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Local History Records / Local History Records, Vols 51 - 60

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 publication.

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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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