Headley Parish Archives

Headley, Bordon, Hampshire

  • Held in the Parish Office, Headley Village Hall, Arford Road, Headley GU35 8LJ unless otherwise stated.
  • Managed by The Headley Society
  • For physical access, contact John Owen Smith or phone the Parish Clerk on 01428 713132

    Right: Banner of Court "Forget-me-not" No. 6,943 of the Ancient Order of Foresters

River Wey at Headley (11K) - click to enlarge

HISTORY - Glossary - Headley Timeline - Maps - Scrapbooks - Village Pump
For current information on Headley, including location map, see www.headley-village.com


Location of Acquisitions

Maps: standing rolled or folded in cardboard boxes and bins at right rear of cupboard:—

Other items on shelves:—

2-drawer filing cabinet:—

In cardboard boxes on floor to right:—

Various locations:—


BOX No 1

Books donated by Joyce Stevens

Headley Miscellany volume 3
Headley Miscellany volume 4
Headley Miscenllany volume 5
Headley Miscellany volume 6
Cobbett Comes to Headley
Headley's Past in Pictures
Headley Grange
Hollywater booket
To the Ar and Back
Flora's Peverel by Jo Smith
I'Anson's Chalet by Judith Kinghorn
One Monday in November
Salute to Elizabeth (including black and white photos)
Headley celebrations 1995
Queen's golden jubilee service June 2002
Picturesque Hampshire, written by CJ Beck between 1895 and 1901
The Pageant of Headley June 1951 (3 copies + 1 hardback)
Coronation souvenir programme


BOX No 2

Books donated by Joyce Stevens

Hampshire County Handbook (1960s)
Hampshire The Little Guides - 6th edition revised 1929
It Happened in Hampshire - Winifred G Beddington and Elsa B Christy, 5th edition 1977
Hampshire a Sense of Place by Peter F Mason 1994
Conservation in Hampshire (third edition)1983
Selection of timber-framed houses in Harting by Terry Barnfild 1978
Local history research and writing - David Iredale 1980 edition
East Hampshire Hangers leaflet
The countryside heritage and introduction - 1970
Hampshire's countryside heritage - 1 ancient lanes and tracks
Hampshire's countryside heritage - 2 ancient woodland
Hampshire's countryside heritage - 3 rivers and wetlands
Hampshire's countryside heritage - 7 the coast


BOX No 3

Books donated by Joyce Stevens

Hampshire within living memory - Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes 1994
The King's England - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1993
The Folklore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight - Wendy Boase1976
The sunken lanes of East Hampshire - an introductory leaflet
Liphook, Bramshott and the Canadians - Bramshott and Liphook Preservation Soc
The Hindhead Murder 1788-1986 by Judy Hewins
The Liphook Calendar 1066-1989
Discovering Hampshire - R.L.P.Jowitt (1969)
Tales of old Hampshire - Cecilia Millson 1980
Conford from Domesday to Victoria - Mary Tyfield 1996


BOX No 4

Headley Organisation papers 1990 & 1991 – those taking part in "Here's Headley"

1 Report on church matters
2 Minutes or the annual vestry and parish meeting
3 Arford WI summary of events
4 The Cats' Protecton League diary of events 1990
5 Report on activities of Headley Bridge Club
6 Headley branch East Hants Conservative and Unionist Association
7 Headley Friendship Club 1990
8 Guild of Health group
9 The Holme Infant School 1990
10 Headley Down Community Association
11 Mother Teresa's Co-Workers activities 1990
12 Headley Nursery Club diary notes 1990
13 Headley Oxfam Group in 1990
14 Headley Branch Royal British Legion
15 The British Red Cross Society
16 St Francis' Church Headley Down minutes of AGM 1991
17 Headley Voluntary Care Group chairman's report 1990
18 Headley Wives Group 1990


