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: 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
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.
Contents: The days of the Working Horse in Caterham; Riddlesdown Cottage; Aerial Photographs of the Bourne Area; The Giffords of Tupwood Lane; The Schools of the Webb Estate; Living in a Cave; The 2nd Surrey Rifle Volunteers & their Rifle Ranges; From St Luke's (Whyteleafe) Parish Magazine; Stop Thief;A Teenager at War; Local Memories of the 1950s; The Beverley Boys: II Gordon Long.
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.
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