The Bartlett Library holds some 18,000 volumes on our open shelves, having grown by gift and purchase, from the core collection of 6,000 volumes, generously donated by our benefactor J. V. Bartlett Esq., in 2003.
Significant loans from the Cornwall Library Service (including a number of Lloyd’s Registers), together with gifts from many individuals have greatly increased the size and value of the collection since our establishment in 2003, supplemented by the Peter and Julie Newall Library in 2018.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story of Brimscombe Port [The] | Story of Brimscombe | Cotswold Canals Trust | 978-0-9561743-1-4 | canal history Gloucestershire port locks Taylor tunnel Daneway Sapperton Frome rail |
| Story of Bude Haven [The] | Bere, Rennie | Rennie Bere | Bude Haven history canal ketch | |
| Story of Charlestown [The] | Shipwreck and Heritage Centre | history dock smuggling fishing shipyard cooperage mining Titanic sea rescue wrecks cargo diving artefacts Royal Oak WW1 Lusitania Britannia Nelson Colossus Association Anson Mary Rose scrimshaw treasure | ||
| Story of Cornwalls Lifeboats [The] | Noall, Cyril | Tor Mark Press | RNLI stations crews shipwrecks rescues | |
| Story of Cornwall’s Ports and Harbours [The] | Noall, Cyril | Tor Mark Press | Cornwall history port harbour fishing mining china clay trade | |
| Story of Cunards 175 Years [The] | Flounders, Eric | Ferry Publications | history Brunel Britannia company migration Aquitania QE2 WW2 cruise Falklands | |
| Story of Flushing Cornwall [The] | Redwood, Ursula | Ursula Redwood | Flushing shipbuilding packet dockyard Falmouth Cornwall | |
| Story of Fowey [The] | Keast, John | Dyllansow Truran | 1-85022-035-2 | |
| Story of Gippsland Shipping | Bull, J C | |||
| Story of HMS Challenger [The] No 3 | Cygnet | Paterson Brokensha Pty Ltd | Australia Fremantle shipwreck | |
| Story of HMS Fisgard [The] | Payton, P J | Dyllansow Truran | 0-907566-55-3 | training Portsmouth Cornwall Tamar FisgardHMS |
| Story of HMS Success [The] No 1 | Cygnet | Paterson Brokensha Pty Ltd | Australia Greenwich Sydney Fremantle | |
| Story of HMS Sulphur [The] No 5 | Cygnet | Paterson Brokensha Pty Ltd | passenger Australia migration | |
| Story of Kings [The] | Parsons, Richard | White Tree Books | 0-949265-22-1 | tug Bristol paddlesteamer dock Royal yacht company Fyffes |
| Story of London River[The] | Story of London River | Cardcraft Publishing Service | Thames London river prt dock | |
| Story of Lovells Shipping [The] | Jordan, Eric | White Tree Books | 1-872971-91-1 | company Lovell Bristol container chronology |
| Story of Lowestoft Lifeboats [The] Part 1 1801-1876 | Mitchley, Jack | Lowestoft Libraries in association with Port of Lowestoft Research Society | 0-904328-00-7 | RNLI lifeboat Greathead’s Boat Frances Ann Victoria Laetitia |
| Story of Lowestoft Lifeboats [The] Part 2 1877-1924 | Mitchley, Jack | Port of Lowestoft Research Society | 0-9505311-3-8 | lifeboat Lowestoft RNLI Hook Capps Mewse Swan |
| Story of Mining in Cornwall [The] | Buckley, Allen | Cornwall Editions Ltd | 1-904880-20-7 | tin stannaries copper minerals clay slate parliament Chysauster Ding Dong |
| Story of Newfoundland [The] | Perlin, A B | Newfoundland | ||
| Story of Oban Lifeboat [The] | Melville, Willie | Pen Press | 978-1-907172-11-3 | rescue RNLI Scotland |
| Story of Our Submarines [The] | Klaxon | William Blackwood & Sons | WW1 Germany North Sea U-Boat RN navy | |
| Story of P and O [The] | Howarth, David | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 0-297-83358-8 | company P&O India Suez passengers crew Crimea Pax Britannica Empire |
