“The Bobby’s Notebook” - on the beat in early Victorian Sunninghill
Christine WEIGHTMAN (Cheapside Publications, 2002).
A5, white cover, two maps inside the back cover, 53pp.

Found in a local attic and still in private hands, this book contains a transcript of a notebook kept by an unnamed constable in Sunninghill in 1841. Using the 1841 census, local rate books and other sources, the author has researched the history and background of this small east Berkshire parish containing Ascot Racecourse, policing in Berkshire and how she identified the constable. The final pages detail the people and places mentioned in the transcript. [JD Mar 2003]