POULTNEY, Bernard and Olive, and Alan Richards THE LOST WORLD OF HANBURY. The Village in the Forest of Feckenham , Worcs., U.K: Poultney and Richards, 2000.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author Inscription and signature by the authors "Bernard and Olive Poultney" on the half-title page. Pages 1 to 8 have a light crease about 4" long starting at bottom edge near front edge of text. xii,196pp. With over 200 black-and-white photographs. The history of Hanbury in Worcestershire beginning with its Iron Age hillfort on Church Hill and ending with the break-up of its two great landed estates after the Second World War, and the dissolution of a social and economic system which had survived from medieval times. The recollections of the villagers, gamekeepers, blacksmiths woodsmen domestic servants, farmers , gentry etc, who saw the old country ways of life changing in the twentieth century. They saw the end of the old squirearchy and the relics of feudal dependence on the two biggest landowners and employers, the Bearcrofts of Mere Hall and the Vernons of Hanbury Hall. (9½"h x 7"w) (24.5cms x 18cms) approx. (Book ref. 7600)  £58.00

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