Stenlake Publishing

Stenlake Publishing Independent publishing house founded in 1987. Stenlake's books hark back to a slower, quieter, simpler age.

Our 'Old' and 'Bygone' list of titles is bathed in nostalgia, replete with sepia images of long lost neighbourhoods, great houses and architecture, industries and skills that made Britain great and ways of life missed by many. We also cater to collectors and enthusiasts with our luxurious books on china, aviation, the history of ships and shipbuilding, horticulture and our detailed 'Lost Railways'

series. We also have some beautifully illustrated children's titles. We invite you to log on to our our website, pour yourself a glass of wine or a cup of tea, relax and browse a while.

Very sad to announce the death on Saturday of Arthur Ord-Hume, author of many Stenlake aviation books. Arthur was a good...
31/05/2024

Very sad to announce the death on Saturday of Arthur Ord-Hume, author of many Stenlake aviation books. Arthur was a good age so his passing was not unexpected, but it's still a huge loss to the aviation and the mechanical music world. He wrote over 20 books for us, and previous to that had worked with other publishers and even published the odd title himself. His latest and last book for us was on his "baby", the Luton Minor. I've shown the cover below,but to see what Arthur was all about have a look at this post-war Pathe News clip of him on Youtube from 1953 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0GRi_UGNxU

Brechin is one of those towns you might visit and wonder why is all this here, slightly off the beaten track? The answer...
16/05/2024

Brechin is one of those towns you might visit and wonder why is all this here, slightly off the beaten track? The answer lies in its origin as an early religious site, with a cathedral now over 1,000 years old. A castle and a turbulent history followed and after that Brechin became a Royal Burgh and a market town, which in turn segued into its unlikely position at the forefront of the Angus linen industry using flax imported from Russia and Northern Europe. Besides spinning, weaving and bleaching linen Brechin also had a whisky distillery on account of its agricultural surroundings. The 19th century saw the town develop and grow further and although the photos in the book are mainly early 20th century they reflect Brechin in the late years of this growth spurt. Since then the weaving industry has closed, the cathedral downgraded to parish church, the railway connections severed and the town bypassed by the A90. The Caledonian Railway operating the old branch line is just one way in which Brechin looks to reboot itself as a tourist destination. With 48 pages in the traditional Stenlake old towns format the book has 56 photographs included and retails at £11.95.

This new book, using previously unpublished photographs by the late ENC Haywood, is a celebration of his love of trams a...
16/05/2024

This new book, using previously unpublished photographs by the late ENC Haywood, is a celebration of his love of trams and his love of the city of Aberdeen which he visited at least once a year to visit relatives. On his journeys between his native Nottingham and Aberdeen in the late 1940s, 50s and 60s he photographed the UK’s surviving tram networks, railways and other industry. Aberdeen trams were close to his heart perhaps because the city had purchased many of Nottingham’s trams when its network closed in 1936. Aberdeen’s trams stopped running in 1958.

Mr Heywood was a proficient photographer who understood good composition and sought out unusual vantage points. Although he was interested in the trams his photographs of them feature plenty of background so the book works in its own right as a collection of beautifully taken street scenes of Aberdeen’s city centre and outlying districts at this time. His early photographs, taken during the austerity of the post-war years, are in black and white but by the mid 1950s he was sometimes using colour film so the book is a mix of these. It has 48 pages and 53 photographs included with a retail price of £12.95.

I absolutely love this book. This is a quirky illustrated travelogue memoir by the inimitable and now retired Irish-bor...
15/05/2024

I absolutely love this book. This is a quirky illustrated travelogue memoir by the inimitable and now retired Irish-born Glasgow journalist Hugh Dougherty, of his week touring and exploring Ireland by public transport when he was an 18 year old. It’s fully illustrated with his own photographs and a picture of his long-kept battered and sellotaped 1969 summer trains timetable! With just the cash in your pocket and no atms or mobile phones if things went awry travel in 1969 was a bit different from today. In Hugh’s recollections you can feel his excitement, and the fear too! Plus his encounters with people and the joys of being at the sort of tender age when some people could be kind and some would try to take advantage. We've all been there (though sometimes it is hard to remember...),

