niteowl2til5 Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 can anyone tell me where I can get the book walking into warringtons past: winwick street by harry wells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendam. Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Have you tried Waterstones, Motherhen? I was in there a couple of weeks ago buying books for my Grandkids and they had lots of books about Warrington. Bren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendam. Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Motherhen, there's also a book shop in Lythgoes Lane called The Book Loft which boasts of their amount of stock. They still didn't have any of the books I was looking for for Steve the Original!!! They may have the one you want, though. Bren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 The Book Loft is a top place Bren. That's where I want to retire to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 I love book shops Willy Wonka - We do not have anything really around here - but when I got to Florida you can find me in a few book shops. I too would love to retire to a nice old bookshop. Sorry Motherhen I could not find that book online so you will have to ask at local bookshops - Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Motherhen, Try Borders on the Riverside Retail park. They have a load of books about Warrington, ion the ground floor halfway down on the left hand side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Settle Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Pete's right there was a 2 new books on Warrington on the shelves today that I hadn't seen before. One was a small one with black & white photos and a larger reddish brown. Unfortunately I didn't look at either to closely. Why not take it upstairs and grab a tea or coffee and have a nice relaxing read & I thought that the shop had a good stock of books and a few other things. Great IT and travel sections plus I bought a CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papershifter Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 There is a book of old postcards of Warrington on sale in the Works, ?2.99, it?s quite good. My family are in the acknowledgements but no one ever asked? It was printed by a Dutch firm in 2002. Enquiries are being made by a solicitor. Next year warrington museum are putting on a display of Warrington at work which should be very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 Cripes PS, they acknowledged your family and it's not good enough? What would you have done if they hadn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 I was actually named and quoted in a book once.. without ever having spoken with the author.. (and it wasn't the phone book...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Other than courtesy, I don't think there's any obligation to Gunga, so long as you're named as the source. Not happened to me yet. <sigh> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 True.. but I was a bit miffed as the first I heard about it was from a semi official approach.. Big doh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Just enjoy the accolades, they're usually too far and few between for us mortals y'know. If you need a PA to field all the requests for the use of your words of wisdom, I'm sure one or two of our fellow posters can give you a few recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Sadly.. the book in question went out of print very quickly. and the semi official approaches weren't accolades at all.. the exact opposite.. especially in the contect of the quote.. I would be willing to look for PAs/spin doctors to sell me on to Parkinson (the TV prog)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Ah, I seem to remember now: 1001 uses for a live poster wasn't it? Suggesting "?" as a doorstop was really cruel: you and your ilk deserve all you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Nope almost right... it was 1002 uses for an ex poster.... (looks around for a useful one...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 I guess maybe over there it is different but I thought anyone who is used in a book or film for public sale had to sign off saying they think it is ok! We have had unauthorized biographies writtn - an example was Liz Taylor's a few years ago. How the author got away with it was to interview people that knew her and got them to sign off. So I can see how Papershifter would want to know? Gunga did they contact you for this or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Mary The author in question quoted a quotation but didn't reference it properly, then managed to take the statement by myself almost out of context, but let it insinuate involvement in another episode, hence the approach by HMG to see why I was "talking" to the author. I found out about it all months after publication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Ahh the plot thickens~ I suppose there are a lot of people that are misquoted - or have made comments that were then rearranged to look different than intended. I remember when John Lennon flippantly said "Gee's you would think we were more popular than God" - The headlines stated "John Lennon thinks he's better than God". No matter what he said after that no one in the media would believe him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Warrington Library sell a good range of local history books as well as lending out most if not all of anything published on Warrington in local history section - currently reading a book published in USA on the complete poems of Mrs Barbauld - am I right in assuming that Barbauld Street was named after her ?? a great and prolific poet whose work was admired by Wordsworth but she doesn't seem to have had the literary recognition she deserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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