| Story of Padstows Life-Boats [The] | Berry, Claude | Lodenek Press | 0-902899-59-7 | Padstow lifeboat |
| Story of Place House [The] | Hare-Scott, Nigel
Hare-Scott, Nigel |
Spry family Place House Cornwall history St Anthony WW1 WW2 D Day Royal Navy Grant Dalton mining | ||
| Story of Port Dalrymple [The] | Bethell, L S | exploration settlement Launceston George Town John Fawkener Batman Charles Price mining Van Diemen’s Land Company | ||
| Story of Port Navas [The] | Shepperd, Peggy | Landfall Publications | 1-873443-15-3 | Port Navas history industry port community oyster fishery |
| Story of Port Navas [The] | Shepperd, Peggy | Landfall Publications | 978-0-9935654-0-3 | prehistory granite fishing oyster coal timber guano grain lime church chapel |
| Story of Roundwood [The] | Burton, Chris | Roundwood Trelissick Tregew Fal tin copper limekiln Cowlands Coombe | ||
| Story of Saga Rose and Saga Ruby [The] | Johannessen, Anders | Saga Shipping | 978-0-9547206-5-0 | Sagafjord Vistafjord Norwegian America Lind Cunard cruise liners |
| Story of Sail [The] | Clowes, G S Laird | Eyre & Spottiswoode | canoe fishing Egypt balsa Greece Japan Roman galley keel | |
| Story of Sail [The] | Martin, Colin | Weldon Publishing | 1-86302-239-2 | Viking Saxon Mary Rose Cutty Sark eastindiaman Wasa treasure |
| Story of Sail [The] | Woodman, Richard | Chatham | 1-86176-075-2 | sailplan deckplan Egypt Roman Viking rig cat frigate galley |
| Story of St Ives Lifeboat [The] | Noall, Cyril | Jacobs W & J | John and Sarah Eliza Stych Moses Providence Bessie Richard Lewis Covent Garden Helena Pierre et Marie Mary Ann Rambler Alba Wilston | |
| Story of St Ives Lifeboat [The] | Noall, Cyril | Jacobs W & J | John and Sarah Eliza Stych Moses Providence Bessie Richard Lewis Covent Garden Helena Pierre et Marie Mary Ann Rambler Alba Wilston | |
| Story of the Aldeburgh Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Aldeburgh lifeboat RNLI | ||
| Story of the Arklow Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Arklow lifeboat RNLI | ||
| Story of the Bahamas [The] | Albury, Paul | Macmillan Education | 0-333-17132-2 | Columbus Eleuthera Lucayan Tainos slavery Loyalists cotton plantation Esek Hopkins pirates wrecking privateers New Providence Blackbeard Spanish invasion WW2 tourism colonies American civil war |
| Story of the Barrow Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Barrow lifeboat RNLI | ||
| Story of the Blackwater Sailing Club First Hundred Years[The] | Wise, Jan | Blackwater Sailing Club | 0-9536297-0-8 | yacht Commodores Clubhouse Blackwater One Design World War Two WW2 World War One WW1 Redwings Sprites |
| Story of the British Navy [The] | Fox, Frank | Adam and Charles | navy | |
| Story of the Buckie Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Buckie lifeboat RNLI rescue | ||
| Story of the Cambria [The] | Story of the Cambria | Ships Monthly/Maritime Trust | barge Thames London Channel shipbuilding east coast Norfolk | |
| Story of the Castletown and Port St Mary Lifeboats | Morris, Jeff | lifeboat RNLI IoM launching | ||
| Story of the Chestnut Canoe [The] | Solway, Kenneth | Nimbus | 1-55109-221-2 | Canada building Indian birchbark planked canoes Rice Lake Peterborough Chestnut |
| Story of the Clacton-on-Sea Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Clacton-on-Sea lifeboat RNLI | ||
| Story of the Cresswell Lifeboats [The] | Mitchell, Jill | Cresswell lifeboat RNLI | ||
| Story of the Criccieth Lifeboats 1853-1990 | Williams, Peter L | lifeboat RNLI history rescue Criccieth | ||
| Story of the Dido C [The] | Astbury, Charmian | Sappho Publications | 0-9539640-1-9 | Cornwall ketch |
| Story of the Dover Lifeboats [The] | Morris, Jeff | Lifeboats Dover |