History of Kirkby Publications

In addition to hard copy publications, most of them are also available in soft copy (PDF format) on CD or downloadable via Dropbox or similar.

To check availability, order copies or with any query please email editor@history-of-kirkby.org

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Kirkby Select Vestry Book – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Select Vestry Book Dec 2004

Description: (303pp) A4 format 3bw illust/3 facsimile pages. Fully indexed. Minutes of Vestry meetings 1819 to 1908.
Availability: Last one available or Soft copy PDF
Price: £5.00 + £4.00 postage & packaging

Parish Magazine 1902 (Reprint) March 2007

Description: Four sheets A3 folded bw illust
Availability: On demand
Price: £2.00 + £2.00 postage & packaging

Ashlack – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Ashlack: The History of a Small Cumbrian Estate September 2007

Description: Format: 170x250mm, Hard Back, 256pp, 20pp Colour Plates, Appendix & Index
Availability: Sold out

St Chuthbert Churchyard inscriptions – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

St Cuthbert’s Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions June 2008 

Description: A4 format, Wired Binding, 74pp, bw illust, fully indexed
Availability: Last few available
Price: £5.00 + £3.00 postage & packing

Parish Magazine 1901 (Reprint) June 2009

Description: 28 pages A4
Availability: On demand
Price: £2.00 + £2.00 postage & packaging

Kirkby in Furness co-op – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby in Furness Co-op 118 years of Cooperation 2021

Description: (52pp) A5 format Sepia & colour illustrations
Availability: Sold out

Kirkby field names – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Some of the Kirkby Ireleth Field Names from 1842 2021

Description: Second Edition (44pp) A4 format Black & White, Sepia and Colour illustrations, 14 Maps, Indexed
Availability: Available or Soft Copy PDF
Price:  £5.00 + £3.00 postage & packaging

Church of Christ Wall End – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Church of Christ, Wallend, Kirkby Ireleth by Lex Ward Feb 2022 
(History, Graveyard plan, Headstone Inscriptions and Index

Description: A4 format (68pp) Sepia & colour illustrations
Availability: Available
Price: £10 + £3.00 postage & packaging

Remembering the war dead of Kirkby-in-Furness by Roger Rushton Nov 2024 

Description
: A4 format, PUR bound, 108pp, liberally illustrated in B&W and colour with maps

Availability: Not currently available – please contact the editor to be added to the waiting list 
Price: Free + £3.00 postage & packaging (UK); contact editor for overseas quote

From Duddon Valley History Group

Angerton Moss by Dr W.D.Shannon PHD., FSA. and Lex Ward June 2021

Description: A5 format (66 pp) Sepia & Colour illustrations, 6 maps etc.
Availability: Available
Price: £5.00 + £2.00 postage & packaging

Seathwaite Tarn by Dr Patrick Hoyte and Lex Ward Oct 2021

Description: A5 format (76 pp) Sepia & Colour illustrations
Availability: Available
Price: £5.00 + £2.00 postage & packaging

Out of print Kirkby Fragments are all available on CD, at £5.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only for any 4 volumes. We can also supply them for download at the same cost without p&p.

TO ORDER
Please email editor@history-of-kirkby.org with your order.

Kirkby Fragments Vol 1 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 1 July 2005
“Customs of the Manor; Kirkby Hall; Slate Industry 1550-1750; Stone Arthur”

Description: A5 format. (58pp) Illustrated in colour.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Volume 2 July 2005
“Specky Four Eyes” – Kellet Curwen Memoirs

Description: A5 format (60pp)
Availability: Last few available
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Volume 3 July 2005
“Changes in Agrarian Structure in Kirkby Ireleth 1746 – 1846”

Description: A5 format. (62pp) 6 colour illustrations, 3 maps, tables etc.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Volume 4 July 2005
“Kirkby History; History of Beckside School; Kirkby Pubs”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 2 Black & White and 9 Colour illustrations.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 5 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 5 Dec 2008
“Kirkby Charities”

