Surrey Industrial History Group Awards
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Recognising Surrey's Industrial Past
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Recognising Surrey's Industrial Past
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Roads provide the most widespread form of communication; they are one of the oldest and most prominent features of the landscape. In spite of this, detailed knowledge of some of the earliest roads in Britain is hard to trace.
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Mole Valley District was formed at the reorganisation of local government in 1974, It consists of the old Leatherhead and Dorking Urban Districts together with much of the Dorking and Horley Rural District. It covers about 100 square miles stretching from Chessngton (in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames) in the north to Gatwick (in West Sussex) in the south.
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The Surrey Industrial History Group has now produced guides to each of the administrative districts of the county. This guide to Elmbridge is a revised edition of the earlier book written by the late Rowland G M Baker shortly before he died in 1987 and we acknowledge the help given by his work. Elmbridge Borough, like the other boroughs and districts in Surrey, was formed at the reorganisation of local government in 1974 when the Urban District of Walton and Weybridge merged with that of Esher. |
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The Borough of Epsom and Ewell is the smallest of the districts in Surrey, occupying an area of 3411 hectares in the northern part of the County. It is bounded on the south-east by Reigate and Banstead district; to the south-west by Mole Valley district; with the London Boroughs of Sutton and Kingston-upon-Thames to the north-east and north-west respectively. The population was 67,007 at the 1991 census. |
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You may find second hand copies of the print version of this book on Amazon
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The Surrey Industrial History Group has now produced guides to each of the administrative districts of the county. This guide to Elmbridge is a revised edition of the earlier book written by the late Rowland G M Baker shortly before he died in 1987 and we acknowledge the help given by his work. Elmbridge Borough, like the other boroughs and districts in Surrey, was formed at the reorganisation of local government in 1974 when the Urban District of Walton and Weybridge merged with that of Esher. |
Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Surrey. Online only here, 2nd hand copies may be available on Amazon
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There is more to historic Surrey in an industrial and transport sense than a first glance would suggest. We have had no major volume car or commercial vehicle manufacturer, but we have had over 100 different makes of car produced in the county at one time or another. Some of these progressed no further than a single prototype, others became small volume specialist manufacturers. Some of the more important ones are given detailed coverage in the book, an A to Z appendix briefly describes the rest.
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James Simmons, master paper-maker of Haslemere in Surrey, kept a diary from 1831 until shortly before his death in 1868. It consisted of thirty-eight booklets most of which are made from paper he had produced himself. They present a fascinating account of his family and business affairs. The references to his paper-making activities form only a part of the diaries and it is these extracts, in the main, which are contained in the book. They provide a significant contribution to the understanding of the life of a paper-maker during a difficult period of the 19th century.