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"Errata"
Please note the following corrections and additions to 'A Century of Normandy in Surrey', published 2000 by Normandy Historians.

Inside front cover:
Delete 'the late' before Captain Tony McSweeney.

p.5 Acknowledgements:
Replace "the late Charles and Irene Crooke" with "Charles and the late Irene Crooke".

p.9 Photo Credits: Replace "Aldershot and District Interest Group" with "Aldershot and District Bus Interest Group".

p.23, second paragraph, at end: Replace "reversible plough" with "anti-balance plough".

p.30, third paragraph, line 11: Replace "threshing drums" with "binder".

p.30, penultimate paragraph, line 5: Replace "In 1941 the Government commissioned a National Land Survey for farms over 5 acres." with "In 1940 the Government commissioned a National Land Survey for farms over 5 acres. A preliminary survey was performed in 1940-41, and the full survey took place in 1941-43."

p.31, paragraph 4, line 4: Replace "David Richards kept pigs" with "David (Jim) Richards kept pigs".

Plate 1, the Picture that started it all. In the caption, line 2, add after "bench in the foreground" - "with her sister Lilian, about 1916".

Plate 20, Staff at Wanborough Station. In the caption, line 2, replace "three of them are holding shunting poles" with "the man standing on the left is holding a shunting pole and the two on the right are each holding a flag, one probably red the other green".

Plate 24, Rolph's Store. In the caption, line 4, replace "his wife Kate" with "his wife Ruth".

Plate 32, Machinists making filters at Vokes. Replace "in the 1950s" with "in 1954". Also, add at the beginning of the caption: "Part of the sewing machine section of the Filter Element Manufacturing Department.".

Plate 35, Normandy Football Club 1925-26. At the right-hand end of the back row, replace "unknown" with "Benjamin Boyer".

Plate 36, Maypole Dancing. Add the following names to the caption: "The boy on the extreme left is Gerry Avenall. The boy front left with white shorts is Frank Chant. The boy front right of the Maypole with white shoes is Ray Tyrell.".

Plate 49, St Mark's Church Choir. In the caption, middle row, replace "Unknown" by "Jack Niblet?" and replace "Charles Cottrell" with "Ted Cottrell". Replace the Front Row completely with the following: "John Andrews, Ken Andrews (cousins), Bob Pooley, Charles Cottrell, Albert Sweet.".

Plate 56, Combined Normandy and Wood Street Home Guard.
In 'Front Row L-R' replace the first "unknown" with "Tom White" and replace the second "unknown" with "William John Woodcock".

Plate 60, 'Dickie' Durbridge. Please replace the entire caption with the following:
60. Albert Edward Durbridge (1884-1967).
He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and is remembered as being a colourful character, known to his family as Ted and to his work colleagues as Bill.
From about 1924 to 1927, the family had the Normandy village grocery, bakery and newsagency (now the Motorcycle shop) which was called The Crib then and was run by him and his wife Rosa Marie.
It was a huge family and he had 19 children; 7 by Rosa and 12 by his second wife Helen. There was at least one child in every class in the village school.
Subsequently they moved to Westwood Lane where he had bought a plot of land and built a new home called "The Rest" opposite the garage near the bottom of the hill. When the Normandy and Wanborough District Social Club at the top of the hill in Westwood Lane closed some time before 1954 he bought the building. It was a long, low corrugated iron shack nearly opposite Orchard Close and he used it as a store for building materials.

p.87, paragraph 3, fourth line. After "Kate" insert "(actually named Ruth)".

p.92, last paragraph, first line: Replace "former Working Men's club" with "Normandy and Wanborough District Social Club".

p.97, sixth paragraph: In line 11 replace "British Fuels" with "Western Fuels". In line 12, replace "Western Fuels" with "British Fuels (who had taken over Western Fuels)".

p.102. Paragraph 6 ends "We have not yet found out who had the numbers Normandy 1 and Normandy 2". Add: "Mary Dean (née Coussmaker) informs us that Normandy 1 was the Mills' at the Post Office and Normandy 2 was Westwood (subsequently 2101 and 2102).

p.123, paragraph 6: Replace "a military band" with "the Bisley Boys Band from the Gordon Boys Home".
p.123, paragraph 7, third line.
Replace "and his son Richard" with "and his son Roy".

p.124, paragraph 5. Before the last sentence (begins "In 1977 ..."), insert the following: "In 1975 Fiona Jackman received the Queen's Guide Award, the first in Normandy for 25 years".
In the next line, replace "Elaine Jackson and Susan Van 't Riet" with Elaine Jackman and Sonia Van 't Riet".
p.124, paragraph 6, first line:
Replace "in 1970" by "in about 1970".

p.127, paragraph 5, fourth line. Replace "are believed to have come from Aldershot Manor" with "were probably recovered from the demolished Boxgrove Priory near Chichester".

p.156, paragraph 5, fifth line. Replace "Eric Privitt" with "Eric Rivett".

p.168, in the list of Incumbents of St. Mark's Wyke, for 1937-1944 replace "Charles Jones Tapsfield" with "Charles James Tapsfield".

p.179, paragraph 3, 15th and 16th lines. Replace "lived two doors from The Duke of Normandy" with "lived at 4 Willey Green Cottages, next door to The Duke of Normandy".

In the Personal Index:

  • Add: "Dean, Mary ......... 102"
  • Replace "Jackson, Elaine" with "Jackman, Elaine".
  • Add: "Jackman, Fiona ........ 124"
  • Replace "Knight, Bill & Richard" with "Knight, Bill & Roy".
  • Replace "Privitt, Eric" with "Rivett, Eric".
  • Replace "Richards, David" with "Richards, David (Jim)".
  • Replace "Van 't Riet, Susan" with "Van 't Riet, Sonia".

Inside back cover:
And under the Normandy Parish Council photo, replace Tony Highams with Tony Higham.

Normandy Historians Editorial Team May 2004. (Version 7)


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