Vintage Local History Magazines

Dorking Heritage Magazine – Autumn 2017

The Membership magazine for Museum and History Group members

  • Current exhibition: Dorking 1917   
  • Planning ahead for our temporary exhibitions   
  • Dorking art influence crosses the world   
  • South Street Caves: TV cameras, spooks and 800 candles   
  • Coming through the door …   
  • The Pethick-Lawrences: Local Heroes 
  • Walks team: A walk on the dark side 
  • DDPS: Notes from the DDPS Chairman 
  • Dorking Local History Group 
  • WW2: Dorking men lead the Normandy invasion on D-Day 
  • WW2 tank at Denbies 
  • Return of the town crier 
  • Still looking for the South Street boat?
  • Coffee, bacon and a tale of riches to rags
  • Oral histories: Keeping the memories alive 
  • Meet the team: Robin Cooper 
  • Then and Now 

The booklet is 21 pages with colour photographs. 

Priced at £1.00

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Dorking Heritage Magazine – Autumn 2018

The Membership magazine for Museum and History Group members

AUTUMN 2018

  • Current exhibition: The Rob Walker Racing Team – Dorking’s Part in
    Motor Racing History   
  • The Rob Walker Centenary Festival – 21st October   
  • Future exhibitions: Coming to a Museum near you – Dorking Home Front 1914-1916: A Dorking Museum exhibition at St Martin’s Church                        
  • Dorking celebrates a musical giant   
  • Dorking Society: Letter from the Chairman
  • Family Activities: Museum Explorers
  • Dorking Local History Group
  • Dorking Caves a filming location
  • A tale of two blue plaques 
  • Oral History Team: Capturing memories of World War Two
  • Working in partnership: eye-to-eye at the Museum
  • Walks team: Great-great-grandson follows his relative’s beat
  • Meet the team: Graham Speed, Bobbie Rounthwaite 
  • Then and Now

The booklet is 21 pages with colour photographs. 

Priced at £1.00

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Dorking Heritage Magazine – Spring 2019

The Membership magazine for Museum and History Group members.

SPRING 2019

  • Letter from the Chairman   
  • Current exhibition: Lord Ashcombe’s Minerals – the gentlemen 
    collectors and the advance of science   
  • Our next exhibition: The Days of King Dor   
  • Good family fun
  • Listening to memories                      
  • Want to get Spooky?   
  • 2018 – that was a year that was!   
  • Quite a year of … Suffrage   
  • Quite a year of … Motorsport   
  • Dorking Society: Letter from the Chairman 
  • Dorking Local History Group 
  • Two important diary dates
  • Reaching out across the world
  • Arrivals at the Museum
  • One woman’s contribution to victory in WW2
  • Oral History team: Collecting memories of life during WW2
  • Meet the team: Jackie Rance
  • Bookcase
  • Then and Now 

The booklet is 21 pages with colour photographs. 

Priced at £1.00

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Dorking Heritage – Spring 2022

The Membership magazine for Museum and History Group members

SPRING 2022

  • • Letter from the Chairman
    • Temporary exhibition: ‘Darking 1620’ and the ‘First Thanksgiving’
    • Our next temporary exhibition: Rewildings
    • A better environment
    • What’s new at the Museum?
    • A swift addition
    • Taking a different view
    • Getting up steam
    • Dorking Society: Letter from the Chairman
    • Dorking Local History Group
    • Meet the team: Gwen Wood
    • DLHG’s ‘Star Volunteer’: Garry Brooks
    • Archive: All change at the archive
    • Review of 2021: Another ‘challenging’ year
    • New book: Darking Hundred
    • The Cockerel Press
    • Extraordinary Delights imminent!
    • A Hundred Years on a Medieval Manor
    • Walks and Tours: Wide open spaces and black holes
    • NOTICEBOARD
    • One of ’80 trees’ in Dorking
    • Obituary: Beryl Higgins
    • Making Dorking’s history relevant today

The booklet is 25 pages with colour photographs. 

Priced at £1.00

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Surrey History Vol. 1 No. 4

The magazine from Surrey History Centre. Donated by a Museum supporter.

