Headley Parish Archives

• Maps, documents and other physical artefacts are held in the Parish Office — see Index of Aquisitions.
• Much information is held on the Headley Historical website, and we advise that you use this as your first port of call.
• A certain amount of other computer-based information is held by The Headley Society and can be released on reasonable request
  – generally this is more detailed information where only a summary has been placed on the website (eg. censuses). Occasionally it relates to information of a more personal or sensitive nature which we feel should not yet be on the website.
• We have information on microfiche, which is not held in the Parish Office as there is no viewer there. Most has been transcribed to computer and a large proportion of this is already on the website. It is also available to view at either the Hampshire Record Office or the Surrey History Centre, but if you do need to view microfiches in Headley it will be necessary to arrange a personal appointment.

List of Acquisitions (index to come!)

A full cataloguing of acquisitions is currently in progress—please bear with us as we work to complete this project.
If you would like to assist the team, please let me know! Meanwhile…

List of material deposited by Joyce Stevens in April 1999 and subsequently (not yet indexed); see further material indexed

• Headley Pageants: Programmes for 1951 and 1953 – poster for 1951
• The Rankine Collection in Farnham Museum: Cutting 21 Oct 1983 'One man's treasury goes on display'
• Mesolithic Research in East Hampshire-The Hampshire Greensand: Paper by W.F. Rankine from Papers & Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, 1953
• A Survey of Beech Hill/Arford Common: Paper & sketch map by Chris Hall, June 1988
• Bargate Quarries: Letter 2 Nov 1996 from John Ellis to The Herald
• Dr Elizabeth Wilks of Openlands: selection of letters and other material, incl. copy of article in The Herald, 21 June 1996
• Golf Clubland Characters of Blackmoor Golf Club-drawn for The Sketch by H.F. Crowther-Smith, 3 Oct 1928-includes sketches of some Headley personalities
• Trade bills: two circa 1900
• Sand Martins at Trottsford: press cuttings related to sand-winning operations, Sep 1986
• List of Chairmen & Clerks, Headley Parish Council, 1894-1994
• Benifold, an Ecumenical House of Prayer, reports 1963-1975
• Research Station's work vital to health of the woodland, by Richard Hamilton: press cutting, 6 Oct 1995; and other forestry papers
• Stained glass windows in the Holly Bush: press cuttings, Aug 1991
• The Standford Story, 1 June 1989: words & programme
• Household Amenity Site, Station Road, Bordon: papers and photographs 1987
• Payment of the Labouring Poor, 1822: copy of a poster of the time
• Royal Observer Corps observation post on Headley Church during WW2: sketch and 'Factual Memories' from a member
• The Holdaway Yew at Headley Grange: a letter from Keith Holdaway
• Moss Cottage, Lindford: letter from John Ellis to the Chairman of Lindford Parish Council 19 Oct 1988
• New Town at Standford: press cuttings of proposal Nov 1963
• Ted Collis, blacksmith: copy of press cutting 'Ornamental seat work of village blacksmith' Nov 1979
• Headley Common award of inclosure 1859: extracts made by Joyce Stevens from various documents
• Irrigation of water meadows between Arford & Bayfields farm: maps & agreement dated 1807
• Stone age implements found at Sleaford (actual artifacts)
• Plan of Bramshott Paper Mill (Passfield) from sale document of December 1907
• 1935 Headley Silver Jubilee celebrations – programme of events
• Two mugs: 1935 Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary; and May 12th 1937 Coronation of George VI
• Small notice dated 27th September 1898 – "Manor of Bishops Sutton – Notice is hereby given that a Court Baron of the Lords of this Manor will be holden for the said Manor at the Anchor Inn Ropley on Tuesday the 11th day of October 1898 at 12 o’clock when and where all Persons owing suit and service to the Lords of the said manor and all Constables, Tithingmen and other Persons concerned are required to attend"
• Headley Barns Survey 1984-87 – two ring files containing completed survey sheets, photos of barns, etc
• 'The NOW to contrast with the THEN' – album of photos of Headley taken c.1993
• PhotoVerse 'Headley Song' – presented to Joyce by Jo Smith in 1991
• A display about the history of Headley Post Offices
• Ring-binder with title 'The Headley Society' – contents largely about other local societies
• Box file with miscellaneous contents, including info on: Huntington family; Clear family; Rogers' shop (sketches of inside, 1957); Susan Lushington of Kingsley; Sir Harry Brittain; handwritten notes from 'Cobbett's and Kingsley's Country' by J Alfred Eggar, 1923; Joyce's notes on Headley censuses 1841-91 and her transcription of some entries in Mr Laverty's visiting books; a set of Hampshire's Countryside Heritage booklets published 1981.

