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Hamilton and Blantyre (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)
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Lanarkshire’s Mining Disasters
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Blantyre: An Historical A-Z
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Scottish Ghosts
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Haud Yer Wheesht!: Your Scottish Granny’s Favourite Sayings
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This collection of ‘pearls of wisdom’ contains those sayings which only Scots grannies seem able to utter. Subtitles for those in need of an English version accompany each saying. Product Features New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns

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People Like Us Can’t: From bricklayer to nurse to doctor in post-war Scotland Volume 1: Memoirs of a Brickie From Blantyre
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Partick 1894: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.05 (Old O.S. Maps of Lanarkshire)
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Lanarkshire Sheet 6.05 Partick 1894 – published 1997; intro by Gilbert Bell. This detailed map covers an area which largely retained its independence, as Partick police burgh, but it was absorbed by Glasgow in 1912. Coverage stretches from Bures Road and Saltoun Street westward to Balshagray Avenue, and from Westbourne Gdns southward to Yorkhill station. [More]

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Old Blantyre
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Annotated photographs of buildings, architecture, famous locations but also of cottage hospitals, organ grinders, play parks; quoiting club and football teams.

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Lanarkshire Buses
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Handbook of Hamilton, Bothwell, Blantyre, and Uddingston, with a Directory (1862)
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    • Scottish Ghosts

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    • Hamilton Street Guide: Blantyre,Cambuslang (Fourth Series)

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    • Scottish Ghosts (Waverley Scottish Classics)

      Green ladies, grey ladies, spectral kings and queens, mischievous ghosts, whispering ghosts, calm poltergeists, wailing washerwomen, phantom dogs, and other assorted ghosts and stories fill this book. Scotland’s vibrant storytelling tradition is captured here, with tales of sightings, noises, furniture in disarray and spectres past and present. Product Features New Mint Condition Dispatch same day [More]
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    • Cambuslang 1934: Lanarkshire Sheet 11.05 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

      Lanarkshire Sheet 11.05 Cambuslang 1934 – published 2007; intro by Gilbert Bell. This detailed map covers Cambuslang, just SE of Glasgow. Coverage extends from Wellshot Drive eastward to Lightburn Road, Springwell. The map covers the main centre of Cambuslang together with Halfway, Tanzieknowe, Howieshill, Kirkhill, Vicarland, Lightburn (bottom right corner) and Westburn (top right corner). [More]
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    • Glasgow (High Street) 1909: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.11 (Old O.S. Maps of Glasgow)

      Lanarkshire Sheet 6.11a Glasgow (High Street) 1909 – published 1986; intro by Jane Maclean. Covers a central area of Glasgow, with coverage stretching from Buchanan Street eastward to Whitevale Street and Armadale Street; and from Parliamentary Road southward to the north part of Glasgow Green. The many features include St Enoch station with engine shed, [More]
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    • Scottish Myths and Legends (Waverley Scottish Classics)

      Scottish Myths and Legends Scotland is a nation made up of many peoples and cultures. This diversity of cultural influence is reflected in Scotland’s vast store of myths and legends. This book contains a selection of these; some ancient, some obscure in origin; and, others based on fact. Full description Product Features New Mint Condition [More]
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    • Partick 1894: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.05 (Old O.S. Maps of Lanarkshire)

      Lanarkshire Sheet 6.05 Partick 1894 – published 1997; intro by Gilbert Bell. This detailed map covers an area which largely retained its independence, as Partick police burgh, but it was absorbed by Glasgow in 1912. Coverage stretches from Bures Road and Saltoun Street westward to Balshagray Avenue, and from Westbourne Gdns southward to Yorkhill station. [More]
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    • Haud Yer Wheesht!: Your Scottish Granny’s Favourite Sayings

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    • Lies and Truths Ma Mother Telt Me!: Your Scottish Mother’s Sayings

      Lies and Truths Ma Mother Telt Me! Allan Morrison has scoured the hearts and minds of Scots at home and abroad to form this compilation of sayings revealing the inner workings of that most formidable of personalities – the Scottish mother. Over 350 lies and 250 truths are presented, including “A wee birdie told me”. [More]
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    • Glasgow (East End) 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.12 (Old O.S. Maps of Lanarkshire)