The magazine has age marks on the front cover – but the pages inside are nice and clean

  • The Reformation in Bletchingley
  • Chilworth Gunpowder Mills
  • Account Book of William Gadcum, Carpenter
  • A Surrey Man looks at his Ancestors.

 Priced at £1.00

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Surrey History Vol. V No. 4

The magazine from Surrey History Centre

  • Rose Hill: adapted from nature (The making of a new townscape – the first residential estate in Dorking)
  • From the origins of Parliament to the Reform Act: Surrey M.P.s & elections
  • A fearless & unsparing hand (& a cautious defence of ‘Innovation or Inconsistency’ as exhibited by Mitcham Church)
  • New material for Surrey historians.

Priced at £1.00

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Surrey History Vol. VII No. 4 (2007)

The magazine from Surrey History Centre

  • The Blossom Air Disaster on Hankley Common
  • A brief Look at Brewing in Surrey
  • Some Notes on Surrey Tokens of the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Some Public Utilities in Surrey: Water Supply
  • Surrey History Centre Accessions of Records in 2006.

There is slight damage to the front cover – but pages inside are nice and clean.

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Surrey History Vol. VII No. 5 (2007)

The magazine from Surrey History Centre

  • Sir James thornhill and Addiscombe Place
  • The YMCA and Guildford
  • Some Public Utilities in Surrey: Electricity and Gas
  • Accessions of Records in Surrey History Centre in 2007.

There is slight damage to the front cover – but pages inside are nice and clean.

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Surrey History Vol. X. 2011

The magazine from Surrey History Centre

Magazine is in good condition.

  • Henry VIII, Oatlands and Nonsuch Palace
  • The Water Engine House in Betchworth Park, Dorking
  • Recording Kingston’s Past in Paint: Reginald Brill and Kingston Museum’s Brill Collection
  • Surrey History Centre: Accessions of Records in 2010
  • Ex-Service Welfare in Leatherhead and the Thermega Factory.

Priced at £1.00

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Local History News – Number 126 – Winter 2018

The magazine of the British Association for Local History.

Contents

  • DI Crosby on the case 
  • WWI Conscription, Conscience and Courage in Herefordshire 
  • The Yorkshire Historic Dictionary 
  • Searching for Theatrical Ancestors 
  • Bob Read ‘Our genial historian’ 
  • David Sankey A ‘cornerstone of the community’ 
  • Personal Achievement Award ‘commended’ 
  • Methodist Records and the Local Historian 
  • CELEBRATING CIVIC LIFE 
  • Public Art in the Landscape 
  • Strange spellings and scribal errors: difficulties encountered when transcribing wills  
  • Film and local history 
  • Proposing a county societies network 
  • GDPR AND LOCAL SOCIETIES:GENERAL ADVICE 
  • The happiest place for local history? 
  • Mary Brown’s story 
  • Societies News 
  • Archives News 
  • Museums News 
  • Libraries News 
  • Education News 
  • Guided Walks 1 June 2018 YORK 
  • Trustees’ Report 2017 
  • BALH Trustee profile – Jonathan Mackman 
  • Yorkshire Dales Life and Tradition: a Celebration 
  • Jane Austen and Southampton Spa 
  • Local history en vacances 
  • Minutes (abridged) of the Annual General Meeting 
  • Notes / News / Issues 

The booklet is priced at £1.00

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The Local Historian Magazine. January 2018

Journal of the British Association for Local History88 page journal

  • Local societies on the move in the middle ages: migration and social mobility in England 1100-1500ages: migration and social mobility in England 1100-1500
  • Parish bede rolls during the English Reformation 
  • Witchcraft and evidence in a Somerset parish in the seventeenth century 
  • The bewitching of Emma Smith 
  • Evacuation to Northallerton in 1939-1940: a community divided? 
  • Review article: books on the local history of drink, drinking and public houses 

Reviews

  • PEOPLE, PLACES AND CONTEXT: essays in local history in honour of Joan Dils 
  • JONAS MOORE’S MAP OF THE GREAT LEVELL OF THE FENNS1658 edited 
  • THE FIGHTING ESSEX SOLDIER Recruitment, war and society in the fourteenth century edited 
  • FARMERS, CONSUMERS, INNOVATORS The world of Joan Thirsk edited 
  • BIRMINGHAM WILLS AND INVENTORIES 1512-1603 edited 
  • HISTORY IN THE SOUTH PENNINES The legacy of Alan Petford edited 

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Dorking History – No. 1 – Spring 1989

Dorking Local History Group’s Journal.

