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General Directories and Reference Works
Aubrey, John. The natural history and antiquities of the county of Surrey; introduced by J.L. Nevinson. Dorking: Kohler & Coombes, 1975 (facsimile I of 1718-19 edition). 5 vols. [942.21 AUB]
Kelly's directory of Surrey 1899, 1907, 1934. London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1899-1934 [914.221 KEL]
Manning, Owen. The history and antiquities of the county of Surrey, begun by Owen Manning and enlarged and continued to the year 1814 by William Bray. London: White, Cochrane & Co., 1814. [942.21 MAN Oversize]
Rocque's Map of Surrey. Published in facsimile by the Surrey Archaeological Society, Guildford, 1931. Preface by R L Atkinson. 12 x 2 inches to the mile maps. 1931. 12 maps + preface in cover. [A127]
Local Histories and Guides
Greenwood, G.B., comp. Woking and District: A Dictionary of Local History. Walton-on-Thames: Martin & Greenwood Publications, [19--]. [942.2142 Gre Pamphlet]
Wakeford, Iain. Bygone Woking. Chichester: Phillimore, 1983. [942.2142 Wak]
Wakeford, Iain. Woking As it Was. Chichester: Phillimore, 1985. [942.2142 Wak]
Postcards
A hedge of rhododendrons, Knaphill, Woking. 1910. [7710]
A view in grounds, St. Peter's Home, Woking. [4920]
Albion Hotel. [4904, 5159]
Albion Hotel & Old Bank. 1902. [4914]
Baptist Church. [4903]
Barracks. 1906 [5837]; 1913 [4991]; n.d. [5836]
Basingstoke Canal. 1906. [5844]
Best of luck from Woking. [6750]
Brewery Road, Horsell, Woking. [7367]
Broadway. 1906? [5799]
Bush Hill, Mayford, Woking. [4985]
Canal. 1904 [7575]; 1907 [7574]; n.d. [4999, 7595]
Canal Bank. 1929. [5846]
Canal from Wheatsheaf Bridge. 1912? [4912]
Canal Lock, St. John's, Woking. [5005]
Cartbridge. 1905. [7587]
Chapel & Dutch Garden, St. Peter's Memorial Home. 1910. [7583]
Chertsey Road. 1905 [5804]; 1909 [5850]; 1908 [7573]; 1910 [4866, 4933]; 1915 [4908]; n.d. [3833, 5835, 4906, 5801]
Chertsey Road & Bridge. 1907. [7577
Chobham Road. 1903 [4949]; 1929 [5840]; n.d. [7586]
Chobham Road, Horsell, near Woking. [4795]
Christ Church. 1907. [4932]
Church and River Wey, Old Woking. [4965]
Commercial Road. 1905 [7571]; n.d. [4934]
Constitution Hill. [4863]
Cottage Hospital & Wheatsheaf Bridge. [4104]
Crematorium. 1905. [3831, 4941, 4988]; 1906 [4859]; n.d. [5006, 5848]
Cross Roads, Woking Lane, nr. Woking. 1910. [5825]
Early risers on the Canal. [5839]
Empire Day, 1909. 1909. [4951]
Flood, Woking Village. [6751]
Garden. 1905. [7590]
Goldsworth Road, St. John's, Woking. [5002]
Golf House, Hook Heath, Woking. 1911 [5035]; n.d. [5034,5037]
Golf Links and Club House, St. John's, Woking. 1908 [5004]; n.d. [4990]
Golf Pavilion, Hook Heath, Woking. [5032]
Greetings from Woking. 1906 [7582]; 1919 [5841]
Guildford Road. 1907 [7584]; 1908 [4928]; 1919 [4936]; n.d. [4900, 4902, 4907, 4938, 4942, 5800]
Heathside. 1914 [5028]; n.d. [5029]
Heathside Park Road. 1908. [5031]
Heathside Road. [5030]
High Street, Old Woking. 1963. [4971]
High Street from Railway Station. [4945]
Hoe Bridge. 1906. [5828]
Hook Heath Farm. 1913. [5036]
Horsell village. 1907. [5027]; n.d. [4975]
Horsell Church. 1903 [4976]; 1906 [4797]; 1914? [4974]; n.d. [4977, 5026]
