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PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY:

• “Lest We Forget – The Men of Somercotes and the Local Area Who Gave Their Lives During World War One". Published on behalf of Somercotes Parish Council. Price £4.95. Copies available from .the Somercotes Village Hall and the Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton, or contact the Society..

• “An Industrial Corridor through a Community”, a book written and published by the Society charting the history of the industrial heritage of our parish. Published September 2017. Price £6.95. Copies available from the Somercotes Village Hall and the Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton..

• "Muckram, the People & Shady Colliery", a book written by Judith Fitzhugh & SLHS; published by the Somercotes Local History Society. Price £3.50. Currently out of print.

• "Riddings Windmills", an A5 booklet recording the history of the mills with photographs and maps. Published by the Somercotes Local History Society. Price: £2.50. Copies available from the  Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton, or contact the Society.

• "Birchwood Chapel 1853-1925" - A book about the history of Birchwood Chapel and congregation written by Judith Fitzhugh. Price £5.00. Copies available from the Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton, or contact the Society.

       DVDs:

• “Photographs of Somercotes Past and Present”, a DVD produced by the Somercotes Local History Society. Contact the Society for more information. Price: £3.95 each

• “So Off They Went to War”, a DVD produced by the Somercotes Local History Society detailing in photographs the history of World War One relating to general history and the history of Somercotes, including chapters on The Sherwood Foresters, Life in the Trenches, The Battlefields, Women in the War, Somercotes Servicemen and others. £3.95 each. Copies available from the Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton, or contact the Society.

• “Pictures of Alfreton, Ripley & the Surrounding Villages”. A DVD containing photographs of Alfreton, Riddings Windmills, Ripley, Codnor, Pentrich and more. Copies available from the Alfreton & District Heritage Centre, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton, or contact the Society. Price £3.95 each.

• "Somercotes - An Industrial History In Pictures" - A companion DVD to the book "An Industrial Corridor through a Community". Contact the Society for more information. Price £3.95 each.