  • All Lit Up by Electricity Alan A Jackson
  • More on ‘Dorking Abbey’ Michael Elphick
  • New Archeological Finds Vivien Ettlinger
  • Powell Corderoy School During World War II Edwin Sykes
  • Royal Occasions Patricia Bennett
  • The 1851 Census: A Window on Early victorian Dorking Vivien Ettlinger 

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

Priced at 50p.

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Dorking History – No. 2 – Autumn 1989

Dorking Local History Group’s  Autumn 1989 Journal.

  • Dr Susan Beattie – Alan A Jackson
  • Henry Talbot of Chart Park (1700-1784) – Edith & Doris Mercer
  • The Last Otters in Dorking? – David Knight
  • The Mickleham Connection – Patricia Bennett

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 3 – Spring 1990

Dorking Local History Group’s  Spring 1990 Journal.

  • A Wedding to Remember 100 Years Ago – Victoria Houghton
  • Belladonna Farming in dorking, in World War I – David Knight
  • Digging in Dorking – Vivien Ettlinger 
  • Medicine in the 18th Century – Brian Overell
  • Nathaniel Wix, An 18th Century Dorking Worthy – Frances Mountford
  • Recent Acquisitions of Dorking Museum –  AAJ
  • The Reigate & Dorking Bank – David Harding
  • The Westcott Road on Saturday Night – David Knight
  • Who was Lady Dorking? – AAJ

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 4 – Autumn 1990

Dorking Local History Group’s  Autumn 1990 Journal.

  • Bookham – Another Brixton?
  • July Jaunt or Time Tripping – Patricia Bennett
  • Radiation in Dorking – David Knight 
  • The Great By-Pass Controversy – Alan A Jackson
  • The Reigate Road – Walter Moore
  • Unwelcome Travellers – Robert Humphreys

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 5 – Spring 1991

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1991 Journal.

  • A Skid on Pebblecombe – John Day
  • History and the Mobile Library – June M Spong
  • J. Beetham Wilson, Chemist Extraordinary – Mary Day, John Callcutt
  • Little Known Dorking Streets and Courts – Alan A Jackson
  • No. 7 Junction Road, Dorking – Victoria Houghton
  • Not so Bright – Vivien Ettlinger
  • Our Cottage Hospitals – Carole Townsend
  • Pilgrim Cottage, South Street – Beryl Higgins, Vivien Ettlinger
  • Roman Dorking – Vivien Ettlinger
  • The Youngest Army Casualty in WWI

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 6 – Autumn 1991

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1991 Journal.

  • But What About Mr Powell? – Edwin Sykes
  • Discovering Dorking – Vivien Ettlinger
  • Dorking’s Last Duke – Alan A Jackson
  • Dorking’s Shrove Football – Graham Walker
  • Hanging out the Washing – Vivien Ettlinger
  • Poverty in Dorking 1909-10

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 7 – Spring 1992

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1992 Journal.

  • Arthur Joseph Munby at Dorking – Alan A Jackson
  • Arundel Walk; Chop-Stick Place, Vincent Walk – Alan A Jackson
  • Coinage of Dorking – Ted Molyneux
  • Conkers, Cordite and Powell Corderoy School – Edwin Sykes
  • Dorking Defences – Alan A Jackson
  • Dorking: A Surrey Market Town through Twenty Centuries: errata – Alan A Jackson
  • Hampstead Lane Cottages – Ted Molyneux
  • John Edward Nowell Walker – Violet Whitehead
  • Myrtle House – Ted Molyneux
  • Sounds & Smells of 19th Century – Dorking Graham Walker

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 8 – Autumn 1992

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1992 Journal.