List of material deposited by Mrs M Fry in June 2000 (not yet indexed)

• 1853 June 18—Excise Licence issued to Thomas Glaysher of Lower Barford to sell Tobacco [written on back: Mr Hewitt, Headley Common]
• 1863 Sept 8—Licence issued to Francis Tipper for keeping the Wheatsheaf, Headley
• 1864 Aug 3—Inventory of Mr Tipper’s goods and stock at the Wheatsheaf (handwritten on blue laid paper w/m Sawston 1862)
• 1864 Sept 6—Licence issued to Jonas Shrubb for keeping the Wheatsheaf, Headley
• 1867 July 31—Insurance policy issued to Jonas Shrubb of Lower Barford and Ellen his wife for cottage, shop, bakehouse and store
• 1876 Nov 16—Receipt to Thomas Glaysher for Head & Foot Stone for the late Mr Thomas Glaysher
• 1877 Oct 31—Inland Revenue account of succession duty for a cottage to William Glaysher on the death (13 July 1877) of his mother Mary Glaysher (and earlier the death on 9 Oct 1875 of his father Thomas Glaysher)
• 1900 Jan 22—Licence for one carriage to Mrs Ellen Shrubb of Hammer Lane, Barford
• 1900 Jan 22—Dog Licence to Mrs Ellen Shrubb of Hammer Lane, Barford
• 1900 Mar 25—Insurance policy (Law Fire Insurance Society) issued to Thomas Glaysher of Barford, Headley, gentleman, and Mrs Ellen Shrubb, grocer & baker, for dwelling house, shop, bakehouse and woodhouse
• prior 1914—photo of bread delivery by Mr Monty Mullard driving horse and four-wheel cart
• 1919 July 27—Receipt to Mrs Ellen Shrubb attached to list for WW1 memorial
• 1931 Sep 22—Income Tax assessment to Miss M Shrubb for land in Hammer Lane
• 1936 Dec 4—Tithe payment by Miss M Shrubb, Hammer Lane (with cancelled Edward VIII stamp)
• circa 1950—photo of bread delivery by Percy Young, standing by motor van with sign ‘M Shrubb, baker & grocer, Hammer Lane, Nr Hindhead’
• circa 1965—photo of bread delivery by Percy Young, standing by Morris Minor van in front of shop which has sign ‘Z. E. Young, baker & grocer’

Material deposited by Mrs Barbara Nicholson in May 2006 (not yet indexed)

• File titled 'Broxhead' containing maps and correspondence associated with the confirmation of Commoners' Rights on Broxhead Common in the 1970s

JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 1)
Deposited 2007 (indexed 2008/02/JF)

1 Burials in All Saints' Churchyard Headley, Notes by John Owen Smith

2 4 School Photographs of The Holme School Headley 1896, 1922, 1923, 1935-6

3 Photographs/Postcards of Headley/Arford

Crown Inn Arford Mrs? Hudson
Crown Inn Arford Local Baker, Mr Tidy on horse.
Summer scene, Bordon, Headley Mill
Lady outside house?
Old Chapel Steps, Headley
Holly Bush Pub with decorated tree
Arford Stores Winter1947/8 (2 large and 1 small)
Headley Village Hall opened 1927 Baby Welfare Mrs Coombes
Mrs Chuck outside her house at Arford
Mrs Coombes1954 with others (cups and shields)
Mrs Coombes 1950 tossing the straw over the pole
A procession
Group photograph

