MY SHROPSHIRE DAYS ON COMMON WAYS, ( First Edition of this account of the authors travels round Shropshire, taking in The Wrekin, Haughmond, Pointon, Shawbury, Osbaston, Crudgington, Lilleshall, Newport, Edgmond, Tibberton, Cherrington, Muckleton, Ellerdine Heath, Cold Hatton, and much more ) with the Scarce Dustwrapper

Language: English

Published by Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1948

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Published in 1948, this is the First Edition of this account of the authors travels round Shropshire, taking in The Wrekin, Haughmond, Pointon, Shawbury, Osbaston, Crudgington, Lilleshall, Newport, Edgmond, Tibberton, Cherrington, Muckleton, Ellerdine Heath, Cold Hatton, and much more, with illustrations, this example retains the rarely seen dustwrapper, the wrapper has some noticeable areas of loss now housed in a removable protective sleeve, some faded spots at top of books cover where the missing pieces of the dustjacket have allowed the light to get to the cloth, internally old ownership name to front endpaper, some noticeable foxing marks on and off throughout else in good general condition. FULL LIST OF CONTENTS BELOW CONTENTS CHAPTER I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 CHAPTER IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER V. Poynton, Shawbury Heath and Wytheford . . . . . . 25 CHAPTER VI. Walton of the Chubbe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VII. Osbaston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 CHAPTER VIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 CHAPTER IX. Sherlowe, Longwaste and Longden-on-Tern . . . . . 50 CHAPTER X. Richard Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 CHAPTER XI. Crudgington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 CHAPTER XII. The Lilleshall Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 CHAPTER XIII. Kinnersley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER XIV. Newport, Edgmond, Tibberton and Cherrington . . . . 76 CHAPTER XV. Villages and Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 CHAPTER XVI. Muckleton Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 CHAPTER XVII. Cold Hatton Heath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 CHAPTER XVIII. Rowton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER XIX. Our Camp Fires and Playing with Fire . . . . . . . . 164 CHAPTER XX. John Taylor, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 CHAPTER XXI. The Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 CHAPTER XXII. Ellerdine Heath Wesleyan Chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 CHAPTER XXIII. Joe and I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 CHAPTER XXIV. "Tiddly Wink" Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 CHAPTER XXV. Our School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 CHAPTER XXVI. Richard Baxter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220. …

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Title
MY SHROPSHIRE DAYS ON COMMON WAYS, ( First Edition of this account of the authors travels round Shropshire, taking in The Wrekin, Haughmond, Pointon, Shawbury, Osbaston, Crudgington, Lilleshall, Newport, Edgmond, Tibberton, Cherrington, Muckleton, Ellerdine Heath, Cold Hatton, and much more ) with the Scarce Dustwrapper
Author
John Beard
Publisher
Cornish Brothers Ltd
Publication year
1948
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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