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The library launches its first women-only cheese-making course next week.
Consider her whey is a ladies-only evening course looking at all aspects of cheese making from culture to coagulation.
Ask at the Front Desk for a course pamphlet.
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The fifth in an occasional series of posts revealing some of the items left in returned books.
#5 is a torn sheet of numerical sequences printed on sprocket-feed paper by a dot-matrix printer
Whilst the numbers seem random there is every chance they could hold the answer to some ancient and long-forgotten truth. If anyone can suggest a suitable cipher to decrypt the code, please see us at the Front Desk.
(On the back of the print-out, incidentally, is a handwritten account of the history of glass bottles).
The bookmark was found in WA Jackson’s The Victorian Chemist and Druggist
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A leisure map of Stockport. For more of these maps, visit the Reference Library and ask at the desk for “maps”.
Chapelkill Library Bookmarks
The fourth in an occasional series of posts revealing some of the items left in returned books.
#4 is a beautiful bookmark advertising Piccolo books.
The bookmark was found in The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway.
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Aubrey Burl’s Prehistoric Stone Circles from the incredible Shire series.
The cover photograph shows Swinside Stone Circle in Cumbria defined by its entrance gate, an extra pair of portal stones.
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Jacqueline Fearn’s Domestic Bygones on the wonderful Shire imprint.
The bygones illustrated on the cover are (clockwise from top left); a wall-hanging kitchen-knife box; a Victorian composite tool, characteristically neatly organised; a visiting-card case; boot driers or warmers, which were filled with hot water; a lemon squeezer.
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The library would like to thank everyone who has so far contributed to the Chapelkill Institute of Chronophotography restoration project
The Institute was founded in the 1930s by a collective of Northern England’s most experimental filmmakers, physicians, librarians and alchemists. They employed a variety of kinetscopic and electrotachyscopic techniques to produce a unique body of public information films, experimental shorts and local document.
The recent fire which razed Chapelkill Factory destroyed much of the Institute’s highly flammable archive.
Following last year’s appeal, the library has received hours of footage from collectors, film clubs and enthusiasts, material that was feared lost for good.
The material is being lovingly restored by our Head Librarian in preparation for a week long festival of the Institute’s work some time around the solstice.
To get involved, please ask at the Front Desk.
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The Victorian Chemist and Druggist by WA Jackson, published by the consistently brilliant Shire Publications.
The cover photograph shows a specie jar; a cobalt blue syrup bottle with recessed glass label; a wooden powder folder and a pale blue glass eyebath.
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The basement yields more of its treasures.
Cover design by Monica Elias featuring James Esnor’s painting , Mask Confronting Death.
Published by Book-of-the-Month Club, 1992
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The Giant Jam Sandwich, story and pictures by John Vernon Lord with verses by Janet Burroway.
Published by Piccolo, 1974
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Eric R Delderfield’s Brief Guide to Inn Signs published by The Raleigh Press Ltd