      Detailed map of Glasgow East End; Lanarkshire sheet 6.12. Historical introduction by Gilbert Bell. This detailed map covers the eastern part of Glasgow, with coverage stretching from Gallowgate and East Nelson Street eastward to Carntyne station, and northward to Alexandra Park. Features include Camlachie Goods station, Camlachie Burn, Parkhead Forge Steel Works, Glenpark Tan Works, [More]
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      Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Wanderer tells the classic tales that influenced JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. “Therefore I may not think, throughout this world, why cloud cometh not on my mind when I think over all the life of earls, how at a [More]
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    • Bothwell & Blantyre 1897: Lanarkshire Sheet 11.11 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

      Detailed map of Bothwell & Blantyre. Lanarkshire Sheet 11.11. Introduction by Gilbert Bell. This detailed map covers the town centre of Bothwell plus Blantyre on the other bank of the Clyde. Features include Blantyre Works, Low Blantyre, Bothwell Castle Colliery, southern part of Bothwell Castle, Caledonian Railway with Blantyre station, David Livingstone’s Birthplace, Madder Mill, [More]
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    • Hamilton 1896: Lanarkshire Sheet 17.04 (Old O.S. Maps of Lanarkshire)

      Large scale map of Hamilton; Lanarkshire sheet 17.04. Historical introduction by Gilbert Bell. This detailed and busy map covers the heart of Hamilton, with the Town Hall and Central station near the centre of the map. Coverage stretches from Hamilton West station eastward to Covan Bridge. Features include Barncluth Colliery, Bent Colliery, Allanshaw Colliery, Bent [More]
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    • Scottish Ghosts

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    • Beowulf: A New Translation

      Edition Faber & Faber, First Impression, 1999. ISBN: 0-571-20376-0. Just light tanning to paper edges. Other than that, the unread book remains in very good condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.What could be a more promising poetic project than the greatest of early English poems, Beowulf, newly translated by [More]
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    • Stories from South Uist

      Stories from South Uist Collects the stories that include various types of tales found on South Uist, from Fingalian heroes and ghost stories to international folktales and humorous and historical local anecdotes. Full description
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    • Scottish Ghost Stories

      Paperback. Pub Date: 1996 03 of Pages: 268 in Publisher: Little own This is a collection of ghost stories based on a mixture of local history and folklore The stories are from past and present. S Some. Such as of The Hauntings of Glamis Castle and The Tale of Major Weir are well known. while [More]
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    • The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends (Mammoth Books)

      A collection of Celtic myths and legends – tales of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, magical weapons, fabulous beasts, and entities from the ancient Celtic world. It includes these myths and legends from six Celtic cultures – Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Breton. Product Features New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order [More]
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    • The Lore of Scotland: A guide to Scottish legends

      Paperback. Pub the Date: 2011 Jun Pages: 558 in Publisher: Random House UK Scotland’s rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs. And in of The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill ing together a many of the with finest giving and most intriguing: stories of heroes [More]
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    • Old East Kilbride (Lanarkshire heritage series)

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    • Celtic Myths and Legends

      CONTENTS:- Introduction. The Fate of the Children of Tuireann. The Wooing of Etain. The Combat at the Ford. Deirdre and the Sons of Usna. The Children of Lir. Diarmuid and Grainne. The Sickbed of Cuchulain. Product Features New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns
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    • Old Blantyre

      Annotated photographs of buildings, architecture, famous locations but also of cottage hospitals, organ grinders, play parks; quoiting club and football teams.
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    • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

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    • Myths and Legends: A Selection of Short Stories: Stories of Myths and Legends (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 11-14)

      Classics These short stories have been selected to amuse, shock and demystify. “New Century Readers” is a series of educational texts for 11-14 year olds designed to encourage reading for pleasure and including detailed notes and a glossary. Activities offer specific practice in English SAT skills. Full description Product Features New Mint Condition Dispatch same [More]
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    • The Enchanted Forest: A Scottish Fairytale

      Nobody goes inside the enchanted forest, until one day Janna, a wild sort of girl, squeezes under a fence and enters the eerie place. Beside a rose-clad, ruined well she meets Tam Lin, whose grey eyes smoulder with strange, secret mists – and at once the two fall in love.This story is apparently a well-known [More]
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    • TERROR TALES OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

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    • The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals

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    • Motherwell Revisited (Lanarkshire heritage series)

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