This virtual book CD resource contains a bundle of Pigot's 1823 Directories; carrying local listings of professions, nobility, gentry, and clergy, of transport and freight services; and information on the education, public services, and public houses of the area. Towns, villages and parishes are listed with background historical and topographical information. A comprehensive resource which gives you valuable insight into the history of London and the Home counties, and enables you to find out wh... More Info
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A lavishly illustrated, 123-page large format bool containing 125 photographs (fifty of them in colour), line drawings, sketches, plans, views and portraits. Very useful bibliographies of architectural references and other sources are provided. In addition to its obvious contribution to local history, the book will be essential reading for students of domestic architecture in general. Published...More Info
Training of Linguists for War, Coulsdon 1952-54; George F Jeffrey at Joint Services School for Linguists, Coulsdon; Sea Cadets in Caterham; Town Hall of Coulsdon & Purley Council; 'Santa Tecla, Stanstead Road, Caterham; Short History of 9th Coulsdon Guide Company from 1948; Woldingham Road School; Entrepreneurs of Croydon; Roffey & Clark, Printers & Stationers; Caroline Clements; William Frank Hea...More Info
Centenary of World War One; 'Edgehill', Succombs Hill, Warlingham; Parsons, Parishes & Patronage - St John the Evangelist, Coulsdon & All Saints', Kenley; Upland Memories - Coulsdon in 1877; Suicide at Whyteleafe - William Cole; The SS General Chanzy Disaster; Horace Sydney Thompson (1897-1918); Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon; 'Dutch Garden Village', Coulsdon; Giles Gilbert Scott and the T...More Info
News from Caterham Valley Parish Magazine 1914-1915; World War 1 Memoirs; As Keen as Mustard; Food in the "Thrifties"; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon, Part 2; A View of Bainbridge (1792 map of Coulsdon); Coulsdon Cinema; Chaldon Mead; Parsons, Parishes & patronage Part 2; Coulsdon Shops in 1949; The Poland Family and 'Greenlands', Caterham; Powers-Samas, Godstone Road, Whyteleafe.
Caterham Recruiting Day 1915 Commemoration; Shop Fronts and Shop Displays from the Past; The Caterham Golf Club and the Kenley Golf Club; Chapel Bank (Chelsham), Adventures of a Stock-Checker; Over 100 Years of Shopping in Coulsdon - IV; Post at Caterham Barracks; 'Burntwood House', Caterham and its place in Military History; Jack's Barbers, Whyteleafe; E H Attree of 'Gamelands', Chaldon; Two loca...More Info