Project Purley

The Local History Society for Purley on Thames

Index to Journal Articles

J0990 3/6/2020

This lists all the major content of the Newsletters and Journals. It does not include administrative matters.
The genre indicates the context of the item as follows

article - information
bio - biography
letter - copy of letter
meet - Project Purley meeting report
note - note
obit - obituary
review - book review
R or S - report of Rain or Shine performance
talk - talk given to Project Purley
visit - Report of Project Purley visit

Decade 1980

Journal	genre	Title
1	visit	visit to Berkshire Record Office
3	note	The Purley tea towel
6	review	The Great Road to Bath
7	visit	Westbury Farm Visit
7	obit	John Sykes
8	note	Why Menpes Close?
8	note	Historic buildings
9	visit	A visit to Home Farm
10	review	Origin of plotlands
11
12		Maps Maps Maps
12		Warren Hastings & Purley
12		Another Year Older
13		Liebenrood Road Tilehurst
13		Houses for sale
14		The Gatehouse and Purley Lodge
15
16		Postbag
16		World War II
17
18
19
20
21

Decade 1990

Journal	genre	Title
22
23
24
25		Oral History
25		The Thames
25		Memories of the Fireside
25		Autumn in Sulham
26		The Hyde Connections
26		The Queen Opens Bracknell Heritage Centre
26		Correspondence
26		Correspondence
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38		Yew Tree Cottage
38		The Purley Barn
38		Oral History Group
38		Who'd have a Concubine
39		The Barn Project
39		Echoes of the Menpes family
39		The Kitchener Battalions Project
39		Belleisle
40		Oral history
41		Moments of Glory
41		Memories of Purley Park pt 1
41		Humphrey Repton and Coombe Lodge
42		Memories of Purley Park pt 2
42		Home Farm Purley
42		The Simeon Monument
42		Rousham Gardens
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51		Parish Relief in Purley circa 1828
51		The Great Western Railway comes to Purley part 2
51		Summer in Sulham
51		Beating the Parish Bounds

Decade 2000

Journal	genre	Title
52		The Great Western Railway comes to Purley part 3
52		Autumn in Sulham
53		The Cottages of Purley
53		The History of St Mary's Church
53		The History of Purley Hall
53		Blowing in the Wind
53		Memories of Old Days in Purley
54		Beating the Bounds 2000
54		History of Purley
55		More Memories of Old Days in Purley
56
57		Mill Lane
57		Madjeski Stadium Tour
57		Purley Garage
58		The Gleaner
58		Mapledurham etc o nTV and film
59
60		The Churchyard Rails
60		Project Purley Natural History Group 1982
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70		G Percy Trentham Ltd
70		Village Blacksmiths in Purley (circa 1594-1936) part 3
70		Project Purley & the Basildon Park Extras
70		Battle of Trafalgar
70		The History of Wilson Road School
71		G Percy Trentham Ltd Part 2
71		Recent Discoveries
71		The Parish Bier
71		Nature Notes
71		Your House, My Home
71		History of Purley Lodge
72		Murder most foul
72		Cutting a Dash in Purley
72		Parish Biers
72		Nature Notes
72		Purley Magna Visit
73		Don’t Mention the War
73		Nature Notes
73		Statues & Monuments of Reading
73		History of a Purley railway carriage
74		The History of Project Purley
74		The Church Dig
74		Nature Notes
74		Purley Through the Ages
75		Gallantry Should Never be Forgotten
75		Nature Notes
75		Flood Preparations
75		A Working Life on the River
75		Wallingford Walkabout
76		Mapledurham Lock
76		Nature Notes
76		St Mary’s Church (John Chapman)
76		Purley Hall (Ben Viljoen)
76		The Cottages of Purley (Rita Denman)
77		Memories of Kenneth Grahame
77		Memories of Purley in the 1940s
77		German POWs in Purley
77		Nature Notes
77		Mapledurham Mill (Corrie Starling)
77		Purley Cricket Club (Martin Bishop)
77		Daughter of the Regiment (Catherine Butcher)
78		Thames Commissioners
78		The Purley Barn
78		Nature Notes
78		Mapledurham Walkabout
78		Outing to Stratfield Saye
79		The Life of Humphry Repton
79		Tribal Boundaries (Dr Andrew Hutt)
79		History of Cross Lanes Fruit Farm (Jill Franklin)
80		Samuel Wilberforce
80		Bishop Samuel Wilberforce’s Observations
80		Childhood Memories
80		A Revised & Updated History of Reading Football Club
80		The History of Aviation in Berkshire (Jean Fostekew
81		The History of a Purley Railway Carriage - an update
81		Nature Notes
81		Outing to the Joint Aeronautical & Geospatial Organisation
81		Guided Walking Tour of Newbury