Locations include Loughrea Station, Cork (with a train going down the middle of the street behind a flagman), Connolly Station in Dublin, Portarlington, Cork Kent Station, Cork Bus Station, Cobh, Tralee, Attymon Junction, Pearse Station, a mad crazy busy Wexford Quay, Howth (with a GNR (1) ‘BUT’ railcar set), and Waterside Station in Derry. The book retails at £12.95 as it is mainly in colour and includes 46 illustrations plus Hugh's travelogue. It's a different kind of railway book for sure. Please check with them that they still have stock but besides ourselves at www.stenlake.co.uk these other booksellers have been or are stockists: Douglas Blades, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Tornado Books and Hobbies, Rail Books, Camden Miniature Steam, MDS Booksales, Bill Hudson Books, Booklaw, Desmond McGlyy in Dublin, DC KIts-DE Videos, Platform 5 Publishing and more.

The author’s first love was trains. With British Rail he started as a porter, later becoming a signalman, but after bein...
15/05/2024

The author’s first love was trains. With British Rail he started as a porter, later becoming a signalman, but after being made redundant for the third time in three years he headed off to Ireland for fresh adventures with his new wife and his Rolleiflex Model T camera. This book is the result and includes images taken by the author between 1974 and 1982, also four “must-haves” from 1956 by Peter Barlow. Locations featured include Kilonan Junction, Limerick Engine Shed, Newcastle West, Rathkeale Station, Ballingrane Junction, Patrickswell, Foynes Junction, Colbert Station Yard, Limerick Check Cabin, Lisnagary Station and Dromkeen Signal Box. The rrp is £11.95 and the book is available from ourselves at www.stenlake.co.uk and other transport book retailers. Please check with them before travelling to ensure they have stock of the book but the following have all had the book from us: Railway Prservation Society of Ireland, Tornado Books and Hobbies in Birmingham, Douglas Blades, MDS Booksales, Rail Books, Booklaw in Nottingham, Platform 5 Publishing in Sheffield, Desmond McGlynn of Dublin, Bill Hudson Books, and Camden Miniature Steam.

This Ayrshire town grew from a large village centred on coal and agriculture to be a major industrial centre in the 19th...
15/05/2024

This Ayrshire town grew from a large village centred on coal and agriculture to be a major industrial centre in the 19th and 20th centuries. Companies established in Kilmarnock included BMK carpets, Saxone shoes, Barclay railway locomotives, Glenfield and Kennedy water valves, and Johnnie Walker whisky. Johnnie’s boots really were made for walking as his whisky and the other products listed were exported in vast numbers and quantities all over the world. It’s hard to believe now. The industry has mostly gone and the town is eerily forlorn and enduring civic intervention. Dean Quarry is now part of a “country park” within the town (what we used to call a park), Craig’s pottery works is houses, and the Massey Harris tractor works shed 1,500 jobs when it closed in 1980. Thomas S Cunningham’s nylon factory made Nike stockings long before an American shoe company nicked the name, but Kilmarnock had its own shoe factory and lots of engineering works. It’s not all doom and gloom (mostly it is let’s face it ) as Glacier Metal, a wartime relocation to Riccarton, have not melted away and , operating as Hahl, still produce ball bearings. With the exception of a few other survivors, this book is mainly a litany of Kilmarnock No More in the days when it was awash with jobs and before almost everyone worked for the council. If you like words such as demolition, loss, was and closed or just like to sound off about the good old days when people actually made things then this is the book for you. Seriously though, to understand Kilmarnock and its present-day problems its worth getting to grips with what made it the place it was and forged the people who live there. But all is not lost as some geniuses have came up with the idea of a 150 yards long arts corridor (cheap at £20 million) as the best way of spending our share of levelling-up money (no really this is 15th May not 1st April)...anyway that's just a little rant from the publisher. The author, Frank Beattie, is very unemotional in his narrative throughout the book and instead fills it with all the essential facts. Frank worked on the Kilmarnock Standard for many years and by rights should have been given a burgher's ticket for his lifelong promotion of Kimarnock's heritage many years ago. He's the author of many books on Kilmarnock but this is his latest and costs a modest £11.95. In Kilmarnock please go and buy this from our friends at Kev's Cards in the Foregate. Elsewhere you may struggle to find a shop with copies on sale, Ayrshire being a bit territorial that way, but any trade outlet (bookshop, garden centre, gift shop, petrol station or whatever) that wants to stock this do please get in touch. If you are nearer Catrine we can sell you the book from our factory shop in Mill Square. We are here roughly 9 to 5 Monday to Friday. And then there is the internet and you can order on our website at www.stenlake.co.uk

