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Books by John Orbell, published and posted direct

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Continuous Performance

A History of Cinema in Bury St Edmunds

How a small Suffolk market town embraced the new medium of film: from fairground tents to the 1937 Odeon, and the surprising survival of cinema today.

Paperback and hardback · 112 pp · 210 × 280 mm · 2026

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Also available at Moyse’s Hall Museum Shop, Bury St Edmunds.

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A Man of Perseverance

George White, trouble-shooter and clerk of Messrs Baring

The first biography of a Victorian City of London clerk: George White of Baring Brothers, trouble-shooter in Argentina and Mexico, watercolourist and early contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Paperback · 108 pp · 265 × 194 mm · 2025

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In Search of a Roof

Bury St Edmunds Buttermarket in the 1850s and the building of a covered market hall

A crowded Buttermarket, a council plan for a covered market, and the ratepayers who voted it down: a lost chapter of Bury’s history.

Booklet · 32 pp · 148 × 210 mm · 2021

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A Handsome and Substantial Building

A History of Bury St Edmunds Corn Exchange

Two Victorian corn exchanges that drew farmers from across East Anglia, brought prosperity to Bury St Edmunds, and caused furious rows along the way.

Paperback · 72 pp · 210 × 280 mm · 2017

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A Guide to Tracing the History of a Business

How to trace a business’s history: where its records survive, what they contain, and the many sources outside its own archives.

Hardback · 178 pp · 172 × 248 mm · 2009

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