A 60 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 2014 containing the following articles: A Teenager in the Southgate Civic Trust by Stephen Potter. The suffragettes of Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill and Southgate 1909-1916 by Ruby Galili. Flora Robson’s Letters to Dolly and Mary Cleghorn by Richard Purver. Protest from the Pews: An Anti-ritualist Revolt in Mid-Victorian Winchmore Hill by Peter Hodge. Sixty-eight…
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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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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 Fifties;…
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Contents: 'Dorincourt', Warlingham; A 1928 Ordnance Survey Map; Schoolboy Memories of Sanderstead in the 1930s; Samuel Gibson - One of the Last Survivors of the Battle of Waterloo - in Caterham; I Remember by Alec Coleman; Coulsdon North Station; Harold Cousins 1897-1917; The Chipstead Burglars 1835 - the Execution of William Harley; Dome Hill Estate; Remembering Schooldays; Not Your Typical Boy Scouts…
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Alfred Nobel's Special Train and Demonstration of Dynamite at Merstham; Sherlock Holmes' Bank and the House in Whyteleafe; Serious Conflagration at Marden Park - 1879; Charringtons Coal; Fox Friendly Society 1849-1859; The Haling Down Lime Works and Alfred Bullock; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon - V; Nos. 1 & 2 Welcombes Cottages, Kenley; The Corkran Family of London and Chipstead; Spotty…
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Shop Fronts and their Origin; Belle Ile, 84 Harestone Hill, Caterham; A Prizefighter in Training at Riddlesdown, 1819; Chelsham and the Story of Surrey's Royalist Uprising, 1659; The Shopping Parades of Coulsdon and Old Coulsdon Part III; The Brewery Trade and its Influence on South Croydon; Homes and Employment in the Changing Face of the Bourne Society Area; Recollections of Progressing Through Caterham…
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The Bourne Society - The First Sixty Years; World War II Deep Air-Raid Shelters in Coulsdon and Purley, and the Abandoned Shelter in Chipstead Valley; Russell Hill, Purley; Pamela Cundell, Actress; Court Lodge, Manor Avenue, Caterham; Marlpit Lane, Coulsdon; A Vanished Reminder of World War II; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon - Part VIII; F W Honour - Builder of Warlingham; Living in Hartley…
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Completely revised and updated. It is an essential tool for all researchers. The guide is divided into six sections: 1 The Barnsley area as a whole or large parts of it; 2 Barnsley area townships, A-Z; 3 Other parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire; 4 Specific areas outside the former West Riding, including abroad; 5 England and Wales as a whole; 6 Research and the social context. A FREE COPY…
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Contents: Coulsdon Downland Village; Chelsham hedges; Willey farmhouse fireback, Chaldon; A childhood in St Lawrence's Hospital, Caterham; The Marcuses of Caterham - broadcasters; Writing a village history; Social security, Chipstead; Henry Morriss & Woldingham; Tandridge arms; Populations statistics; Ruffetts Cottage, Chipstead; Church hall, Warlingham; Caterham Court Lodge inventory; Coulsdon…
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Contents: The Fight for Coulsdon Commons; Surrey Indictments - James I; North Tandridge in the later 15th Century; On the Ground at RAF Kenley in 1940; Bynes Road and its Chequered History; Purley Co-op Milk Depot, Lansdown Road; A Record of Enemy Air Raids August to September 1940; Developments of Ninehams Estate; Serious Fire at Caterham; A Leading Insurance Man; A Sign from the Past; Horatio Ross,…
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Contents: Hop Growing in East Surrey; William Edward Steers - an 'Apostle of Health'; 31 Burcott Road, Purley - One hundred years of a Purley Gentleman's Residence; World War I Graves in St Luke's Churchyard; A Centenary of the Girl Guides; An Insight into The Caterham Imbecile Asylum; Thomas Bainbridge's Map of Coulsdon; Coulsdon Rectory, its History and Inhabitants; More on the Blitz in the Bourne…