4 Two Photographs 1941

Len Ford RCE at Frensham Pond Hotel talking to evacuees
Temporary buildings (coloured)

5 Notes about photographs (photographs not included)

1 Headley Village, looking North
2 The Street looking South
3 North side of church 1896
4 Tower of All Saints
5 Interior of All Saints 1908
6 Headley Street
7 The First World War Memorial
8 Headley Village. The S. bend
9 Headley Post Office
10 View down Longcross
11 Separate card of chapel, later (no notes)
12 Longcross Farm
13 View of Arford from the highbank
14 Arford Road looking north towards the Wheatsheaf
15 Eashing Cottages
16 Arford the T junction with Longcross
17 The Crown, crown cottage and the bakehouse (no notes)

6 Hilland Development Scheme Opposed, A newspaper cutting no date given

7 Two Photographs of Standford Farm before 1938

8 The Three War Memorials

Stone Memorial outside the church. Description on form, 2 photographs
Marble Tablet inside the church. One photograph. Description in Headley Magazine
A Book of Remembrance. Two photographs
A list of next of kin/representatives with addresses
Headley Monthly magazine September 1921
Notes Headley Society 13/6/97
Letter to Headley Parish Council from Mrs S L Adcock
Letter to Mrs J Stevens from Catherine Moriarty (National Inventory of War Memorials)

9 The Rev Joseph Ballantine Dykes Rector 1848-1872

Notes about his life and restoration of the church
Joyce Stevens's Great Grandfather's letter. (A description of a dying woman in Lindford helped by prayer.)
Photograph of Headley Church 1922
Photograph of nave of Headley Church
3 Photographs of carved chair (Ry3.9 chair)

10 Photographs of Houses

2 small photos of front of Hilland House
2 large photos of front of Hilland House (different periods, not dated)
1 photo of back of Hilland House showing vegetable garden
The Grange (formerly the workhouse)
The Mill
Headley Park
Pinehurst
Lady outside house?
Council offices? (9th & 11th Chairman Mrs P Thomson -Glover 1950-54 & 1957-60)
(3rd Chairman Mr W T Phillips 1908-1919)
The farm in Longcross Hill

11 Photographs

Large photograph of butcher's shop
Lindford Bridge
Headley village ( from Curtis Brother's Shop looking towards the Holly Bush)
2 views Headley village (from Holly Bush towards Curtis shop)
2 views from Headley church tower (not the same)
View of Arford
The Rectory
The Rectory Field c1890 Ladies v gentlemen cricket match

12 Cuttings from Newspapers- Historical Headley with pictures

W & M Heaton 21st Nov 75
Park Cottages
Wey House & oast house 27/6/75
Lime Kiln 30th Oct 75
Sheep Wash Wall, Frensham Ponds 24th Oct 75
Hatch farm Tulls Lane
Yeoman's cottage 17th Oct 75
Overton Cottage Arford 25th /7 /75
Riverside cottage
Tignals
Aqueduct Headley Wood Farm 1975
Moor House farm 8/8/75
Peter's Barn cottage
Linstead farm 13/6/75
Huntingford farm 15/8/75
1 Yeoman's Place 10/10/75
Apple Tree Cottage 6th June 75
Huntingford cottage 16/5/75
Tulls Passfield 4/7/75
Peter's Barn 11/7/75
Wakeford's Butcher Shop
Lickfolds Arford
All Saints' church Headley 12/9/75
Stores House Arford
Suters 22/8/75
Headley's School House
Longcross farm 30th Oct 75
The Tithe Barn 1967/ today 1/8/75
The Rectory
The Grange Liphook Rd (workhouse)
Other cuttings from newspapers with pictures
The Chestnut Tree in the High Street (typed)
Farm in Longcross Hill 11/10/85
Headley from R Wey
Aqueduct at Headley Wood Estate - wish it to be listed
Bayfield cottage Frensham Lane 1937- recorded 25/7/80
Hatch House farm Lindford Jan 76
Headley 2nd football team1931-32 with names 29/10/82
Diamond Jubilee of Scouting in Headley 5/12/86
Holly Bush in 1911
Lithuanian Club, Headley Park 23rd May 75
Holme School class of mid 1950's & 1947-49 Football and Netball club members
Bramshott cottage for sale 12/7/91

