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East Sussex Record Office Report of the County Archivist April 2011 to March 2012 Introduction

The Keep is now a physical reality, growing by the day. Our contractors, Kier, started on site at the beginning of August and, thanks to their excellent programming combined with mild weather, continued on time and within budget. We held a turf-cutting ceremony on 7 October 2011, attended by representatives of all three major partners – East Sussex County Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Sussex – who between them wielded the ceremonial spade (photo by Jo Cripps).

By the end of the financial year, the roof-slabs were on, the brickwork was in progress, and the decorative concrete frieze, reflecting the history and landscape of the county, was fixed in position, though it has now been carefully covered up to prevent chipping, and is consequently hidden from view. If the work continues according to programme it will be completed by May 2013. We will then begin to move the archives from our own buildings, the University of Sussex and Brighton & Hove, with a likely opening date towards the end of 2013.

The building, though, is just the half of it. We have been working on this project for many years but the work has now stepped up several gears, and now both staff and volunteers are busy on many fronts. This includes working with our partners on a new logo for The Keep; the design of bespoke furniture, of the new website, online catalogue and strongroom management system; packaging and boxing up for the move; ensuring that our catalogue database includes everything it needs to; and last but not least, the barcoding of boxes. Barcoding is going to help us both with the move itself and, once we’re at The Keep, will help us to track the movements of documents around the building. And then there is the work on how the office itself will be run. The service will not merely amount to ESRO in a new building, but will be transformed into a fully integrated partnership, working not just to better but rather transcend what we currently provide.

1 In the midst of this welter of planning, we are of course maintaining a service, and one which we intend to be as normal as possible for as long as possible. However, we are now coming to the point where we may need to reduce staff activities in certain areas to allow them to concentrate on Keep-related work.

In these challenging financial times, we are also continuing to seek additional funding to support our activities. The work of the Outreach and Learning Officer is supported by grant funding, and we continue to rely upon and be grateful to grant-giving bodies, including our own Friends organisation, to ensure that we are able to purchase archives in order to keep them in the public domain. This year we also benefited from funding secured by The National Archives (TNA) to work with West Sussex Record Office to put the Manorial Documents Register for Sussex online (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/). A team of staff and volunteers, led by Christopher Whittick, began the work of editing the existing register, which is currently on paper slips, in the autumn and will continue next year. At the year’s end we were also awaiting the results of a joint application with the Archives Départmentales of Seine Maritime, based in Rouen, for European Interreg funding. If successful, the grant will pay for a cross- channel exhibition, digitisation programme and educational activities.

Meanwhile, there have also been further developments with the records management service. The decision was made this year to investigate combining with the libraries’ bibliographic services and schools library and museum service and moving, from sub-standard warehouses in Newhaven, to a large, newer and better warehouse in Hailsham. Although this would provide the staff and records with much better accommodation and, potentially, more help from the other services with whom they would be co-locating, some would have to travel much further to work. With some 40,000 boxes to shift this move too will be no mean feat, although the existing shelving will be re-used.

As part of a reorganisation of support services, the corporate Freedom of Information role moved from Archives and Records to a new joint services team, which supports access to information across the Council.

The service continued to host the East Sussex Museum Development Officer, who is paid for by the government’s Renaissance Funding. This post supports museums within the county, helping to identify additional financial support, but also benefits the Record Office by opening up new partnership and funding opportunities.

This is the first year in which we have monitored additions to our CALM database. In the course of twelve months, as a result of incredibly hard and devoted work by staff and volunteers alike, we have added 56,779 entries, including papers of the Register of Shipping and Seamen, Seaford UDC building plans and the first admission register of the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

The Record Office’s other activities and achievements, no less important than those already mentioned, are covered in the rest of this report. This will now be the last Annual Report for two years – the next, covering what will be a tumultuous yet defining time in the office’s history, will be published in 2014 from The Keep.

2 Archive Services

Public Services Searchroom attendance was down on last year, though this manifested itself inconsistently: some days the searchroom was full, on others much quieter. The reasons are not entirely clear, though as document production figures were still at a high level, visitors appear to be staying longer and looking at more material. Most visitors (54%) were tracing their family trees, although this was fewer than the previous year (56%). 30% were studying local and house history, 4% were educational and 3% business users. The number of hours of paid research was slightly down on the previous year, possibly the result of the recession, as was the number of copies sold, although it remained high.

The number of postal and email enquiries was slightly down, but ranged as ever across a wide variety of subjects. These included unexploded bombs around Newhaven port; a PhD on pier architecture; family history using manorial records; and the claims of a rector of Iden to have discovered proof that the Welsh Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd sailed to America around 1170. As evidence of our relevance to present-day concerns, we were also able to unearth a ‘long-lost’ bye-law for our colleagues in Trading Standards and to advise on the extent of the highway at Folkington for the Highways team. We were also able to assist a number of enquirers looking into their time in care in East Sussex and to help them fill gaps in their own personal histories.

With more material being made available digitally in the searchroom, the map viewer was both in demand and no longer just a map viewer, so we added two additional public access computers to the search room. Maps and photographs are accessible this way and we are now adding parish registers as well.

Public Service statistics

2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 Search room visitors 4,937 4,318 4,235 3,640 Documents consulted 27,502 29,176 31,422 25,017 Post/email enquiries 3,988 3,804 3,787 3,645 Telephone enquiries 6,589 5,277 6,149 4,620 Copies sold 5,729 6,496 8,091 7,150 Hours of paid research 241 177 229 191

3 Document Services Back in April 2011 the move to The Keep seemed a long way off; by March 2012 it was beginning to look very close indeed. Accessions have continued to appear at the same, rather alarming, rate – well over 300 for the section as a whole – and we have had to balance those demands with preparation for the move. Our holdings must be barcoded before the removal men arrive. This will improve control and indeed form the basis of the production-system at The Keep, but a huge amount of work is required to ensure that references are consistent and properly structured before it can begin.

The pending move of the record centre to Hailsham later in 2012 has had major implications for our section too: it is now essential to tackle the large number of local authority records for permanent preservation which have accumulated. They too must be processed for barcoding before the imminent move.

Christopher Whittick has concentrated on trouble-shooting anomalies and discrepancies in the catalogues of the records formerly held by the Sussex Archaeological Society, and solving queries resulting from John Farrant's thorough trawl through past accessions to identify problems and inconsistencies. Anna Manthorpe has begun to process archive material at the Record Centre; work so far has included fifty boxes of council and committee minutes, and some useful school records, dating from as early as 1911.

Anna also completed relisting and checking the fine pre-1835 archive of Hastings Corporation to make its arrangement compatible with our CALM database, a pre-barcoding requirement. Cataloguing these records revealed fascinating snippets of information such as a 1769 reference to pandles, a Sussex dialect word for a prawn, shrimp or similar crustacean (HAS DD/2B/2), and the Corporation order of 1781 against setting off fireworks, under pain of prosecution or being sent on board a man of war (HAS DD/2A/50). A rare surviving coroner's inquest recounts the death in 1771 of soldier Samuel Harrison, who died after falling (or perhaps being pushed) off a high pavement in the town during a quarrel (HAS CBK/4). Early 19th-century printed letters from the Secretary of State order the removal of local convicts to hulks lying off the Kent coast prior to transportation to Australia (HAS CBE).

Despite other demands on our time, we have undertaken a number of large-scale projects. Rother District Council Planning Department called us in when they needed to create space for new offices in the attics of Bexhill Town Hall. The pleasing result was the deposit of Rye Borough Council Building Control plans, 1947-1974; more dispiriting was the discovery that the main series of post-1947 Battle Rural District Council plans had been scanned and destroyed. We consoled ourselves with taking a sample of the series of minor building works, 1950-1974, which are often informative. We also fulfilled a 30-year ambition by acquiring the extensive card index to Bexhill Borough Council and Rother DC plans, covering the years from the 1890s to about 1990 (10910).

As part of Ditchling Museum’s collection review, the Trustees agreed to redefine its statement of purpose to tell the story and historical context of the artists and craftworkers who have lived and worked in the village and its surrounding communities since 1900. Following an audit, it was decided to deposit with ESRO records which fell outside that collecting remit, resulting in the acquisition of just under thirty large boxes. Highlights included the archive

4 of the Ditchling Horticultural Society, established in 1822, which included prize books for the Ditchling Gooseberry and Currant Show dating from 1832 (separate volumes for subscribers and cottagers reflect social niceties). Records of Dumbrell's School, formerly North End House School, which was established by the three daughters of James Dumbrell, a gentleman farmer, who tenanted North End Farm, date from around 1900. Meadowcroft, Lewes Road, Ditchling, was used as a Red Cross Hospital, 1914-1918; it was run by Miss Norton, the vicar's daughter, who was thought to be the youngest matron in the Red Cross. A Detachment Book for the hospital contains staff rolls and is, for this office, a rare survival of First World War records (11108). The new arrangement with the museum has already led to the deposit of records of the Ditchling Reel Club and Smugglers Snuff Club (11155), and we look forward to an archivally fruitful relationship with both the museum and the Ditchling community.