From medieval origins as a safe anchorage and a fishing village, in the early 18th century a harbour was created at Gre...
13/05/2024

From medieval origins as a safe anchorage and a fishing village, in the early 18th century a harbour was created at Greenock and it grew into a major customs port and industrial town. Shipbuilding started in 1711 and the town eventually had fourteen sugar refineries as well as various other industries. The second half of the 20th century especially saw Greenock losing much of its industry and, consequently, many of its buildings. Whole areas have been obliterated, but sometimes an old landmark or a tenement survives. The dry dock shown on the front cover of the book is now a car park! So the poor author has faced a few challenges in locating some of the exact spots of the old photos we have selected for him to include but he has done a magnificent job taking present-day images. He also written instructive captions that explain why these scenes have changed, in many case quite dramatically that will aid understanding of the town’s history and heritage. The book has 48 pages mostly in the format of the view as it is today on the facing page from the view as it used to be, and is in full colour throughout its 48 pages. The retail price is £12.95. The James Watt Library is the principal sales outlet in the town, and the book is also available form ourselves at www.stenlake.co.uk

The Cumbrian Coast Line is a product of several historical routes of different companies that eventually linked to provi...
13/05/2024

The Cumbrian Coast Line is a product of several historical routes of different companies that eventually linked to provide a coherent through route in more modern times. A central portion was threatened with closure under Beeching, but somehow managed to survive. By the early 1980s the line still carried a healthy mixture of freight including oil, chemicals, nuclear flasks, coal and scrap metal. The images in the book show Classes 25 and 40, 31s, 47s and 60s. Locations include Arnside Station, Kents Bank, Carlisle, Dalston Goods Yard, Maryport, Siddick Junction, Workington, Harrington, Whitehaven Bransty, Whitehaven, Corkickle, Calder Hall, Sellafield, Drigg, Millom, Foxfield, Ulverston and more. In similar format to his previous books for us this one has 48 landscape pages and 52 evocative photographs. Rrp is £11.95.

The author tells us this will be his last book. Fittingly it tells the story of the Luton Minor and Arthur’s involvement...
13/05/2024

The author tells us this will be his last book. Fittingly it tells the story of the Luton Minor and Arthur’s involvement with it. The Luton Minor had been designed pre-war for the home-built amateur and by the good fortune of having the right paperwork at a time when paperwork was king, in revived form it became the first post-war design for amateur construction. Arthur partnered up with the original designer, and before they fell out, developed the Luton LA.4a Minor, plans of which were sold all over the world, and later the LA.5a Major. But that’s only part of the story. The book is illustrated with lots of photographs of the author, including him building an aeroplane in the domestic surroundings of his folks’ house in Pinner. There's also a video of him doing this on YouTube as the curiosity value aroused much interest in the Press and media at the time. A very personal book to end his long writing career with. At 64 pages it's not long but in typical Arthur style is packed full of facts and anecdotes as well as 114 illustrations. RRP is £17.95

This new edition is essentially a compendium of the two Furness Railway titles produced by the late R W Rush for Oakwood...
13/05/2024

This new edition is essentially a compendium of the two Furness Railway titles produced by the late R W Rush for Oakwood, The Furness Railway 1843-1923 (published 1973) and Furness Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock (also 1973). Both titles have been unavailable for many years. These two books are now combined into the one volume which has been enhanced with the inclusion of many more period photographs. The original locomotives volume included several tables which have been superseded by more recent work and have hence been omitted from this edition. Otherwise, the original text has been retained with the exception of some errors that have been corrected. The book is an affordable introduction to the Furness Railway which served what is now south-west Cumbria. There are ten chapters, starting with one on the town and port of Barrow-in-Furness then several chapters dealing with The Furness and associated railways up to the 1923 Grouping. Chapter 7 deals with the Cleator & Workington Railway, and the later chapters are on locomotives and rolling stock. The final chapter looks at accidents, followed by appendices about the locomotive list and gradients. With 184 pages and 152 illustrations the book retails at £19.95.

