Local history publications for sale
A wide range of local history books, maps and DVDs relevant to Walsall and the surrounding area is available to buy from Walsall Archives.
You can buy when you visit or we can deliver by post. Please contact us to check stock before travelling or ordering
You can see the full range of local history books and maps we sell in the drop down lists below:
Books and publications
Maps
| Author | Title | Price (25% discount) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Aldridge & District Yesterdays | £0.75 | A photographic nostalgia feast! |
| Bates, Annita | The Charles Family & People of Pelsall | £7.50 | An exploration of the Charles family, other significant Pelsall characters and their relationship with Pelsall Hall. |
| Blake, Jennifer; Drysdale, Evadne; Houslin, Patricia & Talburt, Tony | Through Sweat And Tears | £3.75 | Examining the experiences of the African Caribbean people who came to settle in Walsall in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Blay, W.F.; Linforth, B. & Galbraith, Ann | Street Names Of Bloxwich & Pelsall | £3.75 | Fascinating insight into the reasons behind the naming of streets covering the areas mentioned. Maps and photos. |
| Champ, Robert Cordon | Ahead of Time | £1.88 | The story of transport built in Walsall, inc. sports cars, motorcycles, scooters and bicycles. Superbly illustrated. |
| Davis, Horace | Street Names Of Willenhall | £3.75 | Fascinating insight into the reasons behind the naming of streets covering the areas mentioned. Maps and photos. |
| de la Oulton, Caroline | Below the Fairy City | £9.00 | A major biography of Jerome K. Jerome with hitherto unknown details about his early life in Walsall and follows his momentous move to the ‘Fairy City’ of London. |
| Ford, Paul | Whispers From The Past - Tales from the Coroner’s Records | £6.00 | Six poignant stories based on investigations by the Walsall Coroner into unnatural, sudden and suspicious deaths in the early 20th Century. With additional research and photos. |
| Fox, Betty | Street Names of Brownhills, Shelfield, Clayhanger & Walsall Wood | £2.81 | Fascinating insight into the reasons behind the naming of streets covering the areas mentioned. Maps and photos. |
| French, Ann | It Ay Ere Our Kid | £5.63 | Some well-known and less well-known buildings which were lost and now only remembered through this book. |
| French, Ann | Let We Goo Fer A Walk | £4.49 | A circular walk starting at St Matthews Church, Walsall. Explore parts of the town centre you may not have seen. |
| French, Ann | Ta-ra A Bit ‘Err ‘Itler | £5.63 | Some of the answers to what everyday life was like in WW2 Walsall - from bombing to making food for chickens |
| French, Ann | Thomas Newton: A Pioneer of the Walsall Leather Trade | £0.75 | An interesting biography by one of our most popular local authors. |
| French, Ann | We'em Gooin on Anuther Walk: A History of Caldmore & Palfrey | £7.49
| The history of and a guided walk around the once separate areas of Caldmore and Highgate. |
| French, Ann | Yow’m Nicked | £5.99 | A history of crime in Walsall down to 1939. Illustrated. |
| Grey, S.G. | A Cold Snap On Snow Hill | £4.49 | First detective novel, set in Birmingham by a local author. |
| Haddock, Ed Stuart Williams Pics Jack | The Two-wheeled Time Traveller | £6.00 | A photographic tribute to one of Walsall's best loved local historians, Jack Haddock. |
| Hammond, Joyce | I Remember Pheasey | £1.88 | Oral history of the development of farmland near Barr Beacon into a thriving community. Memories of wartime and American troops add colour to this involving story. |
| Hammond, Joyce | I Remember Walsall Market | £1.50 | Oral history memories of shoppers, stallholders and officials, relating to market life in the early 20th century. |
| Harris, Tony | Popular Education in Walsall 1760-1955 | £0.75 | An in-depth study by Dr Tony Harris of popular education in Walsall 1760-1950. |
| Jenkinson, Tim & Taylor, Patrick | The Toll Houses | £7.46 | First detailed study of Staffordshire toll-houses describing the origins and development of the turnpike road system. |
| Lewis, M. | Local Customs And Folklore | £0.75 | A leaflet giving many interesting facts about various customs and Folklore. |
| Palmer, Clare | The Cholera Crisis in Walsall | £0.75 | A comprehensive study of cholera locally in the years 1849 and 1853. |
| Parker, Margaret J. | Something Very Special: Reedswood Open Air School | £1.50 | A story of a unique Walsall School, formerly called the Open Air School, which became the Three Crowns School. |
| Parry, D.E. & Jones, K.F. | Bloxwich In History | £3.50 | Facsimile edition of A Brief Survey of a Thousand Years originally published in 1941 by A.G. Wheeler of Bloxwich. |
| Rimmer, Victoria & Williams, Stuart | Walsall in Recorded Memory DVD | £3.75 | Recorded memories matched with historic 20th century images to produce an evocative video of everyday life. |