Our continuing involvement with the lottery-funded project Pestalozzi – 50 Years in East Sussex, was again delayed by extensive building works which prevented access to the records for some months. Progress has resumed, and it is planned that the records of the Village, which opened at Sedlescombe in 1960 and provided a home and education for refugees and disadvantaged children and young people from Europe, Asia and Africa, will be deposited later in 2012. We are most grateful to Pam Thomas, the Project Manager, for her determined perseverance and commitment under often difficult conditions, and good humour throughout.

We have continued to take many official records. The Lewes magistrates’ court closed in 2011 and although most of the records were transferred to Brighton where the court now sits, we were asked to take some earlier papers, which included maintenance orders, informations and licensing, 1932-1987 (10920). A useful set of patient index cards for Hellingly Hospital, 1903-1994 (10946), supplemented our holdings for the institution and go some way to make up for the patient case files, destroyed (despite having been marked for ESRO) in the 1980s. Eastbourne Borough Council deposited a set of aerial photographs, 1947 (10902). Out of the school records which have arrived here, special mention is due to Guestling Bradshaw CE Primary School. Our visit to the school was most productive; we took away early admission registers and other records, including some for Pett CE School, whose pupils transferred to Guestling Bradshaw after their school closed in 1956 (11117). We were made most welcome and given a tour of the school by two pupils, who really impressed us with their enthusiasm.

We have remained active in our pursuit of records which come up for sale, thanks to the Friends of the Record Office (FESRO), and grant-giving bodies such as the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the National Libraries. We bought a finely illustrated heraldic pedigree of the Wilson family, baronets, of Fletching and Eastbourne, by John Charles Brooke (Somerset) and Benjamin Pingo (York), 1786, from a period when such items are uncommon (11082). It must once have formed part of the archive of the Maryon-Wilson family of Searles in Fletching, for which we hold the Sussex element (SRL). Sadly Pingo, who was probably responsible for the delicate illustrations in the style of Robert Adam, died with his fellow herald Brooke and fourteen others in a crush at the Haymarket Theatre on 3 February 1794.

5 Always careful of spending FESRO’s hard-won cash, we rejected an attractive and informative panoramic lithograph of Eastbourne depicting the town in 1864 during its development as a fashionable resort by the Duke of Devonshire and the Davies-Gilbert family, which was offered to us by a dealer (as a unique item) for £750. Despite the fact that it crucially filled a gap between 1841, when the tithe map showed a town essentially unchanged for a century, and 1874, when the Ordnance Survey depicted extensive expansion, after much serious thought we had to conclude that the price was too high. We were amazed, delighted and quietly vindicated when another copy in identical condition came up months later at a local auction house, and were able to snap it up at a fraction of the price (11100).

We were equally wary of purchasing a map of Framfield by Thomas Marchant showing the estate of Richard Rideout in 1762, when it came up for auction. Although this would normally be an unmissable opportunity, the map, which was already in poor condition when we copied it in 1958, had in the intervening half-century faded in many areas to near invisibility without the assistance of ultra-violet light. When the map failed to sell, we were able to negotiate a sale by private treaty at a price which reflected its condition (10925).

We purchased an interesting photograph album illustrating the Hastings mayoralties of Ernest Marmaduke Ford and Arthur Blackman at a local auction for a very reasonable price. The 1930s were a time of much important municipal development in Hastings, and there are photographs of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha opening the new underground car parks at Hastings Pier and Grand Parade in 1935, Mayor Arthur Blackman attending the stone- laying ceremony of flats at Marine Court, 30 November 1936, and Borough Engineer Sydney Little explaining the new Hastings water supply scheme to municipal and county engineers

6 On your mokes... donkey-racing at the Dripping Pan, Lewes, 1950s (ACC 10977/3) in 1938. A group of photographs showing evacuees (opposite) are poignant. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many children were evacuated to Hastings, in common with other parts of the south coast, but there was a rapid reversal of this policy when it became clear that this might actually be putting them in the path of an invasion. It seems almost certain that the evacuees shown are some of the 3,000 Hastings schoolchildren sent to Herefordshire and Bedfordshire on 21 July 1940 (11084).

In 2001 we purchased an album of photographs by Ambrose Gorham showing the inhabitants of Telscombe in 1904, and we were delighted to acquire a further album at auction, thanks to a V & A purchase grant and FESRO. We also received a grant and encouraging support from the trustees of Gorham's Gift, a charity set up to administer Gorham's bequest to Brighton Corporation of his Telscombe property, with the proviso that the rural tranquillity of the village should be preserved. Contact with the trustees led to the deposit of a large number of Gorham's lantern slides, further enhancing this fine archive (11141). As well as portraits of locals, the album illustrates country life on the downland at the beginning of the last century. Racehorses are exercised, the Southdown Hunt is in action, and fields are ploughed. Gorham took great interest in livestock and most local varieties seem to have made it into the album: belligerent bulls, fat sows, ferrets, and hunting beagles, as well as horses, cows and sheep. Gorham was a supporter of the Sussex Coursing Club, and his own dogs appear (cover). The darker side of country life is there too: badger-baiting is depicted in rather painful detail, and there is even a printed 1910 list of badger-digging appointments on local farms. (11140).

Photographic negatives showing donkey-racing at the Dripping Pan, Lewes in the 1950s provided some light relief (10977). A watercolour of the Rev William Gwynne (c1774-1825), rector of Denton and Lewes St Michael, shows a stereotypical clerical gentleman (10942). He was, however, according to an account written by a distant relation by marriage, Gordon Hake, more interested in sport than the parish, and had a large, rather wild, family of five sons and two daughters, and lived in Denton. One wonders whether St Michael’s saw much of him.

7 Pashley deed of 1629, written and embellished by the characteristic hand of William Nash (ACC 11238) When going to Gorringes to view the Telscombe album, Christopher Whittick casually remarked to Anna Manthorpe that the pile of framed documents on the other side of the room were probably the archives from Pashley in Ticehurst, which he had last seen in 1986. Closer inspection confirmed that this was remarkably the case, and the stakes were raised by the fact that although the sale was billed for 21 March, the government Purchase Grant Fund had run out of money until the end of the financial year. The documents have enjoyed a chequered history. During the 1930s the owner placed them on deposit at Hove Library, from which they were withdrawn by his successor in the 1950s. Much to the dismay of the subsequent owners, when their predecessor moved away from Pashley he took the documents with him.

With the decisive break in the linkage between the documents and the house and its owners, we knew that this would be our last opportunity to salvage the archive before its exposure to the centrifuge of the market. To cut a long and tortuous story short, with the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries and our own FESRO, we were successful. Among the haul is a charter of free warren on all his demesne lands in Sussex and Kent, granted to Sir Edmund Pashley in 1317; it is the earliest and most spectacular element of the collection. During the 1450s, by a complicated process which may be clarified by these documents, the manor passed to the Boleyn family of Hever Castle in Kent. As well as a charter of feoffment of 1455, the collection includes court rolls compiled between 1455 and 1458. In 1540 the manor was sold to the May family of Combwell in Kent, in whose hands it descended until 1733. This period is marked by a number of manorial rentals, the most detailed dating from 1595. It was something of a shock, but at least evidence that the request had been taken seriously, to find with the documents a letter from the office encouraging their deposit, written by Christopher Whittick 26 years ago.

Another blast from the mid-80s came in December, when we noticed an early Robertsbridge charter in a Norfolk dealer’s catalogue. A couple of clicks in our CALM catalogue served to refresh our memory – we had last seen the document at Chichester in October 1985, when it was offered for sale at Stride’s auction. Other than reading the text into a tape-recorder, typing it up and listing the result as AMS 5941, nothing further was done – we have not always been great buyers. It is probably just as well that we were never aware of what the document made in 1985: 26 years later, the dealer’s price-tag was £1500. We thought long and hard, but again decided to pass by on the other side, nevertheless keeping up with the charter’s progress. It seemed that others shared our opinion of the price – two months later it was down to £1200.

8 The final stimulus was provided by a most generous offer from the Robertsbridge and District Archaeological Society to provide £100 towards the charter; that, with further hard bargaining and an anonymous donation of £250, allowed FESRO to buy it for less than half the original asking-price (AMS 5941).

