Booklets on Norwell parish heritage launched

The Norwell Parish Heritage Group have recently produced booklets on aspects of the village's history:

• Norwell Buildings
• Norwell Trades and
• Norwell Mills.

Two further booklets on Norwell Schools and Norwell Farms, will follow later this year.

http://www.norwellparish.co.uk/index.htm

New publications on Retford and Worksop

I've just received a couple of interesting new publications, ordered from Bookworm in Retford.

Fading Memories of Old and New Retford by Ron Beare contains a splendid collection of colour and black and white photographs of Retford from the 1920s to the present. The book is a fine companion to Ron's previous collection of Retford images, Retford Old and New. The atmospheric photographs capture perfectly the Retford I remember from the 1970s.

A Worksop miscellany edited by M. J. Jackson is published by the Worksop & District Archaeological & Local Historical Society and includes interesting articles on a wide range of historical subjects (from the excavation of an Iron Age/Romano-British site at Scratta Wood to the story of Ned and Flo, two homeless characters who roamed the streets of Worksop).

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Bookworm-The-Retford-Bookshop_Notts-Books_W0QQ_fsubZ2QQ_sidZ39288847QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322

Thoroton Society Transactions for 2008 just published

The Transactions of the Thoroton Society for 2008 has just been published. Contents include:

• The Romano-British Landscape of the Sherwood Sandstone of Nottinghamshire: Fieldwalking the Brickwork-plan Field-systems


• A Medieval Cesspit and its Contents: Drury Hill, Nottingham 1971


• A Pair of Merels Boards on a Stone Block from Church Hole Cave, Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire, England


• Jordan Castle and the Foliot Family of Grimston, 1225-1330


• The Nottinghamshire History Lecture 2008. Food and Drink in Nottinghamshire Households, c. 1540-1640


• The Southwell Set: Prebendaries of Southwell Collegiate Church in 'the Long Eighteenth Century', c. 1660-1840


• Mapperley Hospital and George Thomas Hine (1841-1916), Consulting Architect to the Commissioners in Lunacy


• Industrial Welfare, Recreation and Retailing at Boots Pure Drug Company, 1883-1945 by Simon PhillipsArchaeology in Nottinghamshire, 2008

Further information and details on ordering Thoroton Society publications available here: http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/publications/tts/trans112.htm