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Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives

Booklets for Sale

*All My Yesterdays (autobiography of Patrick Hanshaw of Wapping). Price: £5.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Anglican Church on the Isle of Dogs 1854-2004 (Christ and St. John with St. Luke). Price: £5.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Arthur Morrison by Stan Newens (Novelist of realism in East London and Essex). Price: £4.00 plus £1 post and packing.

Bethnal Green by Gary Haines (old photographs and captions). Price: £11.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Bow & Bromley-By-Bow (pictorial history of the area). Price: £12.99 plus £2 post and packing.

Items marked with an * are published by Tower Hamlets Libraries, and are the only titles on which discounts are available. Discounts are for orders of ten copies or more; 20% discount available to non-bookshops, societies etc; 30% discount available to bookshops. Please note postage and packaging prices may vary.

Central Stepney History Walk by Tom S. Ridge (walk, text, photographs). Price: £1.00 plus £1 post and packing.


Booklets for Sale

East Calendar (photographs of Bangladesh and East London). Price: £1.00 plus £2 post and packing.

Colonel Thomas Rainsborough: Wapping's Most Fa-mous Soldier by Lincoln Jones. Price: £1.20 plus £1 post and packing.

East End Past by Richard Tames. Price: £15.95 plus £3 post and packing.

East End At Work (old photographs and captions). Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.

East End Story (autobiography by Alfred Gardner describing life in Stepney from the 1960's to 1990's). Price: £5.95 plus £1 post and packing.

East London: A hotbed of Football 1867-1918 By Colm Kerrigan Price: £12.00 plus £2 post and packing.

East London Record No 9(Journal of the East London History Society - articles, reviews etc.) Price: £1.30 plus £1 post and packing.


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Exploring the East End (Walks, text and photographs) Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Good Morning Brothers! (Autobiography of Jack Dash, dockers’ leader) Price: £4.99 plus £1 post and packing.


Booklets for Sale

*The Hamlets and the Tower (Chronology of 1,000 years of Tower Hamlets) Price: £3.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Huguenot Tales: The Rondeau’s of Spitalfields; an everyday story of Huguenot folk Price: £3.00 plus £1 post and packing.

The Green East End 2006 Calendar Price: £6.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Isle of Dogs; A Brief History Vol 1 1066-1918 Price: £10.00 plus £2 post and packing.

In Letters of Gold(Text and photographs of the Suffragettes in Bow) Price: £3.95 plus £1 post and packing.

Isle of Dogs; A Brief History Vol 2 - The 20th Century Price: £10.00 plus £2 post and packing.

Memories of Wapping 1900-1960 by Martha Leigh (photos and memories) Price: £12.99 plus £2 post and packing.


Booklets for Sale

Mile End Old Town 1740-1780 by David Morris (New and enlarged edition of a social history of an early modern Lon-don suburb) Price: £9.60 plus £3 post and packing.

On the Waterfront Calendar 1998 Price: £1.00 plus £1 post and packing.

On the Waterfront Calendar 1998

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The Poplars (1/17th London Regiment Poplar & Stepney Batallion in WWI) Price: £7.50 plus £2 post and packing.

A Pictorial History of Victoria Park Price: £6.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Power Writers; Discovering and Celebrating Five African Writers Price: £4.00 plus £1 post and packing.


Booklets for Sale

St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney (Colourful, illustrated church history guide) Price: £3.00 plus £1 post and packing.

*The Tower Hamlets Connection (Potted biographies) Price: £7.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Walks in Dickens’ London; Discover London’s Docklands Price: £3.99 plus £1 post and packing.

Watch Your Fingers by Alfred Gardner (Career of an East End garment maker 1955-1973) Price: £7.00 plus £2 post and packing.

Wapping 1600-1800: A Social History of an early maritime suburb by Derek Morris and Ken Cozens Price: £9.60 plus £2 post and packing.