Welcome to the Sidmouth Museum Online Shop
The museum shop stocks a wide range of books and booklets relating to local history. If you can't see what you are looking for here, please contact the museum who can supply further details on the rest of our stock.
Featured products
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Sidmouth Spotting
Price: £2.50
A fun book for children.
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Sidmouth's River
Price: £2.99
Storms, floods, droughts, landslides and river blockages are not new to Sidmouth: records go back for centuries.
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Sidmouth's Coast
Price: £2.99
Collapsing cliffs, disappearing beaches and flooding coasts are not new to Sidmouth: records go back centuries, but questions remain.
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Richmond House to Sidholme
Price: £3.00
By Nigel Hyman The story of one of Sidmouth's most interesting buildings with its famous music room, and the people who lived in it from 1823 when it was built, to the present day.
Shop collections
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Books etc
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Enquiries, Research and Photographs
All products
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Peter Orlando Hutchinson of Sidmouth, Devon 1810 to 1897
Price: £1.00
by Catherine Linehan.
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Research Charge
Price: £1.00
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Brandy for the Parson
Price: £1.50
Tales of smuggling in the Sid Valley compiled by Christine and Rab Barnard.
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Sidmouth Harbour Company Railway
Price: £1.99
Researched and written by John Perkin The history of Sidmouth's abandoned coastal steam railway.
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A Walking Tour of Sidmouth
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Andrew Rugg-Gunn This guide will help you to see much of beautiful Sidmouth - architecture, gardens and views.
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A Walk around the Centre of Sidmouth
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Andrew Rugg-Gunn This guide will help you to see much of beautiful Sidmouth - architecture, gardens and views.
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A Walk around the West of Sidmouth
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Andrew Rugg-Gunn This guide will help you to see much of beautiful Sidmouth - architecture, gardens and views.
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A Walk around the East of Sidmouth
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Andrew Rugg-Gunn This guide will help you to see much of beautiful Sidmouth - architecture, gardens and views.
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A Walk in the Byes, Sidmouth
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Andrew Rugg-Gunn This is a walk through the green lungs of Sidmouth following the River Sid from Waterloo Bridge near the centre to Sidford's Packhorse Bridge.
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The Sampson Heritage Trail
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Sylvia Brownlee A guided tour of some of the properties designed by R W Sampson - the man responsible for much of the architectural layout of Sidmouth in the early 20th century.
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Sidmouth Museums Long Picture Whats it all about
Price: £1.99
Prepared by Nigel Hyman The most iconic image of old Sidmouth is the Long Picture.
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Walk the Churches of the Sid Valley
Price: £1.99
This new booklet, written by Prof.
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Initial Fee and Research Charge
Price: £2.00
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Sidmouth Scientists
Price: £2.49
By Professor Robert Miles This new book celebrates the contributions to science of four Fellows of the Royal Society who lived in Sidmouth: astronomer Norman Lockyer, Ambrose Fleming inventor of the radio valve, Sidney Brown who designed radio equipment and loudspeakers and Frederick Lindemann who played a large part in the development of radar during World War II.
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Sidmouth Spotting
Price: £2.50
A fun book for children.
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Long Picture Postcards
Price: £2.50
Reproduced from a hand-coloured print of the panoramic picture in Sidmouth Museum.
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Sidmouth's Literary Connections
Price: £2.50
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The Romano British Villa
Price: £2.99
by Sheila Luxton Holcombe, near Sidmouth, was the site of a Late Iron Age settlement and a Romano-British Villa, discovered in 1967.
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A Case of Murder
Price: £2.99
Compiled by Rab & Chris Barnard The brutal murder in Wiltshire of a three year-old boy made the national headlines in the 1860s.
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Sidmouth Rocks
Price: £2.99
An introduction to Sidmouth's geology - or why are Sidmouth's rocks red? Why do they appear to contain so few fossils and why do they form crumbling sea cliffs? What can we learn about Sidmouth's 'deep history' from looking at these rocks? This easy to read booklet by Roger Trend explains it all, then takes you on the gentle Sidmouth Geology Walk.
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Sidmouth's River
Price: £2.99
Storms, floods, droughts, landslides and river blockages are not new to Sidmouth: records go back for centuries.
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Sidrocks Songbook
Price: £2.99
Prepared by Emma Oliver-Trend and Roger Trend Local geology set to music! Specially written songs about Sidmouth's geological history complete with words music and ukulele chords.
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Sidmouth's Coast
Price: £2.99
Collapsing cliffs, disappearing beaches and flooding coasts are not new to Sidmouth: records go back centuries, but questions remain.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sidmouth Letters and Poems 1832 to 1835
Price: £3.00
Compiled and edited by Christine Hardy.
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Research Charge 3
Price: £3.00
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Richmond House to Sidholme
Price: £3.00
By Nigel Hyman The story of one of Sidmouth's most interesting buildings with its famous music room, and the people who lived in it from 1823 when it was built, to the present day.
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The Natural History of the Sid Valley through the seasons
Price: £3.50
by Louise Woolley An introduction to some of the plants and animals that are present in the Sid Valley.