Smaller purchases were often significant. A single letter, sent in 1839 from Sydney, Australia, by Anne Burgess to her mother-in-law Mrs Stephen Heselden of Burwash, is a harrowing depiction of emigration (11118). Anne describes the privations of life on board ship, and several deaths, including that of her baby; it is not until halfway through the second sheet that we discover that her husband, Mrs Heselden's son, has also died; we assume that Anne was trying to break the news gently. The letter provoked much local interest; it was reported in the press, and Christopher Whittick was interviewed on local radio. eBay has continued to be the source of a number of purchases. A conveyance of the Southover Brewery, 1898, records its transfer from the long-time owners, the Verrall family, to Page and Overtons Brewery, and contains a useful schedule of public houses and other property owned by the company (10980). Although there is no substantive archive, the Thomas family of Ratton in Willingdon are already represented among our holdings, and it was good to add to that number a letter from the Rev John A Russell, Archdeacon of Cloghee, County Monaghan, to Mrs Frances Thomas, asking for a contribution to the rebuilding of the parish church in 1838 (11099). Wynne Edwin Baxter (1844-1920), the first Mayor of Lewes in 1882, was the East Sussex coroner 1880-1887. He left Lewes on his appointment as coroner of East London and the Tower in 1887 and in that capacity conducted inquests on the victims of Jack the Ripper, and the deaths arising from the siege of Sydney Street in 1911. He seems to have been something of a bibliophile and possibly an admirer of John Milton, as demonstrated by his bookplate which incorporates Dryden’s commemorative verse in Milton’s memory (10979).

We purchased a fine rogues’ gallery of photographs of Lewes Prison inmates which had been salvaged by a former prison officer (11169). All human life is there, and it would be fascinating to know the stories behind the pictures. Some prisoners are in their own clothing and were probably photographed after arrest or trial; some of the women stare out defiantly from beneath the brims of elaborate hats. Others are in prison clothing emblazoned with stereotypical broad arrows. This selection dates from 1897 to 1913 and is, unfortunately, a very small proportion of what would have been a most valuable resource; rumour has it that most of the negatives were destroyed in the 1980s.

9 But purchases are in a definite minority – most documents still arrive at the record office by a process of generous gift, or by deposit on indefinite loan. Over three years ago we had been contacted by the owner of the papers of the Rev George Griffin Stonestreet (1782-1857) of Halton House in Hastings, but she lives in Cornwall and was not able to deliver them until this year. We were glad to know that they were coming but not unduly excited, having imagined a quantity of letters of mainly theological content. The records turned out to be both interesting and enigmatic. At the end of the Napoleonic wars Stonestreet had been chaplain to the Duke of York and to the forces, and the archive includes a register of baptisms and marriages performed by him in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris and Cambrai covering the period 1814 to 1818; it seems most unlikely that this valuable information is held elsewhere. It was not known how the large quantity of family letters and associated papers, dating from c1680, came to be in the possession of the donor’s late husband. Careful detective work using online genealogical sources provided a complex web of family connections to answer this. The presence of plans by the architect Augustus Pugin was also baffling. We decided that they must have been by Augustus Charles Pugin the elder (died 1832), and not his more famous son and namesake Augustus Charles Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), 'God's Architect'.

It seems almost certain that Stonestreet had Halton House, a country mansion in the gothic style, built in the 1820s. It is tantalising to speculate that Pugin provided the plans as examples of his style, and that he was the architect (10959).

10 We received a most generous donation of several strays from the Buxted Park archive which had migrated to Australia, and included a royal pardon issued to Francis Selwyn of Friston, 1625, and a rental of the manor of Hamsey, 1674 (11132). Occasionally records arrive anonymously, as was the case with diaries of members of the Huggins family of Buxted Lodge and Hadlow Grange, Hadlow Down, dating from 1874 (11174). Charles Lang Huggins (died 1933) was of particular local interest, in that he paid for the rebuilding of St Mark's, Hadlow Down, which was consecrated on 25 October 1913. He was formerly patron of the living of Withyham St John, Crowborough, and presented the patronage to the Guild of All Souls. He was a JP for many years, and provided a holiday home at Hadlow Down for women and children from St Matthew's parish, Westminster.

The name of the kind donor who delivered records relating the East Hoathly is also unknown. These must have escaped from the parish chest at some point, and included an 1830 plan of church marks, denoting liability for repairs to sections of the churchyard boundary, linked to particular properties in the parish. It was exciting enough to find a bundle of overseers' and churchwardens' vouchers, 1763-1765, but even more to discover that many were signed by the famous local diarist Thomas Turner in his capacity as a parish officer. Some relate to the settlement of paupers, for which the journal is a source of national importance (11128).

Matthias Slye (1782-1855), a Hailsham eccentric who was also the tenant of Mill Farm in Westham, also kept a diary, and this year we were presented with what is probably the only surviving volume, for 1807-1808 (11114). It gives information about farming practices, and his involvement in the local militia at a time when Britain faced invasion from France during the Napoleonic wars. Entries range from the tragic death of John Ranger of Westham, aged 7, who was burnt so badly at school that he died later the same day, to the visit of Butler's Company of Strolling Players, and the letting out of the water in Michelham Priory moat.

We received a further diary (1909) of Lilian Swanwick (1880-1942), wife of the painter Harold Swanwick (1866-1929), of Twytten House, Wilmington (10903), and an extensive series of diaries of Edward Avann (1903-1993), who spent much of his career in the BBC newsroom (11167). We are not interested only in records which are very old: the extensive archive of writer Oliver Stutchbury, of Gayles in Friston, who died in 2011, also came to us (10995). Family treasures included a large number of glass-plate negatives, and a hunting rifle which had killed a man-eating tiger (interesting, but not considered part of the archive).

A fine series of cartes-de-visite of the family of Bertram, the 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797- 1878) covers the period c1860-1880, which was the heyday of these small photographs mounted on cards (10900). They were for circulation to family members and acquaintances; perhaps the mid-19th century equivalent of posting photographs on Facebook.

We added to the already considerable archive of the Ashburnham family of Broomham in Guestling, a junior branch of the family. Many of the papers resulted from the marriage of Anchitel Piers Ashburnham, the 9th baronet, to Elizabeth Ellen Clement in 1895. Ellen was the surviving heir of her grandfather, George Clement, following his death and that of her father and sister all within a short period. The archive includes deeds for the development of the Silverhill estate in Hastings and property in Polegate owned by Clement, and family photograph albums (11006). The deposit provided a welcome stimulus to transfer the list of the existing archive, dating from the 15th century, into the office’s CALM database.

11 A further and most welcome deposit of the papers of William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary between 1924 and 1929, was received from his grandson Lord Brentford (10951). The first group, received in 2007, consisted entirely of political papers, but this year’s much larger consignment represents both the origins of the Joynsons in Manchester and the later life of the family in Sussex. An astute politician, Jix had a keen eye for publicity and the deposit contains some marvellous press photographs, including his opening of the 14th International Motor- cycle Show at Olympia in 1928. His interest in cars led him to become chairman of a motorists' pressure group in 1907, and four years later he presided over its merger with the Automobile Association, serving as chairman until 1922; one of his first actions was to assert the legality of the AA's patrols warning member-motorists of police speed traps, a position which as Home Secretary he presumably preferred not to remember. After retirement to Newick Park Lord Brentford developed an interest in agriculture, and as well as relaxed family life, there are charming photographs of the former Home Secretary communing with his piglets (above).

Some published photographs showing a large electrical transformer being slowly and laboriously transported along Cliffe High Street on a flat-bed lorry in around 1964 was a reminder of pre-bypass days when the only route was straight through Lewes. Following assistance from Viva Lewes, the editor of Classic Vintage and Commercials magazine put us in contact with the owner, who had found the original slides in a skip, and he generously donated them to the office (10932). Papers of Andrews and Bennett, solicitors of Burwash, were also salvaged by an interested bystander (11152). These included bastardy bonds (enforced agreements for the maintenance of illegitimate children), 1793-1823. Much of the firm's archive has already been deposited with us, and we were very glad to add these.

12 A number of deed bundles, essential sources for the house historian, came our way, many with picturesque names: Durud in Sedlescombe, [1740]-1961 (10950), Nappers in Mayfield, [1755] - 1872 (10960), Arly Haggots in Wadhurst, 1836-1964 (10968), Mousehall in Ticehurst, [c1650]-1902 (11195) and Fosters or Hobshare at Rushlake Green, Warbleton, [1678]-1840 (10982). The latter were accompanied by the assignment of a £3000 mortgage, raised in 1778 by the Rev Robert Hare almost certainly in connection with his renovations of Herstmonceux Place to plans by the architect Samuel Wyatt, undertaken in the same year (10983). His building campaign went hand-in-hand with the gutting of the interior of Herstmonceux Castle following the inheritance of the estate from his half-brother Francis Hare Naylor, and engendered both the opprobrium of his cousin Lord Dacre and the remarkable set of watercolours by the James Lamberts, so spectacularly purchased by the office in 2006.

The considerable archive of Ronald (Chalky) White of Eridge (1937-2009), policeman and local historian, was deposited this year (11091); much had been accumulated in the course of writing a book on Eridge. Amongst the letters was a reference to an Eridge Women’s Institute scrapbook which had been retained by a former member for local use after the institute was disbanded. It seemed very likely that the scrapbook had by now been lost, but by an amazing coincidence we were contacted the following week by her son, who was trying to find a home for it. This job never fails to surprise.

