Local History Records

An annual compilation of well-researched topics of East Surrey history.

Local History Records - Vol 20 (1981)

Contents: The Evacuation, 1939; Fire Marks; Coulsdon 1851; Queen's Park Caterham 1900; William Beverlie priest of Nutfield 1399; Reedham School; Firestone quarries at Merstham; Rose & Crown, Kenley c 1856-1870; William & Henrietta Gardner;...

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Local History Records - Vol 24 (1985)

Contents: Caterham - 100 year ago; Chaldon Sales 1875; The Sun Shone Bright; The Union Wharf from Merstham; Surrey Water Mills; Brief History of Coltsford Mill; Foxley; Ponds in and around Godstone Village....

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Local History Records - Vol 3 (1964)

Contents: Caterham Valley foundations; Caterham Court & Rowed; William Webb; Memories of Reedham & Farthing Down, Coulsdon, Sanderstead, Haliloo Flowers (Warlingham); unbuilt Railways; Marden Park...

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Local History Records - Vol 31 (1992)

Contents: Godstone Parish Records; Chaldon footprints; Chelsham Children; Memories of Rooksnest Park, Godstone; Whyteleafe; County Secondary Girls Schools; Green Belt...

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Local History Records - Vol 32 (1993)

Contents: Scots Hall, Chelsham; White House, Kenley; Ben Capp TV Pioneer; Ibbett's Piece, Sanderstead; Blanchman's Farm; Pirbright Manor, Chipstead; Woldingham Stores, Tudor crime...

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Local History Records - Vol 33 (1994)

Contents: Brighton Road, 1892; St Luke's memorials, Whyteleafe; Hazlewood Farm, Chipstead; Godstone Literary Institute & Club; Obtaining a Coat of Arms; Surrey Deneholes; Hewett of Caterham; Bert Sargeant, errand boy; The Environment in the Middle Ages; Coal Posts...

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Local History Records - Vol 34 (1995)

Contents: Annie Millicent Wood of Purley; Taunton Farm archaeology; Walter Smith, Kenley schoolmaster; Measom's Railway Guide 1853; A Whyteleafe childhood; Staplehurst Farm, Horley; St Luke, Caterham consecration; Index to horse drawn vehicles...

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Local History Records - Vol 35 (1996)

Contents: The Purley Race Track; Churchyard Yew Trees in the Bourne Area; Memories of Smitham Bottom; Death of "Walker Miles"; The Story of Holliday's Bottom; The History of Portley in Caterham; Doris Martin's Memories of Roke; "To the Poor the Gospel is Preached" - Robert Resker AKC (1842 - 1922)...

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Local History Records - Vol 36 (1997)

Contents: Arthur Battle, a Kenley Policeman; Naming of Purley; Adrian King, Memories of Purley & Coulsdon; Farleigh in the Middle Ages; Walter Smith of Kenley School; Lewis Audley of Sanderstead; Christ Church School, Purley; Caterham Valley excavation...

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Local History Records - Vol 37 (1998)

Contents: Edward II at Bletchingley in 1325; The History of "Roseland" - The Wettern Tree Garden, Sanderstead; Life at St. Lawrence's Hospital, Caterham; Shord HIll, Kenley; Little Roke Avenue, Kenley; White Knobs, Caterham; Brief History of Sutton and East Surrey Water Company; Tom Hills - Master HUntsman; Purley in the early 17th Century; Memories of Childhood Days on Farthing Downs....

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Local History Records - Vol 38 (1999)

Contents: Old Quarry Hall Estate, Bletchingley; c17 Shoes find, Coulsdon; Regal cinema, Purley; Colonel Stephens & the Southern Heights Railway; Hillcroft School 1872-1903; Elsie Coles of Caterham; Caterham Valley Fire, 1868; Postal services, Sanderstead & Selsdon; Leonard Stokes, Architect; North Downs Victorian forts; TA training for WW2...

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Local History Records - Vol 39 (2000)

Contents: Boer War letters; Robert Lowe, Warlingham; White Hills air disaster; Memories of a Caterham blacksmith; Margery Bray & Commonweal School; Hooley House; Waring & Firbank & the Oxted Line; Iris Sargant of Sanderstead and the Aisgill Rail disaster 1913; Woldingham childhood at Littleshaw, Woldingham; Essendene Estate, Caterham...

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Local History Records - Vol 4 (1965)

Contents: Croydon & Reigate Road; Stanstead Caterham; Riddlesdown Man; Memories c1900 of Purley, Coulsdon, Whyteleafe; Beating the Bounds (with map); Tithepit Shaw Cavern; Arms of Coulsdon & Purley UDC; Annals of Purley; Purley Bury; Chaldon Court; Animals in the Bourne Valley...

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Local History Records - Vol 40 (2001)

Contents: Sanderstead Court, Guiding in East Surrey, One Kenley Family & Two World Wars, Chairmen of the Council - Coulsdon & Purley Urban District Council, Childhood Memories from the Coulsdon of the Fifties, A Glimpse at the Purley War Effort 1917, The Last Days of Warlingham Golf Clubhouse, Wartime Memories of Air-Raid Shelters at Eothen School, At Risk - Jeremiah's Caterham Folly....

