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General Books The National and Domestic History of England in 11 Volumes - W.H.S. Aubrey. 1870 The County Books - Devonshire The County Books - Surrey The County Books - Sussex The County Books - Herefordshire The County Books - Hampshire & Isle of Wight The County Books - The Channel Islands The County Books - Hertfordshire The County Books - Essex The County Books - Kent The Kings England - Worcestshire The Kings England - Devon The Kings England - Sussex The Kings England - Surrey The Kings England - London The Kings England - Hampshire & Isle of Wight The Kings England - Northamptonshire The Kings England - Lancaster About Britain No.1 - West Country About Britain No.2 - Wessex About Britain No.3 - Home Counties About Britain No.4 - East Anglia About Britain No.5 - Chilterns to the Black Country About Britain No.6 - South Wales About Britain No.8 - East Midlands and the Peaks About Britain No.9 - Lancashire & Yorkshire About Britain No.10 - The Lakes to Tyneside About Britain No.11 - Lowlands of Scotland About Britain No.12 - Highlands and Islands of Scotland Directories Kelly’s Directory of Portsmouth and Southsea 1953 Kelly’s Directory of Portsmouth and Southsea 1962 Kelly’s Directory of Portsmouth and Southsea 1967 Kelly’s Directory of Portsmouth and Southsea 1976 Kelly’s Directory of Southampton 1956 Hampshire The National Roll of the Great War - Southampton, 1920 Isle of Wight Ward Lock & Co - The Isle of Wight 1937 Ward Lock & Co - The Isle of Wight 1950 The Isle of Wight - R.L.P. And Dorothy M. Jowitt, 1951 Nelsons Handbook to the Isle of Wight - W.H.D. Adams ESQ, 1877 Isle of Wight Bedside Anthology - Hugh Noyes, 1951 Wanderings in the Isle of Wight - Ethel Hargrove, 1913 Nunwell Symphony - Cecil Aspinall-Oglander, 1946 County Churches Isle of Wight - J. Charles Cox, 1911 Annals of the Poor, Leigh Richmond, American Tract Society Edition Tour of the Isle of Wight - J. Hassell, 1790 Masonic Year Book Hampshire & Isle of Wight 1981 Wight Magic - Phillip Ward, 1990 Battle In The Skies Over the Isle of Wight - H.J.T. Leal, 1988 Newport in Bygone Days - R.J. Eldridge, 1982 The Luck - Ken Frogbrook, 1986 The Story of the Royal National Hospital Ventnor - E.F. Laidlaw, 1990 The Isle of Wight Rifles - D.J. Quigley Yesterday’s Isle of Wight Series - Andrew Swift No1 - Ryde and Seaview No2 - Travelling Around the Isle of Wight No3 - Isle of Wight Holiday Island No4 - Edwardian Life on the Isle of Wight No5 - Revels & Regattas on the Isle of Wight Newport Grammer School - Major P.W.F. Erith, 1950 Island Longshoremen - Richard J. Hutchings, 1975 Smugglers of the Isle of Wight - Richard J. Hutchings, 1972 Wish You Were Here The Isle of Wight - Robert Cook, 1997 Ballads of the Isle of Wight - J.R. Brummell, 1979 Pictorial Guide to the Isle of Wight - R.G. Nettell, 1950’s The Isle of Wight - A.N. Court, 1960’s Arreton Manor Guide Book For Rooks and Ravens, The Execution of Michal Morey - Kenneth S. Phillips Sea Fencibles 1805 - Compiled by Jennifer Killick, 2001 Niton Calling - Niton Womens Institute, 1984 Selected Island Memories of Reflections 1970 - 1980 St Olaves Church and its links to the past - 2nd Edition Shipwrecks of the Isle of Wight - J.C. Medland, 1986 The Isle of Wight ‘An Illustrated History’ - Jack and Johanna Jones, 1987 Village Churches of the Isle of Wight - Ron and Pat Winter, 1987 Francis Firth's The Isle of Wight - John Bainbridge, 2003 150 Views of the Isle of Wight - Kingsway Series, Circa 1900 The Isle of Wight ‘A Book of Photographs’ - S.W. Colyer, 1940 The Isle of Wight - Reverend Edmund Venables, 1860 Here Layeth ‘A record of memorials at the old church of St Boniface in Bonchurch’ - Joan Gordon, 1989 Three Famous Men of Brighstone - Patricia Sibley, 1985 Portraits of the Isle of Wight - Penny Sanders. 1979 The Isle of Wight - Ernest Haslehust. Approx.1921 Surrey, Kent and Sussex Thorough Guides Surrey and Sussex - C.S. Ward, 1890 Abstract of Parish Records - Records and Ancient Monuments Committee, 1928 Surrey Past and Present - F.E. Manning, 1971 The Garden of England - Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman, 1995 Blacks Guide Books - Kent, 1920 Blacks Guide Books - Sussex, 1898 Blacks Guide Books - Sussex, 1923 Blacks Guide Books - Surrey, 1901 Pigots Directory of Surrey 1839 Lancashire Varleys Royton Annual 1923 Lancashire Wills Proved at Richmond 1748 to 1792, 1891 General Reference Historical Atlas of Britain, 1994 Daily Life in the Victorian Age, 1993 AA Book of British Villages, 1980 The Past All Around Us, 1979 The Story of Twenty Five Years 1910 - 1935, 1935 The Pageant of the Century, 1935 England Illustrated, 1920 Maps Isle of Wight, 2004 Isle of Wight, 1810 Old Kent Road, 1894 Magazines & Journals Isle of Wight Family History Society Journal- Feb 2004-May 2007 Sussex Family Historian Journal- Mar 200-Dec 2004 Kent Family History Society Journal- Mar 1990 - Dec 1999 Wight Life - December 1973 - January 1975 The Islander, Magazine for the Isle of Wight - May 1970-Apr 1974 Wight Report (Steam Railway Magazine) - 1974 - 1989 The Penny Magazine Monthly Supplement - July/August 1836 The Mirror October 13th 1832 Data CD’s The Hampshire 1841 Census The Hampshire 1861 Census The Surrey 1871 Census Return of Owners of Land 1873 - Hampshire