Abbreviations A-C
THESE ABBREVIATIONS (MOST TO SOURCES) ARE USED IN MANY OF THE MALTHOUSE PRESS PUBLICATIONS
A
A. Audley - An Out of the Way, Quiet Place. R Speake. 1974
AA. AA Places to Visit in Britain. Many Authors. 1988
AA Automobile Association
AAA Amateur Athletic Association
AAD. Ashbourne and the Dove. Published by Dawson & Abbson. 1839
AADB. About Adbaston. J Somner Billington. 1982 (private publication. copy in WSL) AAHH. Apparitions & Haunted Houses. Sir Ernest Bennett. 1939
AASE. Archaeology of Anglo Saxon England. David M Wilson. 1976
AB. Abbots Bromley. Marcia Alice Rice. 1939
ABAB. Abbots Bromley: A glimpse into the past. Local History Group. 1982
ABDUCTION. Abduction. Jenny Randles. 1988
ABI. Ancient Bronze Implements etc. Sir John Evans. 1881
ABMB. Medieval Bromley. Local History Group.1987
ABMEE. Ancient Bridges of Mid and Eastern England. E Jervoise. 1932
ABS. About Britain Series. No 5. 1951
ABTOP. Around Burton-upon-Trent in Old Photographs. Geoffrey Sowerby & Richard Farman. 1993.
ABUD. A History and Guide to St Mary’s Parish Church, Uttoxeter. Alan Smith.
ABW. Ancient Brewood. Mary E Wakefield. 1932
ACGM. Art & Craft of Garden Making.
ACH. The Ancient Corporation of Hanley. WD Spanton. 1901
ACHRH. A Revised History of the Ancient Corporation of Hanley. JS Crapper. 1882
ACOB. A Chronicle of Bradeley: The Story of an English village from 1000-2000 AD. William & Anne Wilkinson. 1999
ACOP. Around Cannock in Old Postcards. Mary Mills. 1990
ACOPP. Around Cheadle (The Old Photograph Series). W George Short. 1994
ADD. A Duty Done: The History of Fire-Fighting in Staffordshire. Jonathan R Powner. 1987
ADY. Aldridge and District Yesterdays. Walsall Archive Service. 1984
AE. History & Ownership of the Alton Estates. Sister Mary Lelia Noonan. 1986
AFT. Albion’s Fatal Tree. Douglas Hay. 1975
AGT. A Grand Tour. Neville Malkin. 1976
AH. Aston Hall by Stone. Rev Canon FH Drinkwater. 1976
AHH. Ancient High House, Stafford. B Lambert. 1986
AHJ. Audley Historian. 1995 -
AJ. Antiquaries Journal.
ALC. Around Leek in Camera. Ray Poole. 1990
ALOPP. Aldridge on Old Picture Postcards. Jan Farrow. 1993
ALOPPR. Aldridge Revisited. (Britain in Old Photographs Series). Jan Farrow. 1998
ALP. Archaeological Survey of the Parish of Lower Penn South West Staffordshire. John P Malam. 1980
als alias
ALV. A Life of Admiral Lord St Vincent. Capt WV Anson RN. 1913
ALW. Ashley, Loggerheads and Woore: A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards. Barbara & Dennis Morris. 1989
AMS. Story of the Ancient Manor of Sedgley. EA Underhill. 1941
AMSN. Ancient Monument Society Newsletter.
ANE. Architecture of North England. John Martin Robinson
ANS. Anslow. Colin Owen. 1995
ANZAC The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
AOA. Annals of Arley. Rev HR Mayo. 1914
AOBC. Aspects of the Black Country. Charles JL Elwell. 1991
AOL. Account of Lichfield.
