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Council Handbooks are in some ways a phenomenon peculiar to their time and frequently reflect a very regulated attitude to society during the 30's and 40's. They were frequently supported by advertising and a very large number were produced just after ww2. Some go into rather extreme detail. The Welwyn Garden City "Citizens Handbook" of 1948, included a Directory of Roads which gives, for each house in each road the name of the "head of the household", and, a Directory of Residents which is a single alphabetic list of names of heads of households giving the street address for each name. These handbooks frequently contained a fold out map. Pyramid Press seem to have printed a huge number of them (the Hoole Guidebook is Number 158 and is a relatively early one) and as there are many far more local printers it might be suspected that Pyramid had found a lucrative market niche in persuading UDC's to produce a Handbook to a more or less set formula - using local "historians" to provide content at no cost to the publisher.
The Handbook sticks to the general pattern of the other Pyramid Press guides, with the covers being printed in colour and bearing the arms of the place in question. The arms of Hoole are discussed in more detail in the article "[[Coat of Arms]]" on this website. A few pages of advertising follow and page 7 is the standard front plate of guides in the series giving some acknowledgement to those who probably provided content free of charge. Page 10 contains some general information which could have been more conveniently placed on the back cover, but that is reserved for luctrative advertising. The "history" takes up about three pages. Space in this rather short booklet is devoted to a contents page, a list of advertisers and a list of illustrations. The fold-out map is in the house style of Pyramid Press and idenifies some of the landmarks noted in the text. Most, but not all streets are named with Pipers Lane being "Bye-passed", and Pickering and [[Walker Street]]s passing unmentioned despite being named after people with a significant history. "The Street" simply becomes an extension of Mannings Lane.
===A gallery of pages from the booklet===
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