a
Headley's
Past in Pictures
- an illustrated tour of the parish of Headley , Hampshire in
the first half of the 20th century - old postcards and photographs of
Headley parish with historical commentary - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Characters
of Headley's Past
- Personalities, groups, occupations
& businesses of the past which have helped to create the Headley
of today - compiled
by John Owen Smith
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Gladys
Laverty's Recipe Book
- Recipes written by a Rector's
daughter in Headley Rectory at the beginning of the 20th century
- compiled
by John Owen Smith
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
A
Headley Compendium
- A collection of historical
material relating to Headley parish from previously published sources
- compiled
by John Owen Smith
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
One
Monday in November … and Beyond
- the story of the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots during the Swing
Riots of 1830 … and their aftermath - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
– see also staged as a play
a
All
Tanked Up - the
story of the benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village by Canadian tank
regiments during the Second World War - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
Echoes
of Erie Camp - a
history of the Headley Down Nature Reserve and the Heatherlands Estate
from 1939 to 2019 through memories and photographs
Published by the Headley Down Nature Reserve
Trust
Price: UK £5.50
/ Europe £7.75 / O/seas £9.00
Liphook,
Bramshott and the Canadians - the story of Canadian troops in
Liphook and Bramshott during two World Wars - Laurence
Giles
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
Price: UK £5.50
/ Europe £7.75 / O/seas £9.00
The Southern
Wey, a guide - Geology,
history and natural history of the Southern River Wey Valley between
Hindhead and Tilford
Published by the River Wey Trust
Now out of
stock as a paper version - PDF of scanned image available
from the River Wey Trust
A
Balance of Trust
- 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
- John
Owen Smith
Sorry – now out of print
a
'Sir
Robert Hunter's Dramatic Walks'
- a short history of the acquisition of Hindhead Common by The National
Trust, plus Details of Dramatic Walks over Hindhead Common and around
Waggoners Wells (replaces 'Hindhead is Safe) - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
'Hindhead
is Safe' - now
replaced by 'Sir
Robert Hunter's Dramatic Walks'
a
The
Hilltop Writers
- a Victorian Colony among the Surrey Hills - a
new illustrated edition , in which we meet Tennyson, Conan
Doyle, Bernard Shaw and the many other writers who populated the hilltops
around Haslemere and Hindhead at the end of the 1890s - W
R Trotter
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Literary
Surrey - a lively
exploration of the time spent and work written in Surrey by authors
from John Evelyn and Fanny Burney to H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. Special
chapters on Country Writers, Box Hill and the River Mole, Children's
Writers (up to Jacqueline Wilson) and "The Quill and the Sword"
(Surrey writers in times of war).
Contains suggestions for further reading and details about places to
visit - Jacqueline
Banerjee
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Haslemere
(with Hindhead)
- an Idyllic Country Town - illustrated
with photographs - Fay
Foster
Price: UK £14.95 / Europe £19.25 / O/seas £24.50
a
Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills
- Part 1: Early Times to the 1700s - illustrated
with photographs and maps - Greta
A Turner
Price: UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills - Part
2: 1730 to the Early Twentieth Century
- illustrated with photographs and maps - Greta
A Turner
Price: UK £14.95 / Europe £19.25 / O/seas £24.50
a
A
Complete History of the Eade Family of
Surrey, Sussex & Hampshire 1250–1990
- illustrated with photographs and maps - Robyn
Lane and Andrew Eade
Price:
UK £19.95
The
Restless Miller -
Scenes from rural life in bygone Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire
- illustrated - David
Johnston
- Order via publisher
a
An
Edwardian Childhood
- the making of a naturalist - the family lived a life of self-sufficiency
where the only machine on the farm was the children's toy steam engine
- a new extended illustrated edition
- Margaret
Hutchinson
Price:
UK £8.95 / Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
I'Anson's
Chalet on Headley Hill
- a hidden
house, a hidden history - Hidden among the
pine trees on Headley Hill there is a Swiss-style chalet. Who built
it and why? -
Judith
Kinghorn
Now out of
stock
a
Walks
around Headley
… and
over the borders - A
dozen circular walks around Headley - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
a
Walks
through History
… at
the West of the Weald - A
dozen circular walks with an historical theme - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
a
Walks
from the Railway
… Guildford
to Portsmouth - Circular
walks from stations, and linear walks to connect them - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
Walks
around Liphook - 20 circular walks around Liphook
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
Price: UK £4.50
/ Europe £6.50 / O/seas £7.50
a
Grayshott
- the story of a Hampshire village , on the border with Surrey
and once part of Headley parish - Written in 1978 to celebrate the 75th
anniversary of Grayshott Civil Parish, this book tells the history of
the village from its earliest beginnings as a minor hamlet of Headley
to its status as a fully independent parish flourishing on (and across)
the borders of Hampshire and Surrey. It was republished to celebrate
the centenary of the parish in 2002 - J
H (Jack) Smith
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
On
the Trail of Flora Thompson
- The author of Lark Rise lived for nearly 30 years in Hampshire.