13 Directories

1 Headley entry in Directory of Hampshire1865
2 Headley entry in Post Office Directory of Hampshire 1855
Letter from Mr David Allen of Petersfield

14 History, various

History of the catholic Church of Christ the King Headley
History of The Crown Inn at Arford
Headley Parish Council Election March 21st 1925-6 and criticism
Essay about Headley by Mrs Belcher March 21st 1925
Forger's death on scaffold - Henry Fauntleroy with sketch of Curtis Farm in the Herald March 21st 1925

15 Various

High Beck Silver Fox Farm - Letter from Mr Andrew Portal once owner. living at Petherton Somerset dated 10/1/86
Letter from Joanne Jackson at Lynton Dene 26th May 93 - giving information about the Portal family and her connection with them.
New Inn friendly Society balance sheet for 1904 & 5
The acreage and dwellings at Headley Park, Headley and Kingsley - no date
Programme of Headley Summer Fete Wednesday June 29th 1904

16 Photographs

Sunday school class 1901 Nellie Hayden, Kate Dee, Jermima Fox? Nellie Glayther?, Anne Small?. Minnie Gauntlett
Postcard showing Headley from Beech Hill c1906
Old family photograph (no names or date)
Fete procession on a carriage (no names or date)

THE BELLINGER COLLECTION
Deposited May 2001 by Margaret Denholme (indexed 2008/01/NW)

• Wedding Invitation: Mrs E Bellinger requests the company of…….at the marriage of her daughter Rosemary with Mr Philip Edward Robinson at Headley Parish Church on Saturday September 13th 1952 at 3.15pm and afterwards at The Sally Lunn Restaurant, Hindhead. RSVP Arford, Headley, Bordon, Hants.
• Two wedding photographs of Rosemary and Philip Robinson in leather frame
  Two proofs of wedding photographs of " " "
• Letter to Mr Bellinger from Mrs D W Greenham, Kimberley, Sea Views, Isle of Wight dated 5th April 1918 thanking Mr Bellinger for writing to her on the death of her husband, Don during WWl.
• Postcard photograph of A Bellinger, dressed as a mason. Date?
  Photograph of a couple in evening dress. Names unknown.
  Photograph (in folder "With Every Good Wish" and a picture of a ship)of young woman dated 4 December 1937. Name unknown
  Photograph in folder of young girl (aged approx. 3yrs?) No name/date. Photographer J P Walder, Hindhead Studio, Grayshott, Hants.
  Another photograph of same child.
  Photograph of young lady and older woman outside a beach hut called "Happy Days". Names/date unknown.
  Photograph of grave of Sara, beloved wife of Albert Adam Wood born 8th April 1881, Died 12th May 1930.
  Photograph of baby and young boy. No names/date. Photographer: J M Shepherd, 56 Rutland Court, New Church Road, Hove, Sussex.
  Photograph of wedding showing bride. Groom, two bridesmaids and three men. No names/dates.
  Small photograph of two older ladies in a garden. No names/date.
  Small photograph of St Andrews Home with car in front. No date/place.
  Photograph in Christmas greetings folder of young lady and boy and girl. No names/place or date.
  Small photograph of two ladies and a man. No names/place/date.
  Photograph of girl in a gardn. No name/place/date.
  Photograph of two girls and elderly lady with deckchairs in garden. No names/place/date.
  Photograph young girl with toddler and dog in garden. No names/place/date.
  Formal photograph of young man in evening dress. No name/place/date.
  Photograph in Best Wishes folder of lady. No name/date/place. Photographer ? wynspeare Herbert, Lancaster. No 930.
  Photograph 2 small girls in garden. On reverse Love from A Gladys July 1947. No names/place.
  Wedding invitation: Mrs E Bellinger requests the pleasure of the company of……..at the marriage of her daughter Marjorie with Mr John Sykes at Headley Parish Church on Saturday August 30th 1947 at 3pm and after at The Royal Huts Hotel, Hindhead. RSVP Arford, Headley, Bordon, Hants.
  Inside: Photograph presumably of Marjorie Bellinger and report in local paper of Miss Bellinger's wedding.
• Small photograph of lady standing by stone wall and window. No name/date/place.
  Small folder with photograph of elderly man and woman outside building, 9 school children, toddler on beach ? 1927.
  Polyfoto of baby in folder "Love from Helen July 1957". No name/place.
• 4 photographs of Rosemary Bellinger's wedding 1952.
  Photograph of Annie July 1912 - on reverse "For Nellie"
  Photograph of two couples and a lady in evening dress. No names/date/place.
  Photograph of lady with flowers (wedding?) in oval frame. No name/date/place.
  Oval photograph of ladey by T C Leaman, 7 The Corridor, Bath. On reverse: "With best wishes for Xmas 1911".
  Studio portrait of young girl in folder T.C. Leaman, 7 corridor, Bath. Date on back Sep 1935. No name.
  Wedding photograph in garden. Bride, groom, bridesmaid, father, mother & mother? No names/date/place.
  Large photograph of 18 masons entitled "From Wor.Bro. T Abrahams to his Officers 1928-29. Photographer Waller, Bordon.
  Large Photograph of Woolmer Forest Lodge No 3872 E.C. Whitehill, Bordon 1932.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF TREASURES OF HEADLEY (indexed 2008/01/NW)
– see also info on website