This book is being published posthumously, some 15 years after the death of the author who prior to that had compiled a ...
13/05/2024

This book is being published posthumously, some 15 years after the death of the author who prior to that had compiled a number of railway titles for the Oakwood Press. The unpublished manuscript was passed to the Welsh Railways Research Circle with whose assistance Colin’s last book has been prepared for publication.

Prior to Grouping South Wales was a hornet’s nest of local railway companies, one of whom is the subject of this book. The PC&NR, originally an independent concern comprising about 7 and a half miles of main line railway, was absorbed by the Alexandra (Newport & South Wales) Docks and Railway so to some extent the development of this concern is examined too as their fortunes were inextricably related.

The first chapters of the book deal with the early schemes, promotion, construction and opening as an independent railway. Then the story moves on to the period of the railway being under the management of The Alexandra Docks and Railway business. Chapter six is about Grouping to closure, and chapter seven is entitled “Along the Lines” and is a description of the route and its features. Locomotive and Train Working is the penultimate chapter before Postscript. The 79 illustrations include photographs and half a dozen or so maps. With 160 pages in the traditional Oakwood A5 format the book retails at £18.95.

This is a straight reprint of the Oakwood book first published in 1991 with a second edition in 2001 reprinted in 2004. ...
13/05/2024

This is a straight reprint of the Oakwood book first published in 1991 with a second edition in 2001 reprinted in 2004. It has been unavailable for many years and recounts the history of this scenic NER branch line which linked Alston in Cumberland with Haltwhistle in Northumberland. The branch opened in November 1852 under the aegis of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway and after a tussle for control between bigger railway companies the North Eastern Railway acquired it in 1862. The book follows typical Oakwood narrative with Chapter One appropriately being about beginnings, whilst Chapter Two deals with the NER period. Chapters Three and Four are “Along the Line” aka description of the route, layout etc. Then there is a chapter on the British Railways era before finally looking at the 1976 closure which was justified on the provision of a new “all-weather road” to Alston which almost immediately was shown to be not fit for purpose. No surprise there then. Meantime the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society leapt into action, and although failing in their initial preservation efforts have since opened a narrow gauge railway as far as Gilderdale.

The book has 120 pages with 77 illustrations and is affrodably priced at £16.95.

The author, perhaps better known for his many books on Scotland’s canals and industrial history was one of these £10 pom...
17/04/2024

The author, perhaps better known for his many books on Scotland’s canals and industrial history was one of these £10 poms, hence his interest in this subject as part of his family history. That’s what he tells us anyway – but maybe he was actually one of those early convicts transported to the penal colony of Australia in the 1780s whose experiences he seems so familiar with!

The story of emigration down under continues with the encouraged emigration of the 1830s and the more comfortable vessels of the late Victorian era. The 20th century ships who did the Aussie run for the Orient Line, the Blue Anchor Line, the Commonwealth Line, the Branch Line, P & O and more are featured too, finally looking at the P & O ‘Straths’. Then the book focuses on the ports of call before arrival at Sydney Harbour and the quirks of living in an English-speaking country with more sunshine (especially at Christmas), exotic fruit and a different array of bugs and beasties from snakes to flying cockroaches.

Although the book on first look appears to be about the ships (and it is) the lengthy captions always set these in the context of the emigrant experience. Other than his interest in (inland) canals the author is far from being a shipping "anorak" and the captions abound with human interest, just making the whole thing readable and enjoyable.

Happily Guthrie came back to Blighty and became enthusiastic about Britain's decaying canals, his interest culminating in being involved with the Millenium Link. He also at our behest became an expert in the coal mining industry in Scotland. We would really like you to do a book on the Ayrshire mining industry we said. He hummed and hawed and played hard to get until gradually agreeing. That book was a great success and led to half a dozen more on mining in Scotland and this process made him pretty well the go to expert on the subject. So it's all our fault.

