 saved which have steamed so far; where they are all located; those which will never steam again and those which have helped construct new-builds.
Edited by Roger Hardingham
48 pages A5 paperback colour and black & white photographs – £4.95
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The Barry Scrapyard Story Dvd
£14.95The legendary yard of Woodham Bros. at Barry, Glamorgan is truly a remarkable story. It started in 1959 with the arrival of locomotives from Swindon Works […]
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The Bluebell Railway – A Line For All Seasons
£21.00The Bluebell Railway – a Line for All Seasons By Michael Welch Coming soon a new book in full colour about the world-famous Bluebell Railway. With […]
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The Cam Camwell Collection Dvd – Volumes 1 & 2
£20.00The Cam Camwell collection is an exciting and nostalgic series of archive films presented in dvd format from the camera of one of the best-known cine […]
