Michael Harrison's Home Page

Part one: Local History & Archaeology

A Bibliography of Abingdon's Local History

some 700 items and growing

A History of 3 Stert Street, Abingdon

the site, 1466 construction, Abbey ownership, to

the Crown, to the Borough and finally to private ownership

Finds from a hole in the ground at 3 Stert Street

some 400 items from Roman times to the 20th century

Abingdon's great flood of 1913

a tale of great damage to the heart of Abingdon, as reported in the North Berks Herald

  A Translation from the Medieval Latin From Part Of the Accounts of the Obedientiars of Abingdon Abbey, 1388-1450

From a transcription edited by R E G Kirk, 1892 and transcriptions of Arthur Preston's translations.

Part two: Genealogy

Michael Harrison's Family Tree

pushing back to Yorkshire roots

Thomas Sydney Harrison - a record of my great uncle's life

Part three: my cousin Peter John Bradford , son of Horatio John,  where are you?

Please contact me in Abingdon.

Part four: Goring by Sea: Local History

The Story of Walnut Tree Cottage

the demise of a medieval hall house

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