AOPP. Audley in Old Picture Postcards. Robert Speake. 1984
AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
AOS. Agriculture of Staffordshire. W Pitt. 1794. 1796
AOW. Annals of Willenhall. FW Hackwood. 1908
AP Air-Photograph
APB. Archaeological Papers (reprinted from SA). SAH Burne
APC armoured personnel carrier
APCC. Annals of the Parish Church, Coseley. John Mills. 1912
App Appendix
Apr April
APR. Early Days of Aldridge, Pelsall & Rushall. Richard D Woodall. ND
APW. Around Pattingham and Wombourne (Britain in Old Photographs Series). May Griffiths, Mary Mills & Peter Leigh. 1992. APW
AR. Around Rugeley in Old Photographs. T Randall & J Anslow. 1988
ARA Association of the Royal Academy
Arch Archaeology or Archaeological
ARCH. Archaeologia.
ARCHJ. Archaeological Journal.
ARP Air Raid Precautions
AS. Ancient Stafford (reprinted from BAST). Thomas J David. 1922?
ASE. The Annals of Shenstone. RW Essington. 1899
ASHM Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
ASI. Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland. Sir John Evans. 1897 2nd edition.
ASOP. Around Stafford in Old Photographs. T Randall & J Anslow. 1991
AT. Alton Towers - The Stranger’s Guide. NA. 1850
ATSH. Around the Saxon Hill. Michael Albutt. 1990
ATV Associated Television
Aug August
AUOPP. Around Uttoxeter. (Images of England Series). Roy Lewis. 1999
Ave Avenue
AVH. Alstonefield: A Village History. Jeni Edwards. 1985
AWM. Arrowsmith in the West Midlands. Arrowsmith. 1974
B
b born
B Borough
B. Bagnall - on the Fringe of the Moorlands. R Speake. 1990
BA Bachelor of Arts
BAH. Barlaston A History. MW Greenslade. 1966
BALH. Biddulph A Local History. Joseph Kennedy. 1980
BAOH. Birchills: an oral History. Sue Wildig & Jenny Wright. 1985
BAP. Bronze Age Pottery. Lord Abercromby. 1912
Bart Baronet
BART. Barthomley: In letters from a former rector to his eldest son. Rev Edward Hinchliffe. 1856
BAS Birmingham Archaeology Society
BAST. Birmingham Archaeology Society Transactions. 1870-
BAT. Black’s Guide to Alton Towers. Llewellynn Jewitt. 1870
BATR. Brocklehurst’s Authentic Excursionists’ Guide. Francis Redfern. 1870
Batt Battalion
BB. Boscobel. Thomas Blount. 1660
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BBCD. Barrows & Bone Caves of Derbyshire. R Pennington. 1817
BBH. Burston: A Brief History. Robert J Selby. 1985 (private thesis)
BC. Black Country. Phil Drabble. 1952
BCC. British Calendar Customs. Mrs AR Wright & TE Lones. 1938
BCFF. British Car Factories From 1896 - A complete Historical, Geographical, Architectural & Technological Survey. Michael Stratton & Paul Collins. 1993.
BCGB. Walks Black Country and its Green Borderland. Elihu Burritt. 1868
BCM. The Black Countryman Journal. 1968-
BCOPP. Black Country in Old Picture Postcards. Eric Woolley. vols 1 and 2 1988. 1990
BCP. Black Country Pubs (Britain in Old Photographs series). Robin Pearson & Jean Wade. 1991
BCS. Black Country Sketches. Amy Lyons. 1901
BCSB. Black Country Stories. E Baker. 1952
BCSBG. Black Country Sketchbook Guide. Edmund Bealby Wright. 1996
BCSG. Black Country Stories. TH Gough. 1934 1949 ed.
BCTV. Black Country Towns and Villages. Michael Raven. 1991
BCWJ. The Black Country. J Wilson-Jones. c1950
BDD. Birmingham Diocesan Directory. 1998/9
BDH. Brewood. David Horovitz. 1988. 1992
BDMN. Burton Daily Mail Newspaper.
