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NEW LOWER PRICE Also includes a brief history of the Huntley and Palmers factory.
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An attempt to capture a little of the impact of the First World War on Berkshire and its citizens, those who served in the military and civilians. Covers recruitment, the Home Front, food shortages and peace celebrations in 1919, etc., etc.
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New lower price. There had been a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel since 1860. This book puts together information and anecdotes from various sources to tell the story of the chapel and the people who made it a part of their lives. Liberally illustrated.
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A handy guide to "secretary hand" including illustrations of characters A to Z, common abbreviations, practice words, numbers and some samples and transcripts of wills 16th to 18th centuries, nursery rhymes and a list of words.
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Baptisms 1723-1729, 1780-1844; Burials 1729-1740, 1787-1853; Members 1807-1898. Includes a name index.
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Includes the following parishes: Abingdon: St Helen, St Michael, St Nicholas & Workhouse; Milton (Berks); Shippon; Sandford on Thames
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Includes the following parishes: Appleford, Appleton, Binsey, Drayton (Berks), Drayton St. Leonard, Frilford & Longworth Mission, Fifield, Kingston Bagpuize, Lyford, Marsh Baldon, North Hinksey, Nuneham Courtenay, South Hinksey
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Includes the following parishes: Besselsleigh, Cumnor, Marcham, Radley, Stadhampton, Steventon, Sunningwell, Sutton Courtenay, Tubney, Uffington, Wootton (Berks), Wytham.
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SPECIAL BARGAIN PRICE. The well know local author, Pamela Horn has produced this liberally illustrated book of Abingdon, by taking us on a photographic tour around the town showing the buildings and streets of an earlier era.
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A miscellany of records including a Register of Deaths 1866/1894, an Order for Custody of Children 1903, an Order for the appointment of a Guardian for a bastard child 1874 and some Pauper Examinations and Removal Orders dated between 1883 and 1920
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This second selection of photographs of the Abingdon area again recalls a bygone era in an area of England that has seen many changes.
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NEW LOWER PRICE. This well illustrated book published by the Ock Street Heritage Group, describes the trades and people of this historic Abingdon thoroughfare. It also covers the social changes and key events that shaped the area.
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This map is part of a series of town maps with a scale of about 15 inches to the mile. They show not just the streets but virtually every house, track layouts of railways and tramways, factories, mills and docks.
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This book published in the year of the town's 450th charter celebrates the activities and communities of this thriving market town, and of course its history. Liberally illustrated.
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These booklets contain a miscellany of records including Calendars of prisoners, insolvent debtors, bastardy orders Settlement examinations and lunatics and dangerous idiots etc. etc.
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This new enlarged edition with 74 articles on Berkshire's history from the Palaeolithic to 21st century each accompanied by maps in full colour, and with numerous illustrations. Indispensable to those with Berkshire ancestors.
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Commencing in 1722, Reading became the second largest ‘printing town’ per head of population, in Great Britain. This is its fascinating and often overlooked story, richly illustrated.
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This CD has transcriptions of 250,000 baptism records from 102 parish and non-parochial registers in the pre-1974 County of Berkshire. Dates range from 1538 to 2004. The CD includes three finding aids; Name Index; Name by Date and Officiating ministers.
