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A01=Ken Pearce
Author_John Laffin
Author_Ken Pearce
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750946759
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 1996
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hillingdon Manor existed in Saxon times, and is described in the "Domesday Book" of 1086. It predates the market town of Uxbridge, which eventually became the major settlement. In the past it was a pleasant village in the peaceful countryside of west Middlesex, and an ideal place for wealthy Londoners to live in or retire to. For the past century, the village has become an outer suburb of London, and the sprawling borough of Hillingdon was named after it, recognising its antiquity and important position at the heart of the area. Despite all the changes some of the village atmosphere survives, and Ken Pearce's new book attempts to recapture that charm of bygone days.
Ken Pearce was a pupil at Bishopshalt School in Hillingdon Village, and later returned to teach there for thirty-two years. He is now the school archivist. Ken has been the chairman of Uxbridge Local History Society since 1970. In 1997 he was awarded an honorary master's degree by Brunel University for services to local history. This is Ken's fifth book for Sutton Publishing.
