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by Miss Pinnell
| Hardback in Very Good condition in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The book in blue cloth, with gold lettering down spine. The Dust Jacket is unclipped with no, nicks, tears or creases.
Published by Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucester. 1986.
120 pages, illustrated throughout, with drawings, maps and photos (Black & White & Colour).
25.5cm x 22.6cm x 1.8cm.
Weight: 775gms.
Cover price: £10.95.
Written by Miss Pinnell with the help of The Children of Sapperton School.
Introduced by Michael Wood.
Five fascinating years, countless questions, and two giant scrapbooks have produced this amazing village history.
As soon as they started to look, Miss Pinnell and the children of Sapperton C. of E. School rapidly discovered a wealth of history lying all around them. Everywhere answers were at hand for those who cared enough to ask, and everyone from the Cotswold Warden to the school cook had their piece to add to the rich and multicoloured jigsaw of images which made up their village heritage.
The book is presented here as it was written. The story is in manuscript, not typeset; the photographs are Miss Pinnell's own. The result is an account of 2,000 years of history in a small Cotswold village and also of the way in which twenty-six school children and their head-teacher gradually unravelled its many threads. From time to time boxes in the margins go behind the scenes and show some of the many people, museums, and trips which helped to supply the answers and create the setting, but the story itself is unbroken by editorial interruptions. The pages are alive with Romans and Anglo-Saxons, saints and villains, conquering Normans and ruling nobles, Royalists and Roundheads, engineers and architects, navvies and labourers, craftsmen and even their own local and influential historian. Scenes recreated by the children merge with contemporary documents, while the Domesday record is paralleled by a fourteenth-century subsidy roll, a seventeenth-century muster roll, a nineteenth-century census and the children's own present-day survey. There is even the amazing discovery of a coffin-filled, hidden crypt, as recently as September 1985, beneath the magnificent marble tombs in the parish church ...
The project has already fired many with its vitality and enthusiasm - charitable trusts, local historians, conservationists, and English Heritage, to name but a few. Introduced by Michael Wood, himself in the midst of the massive BBC Domesday survey, its pages offer what must be a unique inspiration to all those who are interested in their history and heritage.
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Publisher: Alan Sutton
ISBN: 086299263X
Condition: VG / VG |
1986
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| Postage & Handling to UK mainland: £4.00 | Price: £7.00
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