Derbyshire Book Reviews and Summaries

Reviews in 2005

This listing is in order of publication (when known), and covers reviews published between 1st January 2005 and the end of the year.

• Authors, Various - Behind the View: Life & times in Cressbrook - a Derbyshire mill village. Published Locally.
  
  • ISBN 0-9551750-0-3
  Read more in this Review of ‘Behind the View: Life & times in Cressbrook - a Derbyshire mill village’ (Peak Advertiser, 19th December 2005)

• Buxton, Barbara A - Hathersage in The Peak. Published by Phillimore.
  
  • ISBN 1-86077-348-6
  Read more in this Review of ‘Hathersage in The Peak’ (Peak Advertiser, 5th December 2005)

• Goddard, Ann - Goodbye Old Pick. Published by the Author.
  
  • ISBN 0-9551606-0-X
  Read more in this Review of ‘Goodbye Old Pick’ (Peak Advertiser, 21st November 2005)

• Wiltshire, Mary (and others) - Duffield Firth. Published by Landmark.
  
  • ISBN 1-84306-191-0
  Read more in this Review of ‘Duffield Firth: History and Evolution of the Landscape of a Medieval Derbyshire Forest’ (Peak Advertiser, 21st November 2005)

• Cunningham, Pat - Peakland Air Crashes, The South. Published by Landmark.
  
  • ISBN 1-84306-186-4
  Read more in this Review of ‘Peakland Air Crashes, The South’ (Peak Advertiser, 7th November 2005)

• Authors, Various - Three Reviews. Composite Review of three new books.
  Read more in this Account of ‘Three Reviews’ (Peak Advertiser, 10th October 2005)

• Flindall, Roger - Mines, Quarries and Murders in the Peak District. Published by the Peak District Mines Historical Society.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Mines, Quarries and Murders in the Peak District’ (Peak Advertiser, 29th September 2005)

• Taylor, Keith - Tansley Remembered. Published by Ashridge Press/Country Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-901214-43-5
  Read more in this Review of ‘Tansley Remembered’ (Peak Advertiser, 12th September 2005)

• Wombwell, Margaret - Ashover Remembered. Published by DCC Cultural & Community Services.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Ashover Remembered’ (Peak Advertiser, 29th August 2005)

• Allsop, Eddie - Around Cromford Dam. Published by Scarthin Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-900446-08-1
  Read more in this Review of ‘Around Cromford Dam’ (Peak Advertiser, 15th August 2005)

• Wilson, Norman - Youlgreave Remembers. Privately Published.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Youlgreave Remembers’ (Peak Advertiser, 15th August 2005)

• Authors, Various - Titles for Summer Reading. Composite Review of five new books.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Titles for Summer Reading’ (Peak Advertiser, 1st August 2005)

• Edgar, Jenny - An Accessible Wilderness: Life at Stanage and the North Lees Estate.
  Published by Derbyshire County Council and the Peak District National Park Authority.
  
  • ISBN 0-903463-73-3
  Read more in this Review of ‘An Accessible Wilderness’ (Peak Advertiser, 1st August 2005)

• Butcher, Dave - High Light. Published in the Arem Photography Portfolios Series.
  Read more in this Review of ‘High Light’ (Peak Advertiser, 18th July 2005)

• Heath, Philip - John Joseph Briggs's Diary. Published by The Melbourne Historical Research Group.
  
  • ISBN 0-903463-78-4
  Read more in this Review of ‘John Joseph Briggs's Diary’ (Peak Advertiser, 4th July 2005)

• York, Trevor - Peak District Illustrated Walks. Published by Countryside Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-85306-854-3
  Read more in this Review of ‘Peak District Illustrated Walks’ (Peak Advertiser, 23rd May 2005)

• Kilburn, Terence - Darley's 'Lady Bountiful' and The Whitworth Trail.
  Published by The Whitworth Trust.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Darley's 'Lady Bountiful' and The Whitworth Trail’ (Peak Advertiser, 23rd May 2005)

• Wadd, Barbara - Ghost Walks in Derbyshire and The Peak District. Published by Breedon Books.
  
  • ISBN 185983-257-1
  Read more in this Review of ‘Ghost Walks in Derbyshire and The Peak District’ (Peak Advertiser, 25th April 2005)

• Smith, Roly - Freedom to Roam Peak District Guides. Published by Rambler's Association.
  
  • ISBN 0-7112-2499-4 and 0-7112-2498-6
  Read more in this Review of ‘Freedom to Roam Peak District Guides’ (Peak Advertiser, 28th March 2005)

• Naylor, Peter - Water Supply. Published by Shire Publications.
  
  • ISBN 0-7478-0608-X
  Read more in this Review of ‘Water Supply’ (Peak Advertiser, 28th March 2005)

• Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Libraries - Picture the Past Website.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Picture the Past’ Website (Peak Advertiser, date of publication unknown)

• Hoskyns, Edwyn - Under the Heavy Clouds. Published by Merton Priory Press.
  
  • ISBN 1-898937-63-X
  Read more in this Review of ‘Under the Heavy Clouds’ (Peak Advertiser, 14th February 2005)

• William, Geoff - Running Through the Hills of Silence. Published by DIAL 174 Magazine.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Running Through the Hills of Silence’ (Peak Advertiser, 31st January 2005)

• Edwards, Brian - Calver, Curbar and Froggatt in Old Photographs. Published by Northend of Sheffield.
  
  • ISBN 0-9525064-9-1
  Read more in this Review of ‘Calver, Curbar and Froggatt in Old Photographs’ (Peak Advertiser, 31st January 2005)

• Combes, Isobel - Anglican Churches of Derbyshire. Published by Landmark Collector's Library.
  
  • ISBN 1-84306-152-X
  Read more in this Review of ‘Anglican Churches of Derbyshire’ (Peak Advertiser, date of publication unknown)

• Rush, Raymond - Countrywise Three. Published by Churnet Valley Books.
  
  • ISBN 1-904546-20-X
  Read more in this Review of ‘Countrywise Three’ (Peak Advertiser, 3rd January 2005)