Archives

Collections in the archives accessible to members

BOOKS 148 various titles

BOX FILES 64 boxes containing approximately 2000 items

BVHS Collections – BVHS 1 AMagazine of Memories WW2 Allington, Boscombe, Cholderton, Newton Tony.  BVHS 2 Benson’s Folly by Frank Blewett. BVHS 3 Idmiston Church …… All Saint’s. BVHS 4 Transcription of 1671 survey of Winterbourne Earls.  BVHS 5 A History of The Winterbournes by C H Bray. BVHS 6 A stroll to the Black Horse Hurdcott Compiled by Michael Harvey. BVHS 7 Thomas Becket “the Green Path and Spring” in the Winterbournes. BVHS 8 St Edwards Medieval Wall Paintings. BVHS 9 Kelly’s Directories. BVHS 10 Boundary Stones. BVHS 11 Dorothy Williams 1926 – 2019

BVHS Meetings, Speakers, Guided visits and AGM List 490 listings

BVHS PUBLICATIONS IN STOCK Some Famous Folk of the Bourne Valley, A Walk around the Winterbournes, A Popular History of Winterbourne Gunner, In Remembrance parts 1,2 & 3, Major Incidents in BV during WW2

CARD INDEX LIST BVHS 2017 ……95 items

CD COLLECTION ……44 items various topics

DIGITALISED MAPS ……110 items covering all the villages

DVDs Produced by John Farthing & Janet Humphreys held by BVHS …….60 items

GRACE STAFF’S book of cuttings from the journal & western gazette newspapers

PHOTOGRAPHS on computer. Each Village has its own photograph album totalling a further 1470 pictures.

PARISH MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTER 354 ITEMS Parish News 2000–2003, In Touch 2002, Idmiston Parish Newsletter 1977-2017,Church of England News 2006-2008, Bourne Valley Magazine 2007-2017, Anglican Church News 2004-2011, Winterbournes Village 1984-2017, SP4 Magazine 2010-2013

RECORD BOOKS 1 – 13 handwritten books from the beginning of the society

REGISTERS OF Births, Marriages & Deaths for Winterbourne Gunner, Earls & Dauntsey 22 books

REGISTER OF Marriages in Boscombe1695-1905 on computer193 entries, Marriages in Idmiston  1577-1812

SOUTH WILTSHIRE CORONER’S INQUESTS 1868-1920 33 named cases

THE THREE WINTERBOURNES 70 booklets 1948-1965

THE HISTORY OF WINTERBOURNE, 6 booklets mainly by C H Bray Last book by J S Judd

THE HISTORY OF WINTERBOURNE GUNNER by J S Judd

WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL & NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MAGAZINES (WAMS) Vol 1–115

WILTSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS 1 – 72 1939–2022