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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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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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Contents: Edward Morton of Sanderstead Court; I Worked at Bletchley Park; Reminiscences of a Wren; Kenley's New Deep Shelter; Coulsdon in the 1920s and 1930s; Warlingham - A Visit to Ye Old Whyte Lion; A History of Tennis in the Caterham Area; Gordon Cousins - A Clean Sweep; Crash of Dakota KG 439 at Mitchley Avenue, Sanderstead; Aeroplane Crashes in Selsdon before the War; Double Disaster; The Invasion…
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Contents: The Training of Linguists for War, Coulsdon, 1952-54; The First Snow Fall; Duchess of York at Caterham; The Highs, Woldingham; Sir Bertram Hyde Jones and 2The White House", Sanderstead;North-East Surrey People in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Michael Keith Gates - Caterhamian; The Daring Burglary and Robberies at Kenley; St David's School, Purley - 100 Years; Not Bader…
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Contents: George Gilbert Scott, Architect, his sons and their Buildings; Turnig back the Pages on the old Year (1947); Christmastide in Purley 1965; Sanderstead Court Garage; Wartime in Warlingham; History of the Reedham Orphanage Site; Augustus Granville White and his family; Jesse Oldfield and the Red Lion, Coulsdon; Purley County Grammar School for Boys; TESCOs site - The Guards' Barracks, Caterham…
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Training of Linguists for War, Coulsdon 1952-54; George F Jeffrey at Joint Services School for Linguists, Coulsdon; Sea Cadets in Caterham; Town Hall of Coulsdon & Purley Council; 'Santa Tecla, Stanstead Road, Caterham; Short History of 9th Coulsdon Guide Company from 1948; Woldingham Road School; Entrepreneurs of Croydon; Roffey & Clark, Printers & Stationers; Caroline Clements; William…
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Down in the Dumps in Chaldon - Part II; Two World War I Memorials; Chipstead Valley Primary School in the 1950s; The Charm of Surrey Crest, Godstone; Bradmore Green Library in 1963; Snippets of History From Postcards - part I; HMS 'Caterham; A Glimpse of Netherne Hospital 1909; The Purley Rail Crash of March 1989; 57 Tupwood Lane, Caterham; Dancing at the Riddlesdown Tea Gardens: A Letter From William…
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Snippets of History From Old Postcards - part III; St Marie's Residential Hotel, Purley; Purley Grammar School and World War II; The 1542 Affray at Farleigh, Surrey; The Proposed Route of the M23 Through Chipstead and Coulsdon; Sanderstead and Whitgift 1945-1954; Living in Purley in 1906-07; On Board the 'Queen Victoria'; The Eatwells of Warlingham and Chelsham; Dancing on a Saturday Night; Growing…
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The subscription year runs from January to December. Membership includes 4 quarterly journals. The Society holds a monthly meeting with speakers on a variety of local and family history topics. Information about the current programme and other benefits of joining can be viewed on our website. If you join before 1st October you will be treated as having joined for the current calendar year and will…
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by Colin Graham. This occasional paper looks at the beginning of the First World War through Altrincham's local newspaper, the Altrincham Guardian and analyses the reactions of local people. There is not only the reaction from the Home Front (the fundraising, the enlisting, the arrival of Belgian refugees), but also the letters from local soldiers printed in the newspaper, and later on the obituaries.…
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Contents: The Bourne stream; Memories c 1900 of Caterham on the Hill, Caterham Valley, Warlingham, Woldingham, Whyteleafe, Kenley, Purley, Old Coulsdon; Place Names Caterham & Coulsdon; 'Walker Miles' (E.S. Taylor)
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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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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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Contents: Farleigh; Sanderstead heraldry; Caterham caves; Roman road, Caterham; Victorian Caterham; Living Crafts - photography (Bunce brothers); Portley map; Coronation 1911
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