a
Headley's Past in
Pictures - an
illustrated tour of the parish of Headley , Hampshire in the
first half of the 20th century - old postcards and photographs of
Headley parish with historical commentary - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Characters of
Headley's Past - Personalities,
groups, occupations & businesses of the past which have helped
to create the Headley of today - compiled
by John Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Gladys Laverty's
Recipe Book - Recipes written by
a Rector's daughter in Headley Rectory at the beginning of the 20th
century - compiled by John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
A Headley
Compendium - A collection of
historical material relating to Headley parish from previously
published sources - compiled
by John Owen Smith
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
One Monday in
November … and Beyond - the story of
the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots during the Swing Riots of 1830
… and their aftermath - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50 – see also staged as a play
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All Tanked Up - the story of
the benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village by Canadian tank regiments
during the Second World War - John Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
Echoes of Erie Camp - a history of the
Headley Down Nature Reserve and the Heatherlands Estate from 1939 to
2019 through memories and photographs
Published by the
Headley Down Nature Reserve Trust
Price: UK £5.50 / Europe £7.75 / O/seas £9.00
Liphook, Bramshott and the Canadians
- the story of Canadian troops in Liphook and Bramshott during two
World Wars - Laurence Giles
Published by the
Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society
Price: UK £5.50 / Europe £7.75 / O/seas £9.00
The Southern Wey, a guide
- Geology,
history and natural history of the Southern River Wey Valley between
Hindhead and Tilford
Published by the
River Wey Trust
Now out of stock as a paper version - PDF of
scanned image available
from the River Wey Trust
A Balance of Trust - the
railway arrives in a Surrey village , and nothing is the same
again - is Hindhead Common safe? We meet the founder of The National
Trust, and cover 50 years of history in and around Haslemere and
Hindhead, Surrey from the arrival of the railway to the arrival of the
motor car - John Owen Smith
Sorry – now out of print
a
'Sir Robert
Hunter's Dramatic Walks' - a short history
of the acquisition of Hindhead Common by The National Trust, plus
Details of Dramatic Walks over Hindhead Common and around Waggoners
Wells (replaces 'Hindhead is Safe) - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
'Hindhead is Safe' - now replaced by
'Sir Robert
Hunter's Dramatic Walks'
a
The Hilltop Writers - a Victorian
Colony among the Surrey Hills - a
new illustrated edition , in which we meet
Tennyson, Conan Doyle, Bernard Shaw and the many other writers who
populated the hilltops around Haslemere and Hindhead at the end of the
1890s - W R Trotter
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Literary Surrey - a lively
exploration of the time spent and work written in Surrey by authors
from John Evelyn and Fanny Burney to H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster.
Special chapters on Country Writers, Box Hill and the River Mole,
Children's Writers (up to Jacqueline Wilson) and "The Quill and the
Sword" (Surrey writers in times of war).
Contains suggestions for further reading and details about places to
visit -
Jacqueline
Banerjee
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Haslemere
(with Hindhead) - an
Idyllic Country Town - illustrated with photographs - Fay
Foster
Price: UK £14.95
/ Europe £19.25 / O/seas £24.50
a
Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills - Part
1: Early Times to the 1700s - illustrated with
photographs and maps - Greta
A Turner
Price: UK £9.95 / Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Shottermill,
its Farms, Families and Mills - Part 2: 1730 to
the Early Twentieth Century - illustrated
with photographs and maps - Greta A Turner
Price: UK £14.95 / Europe £19.25 / O/seas £24.50
a
A Complete History of the Eade
Family of Surrey, Sussex
& Hampshire 1250–1990 - illustrated
with photographs and maps - Robyn Lane and
Andrew Eade
Price: UK £19.95
The Restless Miller
-
Scenes from rural life in bygone Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire - illustrated
- David Johnston
-
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a
An Edwardian
Childhood - the
making of a naturalist - the family lived a life of
self-sufficiency where the only machine on the farm was the children's
toy steam engine - a new
extended illustrated edition - Margaret
Hutchinson
Price: UK £8.95 /
Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
I'Anson's Chalet
on Headley Hill - a
hidden house, a hidden history - Hidden among the pine trees on Headley Hill there
is a Swiss-style chalet. Who built it and why? - Judith
Kinghorn
Now out of stock
a
Walks around
Headley … and over the borders - A dozen circular
walks around Headley - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
a
Walks through
History … at the West of the Weald - A dozen circular
