In developing this site many local books have been referenced.

• Collins, Fran & Martin, They also server who stand and wait - A history of Pheasey Farms U.S. Replacement Depot, Sub Depot of the 10th Replacement Depot 1942/1945, Brewin Books, Studley Warwickshire, 2001, ISBN 1 85858 204 0
• Dilworth, D., The Tame Mills of Staffordshire, Phillimore London, 1976, ISBN 0 86033 216 8
• Jones, John Morris, Manors of North Birmingham, City of Birmingham Education Department, ISBN 0 7093 0014 X (or X 2563196, 1984. Parts of this publication and many more by John Morris are reproduced online within the Birmingham Grid for Learning site Here
• Meachem, Rodger Clive, Victorian Hamstead: Its People, Its Colliery - An Illustrated History, 1870-1910, Brewin Books Limited 1989 ISBN 0947731385
• Price, Terry "West Bromwich People and Places" which has a section including Great Barr.
• Pugh, R,B. ed. The Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of Warwickshire Vol. VII, University of London, 1964. Online at British History Online
• Pugh, R,B. ed. The Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of Staffordshire Vol. XVII, University of London, 1976. Online at British History Online
• Stephens W.B. (Editor) A History of the County of Warwick: Volume VIII - The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (1969). Online at British History Online
• Wilkinson, Christine and Hanson, Margaret Birmingham Cinemas,Tempus, 2003 which has information about the Beacon Cinema