Bells and Iron Founding
Granite
Lace
Malting Brewing-and Drinking!
Shoes
Wool
Engineering
Hosiery
Limestone
Milling
Slate
Other Industries
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
GENERAL
"TUDOR ENGLAND"
S T Bindoff (Pelican, 1961)
"TUDOR & STUART BRITAIN"
Roger Lockyer (Longman, 1976)
'MYSTERIOUS BRITAIN"
Janet and Colin Bord (Paladin, 1977)
"HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN"
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Penguin Classics, 1976)
LEICESTERSHIRE
"THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER"
J Nichols (1795)
"LEGENDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND" and
"FURTHER LEGENDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND"
Susan E Green (Chamberlain Music and Books, 1985)
"LEICESTERSHIRE WORDS, PHRASES AND PROVERBS"
A B Evans (1881)
"RATAE CORITANORUM"
Elizabeth Blank (Ginn History Patch Series)
"LEICESTERSHIRE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE NOTES"
George Farnham
"HISTORIC CHURCHES - NO 1, NORTH LEICESTERSHIRE"
Leicestershire Historic Churches Preservation Trust
"THE MEDIEVAL EARTHWORKS OF CENTRAL LEICESTERSHIRE"
Robert F Hartley (Leicestershire Museums Service, 1989)
"COUNTY FOLKLORE: PRINTED EXTRACTS NO 3 - LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND"
Ed. Charles James Billson (D Nutt, London, 1895)
"THE SHELL GUIDE TO LEICESTERSHIRE"
W G Hoskins (Faber & Faber, 1970)
"A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND"
Roy Millward (Phillimore, 1985)
"LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND PAST AND PRESENT"
David Gerrard (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996)
"THE HISTORIC COUNTRY HOUSES OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND"
Leonard Cantor (Kairos Press, 1998)
"THE HERITAGE OF LEICESTERSHIRE"
W G Hoskins (City of Leicester Publicity Department, 1972)
"LEICESTERSHIRE LEGENDS AND STORIES"
Jack Meadows (privately published)
"THE CORITANI"
Malcolm Todd (Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1973)
"NAUOLOGY; OR A TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS AND SYMBOLICAL IMPORT
OF THE SACRED STRUCTURES OF THE MOST EMINENT NATIONS"
John Dudley, Vicar of Humberstone and Sileby (London, 1846)
"AN EXPLORATION OF THE LEICESTER NAVIGATION"
Brian C J Williams (Leicester Navigation 100 group, 1994)
"LEICESTERSHIRE STATIONS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE"
Andrew Moore (Laurel House Publishing, 1998)
CHARNWOOD
"THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CHARNWOOD FOREST"
T R Potter (Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1842)
"CHARNWOOD'S HERITAGE"
Ed. I M Evans (Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service,
1976)
"A COMPANION TO CHARNWOOD FOREST"
John Henry Gray of Loughborough (1858)
"A FAMILY GUIDE TO CHARNWOOD FOREST"
Joan Stevenson (Sycamore Press, 1982)
"CHARNWOOD FOREST: A CHANGING LANDSCAPE"
Ed. John Crocker (Loughborough Naturalists Club and Sycamore Press, 1981)
"WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN CHARNWOOD FOREST - REPORT BY A WORKING PARTY"
- (Nature Conservancy Council, 1975)
"ATLAS OF THE BOROUGH OF CHARNWOOD"
Colin Read (Loughborough University, 1978)
"THE MEDIEVAL PARKS OF CHARNWOOD FOREST"
Squires and Humphrey (Sycamore, 1986)
"CHARNWOOD FOREST AND IT'S HISTORIANS"
George Farnham
ANSTEY
"ANSTEY: FROM A NARROW TRACK"
Brian Kibble
BARKBY
"A HISTORY OF BARKBY VILLAGE"
Barkby Local History Society (1974)
BARROW ON SOAR
"BARROW IN THE 20TH CENTURY"
Barrow Millennium Planning Group
"A HISTORY OF BARROW ON SOAR"
R H Bennett (Echo Press, 1938)
BEAUMANOR
"A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEAUMANOR HALL AND PARK"
