Acknowledgements
Chapters 2 and 3 are an amended version of the chapter on ‘Nottinghamshire’ by Adrian Henstock, previously published in C.R.J. Currie and C.P. Lewis, eds., English County Histories: a Guide (1994).
Particular thanks for providing information, lending pictures, and helping with our research, are due to: Bernard Beilby, Geoff Mein, Freda Klingbeil, Sue Clayton and Geoffrey Oldfield. Janice Avery put the text in order, and the pictures were taken by Trevor Clayton, Geoffrey Oldfield and Neville Hoskins. The Thoroton Society wishes to acknowledge the generous assistance of Geoffrey Bond towards the cost of producing this publication.
John Beckett
January 1997
© The Thoroton Society, 1997
Front Cover: ‘The Members of the Thoroton Society, bearing the Books they have produced during the past year, perambulate annually.’ From the Thoroton number of The Wilford Sketch, 24 June 1900. The Sketch was a magazine produced by John T. Godfrey, the first honorary member of the Society. Reproduced by kind permission of the Nottingham Subscription Library, Bromley House, Nottingham.
ISBN 0 85358 063
Abbreviations
NAO -- Nottinghamshire Archives Office
NUMD -- Nottingham University Manuscripts Department
TTS -- Transactions of the Thoroton
Society