BEC. Barton in the Eighteenth Century. Local History Class. ND
Beds Bedfordshire
BEH. A Brown Edge History. Alan Pointon. 1998
BERK. The Story of the Ancient Parish of Berkswich (near Stafford). Volume 1. Alfred Middlefell. 1995
BERK2. The Story of the Ancient Parish of Berkswich (near Stafford). Volume 2. Alfred Middlefell. 1996
Berks Berkshire
BEV. Bird’s Eye View: The Midlands. Vivian Bird. 1969
BEW. Beauties of England and Wales. Nightingale. 1813
BFS. The Battle for Stafford. John Band. 1985
BG. Biddulph Grange. Peter Hayden. 1989
BGFB. Biddulph Grange written for its league of friends. Anne Ferris. 1984
BH. Broughton Hall: A Short History. Franciscan Missionaries of St Joseph. 1972
BHM Birmingham City Museum
BHOP. Brierley Hill. (Britain in Old Photographs Series). Stan Hill. 1995
BHOP2. Brierley Hill. (Britain in Old Photographs Series). Stan Hill. 1996 2nd ed.
BHS. Biddulph Historical Society (Transactions). No. 1 June 1968 - No. 4 Dec 1973 BHT. Brownhills History Trail. Millfield Primary School. From 1970
BILP1 Bilberry Pie. JE Roberts. 1963
BILP2 More Bilberry Pie. JE Roberts. 1966
BIOPP. Biddulph (The Archive Photographs Series). Derek J Wheelhouse. 1997
BIOPP2 = Biddulph ‘Images of England’ volume 2. Derek J Wheelhouse. 2005
BJHS. Brewood (and a Resume 1867). James Hicks Smith. 1874
BL British Library, London
BLHT. Brownhills Local History Trail. Walsall Library & Museum Services
BLS. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Revised edition H Thurston & SJD Attwater. 1956 BM British Museum, London
BM1923. British Museum Anglo-Saxon Guide. 1923
BM1953. BM Guide to the Later Prehistoric Antiquities. 1953
BMB. Guide to British Monumental Brasses. Richard Le Strange. 1972
BMMB. A Manuel of Monumental Brasses. Rev Herbert Haines. 1861 1970 edition
BMQ. British Museum Quarterly.
BMSGH. Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.
BMWDD. Beauty & Mystery of Well Dressing, Derbys. C Porteous. 1949
BN. Building News.
BNDA. Blurton and its Neighbourhood Down the Ages. SE Boden. 1985
BOB. Beresford of Beresford. Rev W Beresford & SB Beresford. 1908
BOE. Buildings of England: Staffordshire. N Pevsner. 1974
BOEC. Buildings of England: Cheshire. N Pevsner and Edward Hubbard. 1971
BOED. Buildings of England: Derbyshire. N Pevsner. 1953 1986 edition
BOES. Buildings of England: Shropshire. N Pevsner. 1958
BOEW. Buildings of England: Worcestershire. N Pevsner. 1968
BOEWA. Buildings of England: Warwickshire. N Pevsner & Alexander Wedgwood. 1966
BOJ. Book of Jabez. A Scott (alias WA Bloor). Book 1 1972. Book 2 1973. Book 3 1978
BOOP. Birmingham on Old Postcards. John Marks. 1982
BOP. Bilston in Old Photographs. Elizabeth A Rees. 1988
BOPP. Betley in Old Picture Postcards. Robert Speake. 1984
BOR. The Book of Ranton: The Story of a Staffordshire Village. Frank Foden. 1993
BOV. Book of the Village, Broughton. Women’s Institute. 1949 1986 edition
BOW. Bibliography of Wolverhampton. GT Lawley. 1890
BP. An Historical Account of Bilston. Joseph Price. 1835
BPBBP. Burslem People and Buildings, Buildings and People. Carmel Dennison. 1996
BPCSM. Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Staffordshire Moorlands. H Bode. 1986