Pamela Drinkall (Leicestershire Education Committee, 1978)
"THE STORY OF BEAUMANOR: Y STATION"
Joan Nichols (2000)
BIRSTALL
"EIGHT OUNCES OF GOLD: A HISTORY OF BIRSTALL"
Michael Smith (Birstall Local History Society, 1997)
BRADGATE
BRADGATE:"THE HISTORY OF BRADGATE"
Marie Forsyth (Bradgate Park Trust, 1974)
"BRADGATE AND ITS VILLAGES"
D A Ramsey (Privately Published)
"THE GREYS OF BRADGATE"
Joan Stevenson (Bradgate Park Trust, 1974)
COSSINGTON
"A HISTORY OF COSSINGTON"
S H & F Skillington
EAST GOSCOTE
"A POTTED HISTORY OF EAST GOSCOTE"
Aideen Talbot (1991)
GARENDON
"GARENDON ABBEY"
Wallace Humphrey (Loughborough University East Midlands Study Unit,1982)
HATHERN
"A LOOK BACK AT HATHERN"
Hathern Local History Society (1985)
LOUGHBOROUGH
"LOUGHBOROUGH, THE MILLENNIUM STORY"
Ed. John Rippin (Echo Newspapers, 1999)
"LOUGHBOROUGH'S STAGE AND SCREEN"
Mervyn Gould (Mercia Cinema Society, 1994)
"THE LOUGHBOROUGH ECHO: THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS"
(Echo Press)
"THE STORY OF LOUGHBOROUGH1888-1914"
W A Deakin (Echo Press, 1979)
"BYGONE LOUGHBOROUGH IN PHOTOGRAPHS, VOLS 1 AND 2"
Ed. Don Wix (Leicesterhire Libraries and Information Service, 1975)
"LOUGHBOROUGH AS I REMEMBER IT"
Ed. Jean Carswell (Leicestershire LIbraries and Information Service)
"RAMBLES AROUND LOUGHBOROUGH"
(Loughborough News, 1868)
"19TH CENTURY LOUGHBOROUGH"
W A Deakin (Echo Press, 1974)
"LOUGHBOROUGH IN 1770"
Thomas Pochin (1770)
"LOUGHBOROUGH AND ITS REGION"
Keith Boucher (Loughborough University 1994)
"A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRUSH"
George Toms (1996)
"BELLS OF MEMORY: A HISTORY OF LOUGHBOROUGH CARILLON"
Maurice I Bray (1981)
"ELIZABETHAN LOUGHBOROUGH"
Anne Richmond (Loughborough and District Archaeological Society, 1992)
"WHAT PASSING BELLS: THE STORY OF LOUGHBOROUGH CARILLON (PLAYSCRIPT)"
Terry Allen
"THE LOUGHBOROUGH JOB (PLAYSCRIPT)"
Terry Allen
"BYGONE LOUGHBOROUGH"
Herbert W Cook (John Corah & Son, 1934)
MOUNTSORREL
"MOUNTSORREL THROUGH THE AGES"
Mountsorrel Townswomen's Guild (Mountsorrel Parish Council)
NEWTOWN LINFORD
"NEWTOWN LINFORD: OLD BUILDINGS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS"
Joan Stevenson (Kairos Press, 1998)
PRESTWOLD
"PRESTWOLD AND ITS CHURCH"
Phillip White
QUORN
"BYGONE QUORN IN PHOTOGRAPHS"
D Wix (Rawlins Community College)
"QUORN BAPTISTS"
Wilfird Ernest Mee
REARSBY
"REARSBY: THE STORY OF A VILLAGE"
Rearsby Local History Society (1984)
SEAGRAVE
"SEAGRAVE"
Stanley Hincks (1983)
SHELTHORPE
"HISTORY IN SHELTHORPE"
W Humphrey (Leicestershire LIbraries and Information Service, 1981)
SHEPSHED
"A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEPSHED"
Michael Smith (Reprint)
"A HISTORY OF SHEPSHED"
Anthony Lacey (Freeman Press, 1969 )
SILEBY
"BYGONE SILEBY"
Various Issues
"SILEBY AND DISTRICT"
Sileby Social Study Group (1966)
SYSTON
"SYSTON AS I REMEMBER IT"
Ed. Chris Gregory (Leicestershire County Council, 1993)
SWITHLAND
"SWITHLAND"
S R Meadows (1965)
"SWITHLAND WOOD"
Stephen Woodward (Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service,
1992)
THRUSSINGTON
"THRUSSINGTON LOCAL HISTORY NOTES"
R E Banks
WALTON ON THE WOLDS
"WALETONE TO WALTON ON THE WOLDS"
Janet McMillan and Ann Williems (1989)
"JOHN BIRD AND HIS SON MONTAGUE BERTIE BIRD, RECTORS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH
WALTON ON THE WOLDS"
Ann Jones (1998)
WANLIP
"WANLIP PARISH GUIDE"
(1967)
WOODHOUSE / WOODHOUSE EAVES
"THE WOODHOUSE ECHO"
Margot Brookman (1979)
"WOODHOUSE AND WOODHOUSE EAVES - AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY"
(1966)
"RAWLINS: THE FIRST 300 YEARS"
Don Wix and Ian Keil (1992)
WYMESWOLD
"A PORTRAIT OF WYMESWOLD PAST AND PRESENT"
Wymeswold Village Appraisal Committee (1991)