
History of Thursley Society Newsletters
The Society was formed in 1991 (see separate entry) and newsletters were issued at regular intervals until January 2009. They have now...
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Thursley History Society Newsletter
The first newsletter driven by articles from the website was delivered to subscribers on 1st September 2024. If you want to receive...
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Cartoons by Russell Brockbank, Art Editor of Punch
Brockbank lived in Badgers in The Lane from 1951 to 1978. See also the biography of Russell Partridge Brockbank by Peter Anderson...
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Surrey Villages: Thursley
An article from The County Magazine, February 1965 This unattributed cutting from our archive is dated 27th November 1987:
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Hankley Common and the Atlantic Wall in WW2
D-Day training sites were created in Britain in order to practice for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Northern France by allied...
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Jubilee Celebrations
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in March 2022 Part of the procession through the village...
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Coronation Celebrations
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in June 2023 I write this less than 48 hours after the...
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Community Spirit
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in October 2022 We will all truly be ensconced in Autumn...
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Thursley Village Hall in 1965
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in April 2022 With the Village Hall Committee in the...
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It's all in the name?
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in September 2021 Last month’s explanation about the...
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Operation Thursley Guess Who?
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in June 2022 Well, isn’t life strange? I’ve been writing...
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Parish Magazines from the early 20th Century
1902 January 1902 1907 1909 1908 1916
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Lettice Fisher
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in July 2022 Well, I hope you have all recovered from the...
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Thursley Common Fire in 1879 - Arson!
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in January 2023 Happy New Year from the Thursley History...
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Rev. Arthur Kenneth Mathews, OBE, DSC, Vicar of Thursley 1968-1976
We remember him as Vicar of Thursley from 1968 until his retirement in 1976. For Thursley they were eight splendid years.
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Pink Floyd, Milhanger and Bowlhead Green!
All in one article written by Jackie Rickenberg for the Parish Magazine in August 2023 Whilst rummaging through the archives the other...
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Mary Bennett (Mary Letitia Somerville Fisher, 1913-2005)
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in August 2022 This is the final story of the Fisher...
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Thursley in World War 2
This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in September 2020 The site of the V2 rocket explosion...
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