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Local History Records / Local History Records, Vols 31-40

LHR, an annual publication of the Bourne Society since 1961, contains researched and reviewed articles on a wide range of local history topics appertaining to East Surrey. Each volume comprises illustrated articles, totalling some 40 pages in early volumes to some 70 pages in recent volumes of this approx A5 format format publication.

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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 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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