Local History Records

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

Local History Records - Vol 99 (2019)

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; Growin...

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Local History Records - Vol. 73 (2012)

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 Alo...

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Local History Records - Vol. 75 (2013)

Contents: The Caterham Harmer Family; George Maw of 'Benthall', Welcomes Road; Lifeboat Day, 22nd July 1908; A Tragic Murder at 65 Bynes Road; The Sherlock Family and its Caterham Homes; World War II and the Cold War Deep Air-Raid Shelter Proposals for Godstone and Merstham; Working for a Living - the Beginning; An Aussie Greeting; The Entrepreneurs of Croydon Part 2 - The Grant Family Stores; Win...

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Local History Records - Vol. 76 (2013)

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 S...

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Local History Records - Vol. 77 (2013)

Contents: Tales of Woe from Stoats Nest 1839-1910; The Great Fog (1948); Setting up Home in Old Coulsdon in 1934; Howard Loftus Blackmore FGA, FSA; Harry Barter, Britain's Tallest Soldier in 1911; The Bluebells of Olde England in Chaldon; Schooldays in Caterham Barracks (1930s); A Stroll Down Sanderstead Road; St Mary's Almshouses, Godstone; The Story of Woldingham Village Hall;...

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Local History Records - Vol. 78 (2014)

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, Cate...

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Local History Records - Vol. 79 (2014)

Contents: George Gilbert Scott, Architect (Part II); No.6 Stafford Road, Caterham; Purley Corner to The Clayton Arms via Canada; Coulsdon Bus Services in 1964; The Dutch Village, Coulsdon; The Road to Sanderstead a Century ago; Murder and Suicide at Whyteleafe; The Old Wooden Hut, Purley; St Andrew's Church, Coulsdon; They Also Served; Jesse Oldfield and the Red Lion in Coulsdon Reassessed; Bourne...

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Local History Records- Vol 51 (2007)

Contents: The Two Mrs Lowes of Whyteleafe; Bicycling in the Bourne Valleys; A Victorian House - 'Spexhall'; Richard William Hester, Purley Artist, Engraver & Etcher; Court Lodge Farm, Chipstead; Hartley House and Coulsdon in the Early 19th Century; Croydon Crook; 'Drop us a card when you get there'; Coulsdon's Industrial Revolution; Memories of a Guardsman's Daughter; The South Croydon Bus Garage ...

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Local History Records- Vol 52 (2007)

Contents: Caterham Court and its Legends; Ivy Mill, Blechingley; The White House Club, Warlingham; Butterflies of Woldingham over the last 100 years; David Morgan-Thomas JP; The Modern Development of Caterham - 1908; Lincolnshire Connections; Midleton College, Purley; Mountain Grass Track Racing at Woldingham in 1950; John Drummond Allison, Poet; Mention of the Past; First and Last Visit....

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Local History Records- Vol 53 (2007)

Contents: The London & Brighton Railway Merstham Tunnel Surveying Observatory; Godfrey Talbot, LVO, OBE; PCC Wills at the Family Records Centre; Caterham-on-the-Hill - from rural village to country town; Navvies on the Oxted line at Whyteleafe/Warlingham; Found - One Button; Woodcote Park Avenue, Purley - 9th September 1940; Woldingahm Natural History Society: Field Work and Darwin; Picton Mount, ...

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Local History Records- Vol 54 (2008)

Contents: The Footpath Through the 'Golden Grain'; Coulsdon Rectory - the missing years; The Godstone Poor Law Union; PCC Wills at the Family Records Centre; Old Coulsdon District Guide Headquarters; The Golf Club in the Halliloo Valley; Sun-Dog over the Dobbin; A Coulsdon Boyhood; The Final Battle; Road Name Revival - Victor Beamish Avenue....

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Local History Records- Vol 55 (2008)

Contents: 1881: The men who were making the Riddlesdown, Oxted and Limpsfield Tunnels; Danger Underground - and Danger Overhead; Dorothy Blackman, nee Oxenham of Purley Bury Farm; Nutwood and the North Downs; Growing Up in Old Coulsdon; A Caterham Incumbency 1973 - 1982; Pitfield Cottages, Halliday's Bottom (Roffes Lane) Caterham; The Well at Pitfield Cottages; Use of the London & Brighton Railway...

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Local History Records- Vol 56 (2008)

Contents: The Dewdney Family and East Surrey Mills; Dad's Army; Air Raid Precautions; Wapses Lodge Roundabout; Tightening the Green Belt in Caterham; Men of the Trams; Memories of WWII in Caterham; PCC Wills at the Family Records Centre; St Anne's College, Sanderstead; The Bombing of the Caterham Motor Company; Francis Henry Atkins -'Caterham Boy' to 'Home Boy'; Donald Howard and the Bunce Brother...

