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A Commoning Heritage: The Mansbridges of Longdown

By Jo Ivey

A Commoning Heritage: the Mansbridges of Longdown tells the story of a commoning family from the time of the First World War to the present day. Written in the words of two of the family's members, it describes how life has changed for these guardians of the New Forest over nearly a century.

Jo Ivey is a researcher who has worked with the commoners of the New Forest for nearly 25 years. She has undertaken a series of censuses of the commoning population spanning 20 years of change, and written many reports on the economics of commoning and the challenges that the community faces. Being a commoner herself, she understands well a way of life sustained by mutual support within the community.

ISBN 978-0-9568990-0-2

£9.95

It is available in local bookshops and museums.

The New Forest Aviation School

at East Boldre, Beaulieu. 1919-1912

by Alan Brown

Especially written for the East Boldre Airfield Centenary Celebrations, the first print run sold out completely. The 70 A5 size pages start with the pioneers who, in 1910, opened the country’s second Flying School at East Boldre in the New Forest and it takes us through two world wars to the 1950s when the site of the old airfield was used as a parachute training ground.

Cost £10.00

Available exclusively from the Village Halls Website.

Twelve Airfields

Revised Edition

by Alan Brown

This is the story of the twelve wartime airfields built in the New Forest. Its 33 A4 size pages are packed with hand written and hand drawn information in Alan’s own inimitable style. Currently only one copy left. Awaiting reprinting.

Cost £10.00

Available exclusively from the Village Halls Website.

A Collection of Our Poetry

Written by the South Baddesley Women’s Institute

To purchase this book and for samples of the sixty original poems, go to the SBWI website.

Cost £5.00

Available exclusively from the SBWI website.

WILD AFRICA AND A JOB TO DO

Synopsis

It is 1962. Imagine leaving behind all that is familiar and comfortable on the farm, to travel to an uncharted posting in Tanganyika under the British Government’s Overseas Aid programme with three small children and all your worldly goods, whilst your friends and relations predict doom and disaster in the ‘Dark Continent’ expecting never to see you again.

This is the adventure that Brian and Jo Dawtrey and their family embarked upon, armed with his black rolled umbrella with a gold band “to fight off primitive savages, in true colonial style” and a brand new Hoover washing machine.

From the very moment they leave England’s shores, you are swept along by their enthusiasm and lust for all that may face them – from recalcitrant hippopotami, charging elephants and a life-saving leopard, to welcoming tribes folk and the glorious unspoilt African bush. Unfazed by minor setbacks such as the lack of electricity to drive the Hoover and the confrontations with unwelcoming snakes, the Dawtrey family revel in their new surroundings and the challenges of their new life under President Nyerere’s regime of new found Uhuru (freedom).

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