• Barford Mill and Mill House 2 photographs
  The New Inn, Sleaford - 2 photographs
  Trottsford Farm House, Picketts Hill - 2 photographs
  Barn 20 metres south of Trottsford Farm house.
  Arford House - photograph missing
  Arford Lodge, Bowcott Hill - 2 photographs
  Boundary Walls and gates to Arford House and Lodge - photographs missing
  Chestnut Cottage, Bowcott Hill - photograph missing
  Overton Cottage, Arford Road - 2 photographs
  Stores House, Arford Road - photographs missing
  1 and 2, the Corner House, Arford Road
  Bohannas, Arford Road
  Field House, Bacon Lane - photograph missing
  Lower Hearn Farmhouse, Churt Road
  Barn 10 metres west of Lower Hearn Farmhouse
  Rooks Cottage, Churt Road - 2 photographs
  Plaster Hill Farmhouse, Churt Road - 2 photographs
  Barford Stream Cottage, Churt Road
  The Old Mill, Barford, Churt Road
  Yeomans Place, Crabtree Lane - 2 photographs
  Holme School and house, Crabtree Lane - 2 photographs
  Curtis Farmhouse, Curtis Lane
  Barn, 30 metres south east of Curtis Farm
  Peters Barn Cottage, Frensham Lane
  Peters Barn, Frensham Lane
  Huntingford Farmhouse, Frensham Lane
  Barn, 10 metres north east of Huntingford farmhouse - photograph missing
  Bayfields Farmhouse, Frensham Lane
  Tignals Farmhouse, Frensham Lane
  Barn 20 metres north of Tignals Farmhouse
  1 and 2/3 Moorhouse Farmhouse, Frensham Lane
  Hatch House Farmhouse, Headley Road, Lindford
  Mellow Farmhouse, Heath Hill nr Dockenfield
  Barn 3 metres east of Mellow Farm
  Wakefords, High Street, Headley - 2 photographs
  Suters, High Street, Headley
  Parish Church of All Saints - photograph missing
  War Memorial 1914-1919
  The (former) Rectory - photograph missing
  Linstead Farmhouse, Linstead Lane (off Frensham Lane) see
  Barn 40 metres south-west of Picketts Hill farmhouse
  Barn 10 metres south-east if Linstead Farm - photograph missing
  Headley Grange, Liphook Road
  Longcross Farmhouse, Longcross Hill
  Appletree Cottage, Mill Lane - 2 photographs
  The Old Cottage, Hearn, Churt Road
  Huntingford Cottage, Smithy Lane
  Barn & stable 5 metres east of Huntingford Cottage - photograph missing
  Huntingford Forge, Smithy Lane - Photograph missing
  Huntingford Bridge, Heath Hill
  Headley Mill and house, Standford Lane - 4 photographs
  Wey House, Standford Lane
  Oast Barn 15 metres west of Wey House
  The Old Farmhouse, Standford Lane - photograph missing
  Barn 20 metres west of Eveley House, Standford Lane.
  Eveley House, Standford Lane
  Riverside, Standford Lane - 2 photographs
  Standford Cottage, Tulls Lane, Standford
  Gravel Cottages 1 & 2 & 3 (Meadow Cottage) and 4 plus store, Tulls Lane - 2 photos
  Sunnyside, Tulls Lane, Standford
  Hatch Farmhouse and Stonehouse wing, Tulls Lane, Standford - 2 photographs
  Stable 5 metres east of Hatch Farmhouse - photograph missing
  Tulls (formerly Chase Farm), Tulls Lane, Standford
  Granary 3 metres north of Tulls - photograph missing
  Barn 10 metres north of Tulls - photograph missing
  Crown Cottage, Arford Road
  Barn 20 metres north of The Old Farmhouse, Standford - photograph missing

