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Summer 2008

Newsletter Contents

Barking & District Historical Society
Newsletter
Dedicated to Norman Gunby 1914-2008 Vice-President
Summer 2008
44 pages

Contents
Author	Title	Pages
	Contents	1
Editor	Foreword	2
WHG	Alfred Norman Gunby	3
Norman Gunby	Ken Aston 1915-2001	4-5
Joan Harrison	Memories	6-8
Ian Dowling	The Origin of Barkingside	8
Leeanne Westwood	It's a Fishy Story!!!	9-10
Bill George	Charles James Dawson	11-20
C.J. Dawson	St. Margaret's Church	21-33
Bill George	Local Ginger Beer Jars	34-38
AGM	Minutes 14th May 2007	39-40
Officers	2008/2009	41
John Blake	Chairman's Report 2007/2008	42-43
Richard Chapman	Accounts 2007/2008	44
	Death of Viola Parr	44