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Sue Passmore
This little guide with its large-print format is designed to make it as easy as possible for visitors to London to self-guide themselves around enchanting and quirky places away from…
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Delightful travel guide to some fascinating English Towns: Buckingham & Stowe, Evesham, Lichfield, Marlborough & Avebury, Northampton, Olney, Pershore, St Ives Cambs., Huntingdon & Hemingford Grey, Stoke Bruerne, Stony Stratford…
This diary is a wonderful source for eighteenth century women's history and for life in a small town in rural Wales recorded by an English exile. It is rare for…
Sue Passmore's huge collection of dollshouses and miniature items has taken over her own house and has been filmed for Twrio the Welsh Antiques TV programme. Over half the collection…
In 1802 Lord Nelson, at the height of his fame for his victories against the French, visited Milford Haven in Wales, to inspect the naval dockyards. Fear of French invasion…
In this lively and entertaining book an intrepid lady traveller and historian visits the Hebrides, Arran, Mull, Iona, Orkney and Shetland. Noting along the way plants, archaeology and wildlife plus…
Teresa, a young vet, discovers a mysterious horse and a fascinating story.
Sue Passmore is well-known as a maritime historian (Welsh Sail and Farmers & Figureheads) and she has now turned her attention with equal zest to the countryside. Like her Llanllwchaearn…
A new edition of this classic and pioneering work, with 85 often rare and remarkable photographs. Welsh Sail tells the story of the shipbuilders, ship-owners and ports of Wales. Originally…
In March 1963 I sailed for the USA on the Queen Mary, to spend the next few months seeing as much of the country as I could, travelling chiefly by…
A personal diary of the Coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns in Wales during 2020 - 2021. Local, national and the international picture are also recorded as they were reported in…
The Streets of New Quay relates the history of every house built here before 1960 and includes references to later houses where they appear in the village. The area encompassed…
The Owen family occupied Penparc farm near Cwm Tydu from 1793 until the twentieth century. Thomas Owen, the first, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Ysgubor Fawr, Llwyndafydd, were ardent…
Volume II of our family history continues the story begun in Bronwylfa: a house and its family, which covered the 17th to the 20th centuries. This second book begins in…
The story of the people of New Quay, West Wales, and their experiences during WWI and WWII as soldiers, seamen, nurses and those on the home front. Originally published in…
This is Sue Passmore's fourth book based on the ancient parishes within the Manor of Caerwedros. She has used the framework of the ecclesiastical boundary to study the land, farms…
The ancient manor of Caerwedros included five parishes: Llanllwchaearn, Llanina & Cytblwyf, Llannarth, Llangrannog and Llandysiliogogo; this history is the fifth and final book and completes the history of the…
Volume III is divided into two parts which cover the mediaeval ancestors of the family at Peniarth recorded in Volume II and the wives who married into the family. Part…
Vol 3 of my father's family history. Vol I Bronwylfa a House and its Family, the history of the family from the 17th century when Elizabeth Owen of Peniarth married…
My first history of Llanllwchaearn parish appeared in 2010, since then I have written the histories of all the other parishes in the commote, Llanina & Cytblwyf, Llannarth, Llangrannog and…
In this lively and entertaining book an intrepid lady traveller and historian visits the Channel Islands, Isle of Thanet, Isle of Wight, Ramsay & Skomer and the Scillies. Noting along…
In Miniature Mania (Part I) I told the story of half my collection of Dollshouses and miniatures and, as my son said, the ink was scarcely dry on that when…