walks with an historical theme - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
a
Walks from the
Railway … Guildford to Portsmouth - Circular walks
from stations, and linear walks to connect them - John
Owen Smith
Price:
UK £6.50 / Europe £9.15 / O/seas £10.50
Walks around Liphook
- 20 circular walks around Liphook
Published by the
Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society
Price: UK £4.50 / Europe £6.50 / O/seas £7.50
a
Grayshott - the
story of a Hampshire village , on the border with Surrey and
once part of Headley parish - Written in 1978 to celebrate the 75th
anniversary of Grayshott Civil Parish, this book tells the history of
the village from its earliest beginnings as a minor hamlet of Headley
to its status as a fully independent parish flourishing on (and across)
the borders of Hampshire and Surrey. It was republished to celebrate
the centenary of the parish in 2002 - J
H (Jack) Smith
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
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On the Trail of
Flora Thompson - The author of Lark
Rise lived for nearly 30 years in Hampshire. This book tells
of the difficult period during which she 'won the fight to write' and
includes local comment and some of her previously unpublished work - we
turn detective to discover the true identity of the people and places
Flora Thompson encountered while she lived in east Hampshire - John
Owen Smith
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Heatherley - the
'lost' sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford' - Flora Thompson's
time in east Hampshire at the turn of the 19th century - edition
including map and notes on people & places she encountered in
east Hampshire - Flora Thompson
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50 [also
as ebook on Amazon]
a
The Peverel Papers - Nature
notes written in Liphook, 1921-27 - Flora
Thompson
Price: UK £21.00 /
Europe £25.00 / O/seas £30.00
a
Gates of Eden /
Bog Myrtle & Peat - a
novel and a collection of poems - Flora
Thompson
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
Flora Thompson:
Beyond Candleford - Two plays telling of Flora
Thompson's Hampshire years - John
Owen Smith - see notes on Royalties for productions
Price: UK £7.95 /
Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Flora Thompson - Biography
- the story of the 'Lark Rise' writer - Gillian
Lindsay
Price: UK £9.95 /
Europe £13.35 / O/seas £16.50
a
The
World of Flora Thompson Revisited - Biography ,
giving particular emphasis to Flora Thompson's roots in the Oxfordshire
countryside - Christine Bloxham
-
Order at bookshops or via the author
Without
Education or Encouragement , by Ruth Collette
Hoffman - The Literary Legacy of Flora Thompson
- Order via
publisher
a
Dreams of the Good Life , by Richard Mabey
- The Life of Flora Thompson and the creation of Lark
Rise to Candleford
-
Order via publisher
Guide to Liphook, Bramshott and
Neighbourhood - a 1925 guidebook to the village of
Liphook in Hampshire and its surroundings, largely written by Flora Thompson
Reprinted by the
Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society in 1995
Price: UK £5.00 / Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
Growing up in Griggs Green
- recollections of life in Liphook at the time of the First World War,
by a neighbour of Flora Thompson
- Joe Leggett
Published by the
Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society
Price: UK £5.00 / Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
No Toys for the Boys
- further recollections of growing up in Liphook, Longmoor and Griggs
Green
- Joe Leggett
Published by the
Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society
Price: UK £5.00 / Europe £7.00 / O/seas £8.50
Ancient Churches
in North East Hampshire - an illustrated
guide to twelve local mediaeval Hampshire churches: Alton, Bentley,
Binsted, Froyle, Holybourne, East Worldham, West Worldham, Kingsley,
Hartley Mauditt, Selborne, Headley and Bramshott - Woolmer
Forest Archaeological and Historical Society - Now
out of print
a
A Parcel of Gold
for Edith - letters from
Australia to Headley 1853-1875 - Joyce Stevens
Price: UK £4.95 / Europe £7.20 / O/seas £8.50
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To the Ar and Back - an historical
stroll around Headley and Arford - Joyce
Stevens
Price: UK £3.00 / Europe £5.25 / O/seas £6.00
[ebook on Amazon]
The River Running
By - the story of Standford hamlet and its church - John
Warren
Now out of print, but there is a PDF version available
Hollywater – a forgotten hamlet - the history of
the hamlet of Hollwater - Lucy Rodd
& Marilyn Metcalfe —
CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
Price: UK £7.50 / Europe £10.00 / O/seas £11.50
All Saints Church, Grayswood - a short history
- James Mackie
Price: UK £7.50 / Europe £10.00 / O/seas £11.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 1 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 2 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 3 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 4 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 5 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
Headley Miscellany
- Volume 6 - a series of
occasional booklets - things of historical interest in Headley parish -
includes Index
- The Headley Society