BPL Birmingham Public Library
BPP. Bushbury Parish & People 1550-1950. AH Chatwin. 1983
BPS. Bye-Paths of Staffordshire. Rev Weston E Vernon Yonge. 1911
BPT. Borough By Prescription: A History of Tamworth. Henry Wood. 1958
BPW. Beaudesert, The Pagets and Waterloo. John Godwin. 1992
Brit British
BRITC. British Caving. CHD Collingwood. 1962
BRMB (Birmingham Broadcasting Ltd’s radio station for Birmingham)
BRO. Boscobel or The Royal Oak. William Harrison Ainsworth. ND
BS. Bibliotheca Staffordiensis. Rupert Simms. 1894
BSB. The Book of Saints. Compiled by Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. 1966 5th edition
BSC. Bilston in the Seventeenth Century. (press cuttings). GT Lawley. ND
BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy
BSL. History of St Laurence Church. AN Bebington. ND
BSTAFFS. Buildings of Staffordshire. Staffs County Planning & Development Dept 1982
Bt Baronet
BT. The Boscobel Tract: relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after Worcester. Edited by John Hughes. 1830
BTBC. Book of the Black Country. Jon Raven. 1982
BTC. Betley Through the Centuries. GN Brown. 1985
BTIH. Burton-upon-Trent: The Illustrated History. Colin Owen. 1994
BTNHAS Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeological Society
BTNHAST. Burton Natural History & Archaeological Society Transactions. 1889-1933
BTOP. Burton-upon-Trent on Old Postcards. Geoffrey Sowerby and Richard Farman. Volumes 1 & 2. 1983. 1984
BTRA. Burnt Tree Round About. RC Broadbent. 1983
BTW. Bilston, Tettenhall and Wednesfield. (Images of England series). Mary Mills and Tracey Williams. 1998.
BU. Bucknall. Elizabeth W Bass. 1989
BUB. Bentilee, Ubberley and Berryhill. Bentilee Scribblers. 1994
BUBA. A Staffordshire Family: Tracing the Bamfords of Uttoxeter. Marion Bamford. 1978
Bucks Buckinghamshire
BUOP. Bushbury in Old Photographs. Alex Chatwin, Mary Mills and Elizabeth Rees. 1993
BVC. Betley A Village of Contrasts. Robert Speake. 1980
B/w Black and white
BW&DR Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Dudley Railway
BW&SVR Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Stour Valley Railway
BWWOPP. Brownhills and Walsall Wood on Old Postcards. Jan Farrow. 1992
BY. Bloxwich Yesterdays. Walsall Archives Services. 1982
BZ. Bridges - National Benzole Books. Sir Hugh Casson. 1963
C
c about (if before a date)
c after a date census return
C century (if before a number)
CA. Current Archaeology Journal.
CAA. A Walk back in time around Coseley. C Beryl Wilkes. 1983
C&COP. Codsall and Claregate. (Archive Photographs Series). Alec Brew. 1996.
Cal Inq Calendar Inquisitions
CAM. County Archaeologist Maps 2.5 inch to 1 mile.
Cambs Cambridgeshire
CAMS. The Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire and the West Midlands County. Mike Salter. 1989
Capt(s) Captain(s)
CAST. Church & Ancient Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. Richard Talbot. 1969
CB Companion of the Bath
CB County Borough
CBD. Chambers Book of Days. Edited by R Chambers. 1888
CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire
CBHBT. County Borough: History of Burton-on-Trent. Part 1: Edwardian Burton. Denis Stuart. 1975.
