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A HISTORY OF THE OLD BERKS HUNT 1905-2011

by Richard Green

Published by Countryside Books. 1st. 2013

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. An almost continuous record of hunting diaries and interviews with the main families of the prominent characters and their stories who have shaped the Old Berks Hunt in the Vale of the White Horse country. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Colour map to pocket on rear board. 301 pages including index.

Minor fading to very edge of lower boards, minor spot to front board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded and a little scuffed.

ISBN: 9781846743153
Stock no. 1829223

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Contents

  • The Old Berks Hunt Country
  • Mr Charles Booth Elmsall Wright Master
  • Before and During the Great War
  • The Paget-Steavenson Mastership
  • My Early Life by Fred Holland
  • My Years with the OBH by Fred Holland
  • Up to and Including the Second World War
  • The Fifties
  • The Nash, Allsopp and Caudwell Masterships
  • The Nineties
  • Into the Next Century
  • Threats to Hunting
  • Hunt Presidents and Chairmen
  • Appendices:
  • 1. Lists of Masters and Huntsmen
  • 2. Foxes Killed and Hunted to Ground
  • 3. Notable Hunts
  • 4. Captain Hunter's Manual on Horn Blowing
  • 5. Woodland Pytchley's Ten Commandments of Foxhunting
  • 6. Old Berks Point to Pointing
  • 7. A Farmer's Wife by Mrs P. Rattison

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