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Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-DON
Pinner Chalk Mines
Pinner Chalk Mines by Ken Kirkman - Scanned version of original. This book provides a fascinating history of the little known chalk mines that lie under the ground in Pinner. The reason that so few people have ever seen or heard about the chalk mines is that they remain very inaccessible. Even if you squeeze through a manhole you need a certain amount of fitness to lower and raise yourself 1...
Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-1012
Pinner: Hatch End, North Harrow and Rayners Lane
The success of 1994’s Pinner, Hatch End, North Harrow and Rayners Lane. A Pictorial History gave Pinner Local History Society unrivalled access to old photographs that had previously languished unseen in private collections. Descendants of families which once lived here have also been inspired to ransack cellars and attics and the results of these searches are published here for the first time. ...
Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-1007
A Pinner Miscellany
Farming in Pinner in the 19th century; The story of Pinner Hill - history of Pinner Hill House; Pinner park; Excavations at the rear of 19-25 High Street [woodman's] 1976-77; Clay pipes found during excavations at the rear of 19-25 High Street 1976-77...
Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-1013
Pinner
This booklet contains a list of the main records of interest to the genealogical researcher for the area based on the ancient settlement of Pinner (which became a separate parish in 1766 after splitting with Harrow) and includes the districts of Bury Pond Hill, East End, Hatch End, Headstone, Hooking Green, Hyde End, Pinner Hill, Pinner Town, Rayners Lane, Royston Park, West End and Woodridings. T...
Supplied by: London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society (LWMFHS) Product Ref: LWM-PG013
Pinn 5
Pinner Local History Society has produced a number of monographs on Pinner. In Pinn 5 we cover some more Pinner History including: Sport - Local Societies and records have been scoured for this revealing account of Pinner’s sporting past. The Ellements - Not the natural forces, but just a part of the family history of this longstanding an influential local family. The Population of Pin...
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Around Pinner Through Time
Pinner was one of the ancient villages of Middlesex. Lanes led from its High Street to small hamlets, a handful of grand houses, the common fields, woods, and places further afield. By the nineteenth century, the countryside was a patchwork of farms, supplying London's needs. People came to Pinner from home counties, and then from London by railway. Villas appeared in the hamlets, and the expandin...
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The Fives Court: The Centenary History of a House in Pinner
This book has been published, in a limited edition, to celebrate the Centenary of a house in Pinner, Middlesex, England and to bring to the notice of a wider public the skill and craftsmanship of the Arts and Crafts architects, Smith and Brewer. Their first major work was said by Pevsner to be "one of the most charming pieces of architecture of its time." It tells the story of two brilliant cous...
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Secret Pinner
Secret Pinner is an introduction to Pinner’s often little- known history, and covers a wider area than might be expected, taking in the modern areas of Hatch End, North Harrow, and Rayners Lane. Its chapters deal with topics as various as famous residents, early policing, roads and railways, and local suffragettes, and chart the area’s transformation from its medieval past as a purely agricult...
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Fair Enough - Pinner Fair: The Last 200 Years
The annual street fair at Pinner in Middlesex was founded in 1336 and has been held ever since. At frequent intervals over the past two hundred years, people have been trying to suppress it for a variety of reasons. This book looks at the changing style of entertainments provided at the Fair, and examines the ways in which it has survived for over 650 years, when many neighbouring fairs and more ...
Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-1008
Pinner Portfolio
Commemorative issue of loose-leaf historic pictures of Pinner as published in The Villager. Published with the Pinner Association....
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Ten Walks Around Pinner: Including Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Rayners Lane, North Harrow, Hatch End, Harrow Weald
Ten Walks Around Pinner: Including Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Rayners Lane, North Harrow, Hatch End, Harrow Weald. The intention of the book is to highlight some of the prettiest and lesser known areas of Pinner, Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote and Rayners Lane as well as Hatch End, North Harrow and Harrow Weald. These walks have the benefit of being used by the reader as they wish. The histor...
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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 13 - Local Artist Edith le Breton
A short biography of Altrincham artist Edith le Breton (Edith Jackson)who lived from 1912 to 1993. She painted local scenes in Altrincham and Salford where she was born....
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Pinn 4
More about the history of Pinner George Bridge and the Pinner Horse Bus; The Fruit & Veg stall at 23 Bridge St; Gas in Pinner; The Milk-White Lamb - Pinner Suffragettes; The House That Was Not There; Pinner Green excavation 1980; Epidemic in Pinner 1741; The Perpetual Curate of Pinner and His Lady - Walter Williams; The Pinner Gold Crown- a coin of 1603-4; The Purest of Human Pleasures - Pinner G...
