Stepping Stones CD publication. Contents of Cambridgeshire 1883 Post Office Directory Contains hundreds of names and addresses of people living in this county at the time. Over 130 pages. Includes description of each place, with Post Office, agricultural and commercial information. Towns and Villages covered include : Bassingbourn, Bottisham, Bourn, Cambridge (29 pages), Chatteris, Chesterton, Isle of Ely (8 pages), Fulbourn, Grantchester, Isleham, Leverington, March, Newmarket, Papworth E More Info
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding them. More Info
Product Code: BK6216
This fully revised and updated Second Edition is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of N More Info
Product Code: BK6430
Every part of the United Kingdom has its own, distinctive history – not just the major battles and key historical events which may have played out there, but also the smaller details of everyday life which impinged upon the actual lives of our ancestors more directly. The team behind the popular family and social history magazine Discover Your Ancestors has put together a region-by-region guide to the United Kingdom which will give you a flavour of each area’s history and a run-down of the many More Info
Product Code: BK6449
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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 Ro...More Info
Local Delivery carts and Wagons - Part !!; Bluebells of Olde England in kenley; Coulsdon train Services in 1964; The Boer war and Men from Sanderstead; One of the Roses of No Man's land; WW1 - The Chelsham Mission Room Working Party; A Service family - The Elliotts of Caterham; World War 1 - the Purley Light; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon - part VII; Col. W Mosse Robinson of 'The Hayes', ...More Info
Further Notes on Prizefighter Training at Riddlesdown; The Potten Family; At School at The Dene, Caterham; Shopping in Old Coulsdon and Coulsdon in 1963; Man Shot at Croham Hurst; A History of Caterham Bowling Club; Snippets of History From Old Postcards - Part II; Memories of Sutton District Water Company in the 1950s and 1960s; The Charm of Surrey Crest, Godstone (The Visitors' Book); Sarah Beag...More Info
Sir Edward Banks was the man who constructed Rennie's London bridges. This book provides the most comprehensive account yet published of the life of Sir Edward Banks and the workings of the Jolliffe & Banks partnership. Authors : Jon Grant & Ron Williams Published in 2023 ISBN: 978-0-900992-87-2
Subtitled *A History of the Hundred of Macclesfield*, this important work was published in two volumes in 1877 and 1881. The area covered is that of the old hundred of Macclesfield, which includes the important townships of Stockport, Macclesfield, Wilmslow and the conurbation to the south of Manchester. The author was systematic and thorough in the book's arrangement, and includes detailed geneal...More Info