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Redhill Alan Moore
This third volume of ‘A History of
Redhill’ almost completes the story of the collection of shops, businesses and
houses that might be referred to as the ‘old’ town of Redhill, a Victorian
development known for a short while as Warwick Town, later becoming Red Hill,
chapters on various subjects as well as
the usual year by year accounts of times gone that fill over 260 pages in addition
to the 330-odd pages in the previous two volumes.
chapters are St Anne’s, the tannery, the
redevelopment. The ‘old’ town, a young
cinemas, the borough’s electricity supply
development by many standards, began
its journey in the 1840s. Volumes 1 and 2 told its story up to 1925. This volume carries that story forward to 1949,
completing just over a century of history. Many stories are related within these
pages. Two are told in separate chapters as the personal recollections of people
closely connected with the town in the 1930s and beyond. There are other
A History of
Redhill Volume Three
The town from 1926 to 1949
Subjects discussed in individual
and then simply Redhill, before the vast majority of it was swept away by major
A History of Redhill – Volume Three
A History of
telephone service, Graves’ Coaches, the
and, in the longest chapter, World War 2 as it affected Redhill and Reigate. Other
chapters chronicle the years 1926-1949. Accompanying the text are more than 350 illustrations, some not published
before, others not seen for many years.
As the final chapter ends the 1950s were about to dawn. Rationing was still in force and the transition from the old
town to the modern layout we see today would soon begin.
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