This guide provides invaluable background information on Haslemere and Hindhead in the 1900's. This official council guide has maps, photographs and illustrations. It covers the history, traditions, worthies, antiquities and literary associations. This is a useful guide with information and details about the area where your relatives may have lived. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Includes maps, photographs and illustrations * Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable... More Info
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Parish Registers from nine parishes - Cobham, Esher, East & West Molesey, Long Ditton, Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, Walton on Thames and Weybridge. (Marriages to 1837; Baptisms to 1840 & Burials to 1860s - some indicating burial in places outside the area) 1851 Census Indexes for eight of the nine parishes by Surname and Family Groups (Long Ditton is not included as it has been indexed by Eas...More Info
Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History - By Jeremy Harte Published by Reaktion Books (London, 2023). Hardback with dust jacket, A4 format, 317 pages, 40 photographs and illustrations This well-researched and very readable book guides the reader through the six centuries that Romany Gypsies have made Britain their home: from their arrival in these islands in the early 16th century to the mo...More Info
CD 43 General Indexes to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London (Godfrey Edition). Research in Victorian London very soon gives rise to the question "where is such-and-such a street?". It may be on a modern map, but quite often is not. The re-publication of early Ordnance Survey 1:2500 maps in the reduced scale Godfrey Edition gives the researcher a chance but, even if the street is on the sheet one h...More Info
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...More Info
This title is from a new series of reprints from Pigot’s Commercial Directory for Surrey of 1839. It covers Blechingley, Godstone & Reigate with Nutfield, Limpsfield, Oxted, Tandridge, Gatton, Merstham & neighbourhoods. The reprint comprises of an introduction to the county of Surrey, a description of the individual places with a list of inhabitants under occupations. Also included are some a...More Info