Gerry Wolstenholme
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The West Indian Tour of England 1906
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Phoenix from the Ashes: The Rise and Rise of Blackpool Football Club 1887 - 1888
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2019
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Blackpool FC Miscellany Seasiders Trivia, History, Facts & Stats
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2011
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Blackpool Finally Conquered ... as Manchester United triumph at Wembley, 1948
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2016
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From Peak to Pool A Short History of Lancashire versus Derbyshire Matches at Blackpool
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1994
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The Lost-Love Poems of a Madman
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2008
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Towering Success The Eighth Australians in Blackpool August 1893
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2007
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Harold Larwood Blackpool Cricket Club professional
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2003
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Fleetwood Cricket Club: Northern Premier League Champions 2004 The Story of the Season
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2004
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By Bus to Wollongong Blackpool Football Club's World Tour 1958
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2014
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Association football seems to spawn a wealth of quips, comments and opinions and most of them are brief and can qualify as memorable, amusing, idiosyncratic or, on occasions, very banal. Susanna Geoghegan brings together hundreds of comments about th ...more | |
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... and you have reminded me Judith that I bought four Winnie the Witch books a couple of weeks ago, the time is right for reading them I think!
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"My local library sells off second-hand books and I always browse them (natch!), especially the children's shelf for my granddaughters, looking for classics, as so many bookshops today only stock David Walliams and his ilk! With Hallowe'en coming up, "
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The Francis Frith archives are a treasure trove of great photographs taken and gathered together by Frith and his faithful assistants. Originally establishing a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool, he eventually sold it for a staggering £200,000. ...more | |
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A suitable sub-title for this book could well have been 'Zen and the Art of Self-Consciousness' as most of the cats and kittens being photographed seem to be trying to keep in touch with their inner selves ... and they certainly give the impression o ...more | |
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How can one possibly resist a book with such a title? I certainly could not for I will quite happily say to anyone who tries to intervene, 'THAT is MY book', in other words 'leave it alone'! Charlie and Lola are brother and sister and Lola loves readi ...more |
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As the title says, this is a diary as well as a daybook and each week to a page has a Christina Pierce cricket painting to accompany it. Ashley Giles comments on the artist because he and Matthew Hoggard are featured on a painting entitled '"Two to wi ...more |
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I have only had one trip to Paris and that was many years ago when I spent my final evening in the city frequenting the cafés on the Champs-Élysées as I had saved money by staying with a French family and thus used up my francs wisely. Unfortunately ...more | |
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A lovely novel from the golden age of novel writing. Mr Chipping is a teacher at Brookfield and the story takes the reader from his first day through to retirement, return to duty as stand-in headmaster and then substantive headmaster and subsequent ...more | |
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'A Spy Among Friends' looks at Kim Philby's espionage career from a slightly different way from other books about him for, as the title suggests, if revolves around his relationships with his supposed friends in the intelligence world and the way he ...more | |