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RE: The History and Antiquities of Horsham

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:15:30 GMT

[quote][b]DotNetWebs (12/08/2007)[/b][hr]Great Job M!

Thanks for sharing that with us. That’s a very useful reference book to have on-line. It must have taken a while to scan and transcribe the whole book. :w00t:
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Four weeks of mis-spent lunch breaks. I scanned the book using a photocopier to pdf then transcribed it 'by hand', not using OCR. The images were scanned on a conventional scanner.

I will be adding links in and out to the rest of Hidden Horsham and providing some better indexing

RE: The History and Antiquities of Horsham

DotNetWebs — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:51:34 GMT

Great Job M!

Thanks for sharing that with us. That’s a very useful reference book to have on-line. It must have taken a while to scan and transcribe the whole book. :w00t:

The History and Antiquities of Horsham

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:56:53 GMT

In 1836, at the age of 16 Howard Dudley wrote, illustrated and printed his second book and the first history of Horsham. It contains.a wealth of text and many images that have contributed to the subsequent history writing of Horsham. It describes St Mary's church in detail along with many other buildings still in place. It also covers some of the local villages within a four mile radius.

The original book is very hard to come by and so in 1973 Cecil Cramp produced a copy of it, repeated by Dick Richardson in 2002.

Hidden Horsham has now reproduced the whole book online to enable a world wide audience to read and research it from their desktops.

The images have been scanned in at high resolution revealing a great amount of detail. The text has been reproduced verbatim complete with the 19th century idiosychroncies of spelling, punctuation, capitalisation and word break between images and pages.

Enjoy the book for yourselves by following the link below:

Howard Dudley: The History and Antiquities of Horsham