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Horsell

The village one mile to the north-west of and, in practice part of, Woking. Horsell was a poor village in 1800 and unusually never had a great house. The main industry was market-gardening with several...

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Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel

Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel was born in Cambridge, the son of Harry Chester Goodhart, a classics don, and Rose Ellen Rendel. After the death of his father in Edinburgh in 1895, he and Rose Rendel...

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Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (1910-1986)

Tenor and partner of Sir Benjamin Britten, and born in Farnham Peter Pears is best known for his long partnership with the composer Benjamin Britten, but he was a talented, well known musician in his...

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Stephen Lushington and fugitive slaves in Ockham

Photograph of Dr Stephen Lushington, c.1870(SHC ref Z/616) The Lushington family archive, which is currently being catalogued, includes letters and papers of three generations of the Lushington family...

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A to Z of People

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Ackerley, Joseph Randall (1896 – 1967) (Novelist, Dramatist, Poet, Editor) Aubrey, John (1626 – 1697) (Archaeologist) Aubrey, John (1626 – 1697)...

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H.G. Wells and Woking

2016 year marks 150 years since the birth of H.G. Wells – one of the nation’s greatest science fiction writers and public intellectuals. His move to Woking in 1895 inspired some of his greatest works,...

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A History of Beaverbrook – a Great British Treasure

Dating back to 1866, the history of Beaverbrook is inextricably linked to a number of great British characters of the last 150 years. From Winston Churchill to Rudyard Kipling, this truly magnificent...

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Let’s Google!

I love Google (other search engines are available) and I love the fact that To Google has been accepted by the OED as a verb.  However, I often forget that Google can be a boon to family historians –...

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What the Surrey HER could do for you: digging deeper for answers in Horsell

What does the Surrey Historic Environment Record team do all day? Answer: all sorts! Undoubtedly the biggest chunk of our day-to-day activities relates to work undertaken as part of the planning...

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