Decade 2010

Journal	genre	Title
82		Reading Gaol
82		Nature Notes
82		Battle of Newbury (Clive Williams)
82		A Canal Through Reading (Rick Jones)
83		Reading Gaol - Part 2
83		George Edmund Street RA
83		Hospital Radio Reading
83		Nature Notes
83		Pangbourne Census & Owners 1894 (Lyn Davis)
83		Humphry Repton in Berkshire (Ben Viljoen)
83		Great Western Railway (John Chapman)
84		Mortimer Menpes
84		Purley in Old Images
84		Nature Notes
84		Visit to Didcot Railway Centre
84		Visit to Littlecote House
85		My memories of Purley from 1940
85		The Book Launch
85		The Art of Deception in WW2 (Hugh Granger)
85		John Betjeman (Roy Denison)
85		Purley in the Religious Census 1851
85		Nature Notes
86		Pottering and Ponderings with Purley People
86		The Siege of Reading in 1643
86		The Trentham Story
86		An Exciting Discovery for Purley
86		Berkshire Beyond the Obvious (Trevor Ottlewski)
86		Purley Through the Lens of a Camera
86		Nature Notes
87		Three Glorious Queens Part 1 - Queen Elizabeth
87		Purley School 1942-1945
87		Historic Buildings of Thatcham (Tony Higgott)
87		Highclere Visit
87		Caversham Court Visit
87		Biography - Dudley Cecil Aldin
87		Update on the Deeds of Purley Magna
87		Nature Notes
88		Three Glorious Queens Part 2 - Queen Victoria
88		Purley Players
88		Ashmolean Museum (julie Hirst)
88		Candles & Candlesticks (Trevor Ottlewski)
88		Anthony Morris Storer
88		Nature Notes
88		Recollections of Purley 1902-1914
89		Three Glorious Queens Part 3- Queen Elizabeth II
89		The Upper Thames Patrol (Bill King)
89		Scenes of Crime (Ken Wells)
89		Purley River Estate (Catherine Sampson & Ann Betts)
89		A boy when the Century was born
89		Weekend to Remember
89		Coronation Reminiscences of 1953
89		Nature Notes
90		The Aldermaston Pipeline
90		Rides & Rambles around Reading
90		Diamond Jubilee 2012
90		The Reigning Queens’ Exhibition:
90		Visit to Dorchester on Thames
90		Visit to Stonor House
90		Ambrose Petrokokino
90		Nature Notes
91		Brunel's Bridges
91		Purley in 1932
91		The Life and Times of Abbey School, Reading (jane Burrell)
91		The Gardens of Marlborough and his Lieutenants (Ben Viljoen)
91		For Crying out Loud (Bryan Sylvester)
91		Matthew Hamblin - Guardian of Napoleon (val Hannington)
91		Nature Notes
92		Mapledurham Lock
92		The Day War Broke out
92		Frost Fairs (Ian Currie)
92		The Purley Effect (Rita Denman)
92		History of Bee-Keeping (Mike Dabbs)
92		Nature Notes
93		The Purley Park Boathouse
93		Visit to Bletchley Park
93		Visit to East Hendred
93		Nature Notes
94		Trentham bowling club
94		John Sherrott
94		Bill Fisher
94		Mapledurham Lock
94		The Purley Ferries.
94		Fairmile Revealed: the Victorian Asylum (Mark Stevens)
94		An Embarrassment of Riches – Berkshire Archdeaconry Depositions 1558-1620 (Joan Dils)
94		The Great Train Robbery (Hugh Granger)
94		Nature Notes
95		The Purley Great War Memorials
95		Viscountess Vane - A Lady of Quality
95		St Mary’s Burial Ground (John Chapman & Catherine Sampson)
95		A Walk along the Thames Path (Bill King)
95		Berkshire and South Oxfordshire Churches (Catherine Sampson)
95		Pop Pirates of the 1960’s (Tony Hadland)
95		Nature Notes
96		The Storer Family Portraits
96		Early Days of Long Lane School
96		Visit to Waddesdon Manor
96		Purley in The Park
96		Visit to Houses of Parliament
96		Nature Notes
97		Purley Park Gatehouse and Tunnels
97		William Sheppard (1804-1889) - Lockkeeper
97		Crofts, Shaws and Piddles
97		Purley from the Air
97		Literary and Artistic Footprints of the Thames (Nick Brazil)
97		The Mary Rose (Trevor Sapey)
97		Nature Notes
98		Westbury Farm
98		Purley Park Gatehouse
98		The First World War
98		Farming in Purley (Tim Metcalfe)
98		Purley Magna ( John Chapman & Ben Viljoen)
98		Nature Notes
99		J. W. Kirton & Son
99		Recusancy in Oxfordshire and Berkshire (Tony Hadland)
99		Portsmouth Historic Naval Shipyard
99		Sutton Courtenay Visit
99		Village Blacksmiths in Purley (c.1594-1936)
99		Nature Notes
100		Project Purley 1982-2016
100		Purley Church of England School
100		Purley Bus Services
100		The Church
100		The Parish
100		Purley Players
100		Moving the Barn
100		Rebuilding the Railway Bridges
100		Purley Magna - A Regeneration
100		Trenthams
100		The Wimpey Estate
