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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Lovely example of this book. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THIS BOOK is a sequel to Images of the Quantocks & Their Villages first published the Quantocks & Their Villages of the Friends of Coleridge in 2001 and reprinted in 2003. The pictures in it Friends of Quantock and the late Bert Harris of Spaxton and few have been previously published. We hope that the quotations from literature and frequent references to local history will give further insight into the lives of those who lived here in past years. Many people must be thanked for permission to use illustrations and for other help: Kit Houghton for so many of his own photographs and those from the Houghton/Hole collection; Paul Manstield for numerous items Kate Barlow for the Smyth-Piggott family photographs (p.76) from her book on life in the Agapemone. The Abode of Love a Memoir Mainstream Publishing 2006; Jim Nurse for the photograph of his family’s schooner (p.96) from The Nurse Family of Bridgwater & Their Shipes Carmania Press 1999: David Anstice Maria Rosa Figuieredo and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon Robin Clatworthy Ethel Carruthers Stephen Croad Lady Gass Gill and David Goodland Geoff Grandfield Willy Husband Audrey Leyland Mike Hill Julia Me William Joan and the late Tom Moore Jane Peaster Sarah Sealy-Vidal Roger Stacey Tom Poole Bert Tront Jane and Hugh W Varmington and Dennis Warre. Tom Mayberry Somerset County Heritage Officer and Archivist has kindly written a Foreword and he and and David Bromwich Local Studies Librarian were as always ready to give us the benefit of their unique knowlege of Somerset records and history. (LL)