The Powysland Bookshop
Orders to: The Librarian, Triangle House, Brook Street, Welshpool, SY21 7PG.
Prices as at March 2024.
Cheques to be made payable to The Powysland Club. Please note that prices do not include postage unless otherwise stated.
Welshpool Past and Present: A new and fully revised version of ‘The Changing Face of Welshpool’ by John Payne, Colin Rogers, Colin Stratford and Michael Wynne Griffith (Powysland Club, 2016). With extended coverage, new photographs and new historical research. Price: £12.00 (plus UK postage). Enquiries to The Librarian, Triangle House, Brook St., Welshpool, SY21 9PZ or by e-mail to info@powyslandclub.co.uk.
Concrete across Clywedog: The history of a valley within the Severn basin by Brian Poole. This is a book about the construction of the Clywedog dam in Montgomeryshire using detailed local accounts of those who worked on the project. With numerous illustrations and colour photographs. Published by the Powysland Club, May 2014. Price: £21.00 (plus UK postage). Now out of stock.
Montgomeryshire Past and Present from the Air by Chris Musson. This is a book about the history, archaeology and landscapes of Montgomeryshire as seen from the air, published by the Powysland Club and the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust in collaboration with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Remains of Wales. Published 29th October 2011. Price: £12.95 (£15.80 including UK postage).
Copies can also be collected at Powysland Club meetings or from the Powysland Club Library, Triangle House, Brook Street, Welshpool, Powys, which is normally open on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10am and 12 noon.
Other Books available for sale
- ENROLMENT OF EXCHEQUER PLEAS RELATING TO MONTGOMERYSHIRE AND ITS BORDERS compiled by J.W.Davies, edited by M.Ll.Chapman £15.
- A WELSH COUNTRYSIDE REVISITED edited by W.J.Britnell (2003) (a sequel to the well-known study ‘Life in a Welsh Countryside’ by Alwyn D.Rees). Reduced to £5.
- TRANSPORTATION BY MONTGOMERYSHIRE COURTS 1788-1868 (for the most part to Australia) by Brian Owen (2003). Includes details of hundreds of individuals transported. Sales to non-members: Reduced to £15 + p & p..
- MONTGOMERYSHIRE PLEADINGS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY 1558 -1714 by J.W.Davies £6.00 + p & p.
- A HISTORY OF NEWTOWN, 2ND IMPRESSION WITH CORRIGENDA AND NEW BIBLIOGRAPHY by M.Richards £5 00.
- ABBERIW TO BERRIEW £2.00
- NANNAU: A RICH TAPESTRY OF WELSH HISTORY by Philip Nanney Williams £30.00
- PLAS NEWYDD AND THE MANOR OF TALERDDIG by Melvin Humphreys £20.00
- TRELYSTAN: CHURCH, TOWNSHIP AND COMMUNITY by Doreen Bowen and Felicity Bevan £12.00
Journals
Montgomeryshire Collections from vol 61 (1969) to vol 99 (2011) £5 + p. and p.
Montgomeryshire Collections from vol 101 (2013) to vol 110 (2022) £15 + p.and p. (Vol 100 not available).
Maps
- Humfrey Bleaze Map of Powis Castle & Welshpool 1629. Price £3.00.
- Map of Montgomeryshire and Western Shropshire Showing Townships, 1991. OUT OF PRINT.