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Shire Publications Ltd

Publisher. Cromwell House, Church St, Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks in 1994
Publishers founded in 1966
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The Shire Albums
A series of small booklets on aspects of past life
1.
2. Fire-marks
3.
4.
5.
6. Bottles & Bottle Collecting
7. Haunted Houses
8. Canal Barges & Narrowboats
9. Pillow Lace and Bobbins
10. Old Farm Buildings

11. Village Wheelwright and Carpenter
12. Inn Signs
13. Sailing Barges
14.
15. Beam Engines
16. Thatch and Thatching
17.
18. Craft Pottery
19. Old Horseshoes
20. Domestic Bygones


21.
22. Curious England
23. Shepherding Tools and Customs
24. Village Blacksmith
25.
26.
27. Occupational Costume
28. Village Cooper
29. Dairying Bygones
30. Samplers

31. Fishermen Knitting
32. Victorian Ironmonger
33.
34. Trapping and Poaching
35. Old Poultry Breeds
36. Wells and Water Supply
37.
38. Needlework Tools : A Guide to Collecting by Eleanor Johnson
(1978)
39. Heavy Horse
40. Country Animal Doctor

41. Old Garden Tools
42. Stationary Steam Engines
43. Spinning and Spinning Wheels
44. Weights and Measures
45. Drovers
46. Smocks
47. Street Furniture
48. Vintage Tractors
49. Old Stationary Engines
50. Woodworking Tools

51. Rope, Twine and Net Making
52. Jet Jewellery and Ornaments
53. Harness Horse
54. Writing Antiques
(1980)
55. Scales and Balances
56. Victorian Professional Photographer
57. Beadwork
58. Fashion Accessories
59. Corkscrews and Bottle Openers
60. Board and Table Game Antiques

61. Village and Town Bands
62. Potteries
63. Cotton Industry
64. Ironworking
65. Gas Lighting
66. Smoking Antiques
67. Victorian Tiles
68. Fire Engines
69. Chains and Chainmaking
70. English Windsor Chairs

71. Needle Making
72. Brewing and Breweries
73. Steel Ship Building
74. Trees, Woods and Forests
75. Bricks & Brickmaking
76. Straw and Straw Craftsmen
77. Shawls
78. Straw Plait
79. Trade Tokens
80. Victorian Chemist and Druggist

81. Woollen Industry
82. Collier
83. Glass and Glassmaking
84. Old Sewing Machines
85. Lead and Lead Mining
86. Old Trade Handcarts
87. Nail Making
88. Ayrshire and Other Whitework
89. Whales and Whaling
90. Cricketing Bygones

91. Old Lawnmowers
92. Baskets and Basketmaking
93. Follies
94. Old Buses
95. Cidermaking
96. Thimbles
97. Blue & White Transfer-Printed Pottery
98. Corn Milling
99. Firegrates and Kitchen Ranges
100. Agricultural Hand Tools

101. Patchwork
102. Toy Soldiers
(1983) By James Opie 95p
103. Textile Machines
104. Carnival Glass
105. Clay and Cob Buildings
106. Coins and Minting
107. Laundry Bygones
108. Lost Trade Routes
109. Ships' Figureheads
110. Anchors

111. Herbs and Herb Gardens
112. Veteran Motor Cars
113. Clogs and Clogmaking
114. Dry Stone Walls
115. Falconry
116. English Drinking Glasses
117. Wig, Hairdressing and Shaving Bygones
118. Rare Breeds
119. Framework Knitting
120. Goss and Other Crested China

121. Tennis, Squash and Badminton Bygones
122. Buttonhooks and Shoehorns
123. Old Working Dogs
124. Early Electrical Appliances
125. Ploughs and Ploughing
126. Crochet
127. Fancy Dress
128. Animal-Powered Machines
129. Country Garage
130. Tunbridge Ware

131. Victorian Sailor
132. Candle Lighting
133. Flax and Linen
134. Quarries and Quarrying
135. Textile Printing
136. Billiards and Snooker Bygones
137. Toy Steam Engines
138. Old Lorries
139. Tin & Tin Mining
140. Mauchline Ware

141. Old Aeroplanes
142. Parian Ware
143. Traction Engines
144. Hydraulic Machines
145. Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways
146. Vintage Motor Cars
147. Old Toys
148. Old Trams
149. Church Monuments
150. London Taxi

151. Classic Motor Cars
152. MG
153. Steam Cars
154. Looms and Weaving
155. Shoemaking
156. Baking and Bakeries
157. British Sheep Breeds
158. Canal Architecture
159. Charcoal and Charcoal Burning
160. Gunpowder Industry

161. Old Telephones
162. Pressed Flint Glass
163. Portable Steam Engines
164. Scottish Knitting
165. Three-Wheelers
166. East Anglian Village and Town Signs
167. Steamboats