This book is a bit of fun packed with facts you had no idea about and is in the old towns format priced at £11.95

The book was first published in 1977 by the Oxford Publishing Co. , then revised for a 1997 edition by the Oakwood Press...
04/04/2024

The book was first published in 1977 by the Oxford Publishing Co. , then revised for a 1997 edition by the Oakwood Press, which has been unavailable for many years and is now reprinted in warts and all fashion. The book is concerned with the part of Devonshire (Glorious Devon) known as the South Hams, the history of which is briefly told in Chapter One. Chapter Two is an account of the railway’s beginnings, a false start and the construction of the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Railway which would join the GWR main line at Brent station. Chapter Three deals with the 1897 opening and Chapter Four is a description of the line. Other chapters are Branch Traffic and Operations, Boats and Buses, The Running of the Station, and inevitably The Final Years. Chapter Nine, unusually for an Oakwood Press book, features Characters and Reminiscences. Chapter Ten is the slightly forlorn Epilogue, a description of the remnants of the line just prior to the publication of the 1997 edition. With 144 pages and 120 illustrations in the traditional Oakwood A5 format the book retails at £20.95. Stockists include Douglas Blades, MDS Booksales, Rail Books, Bill Hudson Books, DC KIts & Videos, Tornado Books, Booklaw and Platform 5. Many of these do the various transport shows up and down the country. Also available from ourselves at www.stenlake.co.uk and from other internet bookselling retailers (are there any famous ones?)...

The geology of the Escarpment at Niagara is of layers of shale and sandstone topped off by a hard layer of limestone, b...
15/03/2024

The geology of the Escarpment at Niagara is of layers of shale and sandstone topped off by a hard layer of limestone, but as the water erodes the lower levels the upper levels are undercut and the limestone breaks away. Unless the process is stopped or halted in 25,000 years the erosion will reach Lake Erie. Added to this is the destructive power of icemelt powering down the river. Hence although this illustrated history only deals with a few hundred years the area has seen a lot of change, with only four of the thirteen bridges built over the river surviving. This new book, illustrated with 19th and 20th century photographs, old postcard images and transportation advertising brochures tells the story of the Falls - about how tourism developed over the decades, the industrialisation on the American side, and of course all the various daredevil exploits such as high wire crossings or going over the Falls in a barrel! Alex Young’s captions tie it all together to make for an attractive and informative souvenir of this natural wonder.

You might ask why has a wee publisher in the west of Scotland produced a book on Niagara, which must be a good 3,500 miles away. Well firstly for the hell of it - we do what we usually do pretty well but it's fun to do something different and we have done books on Africa (some of them have even sold quite well and gone out in decent quantities to Zambia), had a Chines edition edition of our Lucie Rie book done but this is the first time we have done something for America. I love America but not in an I Love America kind of way. Have been there many times and made many good friends, some now departed. So this is a long-standing ambition achieved. We also saw something of a gap in the market and the material for the illustrations in the book have been collected by me over a 20 years period of looking for the unusal Niagara items at the Allentown Paper Show and the like. Victorian era photographs, 20th century postcards, vintage travel brochures are all included here as the eye candy to accompany Alex's captions. The book is in full colour, has 52 illustrations and retails at £12.95. Available form ourselves at www.stenlake.co.uk It would be nice for this to be on sale at the Falls where I think it would do very well and we would be happy to licence this to a US publisher for North America.

Sidmouth in Devon was already popular as a health resort before the railway age, which first embraced the town in 1836 w...
14/03/2024

Sidmouth in Devon was already popular as a health resort before the railway age, which first embraced the town in 1836 when a short railway was constructed to move building materials to the site of a new harbour. This story is briefly told in the first chapter of this book. It was not until 1874 that Sidmouth got a connection to the the main network of the L&SWR. Further development came with the construction of the Budleigh and Salterton Railway, opened in 1897 from Tipton St John’s to Budleigh Salterton. In 1903 this was extended to Exmouth. The lines enjoyed healthy summer season passenger figures into the 1950s, but the usual fate befell them in the 60s and closure came in 1967.

Originally published in 1996 this title has been unavailable for many years and is a straight reprint of the 1996 edition in the traditional A5 Oakwood format. There are nine chapters covering early history, descriptions of the lines, train services, locomotives and coaches etc. These take up 104 pages peppered with 108 illustrations and the retail price is £14.95. It's early days with this but current stockists include Douglas Blades of Ardrossan (mail order and shows), Bill Hudson Books in Matlock, DC Kits of Leeds, Platform 5 of Sheffield, Paragon Books in Sidmouth, Tornado Bookshop in Birmingham and Strathwood Publishing who do mail order and advertise in the mags. As usual we can supply direct by means of our website at www.stenlake.co.uk We are told the site is "easy to navigate" and it lacks all those joys of the modern world such as pop-up adverts trying to hook you up with over 50s dating in Nether Wallop and that sort of thing! None of that tosh on our website!

