'Hindhead is Safe'
John Owen Smith

Cover: The Cross on Gibbet Hill in morning sunlight, October 2010

Paperback - 64 pages, plus illustrations and map of the walk
John Owen Smith; ISBN: 978-1-873855-61-4; January 2011

Associated titles: Heatherley by Flora Thompson; Grayshott by JH Smith; A Balance of Trust by John Owen Smith; Shottermill by Greta A Turner

Publisher's Note . Table of Contents . Scenes from the Dramatic Walk . About the Author

Replaces The Sir Robert Hunter Trail, Hindhead Common, Dramatised Walk — ISBN 1-873855-13-3 — plus additional text

The title 'Hindhead is Safe' quotes a headline in the Surrey Advertiser of 4th November 1905 referring to the purchase by a few public spirited persons of Hindhead Common, which would now be handed to The National Trust and thus preserved 'in perpetuity for ever'

• Introduction: How the National Trust obtained Hindhead Common
• Biographies of people mentioned in the book
• Calendar of Events
• A Dramatic Walk over Hindhead Common — map, history and script

About the Author

John Owen Smith was born in 1942 and trained as a Chemical Engineer at London University, but spent most of his working life designing commercial Information Systems for the paper-making industry. Following redundancy, he 'fell' into researching and recording the local history of east Hampshire, where he now lives. His output of historical community plays, lectures, articles and books includes:—

• Walks Around Headley: twelve circular walks in and around Headley parish
• One Monday in November, the story of the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots of 1830
• All Tanked Up, the story of the benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village by Canadian tank regiments during the Second World War
• A Balance of Trust, in which 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
• Headley's Past in Pictures, a tour of the parish in old photographs
• On the Trail of Flora Thompson, in which the author turns detective to discover the true identity of the people and places Flora Thompson encountered while she lived in east Hampshire
• Flora's Heatherley - a dramatisation of Flora Thompson's time in Grayshott, Hampshire, 1898–1900
• Flora's Peverel - a dramatisation of Flora Thompson's time in Liphook, Hampshire, 1916–1928

— and other titles

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