| Roberts, Clive L. | Old Public Houses of Brownhills (Pt 1) | £6.00 | Snippets of history and pictures relating to old pubs of Brownhills. |
| Robertson, Charles | Streetly Trail | £1.13 | A tour, with maps, of this delightful part of the Borough. |
| Satterthwaite, Sue | A Patriotic Endeavour - Aldridge Manor | £7.49 | Fascinating history of Aldridge Manor House as a military hospital during WW1. |
| Satterthwaite, Sue | Bonner V.C. | £14.99 | The biography of Gus Bonner: VC and Master Mariner |
| Satterthwaite, Sue | Walsall People in the Second World War | £1.50 | Local wartime events and a list of Walsall servicemen and women mentioned in the Walsall Observer. |
| Timmins, Malcolm | Street Names Of Darlaston & Bentley | £3.75 | Fascinating insight into the reasons behind the naming of streets covering the areas mentioned. Maps and photos. |
| Various | Chronicles Of Walsall No: 1 | £1.50 | Research by students of Birmingham University Extra-mural Department about Walsall and its communities. |
| W.L.H.C. | Around The Town | £0.75 | A visual delight containing rare photographs of Walsall from the 1870s to the 1920s with captions. |
| W.L.H.C. | Chronicle 10 Sister Dora | £1.50 | The life and work of Walsall's famous nursing pioneer. Many photographs plus transcripts of her letters. |
| W.L.H.C. | Chronicle 8 Walsall At War | £1.88
| The impact of World War 1 on Walsall, including an account of the 1916 Zeppelin raid and a brief description of the exploits of the South Staffordshire Regiment. |
| W.L.H.C. | Chronicle 9 Leisure And Entertainment | £1.88 | Includes articles on Walsall Football Club, theatres and Pat Collins, the Bloxwich Showman. |
| W.L.H.C. | Darlaston Town Trail | £1.13 | A fascinating trek with maps and drawings. |
| W.L.H.C. | Victorian Walsall Pack | £5.63 | A document pack of copies of original local sources compiled for use by teachers with Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils. |
| Walug | Across Seven Seas (DVD) | FOC | This DVD tells the amazing story of Asian settlement in Walsall, their experiences of leaving their home countries and making a home in Walsall. |
| Williams, Stuart | Billy Meikle’s Window on Walsall | £3.75 | Billy Meikle enjoyed life and was a keen observer of places and people. His work reflects this, capturing buildings and people in photographs and watercolours. |
| Williams, Stuart | Reflections Of Old Walsall | £5.24 | A collection of twenty illustrated articles selected from the most unusual and interesting tales of old Walsall. |
| Williams, Stuart | Walsall Borough Past And Present | £5.63 | A local history of towns and villages in Walsall Metropolitan Borough, with then and now photographs. |
| Williams, Stuart | William Henry Robinson: A Man Ahead of His Time | £0.75 | The life of a noted Walsall journalist, publisher, printer and business man in the Victorian/Edwardian period. |
| Wooldridge, Victoria | I Remember Rushall | £5.24 | Village life pre and post Second World War in Rushall, taken from oral history. |
| Title | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bescot 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.14 |
| Bloxwich 1902 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.14 |
| Brownhills & Ogley Hay 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.08 |
| Cheslyn Hay 1882 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.01 |
| Darlaston & Kings Hill 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.13 |
| Great Barr 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 68.04 |
| Leamore & South Bloxwich 1900 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.02 |
| Pelsall (North) 1883 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.11 |
| Pelsall (South) 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.15 |
| Rushall 1913 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.01 |
| Shire Oak & Catshill 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.12 |
| The Delves 1912 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.15 |
| Walsall (NE) Arboretum 1913 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.07 |
| Walsall (NW) Green Lane 1902 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.02 |
| Walsall (SE) High Street 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.11 |
| Walsall (SW) & Pleck 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.10 |
| Walsall Wood 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 57.16 |
| Willenhall NE 1913 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.05 |
| Willenhall & Darlaston Green 1885 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.09 |
| Willenhall (SE) & Darlaston Green 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.09 |
| Willenhall (NE) 1885 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 63.05 |
| Willenhall (NW) & Wednesfield 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 62.08 |
| Willenhall (SW) 1901 | £3.00 | Reduced size County Series OS 62.12 |
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