When Ned was fourteen he wrote a book called “The Railways of Essex” with his friend Adrian Smith. They printed it paragraph by paragraph on Adrian’s Adana printing press which had defective rollers! About fifty copies were produced.
Ned’s book writing and production really took off in 1969 when the name “Uralia Press” was first used commercially. Most of the “key books” are now out of print and some now fetch high prices on Ebay – so, you never know, it may be worth collecting the works of Ned Williams.
- 1969 : By Rail to Wombourn
- 1974 : By Rail to Halesowen
- 1980 : By Road & Rail to Tettenhall
- 1981 : By Rail to Wombourn
- 1981 : Wolverhampton Railway Album Vol. 1
- 1982 : Cinemas of the Black Country [A]
- 1983 : Wolverhampton Railway Album Vol. 2
- 1984 : Cinemas of Aldridge and Brownhills
- 1984 : Railways of the Black Country Vol. 1 – the Byways
- 1985 : Shop in the Black Country
- 1985 : The Kinema at Kinver
- 1986: The Railway to Wombourn
- 1987 : Black Country Folk at Werk
- 1988 : More Black Country Folk at Werk
- 1991 : Pat Collins: King of Showmen
- 1991 : Wolverhampton on Wheels
- 1993 : The Co-op in Birmingham and the Black Country
- 1994 : Black Country Railways
- 1994 : Fairs & Circuses in the Black Country
- 1994 : From Acorn to Oak Vol. 3
- 1994 : Midland Fairground Families
- 1994 : What’s Happened to Wolverhampton?
- 1998 : 110 Not Out
- 1998 : A Century of Wolverhampton
- 1998 : Quarry Bank in Old Photographs
- 1999 : A Century of the Black Country
- 1999 : What’s Happened to Quarry bank?
- 2001 : “Quarry Bank Past and Present” – with the MPLHG
- 2001 : The Birmingham Onion Fair
- 2002 : Past & Present: The Black Country
- 2002 : Past & Present: Wolverhampton
- 2004 : Black Country Chapels
- 2006 : More Black Country Chapels
- 2006 : Netherton in Old Photographs
- 2007 : The Century of W’ton and Century of the BC books reprinted as paperbacks
- 2008 : Dudley Rediscovered
- Books produced for other people
- Due in 2008 : Black Country Chapels: A Third Selection
- Due in 2008 : Netherton: People & Places
- Looking ahead