  • A Bridge Too Much – Alan A Jackson
  • A Tenement Called Godfreys – Beryl Higgins & Vivien Ettlinger
  • Dorking Tradesmen 1: John Thomas Maybank – Alan A Jackson
  • Impressions of Dorking Fair – David Knight
  • Mrs Belloc Lowndes at Dorking
  • Saved by Mother -in-Law – Alan A Jackson
  • Surrey at Work
  • Townfield – Alan A Jackson

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 9 – Spring 1993

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1993 Journal.

  • Bridge Guards at Deepdene – Alan A Jackson
  • Chitty’s Shop & Slaughterhouse – Mary Day
  • Curiosities from the Vestry Minutes
  • Sir Arthur & Dorking Water – Graham Walker
  • The Treasures of Dorking Museum (1): Newspaper Cuttings
  • The Treasures of Dorking Museum (2): Not only for the Children – Patricia Bennett
  • The Trial of Dorking Rioters – Mary Day
  • Walter Godfrey – V. Whitehead
  • Wotton House Fifty Years ago – V. Whitehead

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 10 – Autumn 1993

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1993 Journal.

  • Crime & Punishment in Nineteenth Century Dorking – Alan A Jackson
  • Dorking Cinemas
  • Dorking Tradesmen 2: T. H. Sherlock & Son – Alan A Jackson
  • Eating in Dorking 230 and 160 years ago – Eric J Mansfield
  • The Rickman and Marsh Families in Dorking
  • Visit to the Minet Library – Sue Tombs

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 11 – Spring 1994

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1994 Journal.

  • Cricket in Dorking – Kenneth Cole
  • Taking a Census, or Censor-ship? – Patricia Bennett
  • The House at Pump Corner – Vivien Ettlinger, Victoria Houghton, Beryl Higgins
  • The Maltings that Never Was – Vivien Ettlinger

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 12 – Autumn 1994

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1994 Journal.

  • A Brockham Brickmaker – Victoria Houghton
  • Dorking in New Zealand
  • Dorking Tradesmen 3: Geo J Arthur & Sons Lts (1) – C. R. Arthur
  • Dorking’s Victoria Cross – Bob Miller
  • Early Dorking Cricketers (1) – Kenneth Cole
  • Just Before D-Day in Dorking – Paul Rammage
  • NEWRA – Mr Layton

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 12 – Autumn 1994 with Index

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1994 Journal.

  • A Brockham Brickmaker – Victoria Houghton
  • Dorking in New Zealand
  • Dorking Tradesmen 3: Geo J Arthur & Sons Lts (1) – C. R. Arthur
  • Dorking’s Victoria Cross – Bob Miller
  • Early Dorking Cricketers (1) – Kenneth Cole
  • Just Before D-Day in Dorking – Paul Rammage
  • NEWRA – Mr Layton

Includes an index to issues 1 – 12

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 13 – Spring 1995

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1995 Journal.

  • A Late Use of a Horsebox on the Railway – Maureen Cole
  • David Knight N.E.C.M.
  • Early Dorking Cricketers Part 2 – Kenneth Cole
  • George Bernard Shaw at Dorking – AAJ
  • On the Buses around Dorking
  • The Army at Holmwood in 1876 – Maureen Cole
  • The Puttock Family – AAJ
  • We Have Them All – Victoria Houghton

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 14 – Autumn 1995

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1995 Journal.

  • Dorking Riflemen – N.E.C.Molyneux
  • Dorking Tradesmen 3: Geo J Arthur & sons Lts (2) – C. R. Arthur
  • Nearer to Heaven: Leith Hill Tower 1910-1920 – Patricia Bennett
  • Provident Dorking – Bob Humphries

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 15 – Spring 1996

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1996 Journal.

  • An Old Map – AAJ
  • Gilliam & Sons
  • The Deepdene Organ Lives!
  • The Sad Tale of Richard Uwins – Mary Turner
  • William Usherwood: An Internationally Famous Dorking Photographer – Brian Overall
  • Woodcock’s Pharmacy – Allan Woodcock

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 16 – Autumn 1996

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1996 Journal.

