Publications

The selection of books, pamphlets and back copies of 'Dorking History' listed below may be obtained from the Sales Officer (see Contacts). They may also be purchased online via Paypal on the website of Dorking Museum (see Links):

Books and Pamphlets:

Dorking: A Surrey Market Town through Twenty Centuries by Vivien Ettlinger, Alan A. Jackson and Brian Overell, 1991, reprinted 1997 pp.124 illus. £5.00 (A history of Dorking from early settlement to modern times)

Early Victorian Dorking by Robert Humphreys, 2002 pp.80, illus. £5.00 (Life in a mid-nineteenth century market town)

William Mullins and his House in West Street, Dorking by Pam Hunter, 2000 pp.12, illus. £2.50 (The story of William Mullins, whose house is the last remaining house of a Pilgrim Father in England)

The Holloway, Dorking by Vivien Ettlinger, 1998 pp.64, illus. £5.40 (The development of a medieval farm into a modern residential estate)

Vaughan Williams in Dorking by Celia Newbury (ed.), 1970, reprinted 2000 pp.42, illus. £6.00 (Personal reminiscences of the celebrated composer)

Living Stream: Pixham and its  People by Patricia Bennett, 1994 pp.48, illus. £4.95 (A history of the village of Pixham)

Dorking's Railways by Alan A. Jackson, 1991 pp.64, illus. £3.50 (A history of the development of railways in Dorking)

The South Street Caves, Dorking by Cliff Weight, 1988, reprinted 2000 pp.28, illus. £2.00 (A history of, and guide to, the extensive centuries-old workings in the greensand near the centre of Dorking)

Growing up in Westcott by David Knight, 1995 pp.27, illus. £4.00 (Reminiscences of Westcott in the 1940s)

A Scent of Violets: Glimpses of Victorian Dorking by Patricia Bennett, 1985, pp.12, illus. £1.40 (An account of correspondence in the 1880s between a family nurse in Pixham and the mother in Kensington)

St Martin's Churchyards Survey, pp.41 with plan (A survey by the Local HIs Group of the graves in Dorking Parish Churchyard.)

The Deepdene Park, Dorking by Vivien Ettlinger and Alan Jackson, illus. £3 (A history of the Deepdene House and the development of the estate.)

Chart Park, Dorking illus. £6.50 (A history of the Chart Park mansion and the development of the estate.)

 

Dorking History

Back copies of Dorking History, the research journal of the Dorking Local History Group are offered subject to availability at £1.60 (1999-2000) and £2.00 (2001-2006).

Topics covered are listed below:

2009:

  • History of Hoyle, Capel - Bridget Paterson
  • Local Boy Makes Good in Ontario (the emigration of William Tilt and his family of Capel/Holmwood in the 1830s) - Pam Palmer
  • New Light on William Tilt's Emigration - Mary Day
  • The Three Olympias, Holmwood's Huguenot Connections (the relationships between the Cazalet, Larpent and Wickham families of 19th century Holmwood) - Kathy Atherton
  • Letters from the Wotton Emigrants (letters from emigrants to in the early 20th century)
  • Francis Seymour Larpent - Vivian Timcke-Burdett
  • Charles Darwin, the Past and Future of Leith Hill Place - Kathy Atherton

2008:

  • John Langdon Davies (from conscientious objector to Home Guard via the Spanish barricades and the Holmwood - Kathy Atherton
  • Making History - the Dorking Bombard - Eric Mansfield
  • The strange case of the amoebic shape-shifting Common (on the changing boundaries of Holmwood Common) - Kathy Atherton
  • Tracing the ownership of Waterlands Farm - Mary Day
  • Flushed with Success? - Mary Day
  • A Narrow Escape (on runaway vehicles on the Holmwood)
  • Is this Dorking? - Jane Austen and the Watsons
  • The Two Pageants (on Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Abinger Pageants) - Renee Stewart
  • Twenty years after on Dorking's Model Farm (on Sondes Farm) - Pam Hunter
  • Tommy Warner - A citizen of Dorking - Nigel Evans

