Nostalgic memories of Horne's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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This building is still there in Church Road, not far from where John Greenfield lived in the nineteenth century with his wife Mary and daughter Sarah and sons James & John. John Greenfield or Grinfield snr left a will in 1834 giving details of his family. By that time Sarah was married to John Clements of Croydon. His son John & Sarah Shepherd had at given ...see more
A 1834 will of Yeoman John Greenfield or Grinfield, who died in 1834 at Horne in surrey mentions his grandson John, who in 1834 was under 21. Could this be John Greenfield of Hayes Kent's son John, who would have been about 20 and without a father. His daughter Sarah born c1795 is also mentioned in the Will, and had married a John Clements. Their son Benjamin Clements later ...see more
My Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Amelia Creasey (nee Stone) was born in this little hamlet around 1788 yet somehow she was married in Southwark in 1813 to my Great-Great-Great-Grandad Edward Creasey who was a local man from East Grinstead. I am very interested in my family history and have been greatly helped by research published by the Felbridge & District History Group who discovered that my Creasey family farmed at Gibbshaven Farm. It is a beautiful part of the country.