Down boy! Lively hounds at Eridge, c1955 (ACC 11091/5/3/19)

This report is a summary of what we have received in the past year. It has not been possible to mention everything, and a full list of accessions appears in an appendix. We are very grateful to all our donors and depositors and for the financial support which we have received from FESRO and grant-giving bodies, for our continued success.

13 Work in Brighton and Hove

My year has concentrated on preparations for the move to The Keep. The Brighton and Hove material that needs most attention lives in our outstores at Newhaven so I have spent, and will be spending, a lot of my time over there trying to get it all into shape.

The preparations for the move have produced a number of surprise finds: some more welcome than others. Last week, whilst scaling the heights of shelving at Newhaven, I found the skeletal remains of what must have been two pigeon squabs that had been abandoned in a makeshift nest close to the archive of the Hanningtons department store. It was a grisly spectacle but a very graphic reminder of the need for new, pest-proof premises. A more welcome discovery came in a box of previously unlisted deeds of Brighton Borough Council properties. Tucked in amongst the bundles was an anonymous buff folder, which on inspection proved to contain a map of William Roe's land at Withdean in Patcham dating from 1808 (BH/G/2/7000/1). Not only a wonderful discovery in its own right, this survey by William Figg completes the patchwork of estate maps for the areas immediately to the north and north-east of Brighton.

Unlisted papers of Brighton Borough Council also provided the answer to a question arising from an intriguing photograph album sent to us from Australia. It shows participants in the annual London to Brighton Walk organised by the Stock Exchange Walking Club (AMS 6961). The event was the creation of William Bramson, a keen walker and member of the Exchange, who persuaded a number of colleagues to see if they could cover the 53 miles from Westminster Bridge to Brighton seafront in a time of 12 hours and 30 minutes. The first race took place on 6 May 1903 but these photographs show the events held between 1928 and 1933. Some of the later photographs show a number of walkers dressed in black jerseys emblazoned with the swastika symbol (above). We assumed that these walkers were sympathetic to the Nazi party: the coincidence of black kit with white swastikas in the early 1930s seemed irresistible. Research into the history of the Club made no mention of the swastika or black shirts, but we were hardly surprised by such omissions. However, during Keep preparation work at Newhaven I came across a Brighton Town Clerk’s file labelled ‘Walking Races’ (ACC 8448/160). It contains a letter, dated June 1939, from the Surrey Walking Club bearing the club’s swastika insignia. Its name is derived from a Sanskrit word denoting any lucky or auspicious object, and the symbol was widely used in Europe long before its appropriation by the Nazis. But to see it being used for such an innocent purpose just three months before the outbreak of war was a surprise. I would imagine that by September, the club’s public relations department had devised a new logo.

14 Brighton Swimming Club deposited their archive with us in 2010 and more records came in this year, including the first minute book and some wonderful water-polo team photos from the 1890s (above). We also hosted an open day for the swimming club, allowing members past and present to view the archive, see old friends and, in one case, deposit yet more of its papers. Bob Charlton joined Brighton Swimming Club in the early 1950s and was a member of its sub-aqua fishing group known as the ‘Bottom Scratchers’. Today’s sea anglers would turn green with envy at the sight of the very large sea bass and plaice that Bob and his friends used to catch just off Brighton beach, as is vividly recorded in his papers (AMS 6983).

The killing of local fauna for any other reason than consumption seems grotesque to modern sensibilities, but the annual reports of the Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society (AMS 5810) record the dispatch of any number of rare species whose misfortune it was to be spotted by armed amateur naturalists. The reports not only give good descriptions of populations of local flora and fauna but also demonstrate that many of the society’s members had less parochial interests, ranging from fossil hunting in the Libyan desert, to the evolution of the horse. Many of these authors would have been involved with the establishment and development of Brighton Museum, where I have spent some time with colleagues assessing their archival holdings and considering what may be best held in future at The Keep. There are a number of instances where archives have been split between our two repositories and we aim to rationalise these anomalies in order to improve access.

15 In January, I spent the two weeks of stocktaking on the long-overdue task of sorting and listing the archive of Chailey Heritage. The Heritage is one of our most significant depositors and the work they do with children with complex disabilities is of international as well as local importance. In the past, large numbers of patient case-files have been deposited, but their random storage made individual files difficult to retrieve. The very personal nature of the material makes it subject to the Data Protection Act, so until they are a lot older, only former patients and the hospital itself will be able to access the records; but now the procedure should be relatively simple.

One of our volunteers, Nina Blount, has worked tirelessly on transcribing the very first admission register of the Royal Sussex County Hospital (HB 35/1). This volume covers the period 1828-1837 and is outside the scope of the Data Protection Act. The clerk’s handwriting was pretty abysmal and Nina did extraordinarily well to decipher what would have been illegible to many. The register gives a great deal of information about the men and women who passed through its doors including their names, parish of origin, their medical condition, and whether they left the hospital cured, relieved or dead. Most patients departed within one of these categories but a few more restless types discharged themselves. James Hallett, aged 50, from Portsmouth clearly did not enjoy his stay at the Royal Sussex and must have been a spirited man. He was admitted on 6 May 1829 with a dislocation and fracture of the leg, but is recorded as having ‘ran away’.

Volunteers also helped list the Brighton mayoralty scrapbooks which were purchased with the help of a private donor (AMS 6975). They cover the period 1932 to 1933 and record the tenure of the office by the wholesale stationer Frank Beal. One volume contains press cuttings of his appointments, the other the original press photographs often shown in the newspaper report. Beal’s year as mayor saw him open the undercliff path to Saltdean, work with his opposite number in Bristol to bring about the Brighton- Bristol Alliance (an attempt to improve trading relations between the two councils) and the inaugural run of the electric London to Brighton train service.

16 Aside from the mayoral scrapbooks and inappropriately clad walkers, we received another interesting accession dating from 1933. Whilst the Surrey walkers almost certainly wore the swastika emblem for wholly innocent reasons, a letter written by a teacher at Whittingehame College (originally situated in Hove before a move to Brighton in the 1930s) for Jewish boys (11120), displays the casual and unthinking anti-Semitism of his age that is startling to the modern reader.

Right: Mollie Owen, a rather sturdy sylph, takes to the stage (AMS 6987).

Left: Commemorative run for the 50th anniversary of the Undercliff Electric Railway: Mayor Frank Beal with Magnus Volk (second from right). A more appealing view of school life in Hove came in the photographs of Olive Joan Larking (AMS 6987) who was a student at Hoove Lea School. The photographs, which date mainly from the 1920s, show pupils dancing on the school’s lawn and also include photos of Joan’s involvement with a dance school run by her sister Mollie Owen. The photographs are wonderful and give a real sense of the fun had by the girls and women attending Mollie Owen’s classes. An album from another old girl, which we have held for a decade, contains a photograph of her friend Joan Larking on her wedding day. Joan’s son, the depositor, lives in Wiltshire, has never visited ESRO and had no idea that such an image existed.

17 Another educational establishment provided us with a significant 20th-century archive. The University of Brighton deposited the student record cards of its predecessor colleges, 1909-1989 (11011) providing us with a comprehensive index of students who attended the institutions – Brighton Technical College, Brighton College of Art, Brighton College of Education and Chelsea College of Physical Education at Eastbourne – which were gradually amalgamated to form Brighton Polytechnic, the university’s predecessor. The archive also contains course registers, which show how the institutions adapted their courses to the needs of the age, providing training in gun-fitting and German language in 1943, and computer technology in the early 1960s.

Show business featured quite heavily in this year’s crop of accessions: we received a postcard of Ellison’s Entertainers, 1919 (11186); photographs of Jack Sheppard’s Entertainers, 1919- 1920 (AMS 6988) and publications of the appreciation society dedicated to Jack Sheppard’s protégé, Max Miller (10975). With the help of FESRO we also purchased some wonderful menus and programmes of events for the Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, 1938-1939 (11088, above and back cover). Christmas 1938 at the Ocean sounds highly entertaining with, amongst many other delights, snookerette and miniature horse racing available to the guests.

18 Outreach and Learning

This year we have been advising and supporting a significant number of projects and bids from other organisations, as well as pushing our own projects forward.

Real People Real Voices This project in partnership with the Oyster Project (a community group run by people with disabilities) explored the Chailey Heritage Archive in the context of perceptions and attitudes to disability. In response to the photographs and other documents in the archive, participants worked with scriptwriter Sara Clifford to develop a radio play inspired by a photograph of WWI injured soldiers playing football with Chailey boys. Other Oyster members have worked with Alison Cotton on a large-scale collage (overleaf, credit Topfoto) illustrating aspects of the history of Chailey’s Tidemills Marine Hospital at Bishopstone.

In its last stage, Oyster members joined Heritage students to bring the archive to life. They recreated some of the activities that Chailey students undertook in the past, such as leather work, sewing and woodworking. In a cookery session, participants baked recipes from 1903, the year in which the Old Heritage first opened. The project was successfully completed with an exhibition and a celebration at the school attended by Oyster, Chailey students, teachers and families.