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Pinner to Paradise: Langthorn Letters
Pinner to Paradise: Langthorn Letters ...
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St Edmund The King: A Pinner Parish Church
As a Pinner Parish Church, St Edmund The King (built in 1964) serves about 3000 dwellings mostly north of the Uxbridge Road. This book describes the second church on the site; its contents and the artists who created them; and the stories associated with all the major contents....
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Pinn 6
Pinn 6 Pinner Local History Society has produced a number of monographs on Pinner. Among these are two outlining lives of notable Pinner Residents. This monograph, Pinn 6, is one and encompasses outlines of a number of Pinner Residents since 1670 who were of some fame or notoriety. They include the Heath Robinson family. The three brothers Thomas, Charles and William were prominent resid...
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A Guide to Local Antiquities in the Bourne Society Area
An A5 format Guide to Local Antiquities in the Bourne Society Area, compiled in 1970 and illustrated with a fold out map. Prepared by Michael Farley, with contributions by Mary Saaler, E.F. Bishop, Lesley Ketteringham and Peter Kench...
Supplied by: Bourne Society, The Product Ref: BOU-GLA
Pinn 2
Wind and Watermills of Pinner; The Letchford Arms; Post Offices of Pinner; The Telephone in Pinner; Rifles at Rayners Lane - a 19th century rifle club; Domestic Servants in Victorian Pinner; The Pinner Hill Icehouse; The Rabbit Hutches- a row of working class cottages; Pinner National Schools – non-private schools in Pinner 1815 to c1880...
Supplied by: Pinner Local History Society Product Ref: PIN-1015
Trawling for Treasures - 80 years of Barnet's Local History 1927 to 2007
The Barnet Museum and Local History Society has searched its archives to provide a record of how the society and the Museum have developed since its foundation. Extracts of past lectures, details of events and memories of volunteers are included in its pages. Together they reflect the story of the town of Chipping Barnet and the area around it....
Supplied by: Barnet Museum and Local History Society Product Ref: BTM-004
Local History Records - Vol 45 (2006)
Contents: A Voice from the Past; Bourne Society Council Minutes - A Trawl Through 50 Years; Local Memories of the 1950s; Barlow and Parker - Tamworth Road; Rifle Ranges Around Caterham; The Peter Aubertin Hall 1906 - 2006; The Croydon, Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway; Rectors of Coulsdon in the 14th Century; The Passing of a Local Character - Jonathan Fairall; Henrietta Le Personne....
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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 19: A Short History of Kearns by Keith Gowing
Kearns was an engineering company based at Broadheath near Altrincham from 1907 to late 1960s. Broadheath was the UK's first industrial park established in 1885, ten years before Trafford Park. Today the site is a retail park....
Supplied by: Northern Writers Advisory Services Product Ref: NWA-AHS49
Oxfordshire Contributors to the Free & Voluntary Present to King Charles II, 1661, transcribed by Gwyn de Jong / Jeremy Gibson (ed). Oxfordshire Famiiy History Society in association with the Family History Partnership, 2012.
Kings loved to demand 'free and voluntary presents' (with the emphasis on the word 'demand')! Their bureaucrats loved to list them. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, he desperately needed money. This is a listing of some 6000 Oxfordshire men and women who made their contribution. Did anyone from your parish make a contribution? And was one of your ancestors amongst them? This is a valua...
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-F 20
Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History by Bruce Durie
This book details how to find and comprehend documents from 1560 to the 1860s, including wills, testaments, contracts, land records, official records, deeds, and more. The Latin glossary is especially useful for helping translate any Latin documents. Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the inte...
Supplied by: S&N Genealogy Supplies Product Ref: SNG-6252
Local History Records - Vol 96 (2018)
Sadness for Local Families Immediately After the End of World War I; Servicemen who Died in World War II and who are Commemorated At St John's Church, Caterham Valley; The Butchers on our Borders: Benjamin Spice, Henry Spice and Their Families; My Memories of Keston Avenue Primary School; Frederick Guimaraens of 'Orchardleigh', Harestone Valley Road and 'Sunnyside', Whyteleafe Road, Caterham; Scho...
Supplied by: Bourne Society, The Product Ref: BOU-LHR 96