In the pines. 1910. [4106]
Inkerman Barracks. 1905 [5003]; 1906 [4989]; 1915 [4992, 5001]
Lady Chapel. S. Peter's Convent [5154]
Lancaster Ward, St. Peter's Home [7581]
Lover's Walk, White Rose Lane 1911. [5797]
Maybury. 1908. [4983]
Maybury Heath. 1904. [4979]
Maybury Heath Lane. 1905. [4981]
Mayford. [4986]
Monument Bridge (winter). 1909. [7594]
Mosque. 1905. [4980, 5153]; 1906 [4978, 5845]; 1907 [4987]; 1909 [4103]; 1912 [3835]; 1913 [5838]; n.d. [4946, 5150]
Mount Hermon Road. 1916. [4956]
Municipal Buildings. [4860]
Newark Abbey, nr. Woking. 1906 [7827, 7836]; 1908 [7828]
New bridge. 1927? [5843]
Norman door, Old Woking Church. [4970]
Old Bank. [3832]
Old House, Woking village. [4893]
Old Wey Bridge, Woking Village. [4861]
Old Woking. 1908. [4969]
Old Woking Church. 1907 [4968]; 1910. [4972]; 1911. [4961]
Old Woking Village. 1902 [4963]; 1903 [4962]; 1905 [4973]; 1907 [4959]; 1908 [4964]
On St. John's Hill. 1913. [4998]
On the Common near Woking. [4105, 5833]
On the heath. [4926]
Oriental Institute. 1903 [4911]; 1904 [7569]; 1906? [7572]; 1911 [4982]; n.d. [5802]
Oriental Institute and Mohammedan Mosque. [5847]
Oriental Lane. 1912. [7576]
Ottershaw Church, near Woking. 1907. [8257]
Parish Church. [7588]
Parish Church, Old Woking. 1917. [4865]; n.d. [4966]
Pine Woods, Woodham, Woking
Public Buildings. [4944]
Public Buildings and Wesleyan Church. [4935]
Public Hall & Wesleyan Church. [7591]
Public Hall, New Council Chambers, Constitution Club & New Wesleyan Church. 1909. [4897]
Recreation Ground. The Avenue. [4952]
Rhododendrons, Knaphill Nursery, Woking. The main drive. 1906. [7704]
River Wey. [5155]
River Wey & church. 1906. [4895]
Send, Barns Farm. 1905. [4037]
Send church, near Woking. 1906. [4041]
Send tannery & bridge. 1905? [4039]
Shopping in Woking. 1907. [3834]
Sourn Railway Servants' Orphanage. [4924]
Souvenir of Woking.
Souvenir of Woking. 1905 [4913]; n.d. [5803]
St. Austin's. [4954]
St. John's. 1914 [5000]; n.d. [4993, 4994, 4995, 4997]
St. John's Barracks. [4996]
St. John's Church. 1907. [4892, 5151]
St. John's Road. [4901]
St. Paul's, Maybury, Woking. 1914. [4984]
St. Peter's Church & Church Cottage. [6749]
St. Peter's Convalescent Home. 1904 [7579]; 1906 [7585]; 1907 [5826];
St. Peter's Memorial Home. 1906? [7580]; [4923, 4955]
St. Peter's Memorial Home Chapel. 1906. [7578]
Star Hill. 1905. [4915]
Station and bank. 1904. [7589]
Surrey Technical Institute. [4947]
" The Bleak House", Horsell, Woking. 1908. [7368]
The Pines, Woodham, Woking. 1906. [4896]; 1912. [4922, 4953]; n.d. [5009]
Triggs Lane. [4898]
Victoria Cottage Hospital. 1908. [4925]
View at Old Woking. [4862]
View at Old Woking from bridge. 1918. [4967]
View from bridge. [4931]
View on Canal. 1911. [4891]
View from Monument Bridge. 1912. [5832]
View at Hoe Place. [5156]
War Memorial. 1925? [4950]; n.d. [4927]
Water Splash, Hook Heath, Woking. [5033]
Wesleyan Church. 1905 [5830]; 1906 [5829]
Wheatsheaf Bridge. [4939]
Wheatsheaf Bridge and Chobham Road. 1912. [5827]
Wheatsheaf Bridge and Cottage Hospital. 1905. [4921]
Wheatsheaf Bridge & Victoria Hospital. 1904 [4910]; 1905 [5834]; 1906 [5152]
Wheatsheaf Hotel.
