OneGuyFromBarlick

Hi Stanley Oh dear, I can see what you mean about the quality of that paperback! Until now, Robert Hale have delayed publishing books with illustrations as ebooks. However, they are hoping the technology has improved and that the pics will appear successfully. We shall see :wink: I read an excerpt o...

Thanks Tripps! I will check out Stanley's books. :smile: Are you aware of the community website Middletonia? There is quite a bit on the Schwabe family there, with a picture of the factory chimney etc. Here is a link to the site, via an article I wrote for them involving the Marsden case re Julia Sc...

Hi Stanley Hope you enjoy The Water Doctor's Daughters. It's an incredible, albeit tragic story, regardless of me as author. If you are interested in the Schwabe family, there is a professor of history at Kentucky university called James Albisetti who is writing a biography of Julie and Salis. I thi...

After the Schwabes chimney post a while ago on steeplejacks. I looked into the family and found a book called "The Water Doctors Daughters", by Pauline Conolly. . It's about a 'cause celebre' in the 19th century involving Julia Schwabe wife of the guy that built the chimney. The book is g...