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Derek J Ripley (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 5 July 2012
Forgotten Lancashire is a new genre - spoof local history. If it looks like a local history book and feels like a local history book, then it must be a local history book - but look again at that cover: this is Fact Free history.

Lancashire Life magazine called it 'comedy genius', and a dozen 5 star Amazon reviewers have agreed.

From the Back Cover:

Lancashire. The very word conjures up images of cotton mills, coal mines and the Co-operative Movement. But think again.

This is Forgotten Lancashire, the home of Uncle Bill’s Meat-Free Meatballs, fridge magnets and the Competitive Movement.

This is a book about ordinary people. People like you and me who plough the fields, mine the coal and stamp the library books. People who walk around in the summer with their tops off.

“If you thought Sir Walter Raleigh invented the bicycle then this book is for you” Martin Sixsmith. "History was never meant to be so interesting" Professor Eric Hobnob. "A wonderful, majestic tour de force" Nataya Ripley.

Forgotten Lancashire - fact free history at its best. "A dozen laughs a page" The Wigan Observer*

* approx 0.8p per laugh

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  • Paperback: 106 pages
  • Publisher: LEB Ltd (5 July 2012)
  • ISBN-10: 0957314108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0957314108
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 526,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Derek J Ripley has an unrivalled passion for local history that dates back longer than he can remember.  Born in Preston but brought up in Manchester and Wigan, he has lived at various times in virtually every major conurbation in north west England - and quite a few minor ones.

He now lives in Birkenhead and commutes daily to his job as a local government librarian in Morecambe, which sadly leaves him little time to pursue his favourite pastimes, which include crown green bowling, cycling and camping.

Derek has published widely on local history matters, earning him the soubriquet ‘Mister History’ in his local pub where he is vice-captain of the quiz team. He is passionate about books (his favourite novelist is Patricia Highsmith) and bookshops - particularly when they champion local history and have a good café. Derek likes nothing better than sitting down in a bookshop with a nice café latte and a couple of good history books.

He is an avid listener - and sometime contributor to - local radio. He is married to Nataya whom he met at a local history convention in Bangkok in 2008 and is currently working on his next project, The Lost Films of 20th Century Spatchcock, due for publication in November 2012.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten Lancashire and parts of Cheshire and the Wirral 22 July 2012
By Alan Murgatroyd
Format:Paperback
This is a funny book. In fact it's a very, very funny book. It's hard to put into a category as it falls halfway between The Goon Show with the writings of Spike Milligan, and Billy's Weekly Liar - the completely untrustworthy newspaper found in Blackpool in the 1950's. It purports to be the annals of the Blunt Family and their frequent failures in various doomed business enterprises. Brilliant ideas such as the invention and marketing of the Fridge Magnet collapsed because "It was to be another Forty years before the invention of the Fridge." I'd only dipped into it, but when my partner Pat read the Fridge Magnet story to me, with tears rolling down her cheeks, I stopped the dipping and started from the front with the preposterous explanations about what was to follow. This may not be a book to be read in public places. Incontrollable laughter can result in raised eyebrows - or worse.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A revelation 3 Feb 2013
By Andy Kershaw
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Although I was raised in Lancashire, so much of the county's history was unknown to me - until the appearance of this valuable book. A commendable work of social history - by those who've already brought us the Tripe Marketing Board - and drawn from the archives of the Blunt family. That collection was discovered only recently, in an attic in a number of Asda carrier bags. What a find it has turned out to be.

I was not aware, for example, that Lancashire's industrial wealth was built on fridge magnets as much as cotton. Indeed, the fridge magnet was patented by William Gladstone Blunt, following a drinking session in a Stockport pub, 30 years before the invention of the fridge.

We are all the richer too for learning - at last! - the full story of the Baden-Powell Lookalike Agency. And Forgotten Lancashire finally brings long-overdue recognition to the work of woefully-undervalued Lancastrian film director, Alfred Spatchcock. (With Ale & Pie, 1941 - and many others).

A whole book, dedicated to Spatchcock, would now seem inevitable. I hope so.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy the book - you won't be disappointed. 1 Aug 2012
By Cyril
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This book is hilariously laugh out loud funny, the history of Lancashire has never been so comically written, all thanks to the in depth research of the Blunt family archives by Dr. Ripley.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great
great reading easy compact great description useful to want more knowledge of lancashire delivery great no messing would recommend as a good read
Published 2 months ago by g s horrocks
5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Believable!
An excellent skit on the history of our neck of the woods. As a seasoned (salt and pepper) tripe lover, this book was food for the soul. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. John C. Murray
5.0 out of 5 stars a present
bought as a presy cannot comment not read the book but the person i bought it for is still speaking so must be ok
Published 4 months ago by M. Myers
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Example of Quirky Humour
I really enjoyed the Humour of this book which has gone down a storm in Lancashire the comedy capital of the world. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Roger J. Gifford
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't stop laughing.
This is bound to be a classic of its kind. I can't remember laughing so much at a book for ages. It has shades of Milligan combined with so many hilarious flights of fancy and... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny
I'm not a Lancastrian but I nevertheless found this book very funny.
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Published 6 months ago by Cinnamon
1.0 out of 5 stars Funny?
No, not for me. Got it from Amazon today. did'nt take long to go through it, I'm a Lancastrian & I just could'nt get into this at all. Read more
Published 7 months ago by S. G. Holt
5.0 out of 5 stars Left me hungry for more.
This author posted a thread on our local internet forum, informing the local population that on the following day representatives from the Tripe Marketing Board would be in town,... Read more
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This book reminds me of 1066 And All That and does for the north west what that book did for Britain. Read more
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