Hi Members, After a long break I resume my attention to the files of this group. High blood pressure means that I still have problems with looking at the...
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Steve Holland
uworldst
Jun 9, 2006 4:10 pm
Hi Jim, Good to hear you're back at the computer. You've been missed :-) Kindest regards, Steve....
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Opsbooks@...
opsbooks
Jun 10, 2006 12:09 am
In a message dated 10/06/06 2:11:28 AUS Eastern Standard Time, steve@... writes: << Good to hear you're back at the computer. You've been...
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jmackenzie48
Aug 29, 2006 2:01 pm
Hi, I have just obtained 'Camerons on the Train' by Jane Duncan. I see there is a 'Camerons' series of at least five books. I have just added it to the files....
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David Ross
bty6800969
Aug 29, 2006 3:01 pm
Jane Duncan also wrote another series for children about 'Janet Reachfar'. Herself and Janet Reachfar (1975) Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie (1976) Janet...
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Airth
pamelasourous
Aug 29, 2006 7:03 pm
Jane also wrote under the name Janet Sandison. Pam Cape Town [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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jmackenzie48
Aug 29, 2006 7:46 pm
My thanks go to Steven Salem who recently sent information about mistakes in the details in the files on the 'Brian Grant' files by Ronald Seth. In particular...
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jmackenzie48
Aug 29, 2006 11:17 pm
I found this account of this Jane Duncan book on Abebooks. I will transfer it to the files. ... about Black Rory, who lived in the old quarry, and the horrible...
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jmackenzie48
Aug 30, 2006 7:07 pm
... about a little girl growing up on a remote Highland farm with her dog, Fly, her sometimes fierce grandmother, Herself, and her special friends, the...
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jmackenzie48
Aug 30, 2006 9:00 pm
This makes three Jane Duncan stories that I have managed to trace in the Abebooks listings. Several other books by Jane Duncan (most likelyu for adults)...
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jmackenzie48
Oct 9, 2006 1:24 pm
Hi, Once again I have fallen by the wayside through a bout of ill health. This is particularly difficult as it involves a vision problem. However, I hope to...
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Opsbooks@...
opsbooks
Oct 9, 2006 10:11 pm
In a message dated 9/10/06 11:24:33 AUS Eastern Standard Time, jmackenzie48@... writes: << Once again I have fallen by the wayside through a bout of...
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jmackenzie48
Oct 10, 2006 10:24 am
Hi, Steven Salem has kindly sent me some summaries of the 'Brian Grant@ series by Ronald Seth. I will be pasting them here and into the files as I gradually...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 16, 2006 8:23 pm
Hi, Back at the computer again at last ! Amongst the authors that I can remember from my childhood is Lois Lamplugh. Her series was about the Allen family and...
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David Ross
bty6800969
Nov 17, 2006 12:31 pm
Hello, A series book not mentioned so far is by Sylvia Sherry. This is @A 'A Pair of Jesus Boots' which features the character Rocky. There are four books:- A...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 17, 2006 2:35 pm
Thanks. The list has now been added to the files. Jim....
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jmackenzie48
Nov 18, 2006 4:13 pm
Here is another account of one the Brian Grant series that was sent to me by Steven Salem. Rockets on Moon Island (Bles, 1959) Captain Brian Grant considers...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 19, 2006 8:09 pm
HI, I have just added another account of a Brian Grant story that was sent on me by Steven Salem Operation Ormer (Bless, 1956) Although the Nazis occupied the...
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David Ross
bty6800969
Nov 21, 2006 2:31 pm
This is the second book in the Rocky O'Rourke series, It was written many years after the initial success of 'A Pair of Jesus Boots'. It is set in Liverpool...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 27, 2006 11:22 pm
If you look at the Links page you will see the addition of 'Storybook E Britain' site which tries to deal with quite a few authors in relation to the places...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 27, 2006 11:24 pm
Just a small update on the Files section. I have recently added the 'Linda' series by Winifred Donald and the 'Argle' series by M.M. Pardoe. Don't forget you...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 27, 2006 11:27 pm
Sorry, it should in fact be 'Storybook England' rather than 'Storybook Britain'. Jim....
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oldwalcot
Nov 28, 2006 8:32 pm
Hi Jim The below seem to be the total in this series by Norman DALE. I have not read any but his The Casket and the Sword was a favourite read. Good to see you...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 28, 2006 9:00 pm
Hi Chris. Many thanks. I have just added this information to the files. Best wishes, Jim....
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jmackenzie48
Nov 29, 2006 4:47 pm
Here is an account of a book that I have known and loved for more than 50 years:- Bill and Susan Melbury move with their mother to a cottage just outside the...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 30, 2006 7:01 pm
Hi, The following information about 'Missing Matilda' was extracted from Abebooks. There appear to be five books in the series. "When Mary Ann and Jimmy learn...
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jmackenzie48
Nov 30, 2006 7:05 pm
This is a much shorter account taken from Abebooks of the third in the series. "More exploits of Jimmy and Mary Ann in the saddle. They travel 50 miles on...
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David Ross
bty6800969
Dec 1, 2006 2:19 pm
There are two children's series by Rodie Sudbery. In one there are four books and in the other there are five books. Lucy and Michael have the following...
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David Ross
bty6800969
Dec 1, 2006 2:25 pm
I found the following brief account on Abebooks:- When Lucy and Michael go to stay with their grandmother for the holidays they end up visiting the kindly Mrs...
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jmackenzie48
Dec 2, 2006 9:33 pm
The Encclopaedia of Girls School Stories tells us that these two authors, though writing in the same time frame, were not the same person. I have coped from...
