This is not a
history but a personal indulgence to write down nostalgic
recollections or what I think I still remember, or what I
think I was told that people did or said about the Hunt that
has been my main obsession for well over 70 years out of its
84 years of existence Its existences before, as the Old
Surrey and the Burstow Hunts, have more than adequately been
covered by Humphrey Taylor in his book The Old Surrey Fox
Hounds of 1900 and Uvedale Lambert in his Jorrocks Country
of 1961. It attempts to take a chronological view, which
frequently gets interrupted. But in setting this down, I
hope it gives some flavour of the century in which most of
us have lived, with change in all aspects and affairs
accelerating out of control as it has turned, what I recall
as a relatively wild hunt country, into virtual
suburbia.
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