Local History Books by David Cleveland
A look at the early history of the
Norfolk Farm Machinery Club, its
county centres and agricultural activities,
and how it contributed to the development of mechanisation on Norfolk farms
247 pages. 224 illustrations (36 in colour)
Price £15
After describing the severe air raids on Norwich in 1942, this book then introduces the new Lord Mayor who took up office on the 9th November, and then chronicles his day to day activities and events and happenings in the city throughout the next twelve months - to the end of his mayoral year on 8th November 1943.
Dr. Arthur Cleveland was one of the few Lord Mayors of Norwich who was not a member of the City Council. He was a well known citizen in Norwich not only as an eminent physician but also through his work as Chairman of the Board of Management of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
His Mayoral year was a busy one. The honour meant he was Chairman of Norwich City Council for a year, the Police Court, and other non-council organisations, and President of the Norwich War Savings Committee. Finding money for the war effort was a big part of Norwich life during that year, and people of all ages and local businesses raised thousands and thousands of pounds.
The Lord Mayor welcomed important visitors to the city, opened exhibitions, toured schools and factories and took part in municipal events. He strived to make sure American personnel then arriving in the county were made welcomed in the city and looked after through various amenities.
Dr. Cleveland’s scrapbooks and photograph albums have survived and much material drawn from these and his own writings tell the story of this Lord Mayor’s year in the middle of the 1939-45 war.
Price £10 inc P&P
129 pages with 95 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-9993672-3-7
Manningtree and Mistley
This 2012 book looks at the small town of Manningtree with its shops and businesses, and the neighbouring village of Mistley, which has a working quay with regular shipping and nearby malting and food products industries.
216 pages
illustrated with 155 B&W pictures
and 48 in colour
ISBN 978-0-9558271-5-0
£12.50 inc P&P
Lightships off the Essex Coast and the Story of LV18
With chapters on ‘The Early Days of Navigating the Coast’, ‘A History of Lightships’, and ‘Life on board a Lightship’, this book revolves round the last manned lightship LV18 which is now moored permanently at Harwich and is open to the public. The book includes a tour of the vessel.
The 48 pages are illustrated with 38 black and white pictures plus 6 in colour.
ISBN 978-0-9558271-7-4
£5 inc P&P