Price: UK £3.50 / Europe £5.75 / O/seas £6.50
a
Echoes of a Trumpet - the
great-granddaughter of the legendary 'Trumpeter' of Selborne serves us
fact laced with supposition - Jean Newland
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
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Echoes of Home - the story of
Ellen, the transported daughter of the 'Trumpeter' of Selborne,
Hampshire - Jean Newland
Price: UK £8.95 / Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
To Follow a Dream - Three Cornish
families trek to Hampshire in 1768 - Jean
Newland
Price: UK £8.95 / Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
Cathra - It is the year
1160, and a chance meeting in Alton forest turns Cathra's life upside
down - Jean Newland
Price: UK £8.95 / Europe £11.75 / O/seas £14.25
a
Jessica's People - a story from
quieter times in Ireland, leading through to the author's arrival in
Headley - Jessie Woodger
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt: a Medieval
Landscape - peasant life in
medieval Churt - Philip B rooks
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt, an Oasis through Time - a short history
of the village - Olivia Cotton
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
Churt Remembered - photographic
memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia Cotton
Price: UK £6.95 / Europe £9.00 / O/seas £10.50
a
Further Reflections on Churt - more
photographic memories of Churt, Surrey - Olivia
Cotton
Price: UK £7.95 / Europe £9.90 / O/seas £11.50
a
A Time of Change - A short history of
Churt, Surrey: the period between 1840 and 1880 - Gillian
Devine
Price: UK £6.00 / Europe £8.70 / O/seas £10.00
Churt and the War to end all Wars - As described in
the parish magazine, the Churt Church Monthly - Gillian
Devine
Price: UK £6.00 / Europe £8.70 / O/seas £10.00
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Violet, the
Canadian Lieutenant's Wife - A biography of the
author's grandmother who married a Canadian soldier in
WW1, emigrated to Saskatchewan and later returned to England - Roger
Sherburn-Hall - Order via author
My Ockenden
Adventure - Life in a home in
Haslemere for refugee children from the displaced persons’ camps in
Germany - Elsie Broughton
- Order via author
Wanborough
Manor - School for Secret Agents - Patrick
Yarnold - Order via
publisher
St
Bartholomew's Parish Church Haslemere - Katherine
Jessel - Order via
publisher
Inspector
William Donaldson 1807-1855 - 'The First Surrey County Police
Officer to be killed while on duty' - Henry
F Pelham - Order via
publisher
a
A Tale of Two Theatres - Farnham's
Castle and Redgrave Theatres - Anne Cooper
- Order via publisher
a
The
Story of a Catholic Parish - Father Robo tells
how, after an absence of almost two centuries, Catholic worship was
restored in Farnham, in part due to the immigration of French priests
fleeing from the ‘terror’ of the Revolution in their own country
- Etienne Robo
- Order via publisher
a
Rough Stone and Chisel - Father Robo takes
us to mid nineteenth century rural Brittany to explore his roots and
the influences that shaped him - Etienne
Robo - Order via
publisher
a
Grayshott
from Then to Now - the fascinating
story of the growth of a Hampshire village - John
P Hill - Order via
publisher
a
The
I'Ansons - A
dynasty of London Architects and Surveyors - Peter
Jefferson Smith - Order from The
Clapham Society
Liphook
Lives - Contributions from the memories of 8 Local
Families make this a very special record of Life in Liphook - Laurence C Giles -
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Heritage Centre
Liphook
Shops Remembered - Recalling the
shops that have served Liphook over the years - Ian Baker -
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Heritage Centre
Liphook
Remembers - Reminiscences
by 'Old' families of Liphook. What Wonderful tales the people of
Liphook have to tell, and how well they tell them - Laurence C Giles -
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Heritage Centre
Liphook and the Headley Road - Memories of
Headley Road as it was and is now. Re-print of a very popular and
informative book - Ian Baker
- Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
Liphook Calendar 1066-1989 - Events,
national and local, for every day of the year - Laurence C Giles -
Order via Liphook
Heritage Centre
Chiltley Place and Goldenfields - The story of a
Historic Local House and its past - Anne
Silver - Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
The Story of King George's
Hospital - Now Bramshott
Place - Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
Liphook Souvenir - 80 historic
photographs and their stories - Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
School
Day Memories - Memories of
schoolchildren at Bramshott & Liphook schools in the mid-20th
Century - Derek (Dik) Holdsworth
and others - Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
Conford,
from Domesday to Victoria - Mary Tyfield -
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Heritage Centre
Conford,
from Victoria to the Millennium - Mary Tyfield -
Order via Liphook
Heritage Centre
A
History of Greatham - An illustrated
history of Greatham, a parish & village in Hampshire - Peter Gripton -
Order via Liphook
Heritage Centre
One Hundred Years
of Liphook Bonfire & Carnival - Brian