  • Changing Fortunes of a Small Westcott Farm – Audrey Seeley
  • Dorking Artists 
  • Jane Austin in the Mole Valley – Vivian Waymouth
  • Pixham: Ripples on the Stream (1) – Patricia Bennett
  • Road Work in Progress – Patricia Bennett
  • Some Cuttings from Dorking Advertiser – AAJ

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 17 – Spring 1997

Dorking Local History Group’s Spring 1997 Journal.

  • A Holiday Discovery – Rosemary Spiller
  • All is not Lost – Victoria Houghton
  • Dorking Cemetery – AAJ
  • Dorking in the 1830s, 1840s & 1850s – Victoria Houghton
  • Pixham: Ripples on the Stream (2) – Patricia Bennett

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History – No. 18 – Autumn 1997

Dorking Local History Group’s Autumn 1997 Journal.

  • A Missing Trust Deed – Brian Overell
  • Chart Park Revisited – Beryl Higgins
  • Comments on Deepdene
  • Conditions in the Dorking Workhouse – Michael Elphick
  • More Pixham Memories – John Coombes
  • Piranesi and Bury Hill – Mary Day & Martin Stammers
  • Rough Rew – Alan A Jackson

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, and has a name written in the inside cover – but the articles are completely readable.

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Dorking History 2000

Donated by a Museum supporter. 

Dorking Local History Group’s 2000 Journal.

  • The Warren of the Manor of Dorking by Vivien Ettlinger
  • Year at Townfield – Mary Turner
  • London Road, Dorking – Robert Miller
  • Hunting and the Railway – Alan A Jackson
  • A Westcott Street Pub – Audrey Seeley
  • Boxhurst and the Railway – Alan A Jackson
  • Leith Hill and ‘Operation Granite’ – Stewart D Robertson
  • Church Spires and Major Rhode Hawkins – Lionel Green
  • Wimbledon Columns – a second update – Lionel Green
  • Surrey Quarter Sessions Records

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Dorking History 2001

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little bit scruffy around the spine – but the pages are clean.

Dorking Local History Group’s 2000 Journal.

  • The Great House on Butter Hill – Beryl Higgins & Vivien Ettlinger
  • The Origins of the Youth Hostels Association in the Surrey Hills – Valerie Ferry
  • According to Station’: Education in Early victorian Dorking (1839-1841) – Allan Brigham
  • Responses to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, 1851 – Bob Humphreys
  • The Dorking Bach Choir – Renee Stewart
  • Log Book of David Mitchell of Capel 1885-1891 – Vivien Ettlinger
  • The Fate of M. Gilbert – Brian Overell

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Dorking History 2002-3

Donated by a Museum volunteer. It is in good condition.

Dorking Local History Group’s 2002-3 Journal.

  • Dorking and its members of Parliament, 1832-1960 – Pamela Hunter
  • Friendly Society Celebrations, Expansions & Benefits around Dorking in the Nineteenth Century – Bob Humphreys
  • Joldwynds & William Bowman of Holmbury St Mary – Valerie Ferry
  • Submission by Sarah Joyce to Poor Law Commission, 1843 – via Mary Day
  • The Bell – Beryl Higgins & Vivien Ettlinger
  • The Cabin, North Holmwood – Alan Jackson
  • The Home Guard School at Denbies – Felicity J Medland
  • The North Holmwood Pottery – Brian Overall
  • Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, 1887 – How Should Dorking Celebrate? – Mary Turner

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Dorking History 2003

Dorking Local History Group’s 2003 Journal.

Donated by a Museum supporter – there is a small mark on the front cover of the booklet – but the pages inside are clean.

  • A Museum Adventure in Dorking – Terry Wooden
  • A Town & Country Gentleman in the early 18th Century – Pamela Hunter
  • Commemorative board – St Margaret’s Ockley – Maureen & Martin Cole
  • Dorking Nurseryman Declared Bankrupt! – Vivien Ettlinger
  • Dorking Schools in the 1850s and 1860s – Bob Humphreys
  • Pixham Lane in the Old Days – Rose Cottage – David Newman
  • Prehistoric Westcott – Gabby Rapson
  • The Textile Collection in Dorking Museum – Joyce Foster & Barbara Turnbull
  • Two Train Journeys through dorking in the 1870s – Alan Jackson
  • Where’s the Water Cart? – A A Jackson

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Dorking History 2007

Dorking Local History Group’s 2007 Journal.