The following are further Headley Treasures not yet on official list:

• The Tithe Barn, High Street - 2 photographs
  Headley Stores (now called Crabtree House)
  The Square House (on the green)
  The Village Pound, Liphook Road - 2 photographs
  Old Bakery, Arford - photograph missing
  Yeoman's Cottage, Crabtree Lane
  Chatterton Lodge, Fuller's Vale
  Standford Mill (rebuilt with old materials) - photograph missing
  The Corn Mill Cottage, Standford Lane
  Wheelwright's Shop, Riverside, Standford
  Wishanger Oasts
  Laurel Cottage, Hammer Lane (squatter's rights?)
  Holly cottage, Hammer Lane (squatter's rights?)
  Yewtree Cottage, Arford Common (The Broomsquire's)
  Headley Park
  Headley Park Cottages (3) - 3 photographs
  Picketts Hill Farm
  Packhorse Bridge, Linstead Lane (modernized) - photograph missing
  Saxon bowl, Picketts Hill Farm
  Aquaduct Headley Wood (water meadows' irrigation) - 2 photographs
  Lime Kiln, Bull's Hollow
  Round Barrow, Broxhead East
  Sheepwash, Frensham Pond
  Site of meolithic chipping floors, Trottsford (destroyed by sand-winning) 4 photos
  The Toll House, Sleaford (destroyed by HCC for road widening) - photograph missing
  Lickfold's, Arford Road (demolished)
• 8 photographs untitled.
• Negatives

BOX No 7 Photographs (indexed 2008/03/AV)

1. Tithe Map.
2. Headley Heritage Trail.
3. Lamport Family 1924-25.
4. Pop Group Headley Grange 1976.
5. Whitmore Vale Churt.
6. Post Card of Whitmore Valley.
7. Chapel and Cottage Barford.
8. New Lynch Gate Headley Church.
9. History of Headley Post & New Office Built 1910.
10. Man Quarrying Stone Near Blackdown 1912.
11. Sketch Plan of School Land Headley by Rev.Laverty.
12. Staff of Grayshott Laundry.
13. Copy of Rev.Geo Holme Signature. 1751.
14. Old Brockford Bridge 1964.
15. Cutting of Headley Tithe Barn 1967.
16. Blacksmith Shop Granville Ferry Nova Scotia.
17. Headley Mill Staff 1930.
18. Headley Mill Vehicles 1930.
19. Staff of Badgers Wood Surgery 2003.
20. History Group Outside Suters Joyce Stevens 90th Birthday.
21. Here's Headley 1991 and 2006.
22. Canadian Graffiti at Churchgate.
23. Headley Road Grayshott.
24. Viney Family 1907.
25. Park Mill 1948.
26. Post Card Oyster Lane 1920.

