News and additions to the website
- Caterham-on-the-Hill Town Trail leaflet (below).
- The Index to Bourne Society Local History Records volumes 46 to 103 (2006-Spring 2021) Now available here for free download.
- The East Surrey Museum, with which the Bourne Society has strong historic connections, re-opened on 19th May 2021. For details please follow this link.
Caterham-on-the-Hill Town Trail
Produced jointly by the Bourne Society and East Surrey Museum, this double-sided, folded leaflet will guide you around the twelve most historic sites in Caterham-on-the-Hill. A brief description and photograph of each site is included, but pointing your mobile at each of the QR codes will take you to highly illustrated and detailed essays on a dedicated website. You can view or print your copy by following this link, and you can even download a helpful map. Ready-printed copies are available in the museum free of charge. Leaflets covering other areas will appear as time allows.
Latest publication from the Bourne Society:
The Byrons of Coulsdon: Abroad and At Home
By Nigel Elliott. The familiar name of Byron still looms large in the Coulsdon area where road names, schools and the former almshouses at Bradmore Green still bear the name of the family who were lords of the manor until 1921 and resided in the present Coulsdon Manor Hotel, formerly Coulsdon Court. Just published in an edition of 100 copies, this 238-page book, lavishly illustrated with 120 images, is one of the most impressive volumes ever produced by the Bourne Society. For details of how to order this book, please follow this link.
Lockdown Lectures
The River Wandle
A talk by Gwyneth Fookes originally delivered at the Bourne Society forum meeting on 4 March 2009, now revised with captions replacing spoken words. The talk is lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs, maps, and other images, so please wait patiently for it to download. To download the talk in pdf format please follow this link.
Some East Surrey Churches in Pictures
photographed by Robert Warner, with explanatory captions. Based on Forum talks given to the Bourne Society in 2012 and 2013.
For convenience the album is divided alphabetically into three parts in pdf format, each of which may be downloaded separately by following the appropriate ‘download’ link:
Part 1: Addington to Chelsham. Download
Part 2: Chipstead to Limpsfield. Download
Part 3: Lingfield to Woldingham. Download
John & Edward Hassell. East Surrey in the 1820s and now
This presentation was first delivered at a forum meeting in November 2011 by Gwyneth Fookes and Robert Warner. It is here made available for your interest and amusement. To download the presentation in pdf format please follow this link.