100		The New Cemetery
100		The Millennium
100		The Golden Jubilee
100		The Diamond Jubilee Celebration
100		Technology
100		The Purley River Estate
100		Farming in Purley
100		Changes I Remember
100		Royal Abbey of Reading (Brian Kemp)
100		The History of Englefield (Richard Smith)
100		Thames Walk - Oxford to Reading (Bill King)
100		Nature Notes
101		Lucy Honor Gutch
101		Members’ Evening: WW1 memories
101		The Canning Family (Catherin Sampson)
101		The Project Purley Archive (john Chapman)
101		Lesser known Images of Purley (Caterhine Sampson)
101		Nature Notes
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary - The First Years
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary - A Parent's View
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary - Remember Remember G- Guy Fawkes Night
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary - A Nice Little Walk
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary -Memories of a Netball Tournament
102		Long Lane School 50th Anniversary - Memories of a Pupil
102		Sudeley Castle
102		Hughenden Manor Visit
102		Capability Brown
102		La Hyde
102		Nature Notes
103		Postal Services in Purley
103		Douai Abbey and Western Monasticism (geoffrey Scott)
103		My Zambia (Ben Viljoen)
103		The Last Letter Home
103		Nature Notes
104		The Electric Tramway System of Reading -1903-1939
104		The Purley Scandal
104		History of Salter’s Steamers (Simon Wenham)
104		Forgotten Wrecks of WW1 (Stephen Fisher)
104		Growing up in Sulham and Tidmarsh (Jean Harland)
104		Nature Notes
105		The Fall and Rise of Samuel Blackall
105		King Charles III and Purle
105		Memories of the Old Days in Purley
105		Living through the Civil War in Reading (Catherine Sampson)
105		Visit to Hatfield House
105		Visit to Ewelme 17th July
105		Nature Notes
106		A Memorable Return to Holland
106		A Bit More About Ted Williams
106		Purley Lodge
106		World War 1 Battlefields Tour, 10th – 14th Sept 2017
106		Treasures beneath our feet and the Watlington Hoard ( James Mather)
106		English Calendar Customs (Jameson Wooders)
106		The Lands of Reading Abbey in Purley on Thames (john Chapman
106		Nature Notes
107		The Storers of Purley Park and the Red Book of Humphry Repton
107		The Story of The Wednesday Club
107		Murder at Reading Gaol (Angela Buckley)
107		Purley Church of England School 1800 -2007 Rita Denman)
107		All Quiet on the Western Front – ProjectPurley’s Battlefields Tour
107		Bus Services to 1939
107		Nature Notes (Rita Denman)
108		Purley Parish Council Part 1
108		A History of Purley Memorial Hall
108		Purley Walkabout 7th July 2018
108		Project Purley Visit to Salisbury, 24th May201
108		Nature Notes
109		Purley Parish Council Part 2 (John Chapman)
109		Commemorating the Centenary of theArmistice in Purley on Thames
109		Letters from the Past (Catherine Sampson)
109		Prospect Park Mansion (Katie Amos)
109		Early Closing Day: Air Raids on Reading in WW2 (Mike Cooper)
109		Nature Notes (Rita Denman)
110	article	Purley Parish Council part 3 by John Chapman
110	talk	Jane Austen and the Thames Valley Austens by Joy Pibworth
110	talk	Famous spies by Hugh Grainger
110	talk	Mapledurham Mill by Corry Starling
110	talk	West Berkshire Place names by David Peacock
110	obit	Pamela Maddock
110	bio	Frederick Len Overy
110	note	The BLHA AGM
110	note	Rita Denmans 90th
110	note	Nature Notes by Rita Denman
110	note	The Parish Council Newsletter
111	article	Gone but not forgotten by John Chapman
111	article	75th anniversary of D Day by David Downs
111	bio	Eliot Hodgkin
111	visit	Visit to Sulgrave Manor
111	visit	Reading Abbey ruins walk with John Painter
111	R or S	As you like it
111	note	Nature Notes by Rita Denman
110

Decade 2020

Journal	genre	Title
112	article	Purley Parish Council part 4 by John Chapman
112	talk	The nabobs of Berkshire by Clive Williams
112	talk	Putting Berkshire on the map by John Leighfield
112	talk	Queues, U boats and useless mouths by Mike Cooper
112	R or S	Wind in the Willows
112	article	Winifred Burtenshaw remembered by Jacky Brown and Catherine Sampson
112	article	Dads Army deals with the Germans by Bret Wiles
112	note	Nature Notes by Rita Denman

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