BOX No 8 Miscellaneous (indexed 2008/03/AV)

1. Will and Inventory of Richard Hays 1567. (Philip Brooks).
2. Copy of Will of J. William Harding, 1615.
3. Notes written in 1996 by Mrs Barnard and Sale of Headley Park, 1555.
4. Broxhead from 1636 by Major Wade.
5. Headley Wills and Inventories from 1627.
6. Dudman Families from 1772.
7. Bramshott Baptisms 1749-1771.
8. Will of William Lee, Odiham, 1780.
9. Family Tree Chiverton from 1603.
10. Belton Pedigree 1793
11. Reference to Arford House, 1812.
12. Sale of Land at Hollywater - Eade/Knight 1788.
13. Marriages Outside the Parish 1739-1807.
14. Headley Mill, Philip Brooks.
15. History of Headley Mill, RJ Ellis.
16. Water Mills of Headley Parish.
17. Richard Carrington 1875.
18. A Mummers Play.
19. The Foresters Banner.
20. Fishing at Headley 1826.
21. Post Office Directory of Hampshire 1855.
22. Headley Directory 1865.
23. Extract from Kelly's Directory 1899.
24. Charles Beck.
25. Passfield House Farm.
26. A History of Liphook, Joan Finney.
27. Shulbrede Priory.
28. Right of Way between Arford and Fullers Bottom.
29. Fullers Bottom Pond.
30. Districts of Headley Parish 1924.
31. Headley Church and Parish Chronological Record of Events, 1872-1922.
32. A Note by Wm. Suter.
33. Red Cross Victory Show 1943.
34. Vegetable and Flower Show 1951.
35. Note to Wardens re Bombs 1941.
36. Information on Reverse of Postcards.
37. Trial of Henry Fauntleroy.
38. Certificate of Thanks for War Service, Gnr. F. Thorne.
39. Sub-Postmistress, Mrs E.H. Carter.
40. Death of Mr HR Oliver, Shottermill.
41. Major and Mrs Kay, née Gamblen.
42. Lawrence Giles.
43. Enclosure of the Common Notes from Mr Laverty.
44. Children's Entertainment at the Holme School 1920.
45. Henry Knight.
46. Memories of Headley Rectory by the Tudor Jones Family.
47. Memories by Ivy Woodward.
48. Memories by Myra Treharne.
50. Merton Priory.
51. High Breck by Joanna Jackson.
52. Report of Headley WI, 1925.
53. Will of William Rogers 1908.
54. Report on Cart Shed at Symondstone.
55. History of Broxhead.
56. Fulling Mill at Standford.
57. Kiln in Cradle Lane, 1977.
58. Benifold 1998.
59. Woodman's Green Farm, Linchmere.
60. Edward Medal Awarded to Harry Rasell, Liss.
61. Glebe Land 1987.
62. Dunkirk - Daily Express 1940.
63. Glass Works, Chiddingfold.
64. Proposed Golf Course, Wishanger Farm, Churt 1992.
65. A History of Fullers Earth.
66. Grass for All, Major JRB Branson.
67. Commonwealth War Dead - RC Churchyard Grayshott.
68. Badgers at Headley - Clive Brown.
69. Symbols of the Church.
70. The Hack Family 1851.
71. Sheep Stealers, Headley 1854.
72. Details of a Mug Inscription Headley 1892.

Archives of Headley Theatre Club (held in cardboard archive boxes)

• from foundation (1952) to the present day

Parish Magazines

• from 1872 to 1954 – see index

Scrapbooks

• local newspaper cuttings from April 1971 to the present day – see index

Miscellaneous

• A number of Pamphlets written and published by Maj. JRB Branson circa. 1939–1950s, including 'Grass for All, a new diet' and 'The Heat-Less Sun, thoughts about reality'

Microfiches

• Microfiches of Sir Thomas Gatehouse's survey of tithing 1552 for the manor of Headley (now on website)
• Microfiches of Headley Parish Registers (baptisms, marriages and burials 1540–1901 now on website sorted by surname)
• Microfiches of the Headley Tithe Award, 1846 (yet to be transcribed)
• Microfiches of the Headley Enclosure Award, c.1855 (yet to be transcribed)
• Microfiches of Frensham Parish Registers (baptisms and burials 1650–1840)
• Microfiche of Monumental Inscriptions for Thursley, Elstead and Bourne
• Microfiches of 1851 Census Index for West Surrey
• Microfiche of 1861 Census Index for Frensham and Dockenfield

Pamphlets of Major JRB Branson, B.A., LL.B (1872–1952)

James RB Branson was born in India on November 9th, 1872. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking an Honours Degree in Classics; and later an Honorary Degree in Law. He was also a keen rower.

