STOWMARKET books

The Stowmarket Bookshop in Bury Street, Stowmarket holds a good stock of local books.
Please mention this website whenever ordering any of these books

"The Stowmarket Swimming Pools
And Swimming Club"
by
Steve Williams

Published 2005
£8.95
Available from local bookshops and also from
49 St Peter’s Road, Stowmarket (01449) 615665.
e mail - sueandstev@stow-hist44.freeserve.co.uk

This book published in August 2004 is the result of several years research by Steve Williams. The story of the destruction of the church on 31st January 1941 is told mainly by the many eye witness accounts that Steve has been able to record.
£5.00 per copy
1st class P & P - 65p
2nd class P& P - 50p
For orders outside the UK contact as below
Printed by The Gipping Press the book is available only from -
Steve Williams
01449 615665
e mail - sueandstev@stow-hist44.freeserve.co.uk

A publication from Imaginaire, (ISBN 0-9542683-2-6) by Mike Durrant, published October 2003.
£12:99
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It has been styled to compliment Harry Double’s trilogy of books, with an emphasis on the use of less well known early photographs of the town. This new book chronicles many of the changes which have taken place in and around the town, by comparing the past with the present. Each pair of pages consists of two photographs – those on the left depict what used to be there.

Published by Alan Sutton, 1995
ISBN: 0750908971
Dewey Class Number: 942.645

Collection of photographs which span the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with revealing historical and anecdotal detail, bringing together all aspects of daily life in Stowmarket.

A history of many of the business families that have served Stowmarket for generations
Published by Suffolk Family History Society, 1998
ISBN: 1871905923
Dewey Class Number: 942.645

Following the success of their first book "Serving You Through the Years" published in 1998, the authors have now completed Book II in the same format featuring a further twenty-one Stowmarket business families. Contains 319 illustrations.
Cost £15. Available from outlets local to Stowmarket or by post +£2.00 p&p. Both books available from -
The Suffolk Family History Society
Mrs Elizabeth Arkieson "Dunnet" 8 The Crescents, Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk, UK IP18 6RT.
Tel & Fax: (01502) 723703
e-mail: publications@suffolkfhs.org.uk
All Cheques/Money Orders to be made payable to Suffolk Family History Society.
Alternatively orders can placed via the Society's Internet publications sales site at http://www.genfair.com/shop/pages/sfk/index.html

HARRY DOUBLE
"STOWMARKET A PAGEANT IN PICTURES"
Published by Capella, 1982
ISBN: 094644305x
Dewey Class Number: 942.645
A new edition of this book with improved reproduction of the illustrations was published in October 2002, for more details click here.

published by Stowmarket Town Council, 1991
ISBN: 0951828509
Dewey Class Number: 942.645
Harry Double's books, the last of which was published in 1991 shortly before his death, are essential to anyone interested in the town.

Arthur George Harpur Hollingsworth
"THE HISTORY OF STOWMARKET"

Published by Pawsey, 1844
Dewey Class Number: 942.645
Written by the then vicar of Stowmarket. A typical Victorian history. Published in an edition of about 300 this is now a rare book, it has now been issued as a facsimile edition by Imaginaire -

PUBLISHED BY "IMAGINAIRE" 2002
ISBN 0-9542683-O-X
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Banyard, Edmund .
"THE FIRST 300 YEARS, The unfinished story of Stowmarket Congregational Church"
Published by Stowmarket Congregational Church, 1970
ISBN: 0950177504
Dewey Class Number: 285.84264

Dr. David Allen.
"TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF BAPTIST HISTORY IN STOWMARKET"
Published by Stowmarket Bethesda Baptist Church 1998 ?

David Lillistone.
"THE LADY AND THE ABBOT'S TOMB IN THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY AND ST. PETER IN STOWMARKET SUFFOLK"
Published by The author, 1990
Dewey Class Number: 726.80942645

"STOWMARKET 1903": Suffolk Sheet 56.07"
Published by Alan Godfrey Maps 1998
Current Edition: 912.42645
A reprint of an Ordnance Survey map. Also includes a list of Stowmarket tradesmen and
private residents from Kelly's Directory of 1896.

Edited by John Christie
STOWMARKET GOLF CLUB
The first one hundred years 1902-2002
Published by Stowmarket Golf Club, 2002
Dewey Class Number: 796.3520943645

 Graham Hughes, Bill Dixon and Paddy Lillstone
STOWMARKET TOWN F.C .
The First Hundred Years.
The History Of Stowmarket Town Football Club.
Published late 1980s a very limited number were published 
and long out of print.

P. Andrew Loft
"A SHORT HISTORY OF 
STOWMARKET 
RAILWAY STATION"
Privately published February 2002 and still available from www.altairbooks.co.uk 
or by e mailing Andrew at sales@altairbooks.com 
£2 + 75 pence Post & packing

Clare Gordon Robinson

"HANDLEBARS AND 
STEERING WHEELS"
Published by the Author 2000
C. G. Robinson, 
8 Leyland Court, 
275 Southchurch Road, 
Southend-On-Sea
Essex.
The author was born in Stowmarket, son of George Robinson 
the photographer, there is a lot of detail about life in 
Stowmarket in the early 20th century. Gordon Robinson's working 
life was involved with cars, motor cycles and coaches. He worked 
as a mechanic, AA patrolman and ran a coach company in the town.
Several well reproduced photos.