BOX No 5

Beating the bounds & Holme School Headley

Beating the bounds:
1 Parish of Headley 1912 - paths & properties a provisional list
2 Perambulations of the bounds of Headley Parish comparing years 1772,1873,1881,1890, 1895 and 1906
3 Letter 14th May 1890 from HH Coventry of Lindford to Mr Laverty Re: Headley Parish boundary Perambulation
4 The Bounds of Grayshott - perambulation in 1919 with additional notes, the undefined boundary against Ludshott Common having been surveyed in 1928
5 Letters to Mr Laverty from Grayshott Parish Council 1919
6 Plan and section of Frensham Great Pond, May 1939
7 Six photographs Beating the Bounds May 6th 1967
8 Beating the bounds - 19th May 1990 Baigents Bridge to Bordon Camp
9 Map of Selborne
10 Various correspondence to Joyce Stevens

Notes on Holme School Headley:

To be indexed


BOX No 6

Photos donated by Joyce Stevens

To be indexed

Headley Plan 1972
Parish Plan 2006


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. Newspaper cutting: Headley Tithe Barn 1967.
16. Blacksmith Shop, Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia [of no relevance to Headley!]
17. Headley Mill Staff 1930.
18. Headley Mill Vehicles 1930.
19. Staff of Badgerswood 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.?? – is it this one? If so, it's the Headley in Surrey.


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 – see frontsee back
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. Laurence 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. Links between Bishop's Sutton and Headley.
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.


BOX No 9

War service details – Roll of Honour

 


BOX No 10

Barn survey – Headley Farmsteads


BOX No 11

George Holme Memorial 2000


Filing Cabinet – top drawer

Material largely obtained from Joyce Stevens

Other material in drawer —


JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 1) – dark ringbinder in top drawer of filing cabinet
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
Mr Coombes1954 with others (cups and shields)
Mr 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 c.1890: Ladies v gentlemen cricket match

12 Cuttings from Newspapers – Historical Headley with pictures

W & M Heaton – 21st Nov 1975
Park Cottages
Wey House & oast house – 27/6/1975
Lime Kiln – 30th Oct 1975
Sheep Wash Wall, Frensham Ponds – 24th Oct 1975
Hatch Farm, Tulls Lane
Yeoman's Cottage – 17th Oct 1975
Overton Cottage, Arford – 25/7/1975
Riverside cottage
Tignals
Aqueduct, Headley Wood Farm – 1975
Moor House Farm – 8/8/1975
Peter's Barn Cottage
Linstead Farm – 13/6/1975
Huntingford Farm – 15/8/1975
1 Yeoman's Place – 10/10/1975
Apple Tree Cottage – 6th June 1975
Huntingford Cottage – 16/5/1975
Tulls, Passfield – 4/7/1975
Peter's Barn – 11/7/1975
Wakeford's Butcher Shop
Lickfolds, Arford
All Saints' Church, Headley – 12/9/1975
Stores House, Arford
Suters – 22/8/1975
Headley's School House
Longcross Farm – 30th Oct 1975
The Tithe Barn 1967/ today – 1/8/1975
The Rectory
The Grange, Liphook Rd (old workhouse)
Other cuttings from newspapers with pictures
The Chestnut Tree in the High Street (typed)
Farm in Longcross Hill – 11/10/1985
Headley from River Wey
Aqueduct at Headley Wood Estate – wish it to be listed
Bayfield cottage Frensham Lane 1937 – recorded 25/7/1980
Hatch House Farm, Lindford – Jan 1976
Headley 2nd football team1931–32 with names – 29/10/1982
Diamond Jubilee of Scouting in Headley – 5/12/1986
Holly Bush in 1911
Lithuanian Club, Headley Park – 23rd May 1975
Holme School class of mid 1950s & 1947–49 Football and Netball club members
Bramshott cottage for sale – 12/7/1991

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 (aka Joan Hunter Dunn) 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)


JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 2) – transparent plastic album in top drawer of filing cabinet
Indexed January 2008/JET


JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 3) – transparent plastic folder in top drawer of filing cabinet
Indexed 2008/JET


JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 4, The Headley Society) – Maroon lever-arch file in top drawer of filing cabinet
A collection of letters, newspaper cuttings, etc grouped together on the following subjects:—


Rural Life Centre info sheets on Eggars sales of Headley properties

Sheet identity Nos. WAVMS: C1985.0898 and 1004 to 1024 – mainly related to sales documents obtained from J Alfred Eggar
Apply to the Rural Life Centre to view the actual documents