Description: A5 format. (76pp) 26 Black & White Illustrations, 2 maps, tables etc., Appendix.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 6 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 6 Dec 2008
“Low Mill; Bell Hall Farm”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 8 Black & White, 4 colour illustrations, 6 maps, 4 plans, family tree and 3 appendices.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 7 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 7 Dec 2008
“Chamleys of Pear Tree; Reminiscences of Tommy Walker, Cora Smith & Sheila Higgins”

Description: A5 format. (56pp) 10 Black & White and 3 colour illustrations, family tree, 2 facsimile pages.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 8 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 8 Dec 2008
“Gill Beck Farm; Bangs in the Village”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 9 Black & White and 1 colour Illustration, 4 maps, 4 plans, 1 facsimile page, appendix.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 9 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 9 Dec 2008
“Reminiscences of Geoff Postlethwaite, Albert Cartmel, Mrs Fry, Joyce Stable, Mrs C. Tyson & Frederick Postlethwaite”

Description: A5 format. (60pp) 7 Black & White, and 2 colour illustrations.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 10 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 10 Feb 2014
“1924 Quarry Managers Diary; 1543 Tax Perambulation of Kirkby & Woodland”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 7 Black & White and Sepia illustrations, 3 maps.
Availability: Sofy copy PDF format only
Cost:£3.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 11 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 11 Feb 2014
“Chapels Farm”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 24 Black & White illustrations, 7 maps and plans, 4 facsimile pages.
Availability:  Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 12 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 12 Feb 2014
“Kirkby & WW1; Quarry Notebook 1848 – 1856; The Cartmel Frontiersman”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 7 Black & White illustrations, 11 tables.
Availability: Last few available
Cost: £3.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 13 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 13 Feb 2014
“Kirkby in WW2; 1925 Quarry Managers Diary”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) 10 Black & White illustrations.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 14 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 14 Dec 2018
“Trains & Boats & Planes; Accidents in relation to Kirkby”

Description: A5 format. (58pp) Fully Illustrated Black & White, Sepia & Colour.
Availability: Last few available
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 15 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 15 Dec 2018
“Paradise Lost; Things that are Gone & Lost For Ever”

Description: A5 format. (78pp) Liberally Illustrated Black & White, Sepia & Colour.
Availability: Soft copy PDF format only
Cost: £3.50 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 16 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 16  June 2020
“The Lost Homesteads of Kirkby Ireleth – High & Low Well House; Atkinson-Mason Family; Guards Farm & Muirlands”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) Fully illustrated Black & White, Sepia and Colour, 2 Family Trees, 2 Maps.
Availability: Available
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

Kirkby Fragments Vol 17 – A History of Kirkby Group Publication

Kirkby Fragments Volume 17  June 2024
“Some People of Kirkby, Famous or Otherwise ”

Description: A5 format. (64pp) Fully illustrated Black & White, Sepia and Colour, 2 Maps
Availability: Available
Cost: £4.00 + £2.00 p&p UK only

TO ORDER
Please email editor@history-of-kirkby.org with your order.



Celebrations Queen’s Jubilee
June 2002
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Beckside Vol 1
March 2003
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Beckside Vol 2
May 2003
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Beckside Vol 3
November 2003
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Soutergate Vol 1
April 2004
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Soutergate Vol 2
August 2004
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Soutergate Vol 3
December 2004
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Soutergate Vol 4
March 2005
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Sandside Vol 1
August 2005
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Sandside Vol 2 November 2005
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Sandside Vol 3
June 2006
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Askewgate/Headcragg Vol 1
April 2007
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



Askewgate/Headcragg Vol 2
July 2007
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Marshside Vol 1
November 2008 Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Marshside Vol 2
October 2009
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Wallend Vol 1
October 2010
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



Wallend Vol 2
May 2011
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



Chapels Vol 1
June 2012
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



From the Barr Family History
June 2015
Description: Single sheet A3 folded Sepia illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



Bits & Pieces Vol 1
May 2016
Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only



Grizebeck Vol 1
September 2017 Description: Single sheet A3 folded black & white illustrations
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Cost: 50p + £0.50 p&p UK only

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