Supporting the Manna Society – The Life and Times of Blessed William Way
A talk to support the Manna Society’s day centre for homeless people near London Bridge https://www.mannasociety.org.uk
The tradition of Kingston Council’s opposition to the London and Southampton Railway, that led to it being routed through Surbiton in the early 1830s, was started by William Downing Biden in 1852. Shaan Butters attributed the opposition to Lord Cottenham who wished to safeguard his estates in Wimbledon, through which the original route was planned. Evidence recently was found that in 1843-1844, about eight years after the railway came to Surbiton, Kingston Council actively did oppose a plan by the embryo Middlesex and Surrey Grand Junction Railway Company for a line that would pass through the town. This posed the question whether the tradition arose because Biden used unreliable hearsay as his source and confused events of the early 1830s with those of the early 1840s?
A talk to support the Manna Society’s day centre for homeless people near London Bridge https://www.mannasociety.org.uk
The origin of the surname “Wadbrook” is obscure. It was found in Kingston upon Thames records as far back as 1660
…today’s Eden Street was once called “Heathen Street”…
…whether the tradition arose because Biden, in 1852, used unreliable hearsay as his source?
Some of the digitised material that I have used has been sourced as follows:
“Ancestry”
http://home.ancestry.co.uk
“Find My Past”
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
The Times Digital Archive, via
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries
19th Century Newspapers, via
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries
The London Gazette
http://www.thegazette.co.uk/
Lloyds’ Register Historic Archive
www.lrfoundation.org.uk
British Newspaper Archive
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Parliamentary Papers, via
http://www.history.ac.uk
The non-digitised material [books, journals, records of Assizes and Quarter Sessions, Council Minutes, etc], has come from many sources including:
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk
The National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Surrey History Centre
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/…../surrey-history-centre
Kingston Local History Centre
http://www.kingston.gov.uk/…/visit_kingston_history_centre
Kent History and Library Centre
http://www.kent.gov.uk/…/kent-history-and-library-centre
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
http://www.history.ac.uk