Black History Month 2011 In October 2011 ESRO invited African, Caribbean and Asian communities in Hastings to share their stories as part of Hastings Black History Month celebrations. We interviewed and recorded young people from Pestalozzi Village studying at Sussex Coast College. You can hear the interviews on http://www.youtube.com/user/EastSussexCC.

LGBT history We have started a partnership with East Sussex Library Service and Hastings and Rother Rainbow Alliance working on a project inviting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities to share their memories. As part of this we have been supporting and advising on Oral History interviewing and during LGBT History month in February, our Outreach and Learning Officer offered a session on Archives and how oral testimony contributes to understanding the past through the eyes of those who lived through it.

Other activities Staff also continued to provide a varied programme of talks and visits, both on-site and around the county, and we attended family and local history fairs in Hastings, Bexhill and Worthing. On 30 October, we held a very successful open day and exhibition at The Maltings, with a family history theme. There were tours behind the scenes and conservation demonstrations, and archivists were on hand to answer whatever questions were thrown at them. The three family history groups in Sussex, the library and registration services, FESRO and the Oyster Project, with whom we worked on our Paralympics project, also had stands and provided volunteers. We were busy from the moment we opened to the moment we closed, and we had over 240 people through the doors, some of them staying for several hours.

19 20 We are also keen to promote the service through the media. Progress on The Keep provided several opportunities for press coverage, and volunteer Lindsey Tydeman has produced press releases based on the archives which have successfully tickled the media’s fancy and resulted in newspaper, radio and television coverage.

The Record Office also received good coverage in a Sussex feature in BBC’sWho Do You Think You Are? magazine in October. And we began to dip our toes in the water of social media with Isilda’s blog on her work at Chailey, and with photographs of The Keep on Flikr.

Outreach and learning statistics

2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 Events and activities 49 87 71 76 Numbers attending 1,710 1,777 1,991 2,218

Conservation

The majority of this year has been spent continuing to package the archives for their move to The Keep. It is proving to be an enormous task and without the help of volunteers we would be unable to complete it in time.

This year has proved to be very challenging but also rewardingly varied, since I have had to divide my time between dealing with archives which need immediate remedial work as well as preparations for The Keep. The number of volunteers has risen greatly – currently we have nine, working two days a week. They vary in backgrounds from retired employees to practising conservators, and the challenge often comes from deploying their varying strengths in order to achieve the task in hand. They are all focused on specific areas of work and come together to discuss progress at the end of each day. All volunteers tell me that they are not only enjoying themselves but treat the boxing up as a good workout! We are always looking for more volunteers and would be willing to give basic training to anyone who is interested in the long-term preservation of Volunteers masked up and ready to go. our archives.

21 I have had to limit the remedial conservation work this year and concentrate my efforts on The Keep, with the result that only smaller jobs have been undertaken in the studio. During the last year I have managed to work on over 150 documents which have been unfit for production, varying between a single sheet and a 200-page book; this task provides a great deal of job satisfaction. I have also conserved over 200 other documents, many of them new accessions, which came into the studio on account of their fragile state. With luck and good handling, I should never need to see them again.

I have finally managed to clear the Young, Coles and Langdon archive from our roundels which had been converted into a quarantine area for that purpose. It has taken a few summers with willing volunteers but it is now in a state to be stored alongside our other archives. The mould treatment was considerable and, as we are currently using a chest freezer, the processing time was extensive – its cycle takes three months to eradicate the mould spores. This treatment also terminates any insect infestations, so it’s a double whammy for the pests.

I continue to receive commissions from individuals as well as organisations. Lancing College plays a large part in this work and I have so far conserved over 40 architectural drawings for their magnificent chapel, which are being used by both stonemasons and architects as an essential aid to ongoing restoration. The University of Sussex also continues to supply me with their rare books for conservation and I am currently helping them as much as possible with their preparations for the move with us to The Keep.

I have been able to participate in open days and tours throughout the year. They proved to be not only interesting and lively, but I also gained a couple of volunteers through my impassioned plea for help. I personally have been following a professional development plan, which has provided a great variety of training. I spent a lovely day at the British Library learning all about the conservation of historic photographs, and another at UCL practising Health and Safety for conservators, which has proved invaluable this year. A whole week was spent at a conference in the British Museum listening to pest problems from all around the world. We have it relatively easy in this country but it has been discovered that nationally there is an increase in the clothes moth. Most institutions have problems caused by this little pest, and many are spending a lot of time and money trying to eradicate it, but without success. I am happy to say we do have some pests but nothing on this scale. For the last eight years we have been setting traps and caught many things, but mostly outside intruders such as spiders. I keep a box of such delightful interlopers for the children to see when they come around to visit the archives, and they always prove a hit with them.

And finally I am looking forward to another challenging year as we move ever closer to The Keep and would encourage everyone to pass the word on that I always need more volunteers!

Universis – to all people: the opening word of the Robertsbridge charter (AMS 5941)

22 Records Management

Work on the close-down of the contract with Brighton and Hove City Council for the provision of modern records storage services continued into this year and by the end of May, all records had been transferred to the new provider. We are very grateful to all staff for their hard work: part-time staff worked extra hours and Rebecca Cox and Ellen Scaife appraised over 5000 items of time-expired BHCC records prior to the move. Their dedication has ensured that significant records relating to the activities of the Brighton and Hove authorities, important buildings and events have been secured for permanent preservation as archives. Ellen has since left the service and Rebecca continues to make great progress with the appraisal of ESCC records. Since the appointment of the appraisal archivists, 1192 boxes of ESCC records have been reviewed and much significant material preserved for posterity.

The expiry of the contract brought with it a need to examine the future of the service. We had considered a number of other options, including converting existing shelving to mobile racking, to enable us to surrender the leases on some of our warehouses, or to retain them for use by the library services. In December, the Council approved the co-location of the Records Management Service, Bibliographic Services, Mobile Library Services and Schools Library and Museum Service into one building at Hailsham, and subsequent work has concentrated on preparing for the resulting move. Staff from all the services involved have visited the partners’ premises to help them get to know one another and understand more about working practices, and a staff consultation was launched at the end of March to deal with any concerns resulting from the move. Because of the ending of the Brighton and Hove contract, in September a process of restructuring was launched, which sadly means a reduction in Record Clerk posts; implementation has been deferred until after the move to Hailsham.

The Record Centre has once again been busy helping schools and ESCC departments to prepare their records for transfer. The first phase of the Records Retention and Disposal Schedule was launched in February and work continues to refine this document. Despite all this activity, we continue to maintain our target of 24-hour turnaround in the retrieval of files, receive parties of colleagues interested in our service, and work-experience placements.

We have also embarked upon a major exercise to improve the accessibility of the contents of over 200 boxes of Social Services files which have been selected for permanent preservation as archives. This time-consuming, intricate but valuable task has been undertaken by Anne Evans, mostly in her own time on a voluntary basis, and our gratitude to her will be shared, albeit unknowingly, by anyone who uses these records in years to come.

Volunteers The Record Centre has had two volunteers this year, who have done invaluable work on the appraisal of architectural drawings. Both initially came to the centre on a day’s placement, but were so interested in our work that they came back for more.

23 Records Management statistics Figures for 2011/12 are affected by the ending of the contract for carrying out records management services for Brighton & Hove City Council.

2008/09 2009/10 20010/11 20011/12 1,856 1,629 1,278 838 Transfers received metres metres metres metres Transfers received: ESCC 865 m 888 m 906 m 716 m BHCC 920 m 734 m 310 m 0 m Others 71 m 76 m 62 m 122 m Destruction of time-expired material 1,156 m 811 m 714 m 335 m Files returned to departments 4,528 4,373 5,534 3,347

Medieval records management? This year we purchased a charter of 1290 from Robertsbridge Abbey (AMS 5941). Medieval monks had to manage their records just as much as we do today, and did so by writing seemingly arcane designs on the backs of their documents. This example is endorsed with what amounts to a medieval barcode – the charter probably lived in a chest marked with a large cross, in the fifth box – count the dots – within the chest, and formed the 16th deed in that box.

24 Staff and Volunteers

This year was the turn of Archives and Records to move to Single Status pay grades and the opportunity was also taken to carry out some restructuring of the service, particularly at the Record Centre following the end of the records management contract with Brighton & Hove City Council. This inevitably caused some uncertainty for staff but it is a tribute to them that the service did not suffer as a result.

There were a few staff changes during the year. The ending of the Brighton & Hove contract meant that we had to say goodbye to Gary Hook in July but were pleased to be able to fund the extension of the Appraisal archivists: Rebecca Cox for the whole year and Ellen Scaife until May.

Three members of staff retired this year. Jane Bartlett, Freedom of Information Officer, took early retirement in May. Jennifer Nash, who retired in November, joined the office part-time on 27 November 1990 as a Search Room assistant and became the full-time Search Room Supervisor in 1999. It was a well known fact that it was Jennifer who actually ran the Record Office! However, we were very pleased to welcome her successor, archivist Helen Richards, as Search Room Manager. David Calvert, our Technical and Reprographics Assistant, retired at the end of February after over 12 years in post. We are in the process of recruiting a replacement as I write. There was also a game of musical chairs at The Maltings as Andrew Lusted was seconded to the Manorial Documents Register project and his post backfilled by one of our Saturday Assistants, Monica Brealey.