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Local History Records - Vol 41 (2002)

Contents: The Bourne Flow 2000 - 2001; Sanderstead Court - The Owners and Inhabitants; A Byron Livery Button from Coulsdon; Prize Fighting at Godstone; The Roke Oaks, Kenley; The Rowed Sword; The Thatched Cottage, Old Lodge Lane, Waddington; The Purley Review; Learn to Fly - by Post!; Life at RAF Kenley 1940 - 1942; The Astoria Cinema, Purley - SOme Recollections 1961 - 1966....

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Local History Records - Vol 42 (2003)

Contents: Capt. Barnard of Windy Ridge; The Macleays of Tilbuster Lodge, Godstone; Lost in the High Street; Caterham and the 19th Century Lunacy Reform; Horses and Roses; Frank Marsh of Coulsdon; Annie Frence, Glasgow Girl; The Rector's Three Days of Fame; Caterham-on-the-Hill in the 1930s; William Edward Newall, Silversmith & Metal spinner...

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Local History Records - Vol 43 (2004)

Contents: 'Riddings Court', Caterham and the Lyon Family; The Story of Jonathan Fairall - Coping ina World of Change; The Origin of the Picture Postcard - and the early cards of Sanderstead; The Will of Sir Robert Clayton of Marden Park; Mary Gasson - Lady Tramp; The Taylor Family of Caterham; Happy Valley, Coulsdon, Past and Present; The Origins of St Mary's Church, Caterham....

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Local History Records - Vol 44 (2005)

Contents: Family Life at 'Purley Pines'; Borough Farm, Sanderstead; The Wettern Family in Sanderstead and Croydon; A Hundred Years Ago, in Woldingham; The Deaths of Charles Dulake and Ernest Dulake; The Opening of Godstone Schools 1855 & the foundation of Godstone Literary Institute; Yew Trees in Churchyards in East Surrey; Early Memories of the Garden Village, Woldingham; Revd John Honywood Rando...

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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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Local History Records - Vol 46 (2006)

Contents: The days of the Working Horse in Caterham; Riddlesdown Cottage; Aerial Photographs of the Bourne Area; The Giffords of Tupwood Lane; The Schools of the Webb Estate; Living in a Cave; The 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers & their Rifle Ranges; From St Luke's (Whyteleafe) Parish Magazine; Stop Thief;A Teenager at War; Local Memories of the 1950s; The Beverley Boys: II Gordon Long....

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Local History Records - Vol 47 (2006)

Contents: Tea, The Densham Family - and Mazawattee; The Caterham Asylum; Anglo-Netherlands Sports Exchange - 1948; Famous Writers and Artists; Charles Maynard Owen; National Service in the 1950s; Reminiscences of Helen F Flack; Memories of Evelyn L Reed; The Writhing on the Wall/The Painful Painting; Historic Kenley Photographs; Aerial Photographs of the Bourne Society Area; The Beverley Boys: III...

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Local History Records - Vol 48 (2006)

Contents: The Origins of the Bourne Society; The Caterham Railway; The Rambler, and the Motor-bus Traveller; Robert Oscar Mennell, Wholesale Tea Dealer of Kenley; The Croydon Airport Crash - 1924; Louis Le Personne, Caterham's Benevolent Belgian, A Teenager's Experiences in Whyteleafe during World War II; Olden Lodge - Modern School for Girls; Laurieston Revisited; Memories of Riddlesdown in the F...

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Local History Records - Vol 49 (2006)

Contents: The Imperial Rink, Brighton Road, Purley; The Orchid Ballroom, Brighton Road, Purley; Memories of the Orchid Ballroom, Purley; Robert O Mennell's Experiments in Building with Chalk in Kenley; Development Dreams Destroyed: 1922 - 1982; Air Crash at Kenley - 1923; Parson's Pightle, Old Coulsdon; The Beginning and End of Hall's Limeworks, & the Mrs Maybrick Kiln; Anti-aircraft Gunsite at Br...

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Local History Records - Vol 5 (1966)

Contents: Antiquities; Vaccination in 1804; First transatlantic TV; Box Cottage Caterham; Map of Local monuments; Historians of the Bourne Valley; Sanderstead; First buses, memories of Gerald Marcuse (radio pioneer); Edmund Byron, Arthur Beadell, Chelsham...

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Local History Records - Vol 50 (2007)

Contents: Morven House, Kenley; Field-walking in Croydon Crook; The Mere Bank - A Victorian Folly; Another 50th Anniversary and a Connection with the Godstone Mines; Firs Road, Kenley; Danger - UXB; Two Coulsdon Inventories 1587; What the Papers Said; A Jolly Farmers Centenary 1907 - 2007; Reedham Orphanage, School and Trust; St Mary's Church, Farleigh....

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