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My Dad, Sid Sargent also sold flowers at the Black Swan - he grew Dahlias and Golden Rod in our garden at Truggers in Handcross, bunched them up on Sunday afternoon and biked up to Pease Pottage to sell them ...Read more

A memory of Pease Pottage in 1953 by Penny Smith

My grandma Edith Emily Alice Patching was born in the Bridge Inn on February 2nd 1885. Her father, Richard Elias Patching was the landlord.  He died in 1889 aged 32.  Edith and her mother moved to Brighton.  They were related to the Elms family of Beeding.

A memory of Upper Beeding in 1880 by Alan Fry

My grandfather's family lived in Brighton/Hove near Seven Dials and attended Belgrave Road Congregational Church.  Their surname was WOOD and his forenames were WALTER EDWARD.  He had a brother PERCY and sisters ADA, POLLY ...Read more

A memory of Brighton by Frances Curwood (Nee Wood)

Actually, my memories of Brighton go back earlier than 1953 because I was born there in 1933. I do have a memory of being wheeled in my pram over a small area of ridged concrete outside the little shop at the end of our ...Read more

A memory of Brighton in 1953 by John Starley

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A memory of Brighton in 1880 by Jason Kevan

I did not live in Cuckfield, but in Brighton. However, I did often visit and stay with my cousin, Eric Hardacre who in those early years lived in London Lane. He introduced me to mushrooming and looking for birds nests and rabbit ...Read more

A memory of Cuckfield by John Starley

My father taught at what was then Purley County Grammar School for Boys, from about 1935 to 1948 (with a break for war service), when we emigrated to South Africa. Like another memorist, I remember the sweet shop ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1940 by Michael Coulson

Eating lunch today in Wetherspoon's in Brighton Marina, I noticed that a good deal of ecclesiastical woodwork had been incorporated into the structure. I was able to trace it back to this church via a ...Read more

A memory of Thetford in 2012

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside. Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds. We can also ...Read more

A memory of Horley

My brother and myself came to Tondu in about 1955 from Brighton, Sussex, when my father who worked there had to come home because his father was very ill (my father's name was Robert Leonard Thomas and his father's name was ...Read more

A memory of Tondu in 1955 by Glyn Thomas