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4 NEW LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS
Local historian Tim Everson’s collation of old and new photographs with informative captions...
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FROM MADRAS TO SURBITON. ALEXANDER RAPHAEL, UNBEATEN CHAMPION, 1775-1850
Alexander Raphael was born in Madras, modern-day Chennai, India, in 1775...
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KINGSTON HILL PLACE: HISTORIC MANSION OF HANDSOME ELEVATION.
...a grand mansion built in 1828...
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STREET OF CHANGE. A HISTORY OF EDEN STREET, KINGSTON UPON THAMES
...today’s Eden Street was once called “Heathen Street”...
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NOTES ON THE HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1852-1890
...the House of Detention in Kingston upon Thames, 1852-1890...
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WAS KINGSTON UPON THAMES ANTI-RAILWAY IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY? A NOTE ON THE POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THE TRADITION.
...whether the tradition arose because Biden, in 1852, used unreliable hearsay as his source?
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A LOCAL PRISON FOR THE POOR. A STUDY OF KINGSTON HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
This is the first detailed study of a prison in Heathen Street [modern-day Eden Street] Kingston upon Thames...
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REVIEW OF BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES.
Reviews on four books covering Kingston, its suburbs and societies...
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ADVENT OF SURBURBIA. THOMAS POOLEY, THE RAILWAY & SURBITON, 1791-1856.
Surbiton used to be the butt of jokes, as a symbol of dowdy suburbia. That was silly...
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