Donated by a Museum supporter – the journal is in good condition.

  • The Rangiora Connection – Mary Turner
  • Lady Lawrence – an Apology
  • The Oliviers in Dorking – Terry Wooden
  • Captain Swing Disturbances in the 1830s – Bob Humphreys
  • Cotmandene – the Peoples’ Playground
  • Little Dudley House – Beryl Higgins & Vivien Ettlinger
  • An East End Invasion
  • Dorking Men in the Battle of Trafalgar – Coffey Holland
  • The Holmwood Manoevres of July 1876 – Maureen Cole
  • The Double Life of a Capel Yeoman – Pam Palmer
  • The Admiral and the Obnoxious Ornaments – Kathy Atherton

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Dorking History 2008

Dorking Local History Group’s 2008 Journal.

Donated by a Museum supporter. The journal is in good condition with no marks or inscriptions.

  • John Langden Davies – Kathy Atherton
  • Making History – The Dorking Bombard – Eric J Mansfield
  • The Strange Case of the Amoebic Shape-Shifting Common – Kathy Atherton
  • Tracing the Ownership of Waterlands Farm – Mary Day
  • Flushed with Success? – Mary Day
  • A Narrow Escape – Kathy Atherton
  • Is This Dorking? – Jane Austen and the Watsons – Kathy Atherton
  • The Two Pageants – Renee Stewart
  • Twenty Years after on Dorking’s Model Farm – Pam Hunter
  • Tommy Warner – A citizen of Dorking – Nigel Evans

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Dorking History 2009

Donated by a Museum supporter – journal is in good condition.

  • History of Hoyle, Capel – Bridget Paterson
  • Local Boy Makes Good in Ontario – Pam Palmer
  • New Light on William Tilt’s Emigration – Kathy Atherton
  • The Three Olympias, Holmwood’s Hugenot Connections – Kathy Atherton
  • Letter from Wotton Emigrants
  • Francis Seymour Larpent – Vivian Timke-Burdett
  • Charles Darwin, The Past and Future of Leith Hill Place – Kathy Atherton
  • The Diaries of Sarah Hurst 1759-1762 – Susan J Djabri

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Dorking History 2011

Dorking Local History Group’s 2011 Journal. 

Donated by a Museum supporter – journal is in good condition.

  • 19th Paid Century Policing of Surrey Before a Paid Police – Robert Bartlett
  • Charles Graham Robertson; A Great Eastern Railwayman and Holder of the Victoria Cross – Stephen Sellick
  • The Dorking Mendicity Society – Bob Humphreys
  • Transport of Goods and Personnel around Nineteenth Century Mid Surrey – Bob Humphreys
  • Ascertaining the boundary between the Manors of East Betchworth and Headley – 1801 Style – Jane Le Cluse
  • A Child’s Shoe – Kathy Atherton

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Dorking History 2012

Dorking Local History Group’s 2012 Journal

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  • Retail changes since the mid nineteenth century – Bob Humphreys
  • Dorking in the news
  • Denham Jordon – Rod Cooper
  • Surrey Association of Church Bell Ringers; First World War Roll of Honour – David Underdown
  • The water engine house in Betchworth Park, Dorking – Alan Crocker
  • The Great Bridge at Brockham – Jane le Cluse
  • Mullins’ or Sheffield’s? – Vivien Ettlinger

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Dorking History 2013

Dorking Local History Group’s 2013 Journal. 

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  • Post Office in Dorking – Bob Humphreys
  • Working on the Home Front, Great War 1914-1918 – William Dinnage
  • From Goods Yard to Car Park – Terry Woden
  • 300 Years of Family Connections with Dorking – Charles Gordon Clark
  • The Brockham Park Estate: Origins and Owners – Albert Bird
  • The Star Pub, some Reminiscences – Pamela Greenwood
  • John Robert Verton (1783-1849): a Dorking Linen Draper – Judy Buckley
  • The early Years of St Paul’s School, Dorking – Helen Wharmby

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Dorking History 2014

Dorking Local History Group’s 2014 Journal. 

