Bourne Society Awards
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William (Bill) Newman -1987
Publisher. Came to Caterham with his family from Oxfordshire after the end of the 1939 - 45 war when he brought a house in Weald Way
He put forward a suggestion that school children be given a booklet, containing local history information, as a souvenir of the Coronation in 1953
Jeoffry Spence was one of the contributors and in 1955 he asked Bill for help in planning for the celebrations for the Centenary of the opening of the Caterham Railway in 1956
From these meetings the idea of forming a local history society evolved, and the Society was launched in April 1965, and Bill Newman was elected the first Chairman
His publishing expertise combined with James Batley's enthusiasm to produce, from material then being accumulated, the first volume of Local History Records in 1961 in the same format as the souvenir booklet
He handed over the Chair in 1966, and became President, a post he held for 17 years
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