On the Trail of Flora Thompson
See Introduction to the book
List of Illustrations in Book
Plus one important picture which has been uncovered since publication,
that of Flora's employer, the unfortunate Walter Chapman
himself.
1. County boundary stone in Crossways Road, Grayshott
2. Crossways Road, Grayshott, about 1900
3. Walter Chapman’s children in Grayshott, March 1902
4. Annie Symonds (‘Alma Stedman’) aged about 17
5. Flora in her early twenties
6. Single-needle telegraph instrument
7. Fox & Pelican in Headley Road, Grayshott, about 1900
8. Pub sign designed and painted by Walter Crane RA
9. St Luke’s Church, Grayshott - built 1898-1900
10. Authors who used Flora’s post office in Grayshott
11. The Gibbet Cross on Hindhead Common
12. Waggoners Wells, near Grayshott
13. Wishing Well at Waggoners Wells
14. William Austen Sillick, reporter at Grayshott
15. William Burton Elwes OBE, in retirement
16. Dodder on heather and gorse
17. London Road, Liphook, about 1914
18. The Square, Liphook in the early 1920s
19. Haslemere Natural History Society list (part), 1917
20. Louise Woods in her GPO uniform
21. Louise Woods as sketched by her granddaughter
22. John Mumford’s signing-on papers
23. Part of ‘Tin Town,’ at Bramshott Camp, about 1917
24. Pictures of Flora on back page of Daily Mirror, 1921
25. Report on ‘postmistress poet’ in Daily Chronicle, 1921
26. Samples of Flora’s work in The Catholic Fireside
27. Part of ‘Gates of Eden’ in The Peverel Monthly, 1928
28. ‘Woolmer Gate,’ Griggs Green, Liphook
29. Thompsons’ sale details of ‘Woolmer Gate’ in 1927/28
30. Weavers Down (‘Peverel Down’), Liphook
31. Signatures of John and Flora Thopmpson
32. A typical sunken lane near Bramshott
33. Flora’s sculpture in Liphook
Maps:
M1. Centre of Grayshott about 1895
M2. Centre of Grayshott about 1909
M3. Grayshott/Liphook area - general map
M4. Centre of Liphook about 1909
M5. Flora’s Trail - Grayshott to Griggs Green
M6. Other walks from Grayshott
The text above is taken from the book 'On the Trail of Flora Thompson'
by John Owen Smith, published October 1997 ISBN 1-873855-24-9
144pp, over 30 illustrations, maps of area & suggestions for
walks
See Introduction to the book
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