ITEMS in your basket   TOTAL     COMING SOON! New for February  Scottish Railways 1923-2016 - A History by David Ross The author has previously produced five similarly sized histories of the big five railway companies that worked in Scotland prior to 1923 and so those...more £40.00   Radio Caroline - The Pirate Years by Ralph C. Humphries In 1964 radio stations had names like the Light Programme, the Home Service, and the Third. In the main they played stuffy music although there was...more £18.95   New for November  Waverley Route - The battle for the Borders Railway by David Spaven Known throughout history as ‘the Waverley Route’, the working life of the main-line railway which ran from Edinburgh to Carlisle for 107...more £17.95   Largs Then & Now by Hugh Maxwell A fishing and weaving place from early times, the 19th century brought steamers to its pier and trains to its station and the town prospered and...more £10.00   the old Howe of Alford by Lorna Dey, Michael Dey and Paul Dukes Comprising several parishes, the Howe of Alford includes Alford, Keig, Tough, Tullynessie and Forbes as well as various landed estates and big houses...more £10.00   Old Ecclefechan, Eaglesfield, Kirtlebridge and Kirkpatrick Fleming by Raymond Hood Once part of the Debatable Lands and riven by cross-border fighting, these villages came into the modern world courtesy of Thomas Telford when he...more £10.00   The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of East Ayrshire by Alex F. Young Although not comprehensive, about 75 properties are featured, alphabetically, from Ardnith House, New Cumnock, to Wellwood House, Muirkirk. Included...more £18.95   Old Edzell and Glenesk by John Alexander The main activity of this area has always been agriculture, supplemented by tourism thanks to its picturesque qualities, hotels and excellent sport...more £10.00   Old Fochabers with Lhanbryde, Urquhart, Garmouth, Kingston and Spey Bay by Douglas G. Lockhart The snappy title in modern parlance ‘does what it says on the tin’. Fochabers is the big town in this collection of old photographs and...more £10.00   The Buses of North East Scotland in colour photographs by John Sinclair by John Sinclair Retired doctor John Sinclair’s wonderful collection of bus photographs of the Grampian region were all taken by himself from 1956 onwards...more £25.00   Old Cuckfield by David Jamieson ’Mankind is divided into two great categories, those who love Cuckfield and those who don’t or do not know it.’ So goes a famous...more £10.00   New for October  The Old Union Canal by Guthrie Hutton Scottish canals expert Guthrie Hutton has finally produced a long-awaited new book on the Union Canal, which goes from the heart of Edinburgh to the...more £10.00   Bygone Chipping Norton by Bernard Byrom If your family has lived in Chipping Norton for a few generations you are bound to see a few ancestors amongst this collection of mainly social...more £10.00   Getting the Train - The History of Scotland’s Railways by David Ross Railway historian David Ross, author of large historical works on no less than five of Scotland’s pre-grouping railway companies, has compiled a...more £10.00   Bygone Kilmacolm by John Fyfe Anderson This Renfrewshire small town has its origins in the 13th century although most development took place in the Victorian era. The book follows the usual...more £10.00   British Post-War Airliners - An A to Z of UK Aircraft 1945-2000 by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume This was originally intended to be one volume but became so vast that instead it compliments British Post-War Airliners – A History of Commercial...more £30.00   New for September  British Post-War Airliners - A History of Commercial Aircraft 1945-2000 by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume This volume complements the even larger British Post-War Airliners – An A to Z of UK Aircraft 1945-2000. Pitched somewhere between diatribe...more £25.00   Old Workington by Keith Wallace This is a sumptuously illustrated book of old photographs of this West Cumbrian town. Ironworks, the shipyard, the harbour, and the brewery are...more £19.00   The Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire by John Hood Packed with illustrations, chock full of detail this is a well-researched book that should be on the bookshelf of every local historian interested...more £20.00   The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway by R. J. Maycock & R. Silsbury New softback edition with minor revisions. The history of this company is described in detail and is accompanied by maps, drawings and photographs...more £17.95   New for June  The Lincolnshire Potato Railways by Stewart E. Squires Although Lincolnshire is not a county normally associated with narrow gauge railways, the county had over 140 miles of track laid on farms in at least...more £16.95   Nottinghamshire’s Lost Railways by Neil Burgess Much of Nottinghamshire’s former railway network is unlikely to see a train again. Although many people mourn the loss of these lines, as the...more £16.95   Old East Preston by Dorothy P. Lee Dorothy Lee is a native of East Preston and despite the many changes it has seen (principally getting rid of old buildings and redeveloping the...more £10.00   The Dalmunzie Railway by Roderick Dingwall Bad weather for climbing Munros drove the author eastwards resulting in his chance encounter one day in 2001 with the remains of a narrow gauge...more £10.00   Old Redcar and Coatham by Paul Chrystal From medieval port to seaside resort Redcar has seen a lot of change, reflected in this collection of old photographs of the town and adjacent...more £10.00   Wheels Around Yorkshire by Paul Chrystal Wheels Around Yorkshire is a great collection of old photographs featuring, alas, wheels – pretty well every type except a rotary club and a wheel...more £10.00   Old Yorkshire Country Life by Paul Chrystal This book’s title hopefully is a good start in explaining the subject matter. The author observes that as the UK’s biggest county...more £10.00   Old Shawlands and Newlands by Sandra Malcolm Horses, carts, trams, a few pedestrians and the odd bicycle appear in this wee book on these two, adjacent, Glasgow southside districts. It’s...more £10.00   The Bristol FSF by Steve Chislett FSF stands for Flat floor, Short wheelbase with a Front entrance. Bristol FSFs were built by Bristol Commercial Vehicles at their Bristol factory...more £35.00   Yorkshire’s Days of Steam by Paul Chrystal An ecclectic mix of railway-related photographs pertaining to Yorkshire in the days of steam – as the title might suggest! The author is a...more £10.00   The Edinburgh Horse Tram: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century by Alan W. Brotchie The horse tram evolved from the horse buses of the 1830s and the later steam buses, commencing operation in November 1871. Many books get dubbed in...more £40.00   New for April  The Buses of Dumfries and Galloway in colour photographs by John Sinclair by John Sinclair A 1948 holiday at Lendalfoot sparked the interest of soon-to-be bus enthusiast, John Sinclair. To this seven year old the Ayrshire coast was bleak but...more £10.00   New for March  The Saffron Walden Branch by Peter Paye The Saffron Walden Branch traversed the undulating Essex countryside in that county’s north-west corner. When the town was bypassed by the...more £18.95   Exploring Dumfries & Galloway’s Lost Railway Heritage – A Walker’s Guide by Alasdair Wham The railway era arrived in Dumfries and Galloway when the Caledonian Railway built what became the West Coast Main Line through Annandale and the...more £16.00   New for February  Wheel Specifications for the Modeller by Mike Sharman Mike Sharman’s beautifully engineered locomotives and rolling stock, performing impeccably on trackworks of intriguing complexity, have inspired...more £10.00   Old Grasmere and Rydal by Neil Honeyman Postcard collector, dealer and Lakeland historian, Neil Honeyman offers his fourth Cumbrian book for us. His love of the Lake District shines...more £10.00   New for January  ‘Just Pots’ Chris Carter - A retrospective by Stuart Dickens & Chris Carter Good grief no, of course it isn’t just pots although this look back at Chris Carter’s career at 70 does indeed have many pictures of his...more £25.00   Stenlake Publishing, 54-58 Mill Square, Catrine, Ayrshire, KA5 6RD Telephone/Fax 01290 551122 Email info@stenlake.co.uk page design by Sunnyfield