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Abinger & Coldharbour Parish news

Editor Advertising	Donna Burgess email:donna.pn@frolbury.wanadoo.co.uk
Abinger reporter Coldharbour reporter	Liz Hamiltion email: liz.hamilton@tiscali.co.uk Mary Collis
Distributor	Maureen Killick
The Abinger & Coldharbour Parish News is published monthly (July/August, December/January amalgamated. Printed copies are distributed locally and available here in PDF format. [You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available as a free download from www.adobe.com.]

Archive ¶

2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007	2008	2009
2003 January (with Dec 2002)	2004 July/August October September	2005 February	2006

Earlier copies may be available by email. Please apply here .

History of the Parish News ¶

Before 1983, there was the Parish News Sheet, an eight-page format containing very few advertisers, producing just enough to cover the printing and of a limited circulation to parishoners who collected it from the churches.

In 1983, the magazine was launched in a new format with many more advertisers. The initiative came from Gordon Kent who sold advertising space to local firms producing an income which almost covered the cost of printing. The circulation was expaned by a team of distributors throughout the two parishes who dropped copies of the magazine into every household in the two parishes. Gordon retained a copy of every issue which passed to Eric Burleton when he became editor in 1993. Eric increased the magazine by eight pages within his tenure which, with increased advertising, produces a surplus towards St James' funds. We now have Eric's bound copies from October 1983 onwards; it is hoped that this archive may go to the Surrey History centre, Woking.