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Ashdown Forest photos
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Ashdown Forest maps
Historic maps of Ashdown Forest and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ashdown Forest maps
Historic map of Ashdown Forest
Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex
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Ashdown Forest books
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Sussex County Memories
Paperback
£15
Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
East Grinstead Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Ashdown Forest
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East Sussex memories
In 1949 I was a pupil at Wrens Warren Camp School near Colemans Hatch. The school was housed in long huts which I believe to have been used in the war. It was a school for children who had been ill and needed some form of convalescence whilst still able to attend lessons.
The headmaster was a Mr Punch,... [more]
Shared on 23 November 2008
Living at Forest House - just up the road from the post office. The school coach would drop us off at the bus stop, and on our way home we would stop in to what our family called "the little shop" to stash up on sweets. The shop was run by Barbara and Len Waghorn.
Shared on 25 November 2007
I have just read Juliet Baxter's memories about Woodstock. My mother bought Woodstock in 1946 for her mother to live in. She lived there and bred dogs until the 1960s. I have many happy memories of staying there as a child.
I have lots of photographs of Woodstock, including a postcard from, I think, the 1930s. I went to see... [more]
Shared on 15 September 2009
I was born in London in 1938. When war broke out the following year my father sent my mother and myself down to Devon but soon after that he, and many of his regimental colleagues in the Army, rented a large country house in Horney Common and put the mothers and children there for the duration of the war. It was... [more]
Shared on 22 August 2009
Extracts From Ashdown Forest & East Sussex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ashdown Forest, inspired by Frith photos.
East Grinstead Photographic Memories
It is now time to leave the town and what better way than by train? This station, the town's third, was opened in 1882 and included accommodation for the stationmaster, who in 1911 was William Langley.
This is an extract from East Grinstead Photographic Memories.
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East Grinstead Photographic Memories
opticians; International Stores, grocers; Freeman, Hardy & Willis, shoes; Kerry, ladies' fashions; and Lovibonds, wine merchants.
This is an extract from East Grinstead Photographic Memories.
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East Grinstead Photographic Memories
In this unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered in Middlesex in 1961.
This is an extract from East Grinstead Photographic Memories.
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