Search Results

Hello, my name is Elaine Pierson, it was Elaine Williams when I was at Warnham Court School. I was there for my special dietary needs. I can remember a boy called John Walls and he had a cousin there called Terry ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1973 by Elaine Pierson

My grand parents lived in Rusper for many years and their house was next to the butchers' shop on the same side of the road as the church. I can remember visiting my grandparents, as a school boy and my grandfather was a local builder ...Read more

A memory of Rusper in 1940 by Peter Foster

I started my first job as apprentice upholsterer for S Bonella & Sons, they started in Billingshurst, but moved to Swan Yard in Horsham and then to Denne Parade in the 1970s. I worked there for twelve years, and still was good ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1972 by John Francis

My sisters and I would catch the bus from Crawley to Horsham and send many happy hours in the open pool. Then we would go to the milk bar in the Carfax and get a yummy milk shake!

A memory of Horsham by Shirley Elmokadem

I left Corsham in 1960 but although I haven't lived there for many decades I still consider it my home. I was born in a prefab in Clutterbuck Road, all my school friends lived in prefabs, even the Library in what was Beech Ave. was ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1949 by Sheila Rowe

The second shop on the left was Jury Cramp's jewellers, now occupied by H Samuel. Mr Cramp was a well-known figure around Horsham and operated an alcohol-free hotel in Market Square. The giant spectacles just visible in the photo ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by M

An old coaching inn on the main road. The upper storey is hung with ornate tiles, and the building has a Horsham stone roof. Horses pulling stagecoaches needed to be changed every ten miles or so. This provided business for plenty of inns with stables, which were spaced along trunk roads.

A memory of Horley

I was born in a prefab at Boxfields in November 1943. I have a brother Dave who was 13 years old when I was born. My parents were Olive and Edgar Poole and they came to live at Boxfields from Epsom in Surrey after ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1943

Any one remember a Irene Steer 10 Dewberry St Poplar in the 1930s ? She used to come and stay in Horsham Sussex in the school hols before the war . I think her Dad was in the M.P F.

A memory of Hackney in 1930 by Jim Hayler

Was a patient at the hospital from Palm Sunday, 1968 for about six weeks. The picture you have in postcard form was the rose garden. I took several photographs in colour, while there, as we had access to the whole of the ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by hilary.m.brock