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Moved to Barns Green in 1958
My family moved to Barns Green in 1958 purchasing Cootes Farm and then Bachelor's Farm shortly after (hardly large enough to be called farms, but that was their names). I was 15 at the time and had many friends and fond memories of growing up in and around Barns Green.
If anyone that can remember me would like to swap memories I would be happy to hear from them. I was a little young when we moved there to take a very active part in the local pub, but this soon changed! I spent many happy days there with the great crowd of people my age in and around the Horsham area. My brother Alan who was eight years older ...read more here
Contributed by Colin Plummer
West Sussex memories
Moved to Barns Green in 1958
My family moved to Barns Green in 1958 purchasing Cootes Farm and then Bachelor's Farm shortly after (hardly large enough to be called farms, but that was their names). I was 15 at the time and had many friends and fond memories of growing up in and around Barns Green.
If anyone that can remember me would like to swap memories I would be happy to hear from them. I was a little young when we moved there to take a very active part in the local pub, but this soon changed! I spent many happy days there with the great crowd of people my age in and around the Horsham area. My brother Alan who was eight years older ...read more here
A memory of Barns Green contributed by Colin Plummer
Slinfold in the War Years
I visited this site and was intrigued to find pictures of Slinfold. One of them, the village hall, recalled the time when I belonged to a village group called The Stane Street Players run by Mrs Knibbs. We performed plays there and at other village halls nearby. Not far away, on the other side of the road, was a sweet and tobacconist shop run by a Mr Pescod.. Further down on the same side was a butcher’s shop. The old school was on the other side. The village general stores and post office opposeite the pub were run by Miss C.C. Dawe. My Mother and I, together with an Aunt and Uncle, moved there in 1939 after war had ...read more here
A memory of Slinfold contributed by William Cooper
John Delves
This is Alan Edgar Fullwood's memory and the reference to Slinfold is right at the bottom of this narration:
Edgar Fullwood was my father. He was born in Birmingham England in what is to me the beginning of our history in 1875 on October 31st, and he was the grandson of Joseph and Ann whose birth and life times are unknown to me. His parents were know to me as a school boy; Henry, his father was born in Birmingham and moved to Wolverhampton soon after my father was born. Henry married Jane Badger, known to her family as Jenny.
Henry and Jame had 3 children Minna, Gertrude who died in infancy and Edgar. Like his father Henry was a silversmith ...read more here
A memory of Slinfold contributed by Anne Robertson
Extracts From Barns Green & West Sussex books
Initially a hamlet, the village of Barns Green dates from the Middle Ages, but grew rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries following the opening of the Mid-Sussex railway line. Parker’s shop opposite the green is one of two shops recorded in the village in the 1960s. In more recent years the village has been the annual venue for a very popular half-marathon road race.
An extract from from"Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories".
At the western apex of
Muster Green is the war
memorial, a 7.5 ton Cornish
granite slab, which was
unveiled in 1921 (the same
year as the church clock) -
both ceremonies were
performed by Lord
Leconsfield. The memorial
bears 167 names. It is
interesting to compare the
height of the hedge with the
one in photograph H252583. This site is always a focal point each 11 Novemeber, when the fallen of all conflicts are duly remembered.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".
The post office and
general stores are still at
the same site today at the
summit of the hill and
near the crossroads
(though the proprietors
have changed). Today the
road traffic is much busier,
so pedestrian-operated
traffic lights are now
installed here. The road
junction to the right leads
to the Common.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".
This photograph was taken from the platform of the railway station and
emphasises the station`s elevated position. The building on the left with the
decorative heraldic badge between the upper windows is the Burrell Arms pub.
Both the pub and the nearby shops were always useful to the increasing
number of people who used the transport links here. The single-storey building
standing on the right of the photograph is where the bus station was built in
1954. The traffic roundabout had only just been completed, hence the title of
this photograph. This view has changed very little during the past 50 years.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".
markings had been introduced. Most if not all of these cars would have been made in
Britain, and may have been purchased through one of the town`s car dealerships, Caffyns,
Wadham Stringer or Dinnages.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".