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In 2021 Valence House commissioned Dr Nick Holder and Anna Mason to produce a historical narrative for Valence House, using existing knowledge and new research. The result was an extensive and comprehensive document detailing the history of Valence House and its estate from the 1250s through to the present day.For a small rural estate that was not of high status, Valence is exceptionally well-documented and it is very rare to find this degree and depth of evidence. The documentary record adds to the importance of Valence House, revealing so much about its ownership, occupation, layout and use from around 1250 to the present day - detailed records kept by the church and more recently by LBBD and its predecessors.The story of ownership and tenancy of the Valence Estate is complex, though present understanding leaves few gaps. Several former owners and tenants of the house and estate are of high historical significance, several with royal connections, including Agnes de Valence, after whom the manor is named.

HUDDERSFIELD DRILL HALL WAR MEMORIALS BOER WAR 1900-1902 & SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945The Boer War Memorial in Huddersfield Drill Hall consists of a framed Roll, undated and not recorded.The Second World War Memorial of the 5th Battalion (at the time titled 578 (Mob) HAA Regt RA (5 DWR) TA) was unveiled on 7th October, 1950, at St Pauls Street Drill Hall, by General Sir A F Philip Christison Bt GBE CB DSO MC, Colonel of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, in the presence of the Mayor of Huddersfield and Colonel G P Norton GBE DSI RD, Honorary Colonel of the Regiment.The 7th Battalion's Second World War Memorial was presented by Lt Col S R Hoyle MC and unveiled and dedicated on 2nd December, 1950, by the Colonel of the Regiment and the Rev Canon F Woods, Vicar of Huddersfield. As with the First World War Memorials in the Drill Hall, it was decided to conduct research on those men commemorated on these Memorials for this final book and, as with the Great War Memorials, it was discovered that some names had been omitted from the 7th Battalion Memorial which could or should have been commemorated. There were sixteen names and details of these men are included as an appendix in this book. The Huddersfield Drill Hall Trustees have again approved the commissioning of the addition of these names to appear alongside those of their comrades.It is hoped that the information that has been collected will help the families of the fallen to research their forebears.Lest We Forget.

MILNSBRIDGE DRILL HALL WAR MEMORIAL 1914-1921The Milnsbridge Drill Hall War Memorial was designed and sculpted by George Iredale in 1921. It was unveiled and dedicated on 3rd December, 1921. The memorial tablets were moved from Milnsbridge Drill Hall on its closure in the 1950s and moved to St Pauls Street Drill Hall. As with the 5th Battalion War memorial, already in the Drill Hall it was noted that very little was known about those who were commemorated on the seven stone tablets, even though their Army numbers were shown with their names and initials. However, this did not reduce the complexity of the research and many anomalies cropped up, not helped at all by the random way the names had been added to the tablets at the time it was produced.As with the 5th Battalion War Memorial, some names had been omitted which could or should have been commemorated alongside the 840 original names. There were twenty one names and details of these men are included as an appendix in this book. The Huddersfield Drill Hall Trustees have again approved the commissioning of the addition of these names to appear alongside those of their comrades. This work is to be unveiled and dedicated in December, 2021.It is hoped that the information that has been collected will help the families of the fallen to research their forebears.Lest We Forget.

In 1915 Walter James, a house painter from Shoreditch, enlisted with the 6th Battalion London Regiment (The City of London Rifles), known as the Cast Iron Sixth. He saw action at Loos, Vimy, the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele before being transferred to the 2nd Battalion 16th London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles) for service in Palestine. Invalided back to Blighty, he performed with a concert party of wounded soldiers. His vivid memoir recalls the sights and sounds of battle alongside the realities of day-to-day life and comradeship, laced with plenty of Cockney humour.

This publication is a scanned reproduction of the John G O'Leary's "Danger Over Dagenham" book originally published in 1947. Barking and Dagenham currently has two books of remembrance which list all those who died during World War Two, however little has been done to keep our official memorials up to date since 1945. We would like to rectify this by producing a third book with the names of all the men and women from Barking and Dagenham who have died on active service, serving their country, from World War Two onwards. ¿All money raised from this publication will go to this project. This book is described as "a bare record of fact, of work achieved under conditions never before experienced in the history of the world. It is the story of men and women of Dagenham who, midst all these new stresses and strains, carried on with the business of everyday life - everyday war life".

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and Portugal he negotiated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. He was also acclaimed for his poetry and his translations of Latin and European works such as the Lusiads by Luis de Camoes and Il Pastor Fido (the Faithful Shepherd) by Giovanni Battista Guarini. Sir Richard's wife, Lady Ann, is also famous in her own right for her vivid memoir of their adventures during the turbulent era of the Civil War. The Fanshawe family, originally from Derbyshire, gained wealth and status as holders of the office of the Remembrancer of the Exchequer. Their estates included Ware Park in Hertfordshire, Jenkins in Barking and Parsloes, Dagenham. They were staunch Royalists during the Civil War, and were connected by marriage to other notable families at Court and merchants of the City of London.This volume, published to mark the 350th anniversary of Sir Richard's death, is a facsimile reprint of the chapter on his life in H.C. Fanshawe's History of the Fanshawe Family (published 1927) which has long been out of print. It includes a new introduction and colour reproductions of some of the Fanshawe portraits and archives held at Valence House in Dagenham, including the portrait of Sir Richard by William Dobson.