Sales material mentioned to us in a previous list as being held by the Rural Life Centre, but not found in the above sheets (no Ref. Nos. given):—
This list is item 44 in JOYCE STEVENS COLLECTION (part 2)


Filing Cabinet – bottom drawer –


28: THE BELLINGER COLLECTION
Deposited May 2001 by Margaret Denholme (indexed 2008/01/NW) – on shelf – photos (wedding and masonic and children) pink folder + 2 large photos


Miscellaneous Locations

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

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


Other Archived Material

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

Parish Magazines

Scrapbooks (in cardboard boxes on the floor to the right)

The Headley Society

Miscellaneous


Items of interest to Headley


Microfiches

For further information see the History section of the Headley website

Pamphlets of Major JRB Branson, B.A., LL.B (1872–1952) – (held in Box 8?)

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.


Yet to be filed

Donations to Headley Archives by Sue Allden, 26th September 2012

· Framed map of local area dated 1776 (as included in Headley's Past in Pictures)
· Framed list of subscribers to the Testimonial presented by the parish of Headley to WH Laverty (completion of 50 years service & his Golden Wedding)
· Two sheets of mounted local postcards.
· Framed school attendance certificate for Fred George ARNOLD, 1912.
· Framed individual photographs of WH Laverty and his 2 daughters (unnamed)
· Framed copy of letter dated 1777 to Gilbert White from Rev SEWELL, rector of Headley.
· Map of Hampshire in 1610
· Framed photograph of Mr Justice WRIGHT.
· Framed photograph of the old Rectory with tithe barn pond in foreground.
· Recipe book of Gladys Laverty
· Recipe book of Muriel Laverty
· Parish Magazines for 1930
· Mr Beck's book History of Headley, including original pictures.
· Folder of Mr WH Laverty's notes, including material used by Tudor Jones in his book Headley 1066-1966.
· Various cuttings & photographs in boxes & folders.


Donations to Headley Archives by Sue Allden, 12th March 2013

· 5 woodblocks of engravings by Norman Wilson - scenes of Headley
(as used by The Headley Society)
· Original & copies of drawing "Headley Church in the time of G White" by Prof de la Motte (father-in-law to WH Laverty)
· Folder containing various printed papers belonging to WHL, plus later newspaper cuttings, including some on John Henry Knight of Farnham who invented the first British petrol-driven car in 1895.
· Mr WH Laverty's postcard album
· Kelly's Directory of Hampshire for 1895
· Hard-backed 'Day Book' with frontispiece 'The Oxford Crew' 1869 - half empty
· Small red photograph album of a member of the Laverty family
· Two photograph albums of Muriel Laverty, both dated 1901 (some items very faded)
· 'Scenes by the Way' (brown cover) photo album of Muriel Laverty, dated 1904 - with names
· 'Scenes by the Way' (green cover) photo album of Gladys Laverty, dated July 1903 - with names
· 'Sunny Memories' photograph album of Gladys Laverty, dated October 1906 - with names
· Photo album of Gladys Laverty, dated 1909 - with names - card pages, half empty
· Small black notebook/diary of a member of the Laverty family - first entry dated 17 April 1893, last dated 1st Jan 1895 [worth transcribing]
· Small notebook of Gladys Laverty dated Xmas 1903 (from M Wright), in which she records the birth of her kittens - also the members of the badminton club, and results of her graphology tests among other things
· Photo of WHL in military uniform
· Photograph album "WFF 1915-16" with photos taken in or near Arabia
Lindt chocolate box containing:—
· Loose family photographs, some named on back
· Other miscellaneous family memorabilia, including:-
· Envelope marked 'Tracing of BGL's hand' containing BGL's diary from her wedding day (12 June 1872) to 28th June, visiting the Lake District (on their honeymoon?)
· Envelope marked 'Mr Llewellyn's letter' containing lockets of the Laverty children's hair.
· Christmas card from Bret Harte, 1898, in envelope addressed to Miss Laverty
· Sketches by Nellie Knollys
· Cocktail stick with a small fan at the end


Further indexes to the Archives will be added as time and resources permit.

To send additions/corrections/comments, or requests for access, please contact me.


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