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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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...More Info
This title is from a new series of reprints from Pigot’s Commercial Directory for Surrey of 1839. It covers Croydon and Beddington. 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 advertisements of the time.
The railway arrives in a Surrey village, and nothing is the same again - is Hindhead Common safe? We meet the founder of The National Trust, and cover 50 years of history in and around Haslemere and Hindhead, Surrey from the arrival of the railway to the arrival of the motor car - photos, maps, biographies. *John Owen Smith* \[See also JOS-29-X; JOS-31-1; JOS-61-4\] Supplied by John Owen Smith
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...More Info
The Half Moon Inn, Marden Lodge, Turnpikes, and some early History of Croydon Road, Caterham; Russell Hill, Purley, in 1911 - Part III; 'Picton Mount', Whyteleafe; Warlingham School: Mistresses of the Infants' Department 1900-1912; A Gaggle at Upper Woodcote Green; History of East Surrey Choral Society; The Shopping Parades of Coulsdon and Old Coulsdon Part II; We Will Remember Them; Stories from ...More Info