This book tells of the difficult period during which she 'won the fight
to write' and includes local comment and some of her previously unpublished
work - we turn detective to discover the true identity of the people
and places Flora Thompson encountered while she lived in east Hampshire
- John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Heatherley
- the 'lost' sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford' - Flora Thompson's
time in east Hampshire at the turn of the 19th century - edition including
map and notes on people & places she encountered in east Hampshire
- Flora
Thompson
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50 [also
as ebook on Amazon]
a
The Peverel Papers
- Nature notes written in Liphook, 1921-27 - Flora
Thompson
Price:
UK £21.00 / Europe £25.00 / O/seas £30.00
a
Gates of Eden / Bog Myrtle & Peat
- a novel and a collection of poems - Flora
Thompson
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Flora Thompson: Beyond Candleford
- Two plays telling of Flora Thompson's
Hampshire years - John
Owen Smith - see notes on Royalties
for productions
Price:
UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Flora Thompson
- Biography - the story of the 'Lark Rise' writer - Gillian
Lindsay
Price:
UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
The World of Flora Thompson Revisited
- Biography , giving particular emphasis to Flora Thompson's roots
in the Oxfordshire countryside - Christine
Bloxham -
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Without
Education or Encouragement , by Ruth Collette Hoffman -
The Literary Legacy of Flora Thompson
- Order
via publisher
a
Dreams of the Good Life ,
by Richard Mabey - The
Life of Flora Thompson and the creation of Lark Rise to Candleford
- Order
via publisher
Guide
to Liphook, Bramshott and Neighbourhood - a 1925 guidebook to
the village of Liphook in Hampshire and its surroundings, largely written
by Flora Thompson
Reprinted by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society in 1995
Price: UK £5.00
/ Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
Growing
up in Griggs Green - recollections of life in Liphook at the
time of the First World War, by a neighbour of Flora Thompson
- Joe
Leggett
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
Price: UK £5.00
/ Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
No Toys
for the Boys - further recollections of growing up in Liphook,
Longmoor and Griggs Green - Joe
Leggett
Published by the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation
Society
Price: UK £5.00
/ Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
Ancient
Churches in North East Hampshire
- an illustrated guide to twelve local mediaeval Hampshire churches:
Alton, Bentley, Binsted, Froyle, Holybourne, East Worldham, West Worldham,
Kingsley, Hartley Mauditt, Selborne, Headley and Bramshott - Woolmer
Forest Archaeological and Historical Society - Now
out of print
a
A
Parcel of Gold for Edith
- letters from Australia to Headley 1853-1875 - Joyce
Stevens
Price: UK £4.95
/ Europe £7.20 / O/seas £8.50
a
To the
Ar and Back -
an historical stroll around Headley and Arford - Joyce
Stevens
Price: UK £3.00
/ Europe £5.25 / O/seas £6.00 [ebook
on Amazon]
The
River Running By
- the story of Standford hamlet and its church - John
Warren
Now out of print,
but there is a PDF version available
Hollywater – a forgotten hamlet
- the history of the hamlet of Hollwater - Lucy
Rodd & Marilyn Metcalfe — CURRENTLY
OUT OF PRINT
Price: UK £7.50
/ Europe £10.00 / O/seas £11.50
All Saints Church, Grayswood
- a short history - James
Mackie
Price: UK £7.50
/ Europe £10.00 / O/seas £11.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 1
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 2
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 3
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 4
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 5
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - The
Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley
Miscellany - Volume 6
- a series of occasional booklets - things of historical interest in
Headley parish - includes Index -
The Headley
Society
Price: UK £3.50
/ Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
a
Echoes
of a Trumpet -
the great-granddaughter of the legendary 'Trumpeter' of Selborne serves
us fact laced with supposition - Jean
Newland
Price: UK £7.95
/ Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Echoes
of Home - the
story of Ellen, the transported daughter of the 'Trumpeter' of Selborne,
Hampshire - Jean
Newland
Price: UK £8.95
/ Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
To
Follow a Dream
- Three Cornish families trek
to Hampshire in 1768 - Jean
Newland
Price: UK £8.95
/ Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
Cathra
- It is the year 1160, and a chance meeting in Alton forest turns Cathra's
life upside down - Jean
Newland
Price: UK £8.95
/ Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
Jessica's
People - a story
from quieter times in Ireland, leading through to the author's arrival
in Headley - Jessie
Woodger
Price: UK £7.95
/ Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt:
a Medieval Landscape
- peasant life in medieval Churt - Philip
B rooks
Price: UK £7.95
/ Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt,
an Oasis through Time
- a short history of the village - Olivia
Cotton
Price: UK £7.95
/ Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt Remembered
- photographic memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia
Cotton
Price: UK £6.95
/ Europe £9.00 / O/seas £10.50
a
Further
Reflections on Churt
- more photographic memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia
Cotton
Price: UK £7.95
/ Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
A Time
of Change - A
short history of Churt, Surrey: the period between 1840 and 1880
- Gillian
Devine
Price: UK £6.00
/ Europe £8.70 / O/seas £10.00
Churt
and the War to end all Wars
- As described in the parish
magazine, the Churt Church Monthly - Gillian
Devine
Price: UK £6.00
/ Europe £8.70 / O/seas £10.00
a
Violet,
the Canadian Lieutenant's Wife
- A biography of the author's
grandmother who married a Canadian soldier in WW1, emigrated
to Saskatchewan and later returned to England - Roger
Sherburn-Hall -
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My
Ockenden Adventure
- Life in a home in Haslemere
for refugee children from the displaced persons’ camps in Germany
- Elsie
Broughton -
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Wanborough
Manor - School
for Secret Agents - Patrick
Yarnold -
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St
Bartholomew's Parish Church Haslemere
- Katherine
Jessel -
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Inspector
William Donaldson 1807-1855
- 'The First Surrey County Police Officer
to be killed while on duty' - Henry
F Pelham -
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a
A Tale of Two Theatres
- Farnham's Castle and Redgrave Theatres - Anne
Cooper -
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a
The
Story of a Catholic Parish
- Father Robo tells how, after
an absence of almost two centuries, Catholic worship was restored in
Farnham, in part due to the immigration of French priests fleeing from
the ‘terror’ of the Revolution in their own country - Etienne
Robo -
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a
Rough Stone and Chisel
- Father Robo takes us to mid
nineteenth century rural Brittany to explore his roots and the influences
that shaped him - Etienne
Robo -
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a
Grayshott
from Then to Now
- the fascinating story of the growth of a Hampshire village - John
P Hill -
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a
The
I'Ansons - A
dynasty of London Architects and Surveyors - Peter
Jefferson Smith -
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Liphook
Lives - Contributions
from the memories of 8 Local Families make this a very special record
of Life in Liphook - Laurence C Giles -
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Centre
Liphook
Shops Remembered
- Recalling the shops that have served Liphook over the years - Ian
Baker -
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Centre
Liphook
Remembers - Reminiscences
by 'Old' families of Liphook. What Wonderful tales the people of Liphook
have to tell, and how well they tell them - Laurence
C Giles -
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Centre
Liphook
and the Headley Road
- Memories of Headley Road as it was and is now. Re-print of a very
popular and informative book - Ian Baker
- Order
via Liphook Heritage Centre
Liphook
Calendar 1066-1989
- Events, national and local, for every day of the year - Laurence
C Giles -
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Centre
Chiltley
Place and Goldenfields
- The story of a Historic Local House and its past - Anne
Silver -
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Centre
The
Story of King George's Hospital
- Now Bramshott Place -
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Centre
Liphook
Souvenir - 80
historic photographs and their stories -
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Centre
School
Day Memories -
Memories of schoolchildren at Bramshott & Liphook schools in the mid-20th
Century - Derek (Dik) Holdsworth and others
- Order
via Liphook Heritage Centre
Conford,
from Domesday to Victoria
- Mary Tyfield -
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Centre
Conford,
from Victoria to the Millennium
- Mary Tyfield -
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Centre
A History
of Greatham - An illustrated
history of Greatham, a parish & village in Hampshire - Peter
Gripton -
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Centre
One
Hundred Years of Liphook Bonfire & Carnival
- Brian
North -
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Centre
Band
on the Bus - Around
the World on a Double-decker - Richard
King -
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via Publisher, or Liphook
Heritage Centre
A
Century Not Out
- One hundred years of the I'Anson Cup
- Graham
Collyer -
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Hampshire
Place Names -
Provides an interesting
insight into some of the county's more unusual place names
- Anthony
Poulton-Smith -
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Compton
Pottery
- A richly illustrated book which traces the history of this village
industry and is the first account of the diversity and heritage of this
