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Sidcup & Foots Cray A History
John Mercer
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Description for Sidcup & Foots Cray A History
Paperback. The full-colour illustrated history of this south-east London suburb. The history of this Greater London area from a well-respected local author. Illustrated in full colour with over fifty images and maps. Num Pages: 96 pages, 21 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 165 x 9. Weight in Grams: 304.
Foots Cray dates back to the Domesday Book, taking its name from the Saxon landowner and the River Cray. From it Sidcup grew, from a tiny hamlet into a residential suburb of south-east London, ultimately dwarfing Foots Cray. Foots Cray lay on the London to Maidstone road, which joined London to Dover. By the eighteenth century there were several stately homes, convenient country estates for politicians with London town houses; nobles like Earl Sydney, Lord Castlereagh and Lord Bexley. Footprints of their estates remain as parks. The coming of the railway in 1865 led to the further growth of Sidcup, ... Read more
Foots Cray dates back to the Domesday Book, taking its name from the Saxon landowner and the River Cray. From it Sidcup grew, from a tiny hamlet into a residential suburb of south-east London, ultimately dwarfing Foots Cray. Foots Cray lay on the London to Maidstone road, which joined London to Dover. By the eighteenth century there were several stately homes, convenient country estates for politicians with London town houses; nobles like Earl Sydney, Lord Castlereagh and Lord Bexley. Footprints of their estates remain as parks. The coming of the railway in 1865 led to the further growth of Sidcup, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
A History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445611952
SKU
V9781445611952
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Ref
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About John Mercer
John Mercer served in the Royal Artillery as a signaler from 1942 until 1947. Later, he pursued a career in education, becoming a schoolteacher and then a college lecturer. Brought up in Bexleyheath, John Mercer has lived in Sidcup since 1957 and has written several books on local history and two on military memoirs. Before retiring he taught locally and ... Read more
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