Publications available from the History Society

Pamphlets

The Society has published ten pamphlets of the interests and research of its members. These are:

• “King's Norton’s Wastes and Commons” by F. Hopkins
• “Notes on the History of King's Norton” by H. Goodger
• “Cotteridge and its Churches before 1911” by F. Hopkins
• “The Boundary of King's Norton” by F. Hopkins
• “Boyhood Memories of King's Norton” by F. Clulee
• “Learning Began Here” by K. Knowles
• “On Looking Back” by Jessie Oliver
• “Josiah Mason: Innovative Birmingham Industrialist and Philanthropic Giant” by D. Hazzard
• “The Rev. Thomas Hall of King's Norton: A Birmingham Pastor in Civil War and Revolution” by F. Hopkins and D. Hazzard
• “Birmingham, Chartism, and the Chartist Village of Dodford” by D. Hazzard

Books

James Melling has done substantial research on King's Norton, especially on the architecture of the older buildings. He has published several books. These include:

• “The Changing Times in King's Norton”
• “St Nicolas - King's Norton”
• “The Saracen's Head”
• “The Junction House”
• “The Old Grammar School”

Wendy Pearson has a book “King's Norton - Past and Present” in the pipeline, to be published on 21 October 2004. The publisher is Sutton Publishing.

Other publications

• “Kings Norton” (94 pages, ISBN 0 947731 62 8) by Helen Goodger
• “Kings Norton” (128 pages, ISBN: 0-7524-1052-0) Compiled by Pauline Caswell
• This web site!
• The national Local Heritage Initiative has provided a checklist of features that can be be recorded, where relevant. A derivation of the list is on this site.