North - Order via Liphook Heritage
Centre
Band on the Bus - Around the World on a Double-decker
- Richard King
- Order via
Publisher, or Liphook
Heritage Centre
A Century Not Out - One hundred years of the I'Anson
Cup - Graham Collyer
- Order via author
Hampshire Place
Names - Provides an interesting insight into some of the
county's more unusual place names - Anthony
Poulton-Smith - Order via
publisher
Compton Pottery - A
richly illustrated book which traces the history of this village
industry and is the first account of the diversity and heritage of this
unusual pottery - Hilary
Calvert - Order via
publisher
Alton Papers, No.5 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- OUT OF PRINT
- Contact
publisher
Alton Papers, No.6 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- OUT OF PRINT
- Contact
publisher
Alton Papers, No.7 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- OUT OF PRINT
- Contact
publisher
Alton Papers, No.8 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.9 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.10 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.11 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.12 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- OUT OF PRINT
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publisher
Alton Papers, No.13 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.14 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- OUT OF PRINT
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publisher
Alton Papers, No.15 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.16 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.17 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.18 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.19 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.20 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.21 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.22 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.23 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.24 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.25 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.26 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Alton Papers, No.27 - One of a series of
booklets containing short articles on the history of Alton
- Friends of the
Curtis Museum and Allen Gallery - Order via publisher
Jane Austen and
Alton - a walk round Jane Austen's Alton - Jane
Hurst - Order via publisher
Jane Austen and
Chawton - a walk round Jane
Austen's Chawton - Jane Hurst
- Order
via publisher
Miss Bell's
Fountains - a history of "The
Munificent Gifts" in Alton - Jane
Hurst - Order via publisher
Alton's Inns - "in all our inns
we have plenty of ale, beer and sundry kinds of wine" - Jane
Hurst - Order via publisher
Alton's Pubs - Alehouses,
beerhouses and public houses in Alton, up to the First World War
- Jane Hurst
- Order
via publisher
Alton's Breweries - "Here … [are]
several large breweries, the ale from which has long been famed
throughout the county and in London" - Jane
Hurst - Order via publisher
Alton's Motor
Traders - part 1 - A century of
service - Norman Pointing
- Order
via publisher
Alton's Motor
Traders - part 2 - A century of
service - Norman Pointing
- Order
via publisher
Alton's 20th
Century Market - 'a market second
to none in the country' - Jane
Hurst - Order via publisher
Alton's Mills - Details of 14 mills
within and around Alton - Jane Hurst
- Order via publisher
Hartley Mauditt
House - 'A Capital uniform mansion'? - Jane Hurst -
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publisher
Alton's
Photographers - 'The first 100
years' - Jane Hurst
- Order via publisher
Worldham Park - and King Edward's
Hill? - Jane Hurst
- Order via publisher
Jane Austen - family connections
with Alton & Chawton connections - Jane Hurst -
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publisher
The Absent Minded Beggar and Princess Louise Hospitals - recounts the beginnings of Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital - Jane Hurst -
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publisher
John Eggar's Free
Grammar School - 'The early years
1642-1880' - Pamela
Taylor - Order via publisher
Memories of Alton
Project - No.1 - Hard Lives
50–80 years ago - Ed: Paul Fenwick
- Order via publisher
Memories of Alton
Project - No.2 - Life in Alton
during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
- Order via publisher
Memories of Alton
Project - No.3 - Life in Alton
during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
- Order via publisher
Memories of Alton
Project - No.4 - Life in Alton
during WW2 - Ed: Paul Fenwick
- Order via publisher
The Remembered
Ones of the Great War - Vol 1 - Bentworth to
Farringdon - Order via publisher
The Remembered
Ones of the Great War - Vol 2 - Froyle to
Selborne - Order via publisher
Alton from 1914 to
1920 - Life in the Alton area during and after WW1-
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publisher
The Battle of Alton - an account of
the famous Civil War battle of 1643 in Alton, Hampshire - Peter
Cansfield -
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Sweet FA - the true story
of Fanny Adams in Alton - Peter Cansfield
- Order via author
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