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Painting Pictures with Words - poetry/prose
Alton-based poet. ...
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Knights, Priests & Peasants
The story of Selborne from pre-history to the present - the land, the Normans,medieval Selborne, turbulent Tudors,Civil Wars, Gilbert White, agricultural change, modern times. There are also 5 oral hi ...
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Pudding on Fridays
A fascinating look at a career in the Stock Exchange from the 1950's through the Big Bang in 1986, to retirement in 1998.
Derek Edwards lived in Selborne for a considerable part of his life and he ...
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Dark Deeds & Alchemy
Set in the upper reaches of the Thames in the late 19th century, this novel is a rites of passage story with murder, magic and villainy. The book has all the characters you would expect to find in Vic ...
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Sweet F A
The true story of Fanny Adams. ...
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The Battle of Alton
An account of the famous battle in 1643 during England's Civil War. ...
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Jane's Alton
Brief reflection on Austen's life an an exploration of the sights she would have seen in Chawton and Alton that can still be enjoyed by visitors today. ...
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Jane Austen Fashion
Fashion and needlework in the works of Jane Austen. Penelope Byrd is an expert in costume of the period, explains all, from corsets to topcoats: how clothes were made, what they cost, and what was wor ...
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Jane Austen and Alton
A walk around Jane Austen's Alton. Austen described Alton as 'a pleasant healthy town'. ...
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A History of Alton 1800 to 1850
The life of the town and its inhabitants at that time. Background for those who are interesed in family and local history. ...
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Alton's Motor Traders - A Century of Service
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Selborne: Gilbert White's Village
Tells the story of this remarkable parish from Saxon times.It includes a full account of the author's life,and a detailed description of the Wakes, the house in which he lived and worked. It concludes ...
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Chawton: Jane Austen's Village
Revised and expanded edition is still the only book of its kind - includes new material based on recently-released documents and has been brought fully up to date.
'An example of how a village guid ...
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A key to Odiham Castle
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Alton's Pubs
Alehouses, beerhouses and public houses in Alton, up to the First World War. ...
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TIMOTHY'S BOOK
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From Schoneiche to Alton a Prisoner of War who sta
Willi was born in 1925 in the village of Schoneiche, then in the east of Germany (it is now Zenichow in Poland), grew up on the land and became a skilled agricultural worker before being called up for ...
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