Donated by a Museum supporter – journal is in good condition.

  • Joining Up and the Army of Occupation 1918-1919 – William Dinnage
  • Vaults found in Betchworth Church – Jane Le Cluse
  • Researching the Grenehurst Park Estate – Carol Cobb,Bernice Forsyth, Mary Day, Bridget Paterson, Dick Thomas
  • John Henry Gordon Lee-Steere 1895-1914 – Kathy Atherton
  • Rose Hill, Alfred Russel Wallace’s House in Dorking – Michele Kohler
  • The Sisters of Edward Kerrich of Capel – Mary Day

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Dorking History 2015

Dorking Local History Group’s 2015 Journal. 

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  • Revisiting the Memory of William Dinnage (1900-1982) – Nicky Dunsbee
  • St John the Evangelist Church, North Holmwood War Memorial, The Great War 1914-1919 – Jim Edwards
  • Tomb of a Highway Man? – Sue Tombs
  • Obituary for Christopher Gordon Childs – Jane Le Cluse
  • The Dorking Joint Isolation Hospital – Jane Le Cluse

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Dorking History 2016

Dorking Local History Group’s 2016 Journal. 

Donated by a Museum supporter – journal is in good condition.

  • Charles Collins: Artist, Fireman and Model Maker – Mareen Shettle
  • Mrs Florence Coulson: A Formidable but Forward-looking Headmistress – Jim Docking
  • Aldhurst and Henfold, Contrasting Capel Farms – Mary Day
  • The Family Background of Henry Goulburn of Betchworth House; Chancellor of the Exchequer – Karin I Wilson
  • Mickleham’s First National School 1832 – Judy Kinloch

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Dorking History 2018

Dorking Local History Group’s 2018 Journal. Donated by a Museum supporter.

  • Here Runneth Under. Article 1 of Dorking’s hidden underground spaces
  • From Navvies’ Rest to Children’s Church: St Michaels Chapel Westhumble
  • Headley’s Lost Pub
  • The Lipscombe Family and the Plough, Coldharbour
  • A Dorking Common: Uses and Abuse through a Millenium
  • Fool’s Gold Under St Martin’s?
  • A Case of Blocked Drains

40 pages

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Dorking Local History Group’s 2020 Journal.

Donated by a Museum supporter – the journal is in good condition.

  • Early Memories of a Dorking Lad
  • Hidden Histories: Charles Milner of Mickleham
  • Charitable Donations from Wills
  • Memories of Ye Olde Oake Shoppe
  • Victoria Houghton
  • 2020 for DLHF
  • News from the Dorking Archives
  • Unwanted Situations
  • Earthquakes in England
  • Caroline Cooper
  • The Esperance Dancers in Holmwood

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Dorking History 2021

Dorking Local History Group’s 2021 Journal.

A donation by a Museum supporter – the journal is in good condition with no marks or inscriptions

  • Life in Service – U3A
  • St. Margaret’s American Connection – Gordon Lee-Steere
  • Dene Holes – Sam Dawson
  • Mrs. Spratley and her cat – Jane le Cluse
  • Obituary of Nigel Edward Campbell (Ted) Molyneux
  • A Tale of Vaughan Williams – Tony Matthews
  • The Isolation Hotel Elizabeth Holmes
  • An Incident in Dorking during the Napoleonic Wars – Jane le Cluse
  • Dorking Greystone Lime Company “Coffee Pot” No. 1 1871-2021 – Julian Womersley

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Westcott Local History Group – 2005 – Annual Report

  • Cottage Holding in Balchins Lane
  • War to Peace at Milton Court (P Bennett)
  • England’s Pleasant Land – Pageant
  • 17th Dorking (Westcott) Scout Group
  • William Balchin 1879-1942 (P Chapman)
  • The Bury Hill Observatory
  • Westcott News in 1918
  • Milton Heath House
  • Manorial Customs & the Mansfields

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, with marks to the cover, and a couple of the pages insider have been folded over – but the articles are completely readable.

