Derbyshire Book Reviews and Summaries

Reviews in 2004

This listing is in order of publication (when known), and covers reviews published between 1st January 2004 and 20th December 2004.

• Bowman, Freda and Brill, Bob - Brill Walks in the Peak. Published by Northend of Sheffield.
  
  • ISBN 0-901100-5-2
  Read more in this Review of ‘Brill Walks in the Peak’ (Peak Advertiser, 20th December 2004)

• Hine, Sheila - Around Meerbrook. Published by Churnet Valley Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-904546-23-4
  Read more in this Review of ‘Around Meerbrook’ (Peak Advertiser, 20th December 2004)

• Bradwell, Jabez - The Jabez Bradwell Diary. Published by Bradwell Historical Society.
  
  • ISBN 0-9529227-0-3
  Read more in this Review of ‘The Jabez Bradwell Diary’ (Peak Advertiser, 6th December 2004)

• Brighton, Trevor - The Discovery of the Peak District. Published by Phillimore.
  
  • ISBN 1 86077 3141
  Read more in this Review of ‘The Discovery of the Peak District’ (Peak Advertiser, 29th November 2004)

• Authors, Various - Peakland Books. Composite Review of six new books.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Peakland Books’ (Peak Advertiser, 15th November 2004)

• Robinson, Brian - Howden and Derwent: The Building of the Upper Dams of the Derwent Valley Water Board. Published by Northend of Sheffield.
  
  • ISBN 0-901100-49-8
  Read more in this Review of ‘Howden and Derwent: The Building of the Upper Dams of the Derwent Valley Water Board’ (Peak Advertiser, 18th October 2004)

• Dyson, Sheila - Everest, a Cockpit and Antarctica. Published by Red Grouse.
  
  • ISBN 0-9547746-0-4
  Read more in this Review of ‘Everest, a Cockpit and Antarctica’ (Peak Advertiser, 20th September 2004)

• Fearns, Claude & Hine, Sheila - Longnor Sports. Published Locally.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Longnor Sports’ (Peak Advertiser, 6th September 2004)

• Devonshire, Andrew - Accidents of Fortune. Published by Michael Russell.
  
  • ISBN 0-85955-286-1
  Read more in this Review of ‘Accidents of Fortune’ (Peak Advertiser, 20th September 2004)

• Smith, Roly - Murder and Mystery in The Peak. Published by Halsgrove.
  
  • ISBN 1-84114-393-3
  Read more in this Review of ‘Murder and Mystery in The Peak’ (Peak Advertiser, 18th October 2004)

• Knighton, Laurence - Hassop: A Chronology of Railway History.
  Published by Midland Railway Society.
  
  • ISBN 0-9537486-5-0
  Read more in this Review of ‘Hassop: A Chronology of Railway History’ (Peak Advertiser, 9th August 2004)

• Evans, Seth - Bradwell Ancient & Modern.
  Published by Country Books of Little Longstone. (Reprinted as facsimile)
  Read more in this Review of ‘Bradwell Ancient & Modern’ (Peak Advertiser, 26th Jul 2004)

• Clowes, Peter - Footloose in the Peak. Published by Churnet Valley Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-904546-07-2
  Read more in this Review of ‘Footloose in the Peak’ (Peak Advertiser, 28th June 2004)

• Wildgoose, Charles - Adventurous Pub Walks. Published by Countryside Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-85306-848-9
  Read more in this Review of ‘Adventurous Pub Walks’ (Peak Advertiser, 12th July 2004)

• Dawes, Geoffrey - Crich Tales. Published by Pipspeak.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Crich Tales’ (not published in Peak Advertiser)

• Garner, Edward - The Seven Canals of Derbyshire. Published by Landmark Collector's Library.
  
  • ISBN 1-84306-072-8
  Read more in this Review of ‘The Seven Canals of Derbyshire’ (Peak Advertiser, date of publication unknown)

• Porter, Lyndsey - Ecton Copper Mines Under The Duke of Devonshire 1760-1790.
  Published by Landmark Collector's Library.
  
  • ISBN 1-84306-125-2
  Read more in this Review of ‘Ecton Copper Mines Under The Duke of Devonshire 1760-1790’ (Peak Advertiser, 5th April 2004)

• Power, George - Derbyshire Children at School. Published by Scarthin Books.
  
  • ISBN 1 900446 06 5
  Read more in this Review of ‘Derbyshire Children at School’ (Peak Advertiser, date of publication unknown)

• Cooper, Frank - Bradwell Fire Service - The First Fifty Years 1939-1959. Published by Ashridge Press.
  
  • ISBN 1-901214-16-8
  Read more in this Review of ‘Bradwell Fire Service - The First Fifty Years 1939-1959’ (Peak Advertiser, 19th April 2004)

• Fearns, Claude - Claude - White Peak Memories. Published by Churnet Valley Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-904546-04-8
  Read more in this Review of ‘Claude - White Peak Memories’ (Peak Advertiser, 26th January 2004)

• Waite, Glynn & Knighton, Laurence - Rowsley: A Rural Railway Centre.
  Published by the Midland Railway Society.
  
  • ISBN 0-9537486-2-6
  Read more in this Review of ‘Rowsley: A Rural Railway Centre’ (Peak Advertiser, 9th February 2004)