We need your help
Arthur L Clamp published around 150 different books. Although many were written by himself, a good number were written by other authors. This makes searching for them challenging! Sadly, we don’t have a complete list of all the books. However, we are slowly forming a more complete list which we’ve shared below.
There are several clues that reveal whether it might be a book he published:
Is it published by Westway Publications or PDS Printers?
Is it in the same format as other books written by him?
Does it use a ‘Times New Roman’ style font?
Does the book mention him in passing?
Does the book include a photo of his children.
I appreciate the last one is a little tricky to verify! Often he would take his family out for a walk at the weekend and would just happen to choose a location where he needed a photo. In the age of Kodak cameras and film, he would take a few photos that included his children standing next to the target object or location. The best would sneakily make it into his publications.
Books we already have
These are the 93 books we have already found and will be releasing soon. They’ll be added to the store as soon as they are ready to publish.
A History of Radford
A History of RAF Station Harrowbeer 1944 to 1946
Blitz of Plymouth
Blitzed Church
Bovisand Once a Fort
Buckfastleigh a town in the making
Crownhill Reflections
Dartmouth and Kingswear
Days in Devonport 1
Days in Devonport 2
Days in Devonport 3
Days in Devonport 4
Days in Devonport 5
Days in Devonport 6
Days in Devonport 7
Devonshire Recipes
Drake's Island
Early Pictorial Life in South East Cornwall Part 1
Elburton Making of a Village
Elburton those were the days
Hooe and Turnchapel Remembered
Honicknowle remembered
Ivybridge during the Second World War, 1939-1945
Mount Batten Flying Boat Base
Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo Remembered 1
Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo Remembered 2
Oreston and People Remembered
Pickle Cockle Alley
Plymouth Rowing Clubs
Plymouth The Reconstruction
Plymouth's Golden Age of Trams
Plymouths Historic Barbican
Plymouths Historic Hoe
Plymouths Postcards
Plympton during the second world war
Plymstock during the second world war
Plymstock in Perspective
Recollections of Ivybridge
Recollections of the Plymstock Area
Recollections of Wembury
River of Memories
Saltash in Pictorial Postcards
Saltash Remembered
Saltash Remembered 2
Shipwrecks around Plymouth Sound
Sir Francis Drake
Some Bygone Scenes of Brixton
St Budeaux Yesterdays Village
Tamerton Foliot 1
Tamerton Foliot 2
Ten Farms of Elburton
The American Assault Exercises
The Ancient Parish of St Budeaux
The Boys Brigade in Plymouth
The Hope Cove Area
The Loss of the Herzogin Cecile
The Pilgrim Fathers
The Prison on the Moor
The Rise and Fall of the Barings at Membland Hall
The Royal Citadel
The Story of Elburton Village Chapel
The Story of Mount Batten
The Story of Widecombe in the Moor
The Tors of Dartmoor
Totnes Remembered
United States Advanced Amphibious
Visitor's Guide to Salcombe
Wembury Coastline
Yealmpton Yesterday
Smaller Tourist Booklets
These booklets often acted as tourist guides, which would now be out of date. Some were historical. We are working on a plan to republish these in an appropriate format:
A Pictorial Guide to Eastern Dartmoor
A Pictorial Guide to Historic Exeter
A Pictorial Guide to Historic Plymouth
A Pictorial guide to Northern Dartmoor
A Pictorial Guide to Southern Dartmoor
A Selection of Drawings of Ivybridge and the Surrounding Areas
A Tribute to the Plymouth Lifeboats
A Visitor’s Guide to Southern Dartmoor
A Visitor's guide to the Exeter Area
A visitor's guide to Churches in Devon
A Visitor's Guide to Eastern Dartmoor
A Visitor’s Guide to the Plymouth Area
A Visitor's Guide to the South Hams
Let's Explore Old Railways in Devon
Motoring and Seeing Abbeys and Churches in Devon
Motoring and Seeing Castles in Devon
Motoring and Seeing National Trust Properties in Devon and Cornwall
Motoring and seeing waterways in Devon
Motoring and Seeing Old Railways in Devon
Motoring and Walking on Northern Dartmoor
Available from ‘Dancing Seagull’
Sail and Steam in Salcombe Harbour*
Salcombe Harbour Remembered
Salcombe Remembered
The American Forces at Salcombe and Slapton During World War Two*
*I am meeting with ‘Dancing Seagull’ soon to confirm whether these were first published by Arthur L Clamp
Books we need
These are the 35 books we suspect are published by Arthur and would love to find a copy to confirm - if you have a copy, please get in touch! There are also 22 books that we know must exist as he is quoted as saying “I published 150 books”.
According to our Cloth
Bigbury Bay An Account of it's coastline, smulgging, fishing, shipwrecks and general places of interest
Buckfastleigh Remembered
Dartmouth Remembered
Early Pictorial Life in South East Cornwall Part 2? (We found a book labelled part 1)
Exercises Tiger and Fabius: an illustrated account of the American Forces assault exercises held at Slapton Sands in 1944 as a rehearsal for part of the D-Day landings in France
Fling the pine marten
Guidebook to King' Arthur's Wessex today, plus list of brass rubbings in six counties
Hope cove and it's people remembered
Plymouth City Airport 1929-1989 (confirmed - we don’t have a copy yet)
Plymouth Man's Lifetime of Gardening
Preparing for D Day American Assault Exercises at Slapton Sands
Return of the Pilgrim Fathers
Scouting in Plymouth
Shipwrecks around Bigbury Bay
Silver Jubille Woodford Methodist Church, Plympton
Special agency the story of Plymouth Tower Mission, now crossline
Story of Prince Rock Youth Cluib
The American Assault Exercises at Slapton Sands, Devon, in 1944
The American Forces at Salcombe and Slapton During World War Two
The Barbican and it's people Remembered
The cannon of Pendennis and St Mawes Castles, Cornwall
The Red Funnel Line the story of the Elfords and the oreston and turnchapel steamboat company
The Sport's Divers Guide to Diving out of Plymouth
The story of the Four Eddystone Lighthouses
Wembury footpath and general guide
Smaller Tourist Booklets
These booklets often acted as tourist guides, which would now be out of date. Some were historical. We are working on a plan to republish these in an appropriate format:
A Visitor's guide to National Trust properties in Devon and Cornwall
A Visitor's guide to Northern Dartmoor
A Visitor's Guide to the South Hams of Devon
Let's explore old castles in Devon
Let's Explore Old Waterways in Devon
Motoring and Walking in and around Plymouth
Motoring and walking in and around Torquay
Walking and motoring in and around Torquay
Weekend walks in West Devon