1. Introduction

2. Identification of new Galactic SNRs in the AAO/UKST Hα Survey (SHS)
2.1 Examination of SHS blocked-down data
2.2 Examination of original Hα survey films
2.3 Checks against catalogues of existing nebulous objects
2.4 Comparison with extant radio data

3. Optical spectroscopic observations
3.1 Other detected SNR diagnostic emission lines
3.2 The new SNR Catalogue

4. Discussion
4.1 Morphological structure and Galactic distribution of the new remnants
4.2 Emission lines analysis
4.3 Estimation of SNR shock velocities
4.4 Remnant age
4.4 Eliminating contaminants

5. Conclusions