Books by Leslie Crichton Porteous

Last September in Belper Unitarian Chapel, a talk was given by Robin Allen, Tribute to Crichton Porteous, Derbyshire Writer, which introduced many chapel members for the first time to his books. Here we reproduce a complete list of his publications known to David Burton (lay person in charge of Belper Unitarian Chapel). There is a Unitarian connection concerning his first book, Farmer's Creed, in that Mr Boone was in fact a Mr Booth who attended Gee Cross Unitarian Chapel, Hyde.

• 1938 Farmer's Creed
• 1939 Teamsman
• 1940 Land Truant
• 1941 The Cottage
• 1942 The Farm by the Lake
• 1944 The Snow
• 1945 The Earth Remains
• 1948 Sons of the Farm
• 1948 Pioneers of Fertility
• 1949 The Beauty and Mystery of Well Dressing
• 1950 Changing Valley
• 1950 Derbyshire
• 1951 Wild Acres
• 1951 Caves and Caverns
• 1953 Call of the Soil
• 1954 Chuckling Joe
• 1954 Peakland
• 1954 Man of the Moors
• 1955 Battle Mound
• 1956 Death in the Field
• 1956 Broken River
• 1956 Great Men of Derbyshire
• 1959 Lucky Columbel
• 1960 Toad Hole
• 1960 Pill Boxes and Bandages
• 1960 Plays: Batchelor Love & Dickies Scull
• 1962 Strike
• 1963 Portrait of Peakland
• 1965 Man of the Fields (with S. Looker)
• 1970 Pictorial Derbyshire (and 1977)
• 1985 Ancient Customs of Derbyshire (first published 1960)

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