2007:

  • The Rangiora Connection (Food parcels from New Zealand after 1945) - Mary Turner
  • Lady Lawrence - an apology
  • The Oliviers in Dorking - Terry Wooden
  • Captain Swing disturbances in the 1830s - Bob Humphreys
  • Cotmandene - The People's Playground
  • Little Dudley House - Beryl Higgins and Vivien Ettlinger
  • An East End Invasion (Box Hill in 1891)
  • Dorking men in the Battle of Trafalgar - Coffey Holland
  • The Holmwood Manoeuvres of July 1876 - Maureen Cole
  • The Double Life of a Capel Yeoman (on the Tilt family of Holmwood) - Pam Palmer
  • The Admiral and the Obnoxious Ornaments (on Admiral Sir Leopold Heath and St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood) - Kathy Atherton

2006:

  • Nurse Children and Foundlings, Early Visitors To Dorking - Vivien Ettlinger
  • Wartime Hazards on the Railway - Alan A Jackson
  • The Howling Terror - Brian Overell
  • 'A Bit of Singing and Dancing' - Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, the Esperance Girls' Club and the Sundial - Kathy Atherton
  • The Hubbard Family in Dorking - A Tale of 'Ernest' Endeavour - Mary Day
  • The Dorking Provident Institution - Terry Wooden
  • Not in My Back Yard - Victorian Version - Bob Humphreys
  • Dorking Chalk and Lime - Chris Childs and Mary Day
  • Nelson at Burford Bridge - Jan Elias

2005:

  •  John Fuller - Apprentice - Terry Wooden
  • Meadowbank - Pasture to Parkway 1649-139 - Mary Day
  • George Smith of Pixham - Norman E. Penty
  • The Story of the Battle of Dorking - Terry Wooden
  • Outrage in Stuart Dorking - Vivien Ettlinger
  • Number 10 Punchbowl Lane - Beryl Higgins and Vivien Ettlinger
  • The Evacuation of the Holmwoods - Kathy Atherton
  • Cold Burial in Canada - Terry Wooden
  • A Case of Urgent Necessity - Bob Humphreys
  • Dorking Petrol Service Station - Christopher Childs

2004:

  • Betchworth Castle - Martin Higgins
  • Looking after the Pennies - Victorian Friendly Societies - Bob Humphreys
  • A Personal Memory of Sherlock's Coachbuilders - Eric Mansfield
  • The Norfolk Arms, Holmwood - S.E. Worrow and Kathy Atherton
  • Big Guns by Rail - Alan Jackson

2003:

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

2002:

  • Dorking and its Members of Parliament 1832-1960 - Pam Hunter
  • Friendly Society Celebrations, Expansions and Benefits Around Dorking in the Nineteenth Century - Bob Humphreys
  • 'Jolywynds' and William Bowman of Holmbury St. Mary - Valerie Ferry
  • The Bell - Beryl Higgins and Vivien Ettlinger
  • Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887 - How Should Dorking Celebrate? - Mary Turner
  • The North Holmwood Pottery - Brian Overell
  • The Cabin, North Holmwood - Alan A. Jackson
  • The Home Guard School at Denbies - Recollections - Felicity J. Medland
  • Submission by Sarah Joyce to Poor Law Commissioners 1843

Please make cheques payable to 'Dorking Local History Group'.

Terms and Conditions of Sale: Goods remain the property of Dorking Local History Group until payment received in full. Account customers: Payment due within 30 days of invoice date.

 

Members' and other group publications:

The Lost Villages: a history of the Holmwoods by Kathy Atherton

A history of Holmwood Common and the villages and farms surrounding it from the Stone Age to the present day.

2008 pp112 illus £8.00 Available via www.holmwoodhistory.com or kathy.atherton@btinternet.com