CBL. Collection of Boscobel Literature. Presented by P Bayliss. 1878 1843 1910
CC County Council
CC or CCME. Castle Church with some account of its Parish and Manor and of its Escheat Temporary Henry VIII (Stafford Castle and Manor). TJ de Mazzinghi. ND
CCAP. Cannock Chase: The Archive Photograph Series. Sherry Belcher and Mary Mills. 1994
CCBO. Best of Cannock Chase. M Wright. 1933
CCC. Chronicles of Cannock Chase. FW Hackwood. 1903
(C)CC (County) Cricket Club
CC&WR Cannock Chase & Wolverhampton Railway
CCF. The Friendship of Cannock Chase. M Wright. 1935
CCHCA. Coaching City. Howard Clayton. 1970
CCHCB. Cathedral City - A Look at Victorian Lichfield. Howard Clayton. 1977
CCION. Clent Clarion. Journal of the Clent Historical Society
CCM. Cannock Chase Map. Staffordshire County Council. 1984
CCME see CC
CCOP. Caves and Caverns of the Peakland. C Porteous. 1950
CCR. Charles Cotton and his River. Gerald GP Heywood. 1928
CCSHO. Capital Crimes Staffs Hanging Offences. Ros Prince. 1994
CCT. Cheadle Coal Town: Eight Centuries of Coal Mining in the The Cheadle District. Herbert A Chester. 1981
CCTV Close Circuit Television
CCWs Corresponding City Wards. Stoke-on-Trent City District (hitherto a CB) used its wards as electoral divisions in Staffordshire CC 1974-96.
CDBC. Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country. CFG Clark
CDPOPP. Congleton & District: A Portrait in Old Pictures. M & C McLean. 1988
CDS. Croxden. Denis Stuart. 1984
CE. Some Account of the Parish of Church Eaton. Rev Canon GTO Bridgeman. 1884
cf compare
CGE. China and the Gardens of Europe in the 18th Century. Oswald Siren. 1950
ch chapter
CH. Civic Heraldry of England and Wales. C Wilfrid Scott-Giles. 1933. 1953
Ches Cheshire
CHMS. The Old Parish Churches of Staffordshire and the West Midlands County. Mike Salter. 1989
CHMS2. The Old Parish Churches of Staffordshire. Mike Salter. 1996
CHPC. Cradley Heath Parish Church: St Luke the Evangelist 100 years. Rev JC Williams. 1947
CIOPP. Could be CDPOPP
CJF. Checkley. Jim Foley. c1980
CL. Country Life. 1897 -
cm(s) centimetre(s)
Co Company
COD. Curiosities of Dudley from 1800-1860. CFG Clark. 1881
COE. Centre of England. Victor Skipp.1979
COEA. The Counties of England: Their Story and Antiquities. PH Ditchfield. 1912. vol 1
COI. The Chetwynd’s of Ingestre. HE Chetwynd-Stapylton. 1892
col column
Col Colonel
COOKE. Cooke’s Road Book. 1810
COPP. Cheadle in Old Picture Postcards. W George Short. 1985
COPP2. Cheadle: The Second Selection. (Images of England series). W George Short. 1999
COS. Curiosities of Staffordshire. Ros Prince. 1992
CP Civil Parish
CPD. Description of the Castle and Priory of Dudley. J Payton. 1794
CPP. Codsall: Past and Present. Michael Albutt. 1989
CR. Clentine Rambles - Clent Hills Companion. W Harris. 1895
CRO County Record Office
CRO Cheshire Record Office
CSBS. Church of St Bertelin, Stafford. A Oswald. 1955
CSBSS. Church of St Bertelin in Stafford. M Fisher and M Riley. 1981
CSJA. Church of St John the Baptist, Ashley. Mrs AJ Finney. 1988
CSL. Customs, Superstitions and Legends of Staffordshire. C Henry and CV Poole. 1875
CSMS. Church of St Mary, Stafford. JS Horne. 1920
CVH. Cheddleton, a Village History. Robert Milner. 1983
CWBT. Coseley: A Walk Back In Time. C Beryl Wilkes. 1994
CWF. Colton and the De Wasteneys Family. Rev FP Parker. 1897
cwt hundred-weight
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