We remain most grateful for the contribution made by our growing band of volunteers, all the more so as we tackle the preparatory work for our move to The Keep. They carry out tasks that would not otherwise be possible – listing and indexing and assisting with conservation and outreach work and running FESRO. In 2011/12 we had 54 volunteers who contributed over 3,000 hours to the Record Office. We offer our sincere thanks to every one of them.

Members of staff have also contributed significantly to professional matters nationally and the promotion of historical and archival concerns locally. Elizabeth Hughes, County Archivist, served as secretary of the Association of Chief Archivists in Local Government and, from March 2012 as Chairman, and as a trustee of Rye Museum. Christopher Whittick served as chairman of the Sussex Historic Churches Trust, on the editorial board of Sussex Archaeological Collections and the Bodiam Castle Management Committee, and as a trustee of the Westgate Chapel in Lewes. He taught palaeography and administrative history for the University of Sussex, at the Latin and palaeography summer school at Keele and on the UCL archives course. He is a Vice-President of the Sussex Archaeological Society, who published his account of the hospital of St Nicholas at Lewes in its journal SAC; he continues to give advice on medieval seal-matrices to the Finds Liaison Officer. His edition of the accounts and records of the manor of Mote in Iden (ESRO NOR), jointly edited with Dr Mark Gardiner of Queen’s University Belfast, was published by the Sussex Record Society this year, as was his entry for Richard Praty, bishop of Chichester, for ODNB. Philip Bye was on the council of the Sussex Record Society and the Research Committee of the Sussex Archaeological Society. He and Wendy Walker served on Screen Archive South East advisory group. Andrew Bennett served on the council of the Sussex Record Society and was a member of the Health Archives Group.

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Friends of the East Sussex Record Office

FESRO has had a successful and invigorating year, with a trio of most successful and informative outings, a new-look FESRONEWS, and a record number of purchases of documents – 81 costing £10,500 – for the Record Office.

Since this will be the last Annual Report for two years, it seems a good idea to describe the 2012 Annual General Meeting, although it took place on 13 April. Once again we were delighted that our President, Peter Field, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, was able to take the chair. Bill Shelford was elected vice-chairman and Annette Shelford, Sheena Parker and Colin Excell joined the committee. We were pleased to welcome as our guest speaker Fiona Courage, manager of Special Collections at the University of Sussex and as such curator of the Mass Observation Archive. Both Fiona and the collections will be joining us at The Keep, and it was particularly pleasing to be introduced to her work and to the contents of the world- famous archive, established by Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) in 1936 as an innovative form of sociological research.

Despite strong winds and periodic downpours, on 19 June 2011 we were joined by members of the West Sussex Archives Society on an outing to Swanborough Manor at Iford. Our guide was John Houghton, a noted historian of Lewes and the Ouse Valley. The manor was owned by the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras in Southover, and subsequently by the Caryll and Sackville families, and substantial elements survive from different phases of the building’s history. The last intervention took place during the 1930s under the direction of Walter Godfrey. Swanborough acted as a home farm for the Cluniacs, and was both a valuable source of income and a desirable residence – on the eve of the dissolution, the prior petitioned Thomas Cromwell for his brother to be allowed a lease of the manor.

FESRO’s July visit was to the secluded village of Westdean in the Cuckmere Valley, and our guide was Colin Brent. Westdean is a typical downland strip parish favoured with water meadows, arable fields and downland to support sheep-corn husbandry, and the tidal river and the sea to provide fish and salt. With the decline of the parish after the Black Death, and changes in agricultural practices requiring fewer peasants, the church and the priest’s house fell into disrepair, but were ‘rescued’ in the late 1800s by earnest Victorians. They added a west wing to the priest’s house, mercifully leaving the 13th-century east wing intact. The monuments bear witness to eminent inhabitants throughout the ages. As he addressed us magisterially from the pulpit, Colin reminded us that our primary purpose might be to pay homage at the splendid 1639 tomb of William Thomas, lord of the manor of Westdean. He was Clerk of the Peace for 25 years and his careful custody of the county’s documentation during his tenure must earn him the gratitude of any researcher into 17th-century Sussex. The woodland now surrounding the village was introduced only after 1924, when the Eastbourne Water Company purchased 2000 acres to protect the catchment area, and gave the management of the estate to the Forestry Commission; the landscape would previously have had a far more open aspect, which before the advent of planning legislation would have made it vulnerable to housing development. The only modern buildings in the settlement are the row of cottages built in the 1920s for forestry workers.

26 On 20 August the sun shone on our group as we gathered outside the gate of Great Dixter, the iconic house and garden in Northiam, as much the creation of the Lloyd family as its original builders the Etchinghams (above). Great Dixter was bought by Nathaniel Lloyd in 1910, and with the help of Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Lloyds set about renovating and redesigning the house and gardens. We glimpsed the inside of the extensions, as well as the interior of the more modest yeoman’s hall house from Benenden, rescued from destruction by Nathaniel Lloyd and used by the great architect to form the south façade of the house. Lutyens’ original plans and drawings, of which more than 70 survive, are of key importance in the archive. But the idyllic house and garden was very much Nathaniel and Daisy’s creation, a project continued by their famous son, the gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd.

Thanks to Katie Hobbs the curator and Hazel Gatford the archivist, we were especially privileged to be visiting parts of the buildings not usually open to the public. There we were also able to see a small portion of the fascinating and extensive Lloyd archive which is presently being conserved.

FESRO’s role as a financial mainstay to the Record Office in the acquisition of documents by purchase was never more clear than in this year, where for the first time the government Purchase Grant Fund, administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum, ran out of funds before the year-end. Many of the purchases have been dealt with elsewhere in this Report, but of particular significance this year were the Wilson pedigree of 1786, the Telscombe album and the Pashley archive. The acquisition of Pashley was particularly pleasing, representing as it does the successful accomplishment of a 25-year quest by the office.

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Enjoying Hastings mayoral duties, 1930s (AMS 6978/1/25)

28 Appendix 1 Record Office Staff, 2011/12

County Archivist: Elizabeth Hughes BA, FSA

Archive Services Senior Archivist, Document Services Christopher Whittick MA, FSA, FRHistS Senior Archivist, Public Services Philip Bye BA Brighton & Hove Archivist Andrew Bennett BA Archivist Anna Manthorpe BLib Outreach and Learning Officer Isilda Almeida-Harvey BA, MA Conservator (p/t) Melissa Williams MA Senior Searchroom Supervisor Jennifer Nash (to November 2011) Search Room Manager Helen Richards BA (from November 2011) Archive Assistants Izabella Bicsak-Snitter Andrew Lusted (p/t), Sarah Jackson (p/t); Monica Brealey (from December 2011); Andrew Boulton General/Technical Assistant David Calvert (to February 2012) Research Assistant (p/t) Andrew Lusted Saturday Assistants (p/t) Brian Phillips BA, Andrew Lusted, Monica Brealey BA LLB, Sarah Woollard Project Officer (p/t) John Farrant MA, FSA

Records Management

Senior Archivist, Records Management Ellen Taylor BA Supervisor, Modern Records Suzanne Mitchell Records Clerks (p/t) Georges Reynolds Anne Evans Deeds Clerk Alison Ford Records Clerk, Brighton & Hove Gary Hook (to July 2011) Appraisal Archivists (p/t) Rebecca Cox MA Ellen Scaife (to May 2011) Records Management Officer David Myers

Other

Programme Manager, The Keep Wendy Walker BA Freedom of Information Officer Jane Bartlett BA (to May 2011) Museum Development Officer Helen Derbyshire BA, MA

29 Appendix 2 East Sussex Accessions A list of the principal East Sussex accessions received between April 2011 and the end of March 2012. The accession number of the documents is given in brackets; not all deposits are yet listed in detail and may not be available for consultation.

