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* The Journals of Arnold Bennett (1954).
* Missuses and Mouldrunners: an oral history of women pottery-workers at work and at home.
* The Shorter connection (collection of the products of local potteries).
* Boote’s tiles: selections of the newest designs for tiling (Burslem tilery catalogue, 1906).
* A. N. Wilson’s acclaimed novel The Potter’s Hand.
* James Brindley and the early engineers.
* James Brindley: an illustrated life.
* Mysterious Cheshire. (An ‘earth mysteries’ booklet, 1980, with much to say about the Bridestones and Alderley Edge).
* Ancient Monuments: East Anglia and the Midlands (1955) (pictures of Arbour Low, Croxden and others).
* Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Peak District (1991).
* Guide to the Cheshire Record Office (1991).
* The Place-names of Cheshire Vol I and Vol III (of five volumes).
* Old Midlands recipes. (Get yur sum “Tipton Eel Stew”. Yum, fresh from the canal! No mention of North Staffordshire Oatcakes).
* Midland Red North (post-war bus history).
* North Midlands trains in the thirties (pre-war railways).
* North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days: Vol. 2.
* The Peak District: the rivers’ way (Ilam to Edale, long-distance footpath guide, 1986)
* The Peak District: Regional Wildlife (1995)
* The Birds of Cheshire (1962)
* Flora of Derbyshire (1969)
* Caroline Hillier’s Paladin paperback A Journey to the Heart of England. Originally 1978, and here with a new foreword after a re-visit to the West Midlands ten years later. Encompasses the proper West Midlands including the counties.