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school memories at st.Josephs
I went to school at st.Josephs Salesian school a mile outside Burwash from 1939-1946
I recall there were about 10 pubs in the village and I stayed one summer with the Davies family who lived just before the church in a smugglers house where we went to bed through a hole in the wall .I remember the Hollamby's,Miles'and the Woodalls who were day boys.we all had some exciting and sometimes harrowing times during the war.I have been writing my autobiography with pictures for my family and recall a great deal of the eight years spent at the school.I was a Londoner I went there when I was 5 and my job was feeding the chickens helping hand milk the cows ...read more here
Contributed by philip bovill
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school memories at st.Josephs
I went to school at st.Josephs Salesian school a mile outside Burwash from 1939-1946
I recall there were about 10 pubs in the village and I stayed one summer with the Davies family who lived just before the church in a smugglers house where we went to bed through a hole in the wall .I remember the Hollamby's,Miles'and the Woodalls who were day boys.we all had some exciting and sometimes harrowing times during the war.I have been writing my autobiography with pictures for my family and recall a great deal of the eight years spent at the school.I was a Londoner I went there when I was 5 and my job was feeding the chickens helping hand milk the cows ...read more here
A memory of Burwash contributed by philip bovill
Wonderful memories.
I had the pleasure of working in Ticehurst, for a couple of years, back in the seventies. They were wonderful days for me.
I shall never forget some of the village 'characters' such as Tom the Baker, Wally Palmer and Doctor Childs...wonder whatever happened to them?
Take care of this precious village...I for one just love it.
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by Sue Fischer
Taken from the spot I grew up:
It took me a while to recognise the angle of this photo as from almost exactly the position my parents house was built on! Where the road ahead divides, another road to the left was later added, leading to my father's fruit farm which I grew up working on.
The view in the photo is unhindered by the present housing developments of St Mary's Close and St Mary's Lane, as well as this year's (2007) new development on the old council yard. The piece of land in front of the camera is where Marlpit Gardens now stands.
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by Anne Lynch
Extracts From Burwash & East Sussex books
Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its
church, St Augustine’s, was built in 1873. Seacox is a French
chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family,
who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number
of cottages for estate staff. Sir Edward Goschen was British
Ambassador in Berlin in 1914 when the war began. Seacox
Park has a magnificent collection of trees and shrubs.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".
The railway originally
ended at Terminus Place
(which is hardly surprising),
and housing was laid out
along the old lane onto
the common: this became
Western Road, with Summer
Heath Road a turning off in
the distance of this view. All
the houses on the right, apart
from the one in the middle
distance with two hipped-
roofed bay windows, have
since been demolished. The
1960s library, together with
modern housing estates, have
replaced them. The survivor
is now a Citizens Advice
Bureau and a working men’s
club. The recreation ground
is on the left.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another
small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green. All four buildings in this
view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the
telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about 1900. Behind the
photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with
new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This interior view of the
church shows the 15th-
century nave arcades and
chancel arch; the ghost
of the original roof line
can be seen high above
the chancel arch. The
medieval roof survives, but
it was lifted in 1889 when
the Victorian clerestory
was added. The Victorian
improving biblical text
over the chancel arch has
been replaced by the more
familiar ‘Jesus said: I am the
way, the truth and the life’.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads
towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble. Above
are the round quatrefoil windows of the clerestory added in 1889, which must have made the
interior much lighter. On the left are the backs of buildings that front the High Street, while the yews
and hollies in this view survive today.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".