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Local History Records- Vol 57 (2008)

Contents: The Stained Glass at St John's Church, Caterham Valley; Surrey Indictments - Elizabeth I; A Ramble of Walker Miles; Purley a Hundred Years Ago; An Unexpected Visual Archive of Britain in the 1940s; Scout Huts and HQs in Caterham District; Kenley's Astronomical Observatory; From Warlingham to Westerham; A Caterham Link with the Charge of the Light Brigade and Waterloo....

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Local History Records- Vol 58 (2009)

Contents: Egremont, Landscape Road, Warlingham; Surrey Indictments - Elizabeth I (Part II); Canada Beckons and The Clayton Arms, Godstone; George Bunce of G & H Bunce, Photographers of Westway, Caterham; The Bunce Brothers, Photographers of Caterham and Purley - a Sequel; Linton, 101 Harestone Hill, Caterham; Thomas Cromwell's 'Excursions in the County of Surrey' of 1821; The Clock in Queen's Park...

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Local History Records- Vol 59 (2009)

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 Ro...

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Local History Records- Vol 60 (2009)

Contents: Nobility and Gentry of 1841; Portley Lodge, Whyteleafe; A Time of the Civil War; The National Naval Cadet Corps, 'Essendene', Whyteleafe Road, Caterham; The Swan Tea Rooms, Warlingham; Alan Kettley - Arnhem Veteran; Bob Bean, Sign Writer; Callers to the House at 17 Heathway, Chaldon During the 1950s; Redhill Remembrance; W T Cook, Caterham Photographer; The Antarctic Expedition - Sir Ern...

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Local History Records- Vol 61 (2009)

Contents: Nobility and Gentry of 1841; The Railway Hotel, Purley, Surrey 1907 - 1913; Fifty Miles' Tricycle Race; The Road through the Woods - Portley Wood Road, Whyteleafe; A Short Biography of Charles Herbert Goodman (1847-1937); Tollers Lane, Old Coulsdon, in the 1940s; Caterham Hill's War Memorial....

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Local History Records- Vol 62 (2010) OUT OF PRINT OUT OF PRINT

Contents: The last years of the Byron Family Estate; 'Live in Surrey Free From Worry' - the Southern Railway's 'The Country at London's Door'; Caterham Manor in 1865; What the Papers Said; Florence Harding - 97 Years Young; Blechingley Surveyors' Book 1814 - 1836; Charles Day and Charles Dickens; Peter's Pastime - A Collection of Magnificent Hand-made models; Mrs Violet Mattock - one of Caterham's...

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Local History Records- Vol 63 (2010)

Contents:St Anne's College, Sanderstead; William Joseph Willett Bruce; Jessie Hall (1858 - 1914); The Graves on the Hill - an Unfolding Story; When Kenley had the Wimbledon Singles Champion; What the Papers Said; Cane Hill Hospital; A Visit to the Kennels of the Old Surrey Hounds; Memories of the Battle of Britain; Erwin Surma - 85 years young; What did Father (or Grandfather) do in the War?; John...

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Local History Records- Vol 64 (2010)

Contents: Riddlesdown Farm and the Story of the Laing Estate; Frederick White of Portley; The Attractions of Caterham and Godstone; Once a Guardsman always a Guardsman - Benjamin Hartley; 'Ace' by Chance; Sunny Croydon; The Aerial War 1940; Family Life in Coulsdon; The 1951 Sale of the Remaining Portions of the Marden Park Estate....

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Local History Records- Vol 65 (2010)

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 Bour...

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Local History Records- Vol 66 (2011)

Contents: The Round House, Old Coulsdon; Six Years of my Life - 1939 - 1946; St Lawrence's Hospital - WWI Volunteers; Incendiary Bombs at the Old Sawmill; Pound Cottage, Old Coulsdon; Electricity to Country Houses: Bernard Drake of Sanderstead; Life in the Guards at Caterham; Marching off to (the First World) War; Furry Friends; Frank Lazenby; Manor Park in Whyteleafe: Additional Information....

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Local History Records- Vol 67 (2011)

Contents: Days Out by Motor Bus; The Diaries of a Warlingham Golfer; The Carrington Manufacturing Company; History of Coulsdon & Purley Debating Society; Stoats Nest Railway Disaster 1910; Memories of Chelsham and Farleigh; The Macleay family in Godstone and in New South Wales; Friendship Remembered - 'Nobby' Brooker; Souvenirs of Gardner's Pleasure Gardens, Kenley; The British Empire Exhibition, ...

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Local History Records- Vol 68 (2011)

Contents: 'Moscow in Surrey'; 'Ring, Ring' - the Early days of the Telephone; How Selsdon Celebrated the Festival of Britain 60 Years ago; Thorncroft/Winter's Wood, Caterham; The Winnats Prep School; The Railway Stations of Coulsdon; Caterham's Pubs; South Croydon and the French Connection; Letters from Coulsdon Rectory....

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