Books on Ham and Petersham

The Ferry from Ham to Twickenham  (Dysart v Hammerton 1909-1915)  

by T H R Cashmore

Reset and reprinted with new cover, 2017

16 pages

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The Ferry from Ham to Twickenham


Ham 2000 Books RLHS 22 feb 2015 036Ham and Petersham at 2000                            

Ham Amenities Group

General Editor: Leonard Chave

124 pages

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Ham and Petersham at 2000



Petersham: radar and operational research 1940-1946 

by J M Lee

50 pages, Second edition, published 2024.

ISBN 978-1-912314-04-1

Petersham was transformed during the Battle of Britain in September 1940, when Anti-Aircraft Command requisitioned the village hall and institute, the vicarage, All Saints Church and Elm Lodge, and then set up radar transmitters on the golf course.

Some of the most important experiments that led to discoveries that made British radar such an effective instrument of war were carried out in Petersham vicarage.

Michael Lee, an emeritus professor of the University of Bristol and a former editor of our journal, Richmond History, tells the story.

This second edition, edited by Robert Smith and Simon Fowler, includes a new, additional appendix by Timothy M M Baker on Petersham as a birthplace of radio astronomy.

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Petersham: Radar and operational research 1940-1946