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Chandler's Ford Story cover
Scenes from a Hampshire Childhood
Nancy Thring booklet cover
KBAON cover
GRIC cover
Romsey Yesterday and Today cover
THE CHANDLER’S FORD STORY  
by Barbara Hillier and Gerald Ponting, 2005                             ISBN 095174237X, 242 x 170 mm, paperback
176 pages, 200+ illustrations, £9.99
ROMSEY  YESTERDAY AND TODAY  
by Barbara Burbridge and Gerald Ponting, 1999
ISBN : 0 9517423 4 5, A5 landscape, paperback
96 pages, 84 photographs, £5.95
This book contains a collection of old photographs of Romsey, each matched with a specially taken modern view of the same scene.
The four booklets (above) were compiled in connection with my former slide presentations of the same titles.

NANCY THRING’S COUNTRY DIARY    A5, 52 pages, £3.50
- a complete transcription of a diary kept by a young lady in Oxford in 1923. Each day’s entry consists of a few lines of poetry selected to represent the changing seasons in the countryside. An introduction outlines my discovery of the diary and gives a brief biography of Nancy.

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES (Prehistoric Stone Circles)   A5, 56 pages, £3.50
Stonehenge is not alone! Over 1000 other stone circles are known . On a ‘circular tour’ of Great Britain, we learn some of the known archaeological facts as well as some of the many legends associated with these evocative remains.

A KINGCUP BY ANY OTHER NAME .....   A5, 36 pages, £3.00
The theme of this book is the origins of the names of the wild flowers of the English countryside - for example : how is the name ‘scabious’ related to scabies ? - why is Town Hall Clock so called ?  
TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF HAMPSHIRE    A5, 32 pages, £2.50
From the Iron Age to the Twentieth Century, historic sites in Hampshire are chosen which represent the period in some way. A Gazetteer gives information on location, opening hours, etc. of each site.  
SHAKESPEARE’S FANTASTIC GARLANDS 
by Gerald Ponting, 2008
ISBN  978-09517423-2-7
A6, 64 pages, 40 illustrations
£5.99 (+p&p)
Stories of the flowers mentioned in the plays.
Shakespeare's Fantastic Garlands
Millers Dale Publications -
titles in print
The Chandler's Ford Story
The 'Yesterday and Today' series
Nancy Thring's Country Diary
KINGCUPBOOK
KINGCUPBOOK
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SCENES FROM A
HAMPSHIRE CHILDHOOD  
by Gerald Ponting, 2004
ISBN 095174236, 212 x 151 mm, paperback
160 pages, 260 photographs, £6.95
Growing up in the Hampshire countryside in the 1940s and 1950s, fully illustrated