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Flora Murray Award
Susan Edlington and Dr D Rose
ROSE BROTHERS (GAINSBOROUGH) LTD
A book published by the authors in 2009
(ISBN 978 0 9562189 0 2)

The firm of Rose Brothers was founded by William Rose, a Gainsborough tobacconist, in the 1880s. He developed a machine for packaging tobacco which caught the interest of the country’s leading manufacturer, W.D. and H.O. Wills of Bristol. From this small beginning the Rose company grew over the next 50 years to become world-wide manufacturers of packaging machinery and other engineering products. (A little known fact: Cadbury’s Roses were named after this Gainsborough firm, not the popular garden flower.)

This substantial and well-illustrated book gives a thorough account of the firm’s history, much of it based on major contributions from family members and past employees.

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SLHA Award for Excellence
David N Robinson
ADAM EVE AND LOUTH CARPETS
and the Story of Eve and Ranshaw Ltd
A book published by Louth Naturalists', Antiquarian and Literary Society, 2010, (ISBN 978 0 9539533 6 3)

Adam Eve (1755-1831) set up a business as a draper and grocer in Louth and later established a factory for making flat weave carpets on the Lud. This richly illustrated book shows for the first time many of the Louth carpet patterns and traces the history and technology of a successful small town industry. Tied in with this are the story of a well-known local retail business - still thriving today - and the late-eighteenth century Lincolnshire Stuff Ball.

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SLHA Award for Excellence
Fiskerton History and Archaeology Group
YELLOWBELLY YOUTH: A FISKERTON BOYHOOD
A book written by Fred Thompson in c1989
Revised and extended edition published by FHAG, 2010
Fiskerton, a small village on the north bank of the Witham 5 miles east of Lincoln, has featured in recent years as the site of Iron Age and Roman activity. By contrast, this book gives a thorough and fascinating first-hand account of local life in the 20th century, particularly the inter-war years.

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