CORBY A PICTORIAL HISTORY
Written by Ron Sismey
Published by Phillimore
in 1993
ISBN: 0850338611
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CORBY A PICTORIAL HISTORY
Written by Ron Sismey.
Stock no. 2117880
1st.
1993.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
B/w photos. Maroon boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0850338611. Bump to base of spine. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing.
Front cover
Contents
- Early History and the Old Village
- The Lloyds Ironstone Company
- The Pole Fairs
- Works Development in the 1930s
- Early Town Development in the 1930s
- Wartime
- The Works in the Post-War Years
- News Town Development
- Quarrying in the Post-War Years
- Royal Occasions
- Nationalisation and the Aftermath
- Closure and Clearance
- Rising from the Ashes