In Sussex, as in several other Counties, the churches work together to improve access to visitors - the reason is simple, the more welcoming they are the more...
I imagine that the scout who posed the original question now has plenty of material for his project! I would hope to hear that my own offering had been...
See SAC vol 81 'Roman Centuriation at Ripe' p31. which includes as very useful map of the field system around 1940 in that area. ...
Ric Newth
ricnewth@...
Mar 1, 2004 12:04 pm
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Hi having travelled over the railway bridge at Sidley I have often wondered about this line. thanks for interesting information. Do you have anything on Sidley...
I should like to sound caution about the centurian theory. When I look at the map of the Ripe-Chalvington area I see very few contours, and plenty of blue...
Caroline Wells
CarolineWells@...
Mar 1, 2004 1:58 pm
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Hi Caroline yes I agree with your remarks. I too have been looking at when the marshes were drained - in order to find how Polegate got its name, as it appears...
Have you asked east sussex county library? No doubt they can help....
Edgar Locke
edgarlocke@...
Mar 1, 2004 6:30 pm
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Thanks for the cue: most of our libraries have files of press cuttings, photos and other information relating to their own localities: in this case it will...
Alan Hibbs
alan.hibbs@...
Mar 2, 2004 1:24 pm
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I live in West Sussex and have little experience of East Sussex. WSCC Libraries published a guide a few years ago - I don't have a copy to hand - on how to ...
Edgar Locke
edgarlocke@...
Mar 2, 2004 3:31 pm
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The publication in question is the 4th in our series of Mini-Guides to Sources: Railways in West Sussex (authors, myself et al, pub. WSCC 1996). It is out of...
Caroline Adams
Caroline.adams@...
Mar 2, 2004 3:44 pm
3667
Hi thanks. Did you know that some railway publications that are out of print can be obtained from Andrew Neale, Plateway Press in Leeds. I have an address if...
My colleague who is busy revising the account of Goring for publication in the forthcoming VCH volume (on Littlehampton and district) has found an unexplained...
Chris.Lewis@...
Mar 4, 2004 10:21 am
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... Dear Chris, In my Halliwell dictionary (originally published in 1850, reprint 1989) Kere is - to recover; to cure (AngloSaxon). Jane -- e-mail:...
Hello, Moak I think I got the spelling wrong as it was passed by word of mouth. It is now what I originally thought it to mean: the mesh of a fishing net,...
Currently on sale on EBay (well hidden under old machines!) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3591694908&category=27324 Only one day left, I...
Hi Does anyone have any information on a railway accident that was reported in the Hastings and St Leonards Weekly Mail and Times, which took place 31 December...
My copy of the Railway Year Book for 1912, although it does include five accidents occurring in 1909, does not include the Polegate one. I imagine that was ...
At 00:48 11/03/04 -0000, you wrote: I have found the index to The Times on-line up to 1980, at http://www.edina.ac.uk/times-index/ For the Polegate railway...
We are undertaking some fieldwork on a field close to Barcombe Mills. The London-Lewes Roman Road is thought to cross the field but the precise alignment has...
Pam Combes
bandh@...
Mar 16, 2004 11:51 am
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I am interested in finding out more about the Silver Hill Barracks and the recruitment and discharge of men into the army in East Sussex during the Napoleonic...
Hi does anyone know anything about the railway bridge known as Poly Arch at Polegate? there were two railway bridges built - why is one known as Poly Arch and...
Hi someone once asked about Crossways, Hellingly, Sussex. Can they please contact me on this subject as I now have some information. Maureen maureen copping...
See Ann Hudson's Gazetteer of barracks in Sussex during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), unpublished typescript, 1986, in SAS Library and...
Pam, i am interested in the fieldwalk but can only make sunday 28th. Will that be ok. If so could you send me directions from the turn off at the traffic ...
pat jones
pat.jones69@...
Mar 18, 2004 11:15 pm
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Thanks for offer. Hope the weather is better by next weekend. The route is slightly complicated I'll work it out and send you instructions next week. Pam ... ...
Pam Combes
bandh@...
Mar 19, 2004 9:32 am
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Just to ensure that I have contacted everyone possible - In view of the prospective appalling weather conditions Greg has cancelled the work for this weekend...
Pam Combes
bandh@...
Mar 19, 2004 6:09 pm
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I now realise that some names do not stay in the group listing despite the fact that they appear to have been included. My apologies for duplicating this...
Pam Combes
bandh@...
Mar 24, 2004 1:06 pm
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It was reported that at Clapham West Sussex in the 1920s in the brick earth, enough gold was found to make a small tie pin,this was reported in Sussex notes...
rodney.gunner@...
Mar 29, 2004 11:14 am
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Where is Clapham, W Sussex? I grew up in W Sussex but am now in Canada and haven't heard of it. Tried an atlas too. Carol Williams ... From:...
beaveer.house@...
beaver.house@...
Mar 29, 2004 12:12 pm
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North West of Worthing alongside the road from Angmering to Long Furlong and Findon. Patching is next on the West There was formerly a large brick works, now a...
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