unusual pottery
- Hilary
Calvert -
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Alton
Papers, No.5 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - OUT
OF PRINT -
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Alton
Papers, No.6 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - OUT
OF PRINT -
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Alton
Papers, No.7 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - OUT
OF PRINT -
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Alton
Papers, No.8 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.9 -
One of a series of booklets containing
short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.10
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.11
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.12
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - OUT
OF PRINT -
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Alton
Papers, No.13
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.14
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - OUT
OF PRINT -
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Alton
Papers, No.15
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.16
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.17
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.18
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.19
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.20
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.21
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.22
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.23
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.24
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.25
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.26
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Alton
Papers, No.27
- One of a series of booklets
containing short articles on the history of Alton - Friends
of the Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery -
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Jane
Austen and Alton
- a walk round Jane Austen's
Alton - Jane
Hurst -
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Jane
Austen and Chawton
- a walk round Jane Austen's
Chawton - Jane
Hurst -
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Miss
Bell's Fountains
- a history of "The Munificent
Gifts" in Alton - Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Inns - "in
all our inns we have plenty of ale, beer and sundry kinds of wine"
- Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Pubs - Alehouses,
beerhouses and public houses in Alton, up to the First World War
- Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Breweries - "Here
… [are] several large breweries, the ale from which has long been
famed throughout the county and in London" - Jane
Hurst -
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Alton's
Motor Traders - part 1
- A century of service
- Norman
Pointing -
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Alton's
Motor Traders - part 2
- A century of service
- Norman
Pointing -
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Alton's
20th Century Market
- 'a market second to none in
the country' - Jane Hurst
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Alton's
Mills - Details
of 14 mills within and around Alton - Jane
Hurst -
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Hartley
Mauditt House
- 'A Capital uniform mansion'?
- Jane Hurst -
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Alton's
Photographers
- 'The first 100 years'
- Jane Hurst -
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Worldham
Park - and
King Edward's Hill? - Jane Hurst
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Jane
Austen - family
connections with Alton & Chawton connections - Jane
Hurst -
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John
Eggar's Free Grammar School
- 'The early years 1642-1880'
- Pamela Taylor -
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Memories
of Alton Project - No.1
- Hard Lives 50–80 years ago - Ed: Paul Fenwick
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via publisher
Memories
of Alton Project - No.2
- Life in Alton during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
- Order
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Memories
of Alton Project - No.3
- Life in Alton during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
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Memories
of Alton Project - No.4
- Life in Alton during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
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The
Remembered Ones of the Great War - Vol 1
- Bentworth to Farringdon -
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The
Remembered Ones of the Great War - Vol 2
- Froyle to Selborne -
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Alton
from 1914 to 1920
- Life in the Alton area during and after WW1-
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The
Battle of Alton
- an account of the famous Civil War battle of 1643 in Alton, Hampshire
- Peter
Cansfield
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Sweet
FA - the true
story of Fanny Adams in Alton - Peter
Cansfield
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