Many years in preparation the author has left no stone unturned in his researches. The publisher may have had to threate...
14/03/2024

Many years in preparation the author has left no stone unturned in his researches. The publisher may have had to threaten to retire to have the manuscript handed over but the finished book has been well worth the wait (even if we have lost count of how many years it has been), resulting in lengthy captions packed full of detailed information about the 59 properties featured. The full list of the properties selected for the book is shown on our website (or will be soon!) , and includes well-known landmarks like the forelorn remnants of Eglinton Castle, now the centrepiece of the country park in Irvine, and lesser-known properties like Ardeer House, Stevenston which acted as the dynamite factory’s recreation club until it was demolished in 1966. The properties selected are a mix of losses and survivors, the latter often repurposed for the modern world although some remain residential. In the book the buildings are presented in alphabetical order with locations including Largs, Beith, Dalry, Irvine, Ardrossan, West Kilbride, Fairlie etc. Among those included are Crummuck Park House in Beith; Brooksby House, Largs (that's the house on the front cover);The Fort, West Kilbride; Fairlie House; Fairlie Lodge; Redheugh Lodge, Kilbirnie and many more. The book retails at £11.95 and is just going out t the trade now so I don't have a list of stockists as yet, but will add these soon. In the meantime you can order from our website at www.stenlake.co.uk or by phone on 01290 551122 or come and see us in chucking it down with rain today Catrine. We get a lot of rain here, but that's exactly why the town is here as it had a massive cotton mill powered by waterwheels and consequently the wet climate supplied plenty of power...

This was the network of lines centred around Kington (in Herefordshire) whose development followed the success of the de...
20/02/2024

This was the network of lines centred around Kington (in Herefordshire) whose development followed the success of the development of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway which opened in 1852 and served Leominster from south and north. This success rekindled desires in Kington for a link with this system, which came to fruition when the line opened in 1857. The modest branch line to Eardisley opened in 1874. The extension to New Radnor and the branch line to Presteigne both opened in 1875.
The book comprises three lengthy chapters covering the usual ground. Chapter one is the historical outline starting with early transport in Herefordshire through the various openings and then into the 20th century, the two world wars, peace and Nationalisation. Chapter 2 deals with operation of the lines including signalling, passenger train services, motive power, engine sheds, rolling stock, Goods traffic etc. etc. Chapter 3 is a description of a journey over the lines in the 1930s. The book also has an epilogue, a bibliography and an index. In the classic Oakwood Press A5 format it's quite compact at 104 pages and has 67 illustrations and is at an affordable retail price of £15.95. There's loads of stockists, here goes: Castle Hill Bookshop in Llandrindod Wells, Ledbury Books, Bill Hudson Books, Tornado Books in Birmingham, MDS Booksales in Glossop, Booklaw in Nottingham, Vale of Rheidol railway in Aberystwyth, Rossiter Books in Ross on Wye, Rail Books in Rye, Strathwood Publishing, Olatform 5, Saul Staniforth, Gnerations Gone By, plus if you must line old Jeff's pockets doubtless Amazin have it too - and natch also available form the Stenlake Publishing/Oakwood Press website at www.stenlake.co.uk

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In an age of change Stenlake Publishing is an old-fashioned independent book publisher based in the west of Scotland in the heart of Burns country. We are best known for our books on old towns, transport and industrial history, but we have a thousand titles in print between our various imprints namely Stenlake Publishing, Oakwood Press (railways mainly) and Alloway Publishing (Robert Burns & other general interest titles). We also have books on bee-keeping, horticulture, studio pottery and some other odds and ends. All our books are shown on our website at www.stenlake.co.uk but please like our page to keep abreast of new titles and quirky commentary. You can buy or books on-line on our website, from other online retailers, from good bookshops (any bookshop still open qualifies for the epithet good), on the phone, or by calling at our Catrine factory shop Monday to Friday 9 to 5 except holidays.