Bury, Church Of St John The Evangelist From The River Arun 1898
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The tour has to reach Bury by road, but until the 1950s you could get from Amberley to Bury by ferry. The wharf was restored in 1997 with concrete steps. In 1898 the house immediately to the right of the church was Bury Farm, with its farmyard of thatched buildings and a great tile-roofed barn. Today it is Dorset House School, radically transformed in around 1910 into a mansion, and its barn and the stables at the left converted to houses; the other farmbuildings have been demolished, and their site is occupied by school tennis courts.

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My grandfather used to go fishing at Bury, and introduced this lovely spot to my father. He would cycle down to bury from London as a young man, pre WW2. In the 1950's we would drive down and picnic by the river. Dad knew Bob Dudden. As a boy, I would swim in the river and we would always chat to Bob with his broad sussex dialect. My friend Richard and I rode down from Upper Norwood in 1959 and ...see more
On this picture you can see the steps used by the ferry man from the 1920s to the 1940s.  He used a pole to steer the punt from the Bury bank to the Amberley bank.  The punt was attached to a chain which stretched across the river lying on the bottom.  The fare in the late 1940s was a theepenny piece.  The ferry man was my 'Uncle' Bob Dudden, who took up the duties of ferryman when he left the Navy after the ...see more