County Council: • Chairman/Chief Executive, registered files on policy and planning, 1975-2000 (11181) • Children's Services, Training, directories of courses and publications, 1992-2002 (11194) • East Sussex Learning Partnership, minutes and associated papers, 2000-2004 (11192) • East Sussex Record Office, research notes of former County Archivist Richard Dell relating to shipping, 1960-1964 (11104) • Education, Personnel, files on staffing matters, 1976-2002 (11137) • ESCC and Brighton and Hove Social Services, files concerning the Maria Colwell case, c1970 (10921) • Governance and Community Services, sealing registers, 2004-2006 (10931) • Hastings and St Leonards Excellence Cluster, newsletters and accounts, 1999-2005 (11026) • Investment Sub-Committee and Pension Fund Investment Panel minutes, agendas and reports, 1988-2000, 2004-2009 (10897) • Learning and School Effectiveness, Integrated Services (East): Youth Development Service, 1999-2004 (11193) • Transport and Environment, mosaic of aerial photographs showing the proposed Hastings bypass, 1987 (10922) • Treasurer, registered files, 1974-1988 11180( )

Sussex Police Authority: • PC John Carrigan, scanned photographs, 1950s (11139)

Health Authorities and Hospitals: • Hellingly Hospital, patient index cards, 1903-1994 (10946)

Other Public Authorities: • East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, Public Protection Committe records; 1948-1997 (10996) • Lewes Magistrates Court, records concerning maintenance orders, informations and licensing, 1932-1987 (10920)

Borough and District Councils: • Eastbourne Borough Council, aerial survey photographs, 1947 (10902) • Hastings Borough Council, microfiche of building control indexes, 1948-1995 (10893) • Rother District Council Planning Department building control plans: Rye Borough Council, 1947- 1974; Battle RDC (minor works), 1950-1974 (10910) • Wealden District Council Finance Dept, records including valuation amendments for former Uckfield RDC and Hailsham RDC, 1955-1989 (10901); council minutes, 2005-2009, annual reports, 1975-1997, Uckfield RDC abstracts of accounts, 1936-1938, 1967-1969 10904( )

30 Parish and Town Councils: • Newick, records, 1997-2007 (10935) • Playden, records, 1939-2006 (11179) • Sedlescombe, records, 1924-2011, including James and Frank Dengate, builders, decorators and undertakers, 1924-1948 (11001) • Withyham, records including minutes, 1895-2010 (11107)

Ecclesiastical Parishes: • Alfriston, marriage register, 1996-2011 (11077) • Berwick, marriage register, 2002-2010 (11078) • Chailey, marriage registers, 2003-2010 (11060) • East Hoathly parish records, 1721-1993, including vouchers-to-account of Thomas Turner, 1763-1765 (11128) • Frant, marriage register, 2001-2011 (11149) • Hampden Park, marriage register, 2005-2011 (11079) • Hartfield, PCC minutes, 1993-2005 (11053) • Hastings All Saints, marriage register, 2000-2011 (11146) • Hollington St Leonard, marriage register, 2009-2011 (11068) • Hollington, marriage register, 2006-2008 (11087) • Isfield, additional records, 1997-2011 (11162) • Little Horsted, map of churchyard with details of graves, [1795]- 2011 (10945); records including PCC papers, 1983-2009 (11161) • Mark Cross, records, 1934-2004 (11003) • Stone Cross with North Langney, marriage register, 2009-2011 (11076) • Uckfield, records including Holy Cross CE School, 1976-2011 (11160); records including registers, 1989-2008 (11173) • Westfield, marriage register, 1993-2011 (11062) • Wivelsfield, marriage registers, 1997-2011 (11061)

Other Churches: • Jehovah's Witnesses: Kingdom Hall, Crowborough, marriage register, 1990-2010 (11172) • Methodist: Eastbourne, Greenfield Road Methodist Church, records, 1919-1968 (10907); Central Sussex United Area of the Methodist and United Reformed Church, including the sale of Blacknest and St Aidan's Churches, 1970-2002 (11025); Hailsham Methodist Church, records, c1920-1997 (10895) • Strict Baptist: Danehill Zion Chapel, [1815]-1957 (11071) • United Reformed: Herstmonceux Congregational Church, minutes of church meetings, 1955-1985 (10913)

Schools (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes): • Bexhill, The Beehive School, photocopy history and scanned photographs, 1961-1965 (11086) • Bexhill, Collegiate School, accounts for school fees for William and Mary Newell, 1903-1904 (10898) • Bexhill, The County Grammar School for Girls, school photograph, 1947 (10912) • Eastbourne, Hampden Park Infants' School, governors' minutes, 1975-2011 (11110) • Filsham Valley, records including governors' minutes, 2004-2010 (10956) • Guestling Bradshaw CE Primary School, records, 1868-1998, including admission registers; Pett CE School, records including admission register, 1907-1956 (11117) • Hastings, Blacklands Primary School, governors' minutes, 1995-2004 (10972)

31 • Hastings, Castledown Primary School, records, 1984-2006 (11014) • Hastings, St Mary's School, Baldslow, school photograph of the junior school, 1959 (11109) • Lewes, St Anne's Special School, records, 1997-2007 (11191) • Lewes, The Old Grammar School, sports prospectus and programmes for School Athletic Sports, 1930s (11134) • Rye Grammar School, magazines, 1952-1955, 1958 (10970) • Seaford, Cradle Hill, records, 1968-2007, including admission registers (11190) • Willingdon CE School, log book, 1914-1952 (11098)

Solicitors: • Andrews and Bennett, solicitors, Burwash, records, 1672 - c1900, including bastardy bonds, 1793-1823 (11152) • Malcolm Wilson and Cobby, solicitors, deeds including 9 Lawes Avenue, Newhaven, [1866]-1973 (10949) • Young, Coles and Langdon, solicitors, Hastings, ledgers and deeds (addnl), 19th-20th cent (11116)

Other business records: • Carter Jonas estate agents, Winchester, sale particulars, 1932-1986 (11103) • Clothkits, Lewes, catalogues, 1972-1986 (11080) • Eastbourne Waterworks Company, guarantee against fraud by its employees, 1899 (10894) • Heathfield and District Water, plans showing area of supply and distribution pipes, 1929 (11170) • Southern Railway (former London Brighton and South Coast Railway), staff statistics, 1931-1954 (10973) • Southover Brewery, conveyance, 1898 (10980)

Manorial: • Alciston, photocopy rentals, c1300-1335 (11168)

Estate and Family: • Ashburnham of Broomham in Guestling, deeds and photographs, 18th-20th century (11006) • Ashburnham, cartes-de-visite of the family of Bertram, the 4th Earl of Ashburnham, c1860-1872 (10900) • Ashburnham, Lady Catherine, letters to Rupert Gunnis (addnl), 1950 (10986) • Avann, Edward Charles Thomas (1903-1993), of Seaford (formerly Surrey), an employee of the BBC, and his wife Paddy, journals and diaries, 1927-2010 (11167) • Baxter, Wynne Edwin (1844-1920) of Lewes and London, bookplate, c1880 (10979) • Brandon, Dr Peter, sale particulars of properties in East Sussex, 1907-c2010 (11171) • Burgess, Anne, of Sydney, Australia, letter to Mrs Stephen Heselden, Burwash, 1839 (11118) • Buxted Park, records, 1538-1694, including pardon issued to Francis Selwyn of Friston, [1625]; rental of the manor of Hamsey, 1674 (11132) • Courthope of Whiligh in Ticehurst, probate inventory of George Courthope, 1715 (11069) • De Gruchy, Doris, of Eastbourne, papers including letters from servicemen during the Second World War, 1914-1959 (11012) • De La Warr of Buckhurst in Withyham, records (addnl), 2011 (11018); tradesman and labourers' accounts, corn accounts and household accounts, 1813-1890 (10939) • Frewen of Brickwall in Northiam, papers concerning research into the family, and restoration of the drawing-room ceiling at Brickwall, 20th-century (10984); settlement for land in Newenden, Kent, 1734 (11147)

32 • Gorham, Ambrose, of Telscombe, album of photographs of Telscombe and its inhabitants, 1890s-1916 (11140); lantern slides, c1904-1910 (11141) • Graham of Edmond Castle, Cumberland, copies of drawings from a sketchbook of a tour in Kent and Sussex compiled by Thomas Henry Graham (1793-1881) (11092) • Groombridge-Bayard, Frederic, papers concerning the Exhibition of Royal and Historic Treasures at 145 Piccadilly, for the benefit of Chailey Heritage, 1939 (10899) • Gunnis, Rupert, papers (addnl), 1881-1946 (10919) • Hare, the Rev Robert of Herstmonceux, deeds, 1785 (10983) • Haremare and Bugsell Estate in Etchingham and Salehurst, sale particulars,1859 (11023) • Huggins, Buxted Lodge, Hadlow Down, diaries, 1874-1945 (11174) • Innes, Norman, mayor of Lewes, papers, 1920s-c1950 (11090) • Jenner family of Lewes, publications and photographs, including Eastbourne Grammar School, 1865-1950s (10978) • Joynson-Hicks family, Viscounts Brentford, family and political papers, 18th-20th centuries (10951) • Kaye-Smith, Sheila, writer, three letters 1910-1929 (11125) • Markham of Ades in Chailey, account to the executors of William Markham for legal work concerning the Yorkshire estate, 1820 (10967) • Overy family of Canada, Sussex and Kent, CDs concerning family history, 2011 (11119) • Pashley and May families of Pashley in Ticehurst, manorial records and deeds, 1317-1859 (11238) • Poppell, Derek and Hilda, of Hadlow Down, and Joan Tutt of Brighton, photograph albums, 1929-1963 (10966) • Robertsbridge Abbey, certificate by the Abbot and Convent of Tréport in Normandy of the payment of £66 13s 4d, c1290 (11151) • Sheffield Park Estate, copy cover of letter from Sir William Gell to Lady Charlotte Lindsay, 1811 (11051); photocopy letters from Samuel Mellish of Doncaster, 1689-1697 (10918) • Slye, Matthias, of Hailsham, diary and associated papers, 1807-c1980 (11114) • Smith, AJ, Hastings, letter to his sister Mrs Collets, with printed details of proposed new chapel, Hastings [Hastings, St Clement, Halton], 1837 (10933) • Stevens of Willingdon (addnl), 20th century (10993) • Stonestreet, the Rev George Griffin, of Hastings, papers, 1688-1844, including baptisms and marriages celebrated at Antwerp, Brussels, Paris and Cambrai, 1814-1818 (10959) • Streatfeild, Richard Shuttleworth, of The Rocks, Uckfield, letter, 1846 (10929) • Stutchbury family, including Oliver Stutchbury, writer, of Gayles, Friston, 19th-20th centuries (10995) • Swanwick, Lilian, of Wilmington, diary, 1909 (10903) • Thomas of Ratton in Willingdon, letter from the Rev John A Russell, rector of Clontibret, Ireland, 1838 (11099) • Verrall, Charles and Sarah of Hailsham, later of Australia, published history and photocopy family letters, 1850-1990 (10936) • Vinall, Lancelot John (1891-1968), photographs of family and friends, 1860s-1967 (10906) • White, Ronald E (Chalky) White of Eridge, policeman and local historian, papers concerning Eridge, [1579]-2007 (11091) • Wilson family of Eastbourne, pedigree, [1250] - 1787 (11082)