White Rose Lane. 1906 [4917]; 1907 [7592]; 1922 [4948]; n.d. [4864,4894,4905,4916]
Wisley Hut on Ripley Road, near Woking. 1910 [5019, 5021]
Woking. 1902 [4919]; 1909 [4929, 5842];
Woking football club. 1904. [4918]
Woking Village. 1904. [4960]; n.d. [4957]
Woodham, All Saints, Woking. 1913. [5008]
Woodham Church. 1904. [5012]
Woodham Lane. [5011]
Woodham Road, nr. Woking. 1906. [5007]
Woodmansferne Lane. 1967 [4107]; n.d. [4108]
Worsfield Gates, Send. 1905. [4038]
Wych Hill. 1926 [4930]; n.d. [4909, 5831]
Wych Hill Lane. [4899]
Y.M.C.A. Flag Day, May 20th, 1916. [5849]
York Rd. 1907 [5798]; 1921? [4943]; n.d. [4937, 4940]
Railway History
Anno decimo sexto & decimo septimo Vistoriae Reginae. An act for making a railway from Staines to Wokingham and Woking [8th July 1853]. 1853. [354]
Increased railway accomodation for Staines. A public meeting will be held at the Town Hall, Staines on February 12th, 1883 for the purpose of supporting the proposed "Staines, Chertsey & Woking Railway". Chairman: James Harris. 1883. Poster. [1230]
Staines, Chertsey & Woking Railway. A list of properties, owners, occupiers, etc in order of numbers on a plan (plan not included). [1007]
Sale Brochures
"Frog Lane Farm", Sutton, enclosures of meadow at Trigg's Lock, Woking, "The Old Vicarage", Woking, cottages, Worplesdon, allottments at Burgham & "The Wherry", Guildford which Ernest H Ellis will sell on 13th Oct. 1894. Solicitor: W J Perkins. 1894. Brochure. [1578]
Freehold property known as "Rose Ferns", Westfield, Woking which Hewett & Lee will sell on 6th September 1902. Solicitor: Gilbert H White. Particulars & conditions of sale. 1902. Brochure. [1601]
Freehold residence known as "Poundfield", Old Woking Village which will be sold by Leopold Farmer & Sons on 23rd April 1913. Solicitors: Harrison & Sons. Particulars & conditions of sale. 1913. Brochure. [1603]
Residential and agricultural properties "Bretlands" & Little Green Lane Farm, Chertsey, Papercourt Farm, Send & Ripley & pasture land, Old Woking which Henry Chapman & Co will sell on 4th December 1930. Solicitors: Dixons, Ward, Umney & Burdon. Particulars, plan & conditions of sale. 1930. Brochure. [1623]
Two acres of freehold building land at Westfield, Woking to be sold by Ernest H Ellis on 14th September 1895. Solicitors: White & White. Particulars & conditions of sale. 1895. Brochure. [1622]
Water Corn Mill, known as "Emmett's Mill" and Emmett's Lodge, Chobham also Grove House, Woking & Nos. 5 & 6 Denzil Road, Guildford which Ernest H Ellis will sell on March 14th, 1894. Solicitors: White & White. Particulars & conditions of sale. 1894. Brochure. [1562]