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Westcott Local History Group – 2006 – Annual Report

  • My Early Years (Fred Dixon)
  • We Thank You (for service in the Great War)
  • The Sandrock
  • Westcott in The Times
  • The Teapot from Tavistock Mystery
  • George Tunnell’s Dairy (Richard Ede)
  •  Broomfield and the Touche Family

Donated by a Museum supporter. It is a little scruffy around the edges, with marks to the cover, and a little bit of water damage inside – but the articles are completely readable.

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Westcott Local History Group – 2007 – Annual Report

  • Westcott in 1888
  • Westcott Rifle Range
  • Post Boxes of Westcott
  • Red Triangle Club
  • Logmore Isolation Hospital
  • Nuisances in Westcott
  • Westcott Ice Houses

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Westcott Local History Group – 2008 – Annual Report

  • Holy Trinity Church
  • Westcott, the War and the W.I.
  • Early Motor Bus Services in Westcott (Richard Ede)
  • Who was who and Who did what in 1908
  • From Goods Yard to Car Park
  • Westcott in 1908
  • Westcott Players

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Westcott Local History Group – 2009 – Annual Report

  • Peppermint & Lavender Growing in Westcott
  • Milton Street in 1823
  • Philip Greathurst’s Tankard (Richard Ede)
  • The Westcott Anti-Vaccinationists
  • The Assassination of Pimpernel Smith
  • Memories of Peasmount (Maurice Balchin)
  • Westcott Poem
  • Lord Haw Haw of Westcott Street
  • Mrs Hibbert’s Cottage Ornee
  • My Westcott Life Part I (Iris Lucas)
  • Operation Pied Piper – Survey of Accommodation

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Westcott Local History Group – 2010 – Annual Report

  • Grave News
  • Leslie Howard –  a little more about his life and death
  • Westcott Fair
  • A Look Back to the 1920s and 1930s (Jim Aslett)
  • Operation Pied Piper – Destination Westcott
  • My Westcott Life Part II (Iris Lucas)
  • Westcott in 1910
  • The 1911 Census
  • A Schoolboy’s Life in Westcott (Tony Allen)

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Westcott Local History Group – 2011 – Annual Report

  • A Coming of Age
  • Westcott in the War  – the Dynamo Specials
  • A Westcott Windmill
  • Cecil Lewis – The man who did nearly
  • Charles Joseph Wills of Westcott House
  • Westcott’s Volunteer Fire Brigade
  • Keeping Calm and Carrying On in 1940
  • ‘Up the Surrey’

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The booklet has a few small marks on the front cover, and there are a couple of marks on the first page – but the other pages inside are nice and clean.

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Westcott Local History Group – 2012 – Annual Report

  • Westcott & Domesday
  • Our Lords of the Manor
  • Village Life Between the Wars
  • Royal Celebrations
  • Roy Bennett’s War
  • The Olympic Torch of 1948
  • A Twenty-first in the ‘Twenties
  • A Victorian Cricket Match

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Westcott Local History Group – 2013 – Annual Report

  • Westcott & the Leith Hill Musical Festival
  • Heath Cottage
  • Jacques Doneux – Secret Agent
  • Life with “Wobbles” – A Westcott Childhood
  • Upholders of the Law
  • In Memory of the Crown
  • Eyewitnesses to History

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Westcott Local History Group – 2014 – Annual Report

  • A Fateful Year
  • What Happened to Mr Roberts?
  • How Westcott has Grown
  • Lucy Ellis –  A Life
  • The Story of the Westcott Scouts
  • Westcott’s Wonder Horse

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The booklet is marked on the front cover, the inside pages have a few marks on them  – but the booklet is perfectly readable.

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Westcott Local History Group – 2015 – Annual Report

  • The Building of Holy Trinity Church 
  • From Goods Yard to Car Park
  • Dorking – a By-Pass?
  • The Red House and the Cory-Wrights
  • Dating Old Postcards
  • Westcott Then and Now

Donated by a Museum supporter.

The booklet is marked on the front cover, the inside pages have a few marks on them  – but the booklet is perfectly readable.

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