From records in Headley [Mr Laverty's notebooks], we note that his mother lived at Wishanger Lodge and died in 1923. James bought Headley Mill Farm 1915. We are told [by Sue Allden] that in 1920 he was just along the road at Lower House Farm, Lindford – but he still used Headley Mill Farm as the address on his pamphlets published in the 1940s.

Local memories of him [by Sue Allden]: He used to eat meat, but then said to Wakeford the butcher, 'No more steak from you', and became vegetarian. Used to cycle everywhere, even up to London.

He was a local Councillor, being successively chairman of both Headley and Whitehill Parish Councils, and was known as a local benefactor. He gave the ground and money for Lindford Working Men's Club, which opened in August 1927. He says in the introduction to 'Grass for All' that he left Headley for London in 1936. He died in 1952. Branson Road in Bordon is named after him. Richard Branson, the present-day entrepreneur, is his great nephew.

We have in the Archives eleven of the following small pamphlets (the ones with titles shown in bold) written and published by James Branson in the period 1939–1950.

Our thanks to Dave Schmauch of New York, who found these pamphlets and passed them on to us.

• GRASS FOR ALL. Unorthodox views on Diet and Religion, 20pp (c.1939) - 4d
  Published by Branson's Publications at Headley Mill Farm, Bordon, Hants
• EATING FOR VICTORY. Unorthodox views on Diet, and suggestions for Wartime Economy therein - 4d
• BOOK OF RECIPES. Fifty Recipes for the use of Grass in Salads and Cooked Dishes - 6d
• THE GOLDEN DAWN. A stimulant in Blank Verse to thoughts on the essential divinity of Man - 6d
• A CALL TO YOUTH. A stimulant to Youth towards action expressive of that potential divinity - 4d
• THE NEED OF CIVILIZATION TODAY. A stimulant to the World to Creative action expressive of the divinity inherent in Man in potentiality, needing only to be brought to birth in action appropriate to divinity, 20pp (June 1940) - 4d
  Published by Branson's Publications at Headley Mill Farm, Bordon, Hants
  Address of author: 105 Westbury Court, SW4
• THE HEAT-LESS SUN. Thoughts about REALITY, 24pp (June 1940) - 4d
  Published by Branson's Publications at Headley Mill Farm, Bordon, Hants
  Address of author: 105 Westbury Court, SW4
• WHAT I MEAN BY 'GOD,' or as I prefer to say 'The Gods.' A simple man's presentation of Godhead on a rational basis - 9d
• THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION. A thoughtful Horse-Breeder's adventures into Psychology and Religion, 24pp (Aug 1940) - 6d
  Published by Branson's Publications at Headley Mill Farm, Bordon, Hants
  Address of author: 105 Westbury Court, SW4
• THE ORIGIN OF PERVERTED CHRISTIANITY, 12pp (July 1940) - 4d
  No publisher's address shown. Address of author: 105 Westbury Court, SW4
• The Goal of Life and the Purpose of Creation, 28pp (Aug 1946)
  No publisher's address shown. Address of author: 63 Balham Hill, SW12
• The Spiritualistic Basis of Orthodox Christianity, 24pp (undated)
  Branson's Publications, 63 Balham Hill, London SW12
• UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. A Policy and a Religion and a Way of Life, 8pp (undated)
  Author's address: 53 (sic) Balham Hill, London SW12
• A CHALLENGE TO THE PRIESTHOODS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 12pp (Oct 1947) - Author's address: 63a Balham Hill, London SW12
• THE CHALLENGE TO OUR TIMES, 8pp (undated)
  No publisher's or author's address
• WE ARE ALL 'CHILDREN OF GOD. A Personal Statement and Explanation, 4pp (Reprinted from 'Religions', the Journal for the Study of Religions, September-December, 1950. No.70)

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