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Votes for Women
Price: £3.60
Illustrated playing cards 54 different images tell the story of the struggle to gain women the right to vote, each captioned to explain its significance in the campaign.
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Sporting Britain
Price: £3.60
Illustrated playing cards 54 images from the Museum of London’s collection.
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History of the Office of Prime Minister
Price: £3.60
Illustrated playing cards Meet the movers and shakers, the warmongers and peacemakers, the great and the weak, who held this office as it developed over three centuries of war, strife, political change and social turmoil.
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Around and About Sidbury and Sidmouth, the Sid Valley, Core Copse, East Hill Strips and Farway Hill
Price: £3.99
Ordnance Survey Yellow Walk Map 1:16,000 Water resistant.
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Around and About Sidmouth to Seaton, Beer and Branscombe
Price: £3.99
Ordnance Survey Yellow Walk Map 1:16,000 Water resistant.
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Research Charge 4
Price: £4.00
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Sidmouth People and Places
Price: £4.50
by Nigel Hyman Discover Sidmouth's rich history of colourful personalities and its legacy of fascinating buildings, many of which can easily be seen.
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Keith Owen, Sidmouth's Remarkable Benefactor
Price: £4.50
Researched and compiled by Rev.
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Sampsons Sidmouth
Price: £4.99
Researched and compiled by Sylvia Brownlee Architect Robert William Sampson, LRIBA - The man responsible for practically the whole of the architectural layout of Sidmouth in the early 20th century.
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The Jurassic Coast Illustrated
Price: £4.99
by Robert Westwood An illustrated guide to the geology of locations along East Devon's and Dorset's World Heritage coast.
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A guide to common minerals
Price: £5.00
By Chris and Helen Pellant A guide to identifying 71 common minerals with photos, descriptions, chemical make-up etc.
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A Picture in Time
Price: £5.00
by local historian Julia Creeke This fully illustrated book charts the fascinating stories revealed in the landscapes, buildings and beach as depicted in the Long Print of Sidmouth.
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Research Charge 5
Price: £5.00
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The Story of Sidmouths Long Print
Price: £5.00
by local historian Julia Creeke This lavishly illustrated book charts the fascinating story and history of the famous Panorama Print of Sidmouth's Seafront and the families associated with the print over 200 years.
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A guide to common fossils
Price: £5.00
By Chris and Helen Pellant A guide to identifying 71 common fossils with photos and descriptions.
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Sid Vale Calendar 2019
Price: £5.00
Full colour A4 calendar with photographs of Sidmouth and the Sid Vale and space for appointments etc.
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Four Walking Tours of Sidmouth
Price: £5.49
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Research Charge 6
Price: £6.00
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Sidmouth's Lace
Price: £6.00
By Carol McFadzean The luxury fabric that hides a world of poverty, distress and power.
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The Knowle, Sidmouth, a house and its history
Was: £ 7.00
Now only: £5.00
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Research Charge 7
Price: £7.00
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Sidmouth: A History
Price: £7.99
New edition revised by Nigel Hyman The most comprehensive history of Sidmouth in print.
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Research Charge 8
Price: £8.00
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Research Charge 9
Price: £9.00
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Sidmouth: The Video (DVD)
Price: £9.99
Written, produced and directed for Sidmouth Town Council by David Young 1993 DVD 26 minutes.
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Butterfly Moments
Price: £9.99
The biography of RF Delderfield by Marion Lindsey-Noble.
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Research Charge 10
Price: £10.00
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Old Sidmouth
Was: £ 10.99
Now only: £4.99
Compiled by Reginald Lane The story of Sidmouth's development in the 19th century, with drawings, maps, and contemporary photographs collected by the late Curator, Dr.
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All I ever wanted
Price: £12.00
The life of Sidmouth fisherman Stan Bagwell.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon
Price: £12.99
By Brian Pugh, Paul Spiring and Sandru Bhanji This book enables readers to retrace for themselves Conan Doyle's various trips to Devon and to learn more about the links between the county and several of his most popular Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Agatha Christies Devon
Was: £ 14.99
Now only: £12.99
by Bret Hawthorne Agatha Christie was born in Torquay.
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Literature and Landscape in East Devon
Price: £15.00
by Peter Nasmyth This comprehensive guide to the regions literature tracks down the authors who cherished this special corner of the English countryside.
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Salcombe Regis An Anthology
Price: £15.50
"There has been no book published on Salcombe Regis for over 40 years, since Ronald Wilson's little booklet 'Salcombe Regis Sketches' came out (now long out of print).
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A Poor Mans House
Was: £ 19.95
Now only: £7.00
by Stephen Reynolds with introduction by Reynolds' biographer Christopher Scoble The finest and most beautifully written Devon story of its era.
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Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Devon
Was: £ 23.00
Now only: £11.50
Published by the Public Catalogue Foundation This beautifully produced art book brings together some 2,000 oil paintings from over 80 collections in Devon, including several from Sidmouth Museum as well as other museums in East Devon.
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Diary of a Devon Antiquary
Price: £34.00
Compiled and edited by Jeremy Butler Peter Orlando Hutchinson spent all his adult life in Sidmouth, Devon.