33 Clubs, societies and associations: • Association of Bexhill Citizens, records, c1976-2007 (11005) • Creative Partnerships in Sussex and Surrey, records, 2000s (11008) • Ditchling Museum, records, [1279]-2010, including Ditchling Horticultural Society, 1829-2008 (11108) • Ditchling Reel Club and The Smugglers Snuff, minutes and papers, 1957-1991 (11155) • East Sussex Federation of Women's Institutes: Eridge WI scrapbook, 1953 (11121); Fairlight WI records, 1950-2009 and St Leonards-on-Sea WI records, 1984-2009 (11059); records including Dallington WI, Sedlescombe WI, and Mark Cross WI, 1926-2011 (10934); Ripe and Chalvington WI, minutes, 2001-2008 (11058); records, 1998-2010, including Rodmell and Southease WI, and Etchingham WI (11205); Lower Willingdon, minutes, 1965-1977 (11131) • Fairwarp Village Hall Committee, publicity material concerning local events, 2010-2011 (11144); records including minutes, 1947-2004 (10927) • Glynde and Beddingham Swimming Club, accounts, 1970-2006 (10953) • Guestling and District Nursing Association, records, c1950-2001 (11007) • Lewes Co-operative Society, records, 1930s (10964) • Lewes and District Probus Club, minutes, 1981-2003 (11063) • Lewes and District Teachers' Association, minutes, 1934-1985 (11066) • Lewes Little Theatre, programmes and photographs, 2010-2011 (11057) • Masonic: Wellington Lodge, Rye, minute book, 1990-2000 (10962) • Ticehurst Youth Centre Management Committee, minutes and papers of Wadhurst Youth Centre Trust, 1960s (10908) • Wadhurst History Society, publications, 2011 (11165) • Wealden Buildings Study Group, summaries and site visit notes, 2011 (11183)

Maps and plans: • Corporation of Trinity House, plans of the Royal Sovereign light tower, Eastbourne, 1966-1971 (11156) • Framfield, estate of Richard Rideout, by Thomas Marchant, 1762 (10925) • Kingston, part of Spring Barn Farm, 1937 (10976) • Streat Place, building plans for alterations, c1930 (10971)

Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and family): • Barcombe, The Old Cottage, formerly Clovelly, [1692]-2009 (10943) • Burwash, Hickman's Fields, conveyance, [1848]-1852 (10992) • Chailey, property including The Frick and Inholmes and Frickland; house in Eastbourne; [1835]-1911 (10928) • Chiddingly, Smithlands Farm, [1776]-1976 (11004) • Deeds and letters, 1767-1883, including a lease of blacksmith's shop at Clench Green, Northiam, 1767 (11083) • Eastbourne, house in Hartfield Square, 1887-1888 (11056) • Eastbourne, lease of Alpha Cottage, Longstone Road, 1878 (11196) • Hastings, 18 Linton Crescent, [1885]-1970 (10994) • Hastings, conveyance to Joseph Hannay, schoolmaster, 1805 (11178) • Hastings, mortgage of The Halton Tavern, London Road, 1913 (10974) • Hastings, sale of a windmill with its sails and furniture on Cuckoo Hill, St Michaels Cliff, Hastings, 1795 (11189) • Mayfield, Nappers, High Street, Mayfield, [1755]- 1887 (10960) • Mayfield, Mousehall at Tidebrook, [c1650]-1902 (11195)

34 • Northiam, Ryders and part of Riddlesdale, copyhold of the manor of Robertsbridge, 1848-1851 (10990) • Playden, The Lodge and Lodge Cottage, legal papers and correspondence, [1921]-1954 (10948) • Ringmer, Potters Field, transcript of abstract of title, [1889]-1953 (11002) • Rotherfield, property at Scarlett Green, 1623-1883 (10940) • Sedlescombe, Durud, The Street, [1740]-1961 (10950) • St Leonards, 23 Alexandra Street, 1877 (11136) • Wadhurst, Arly Haggotts and other property, including Buckhurst Farm, 1836-1964 (10968) • Warbleton, Fosters or Hobshare in Rushlake Green, [1678]-1840 (10982)

Other records: • Battle, history of the churches in Battle and research notes, 2011 (11102) • Beckley and Northiam, sale particulars for part of the Knelle Estate, and Oaks Farm, 1862-1873 (10911) • Bexhill, inventory of Broomlea, Clavering Walk, Cooden Beach, 1920 (11198) • Brede Place, two postcards, 1950s (10947) • Burwash, postcard of the Burwash Branch of the St Marylebone War Hospital Supply Depot, 1914-1918 (10998) • Copy photographs and papers, mainly relating to Lewes, Ringmer and Hailsham, [1892]-1995 (11143) • Eastbourne 1939 to 1945; a complete record of nearly six years of war in Eastbourne, edited by NW Hardy, 1940s (11130) • Eastbourne, lantern slides including wreck at Beachy Head, c1900 (11153) • Eastbourne, lithograph of a panorama by A Jinman, stationer, 1864 (11100) • Eastbourne, programmes and leaflets, 1968 (11067) • Envelope addressed to the County Librarian with a United Nations postmark, 1945 (11106) • Eridge, copy photographs of fancy dress competitions at Eridge village hall, Eridge WI, and Eridge School, c1948-1979 (11122) • Facsimile pamphlet describing the murder of William Moore by Robert Brinkhurst at Lewes in 1679, [1680] (11166) • Folk Songs Texts, typescript volume part 2, including material from Sussex, c1970 (11163) • Gwynne, the Rev William the younger, rector of Lewes St Michael, watercolour portrait, 1815 (10942) • Hartwell, Ted, autobiography, including reminiscences of admission to Chailey Hospital Marine Annexe at Tidemills, 2011 (11024) • Hastings, Ordnance Survey Revision Point booklets, 1951-1982 (11010) • Hastings, album concerning Mayoralty functions, 1924-1940 (11084) • Letters, 1825-1840, two letters, including Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Beauport, Hollington, (11017) • Lewes Bonfire programmes, 2011 11142( ) • Lewes Prison, glass negatives and prints showing prisoners, 1897-1907 (11169) • Lewes, copy photograph of Home Guard at Lewes race course, c1940 (11129) • Lewes, nature diary (supplement), 2007 (10941) • Lewes, photographic negatives showing donkey racing at the Dripping Pan, 1950s (10977) • Lewes, photographs of the interior of Stricklands' warehouse, Lewes, 1990s (10958) • Lewes, recollections A Lewes Lad's Life in the Thirties and Forties, c2011 (11072) • Lewes, two pencil drawings of Malling windmill by Gerald Ackerman (1870-1960), c1905 (10961) • Mayfield, copies of properties in the High Street by Eric Mansfield, and other papers, c1960-2008 (10905)

35 • Morris, Arthur, Lewes postmaster, photograph, 1890s (10991) • Newhaven, photographs, 1865-2001 (10916) • Pevensey, church guide and pamphlet, 1920s (11105) • Postcards and photographs, mainly of Newhaven and area, [1870]-1998 (10889) • Postcards including Groombridge, Sedlescombe, Crowborough, Rottingdean, Hollington, Rye, Winchelsea and Brighton, c1900-1913 (11009) • Programmes and brochure, including Rye and District Bonfire Society programme, 1948; brochure for Castle View caravan site, Pevensey, 1968 (10888) • Racing Illustrated articles concerning Lewes racing stables at Astley House and Winterbourne Stud Farm, 1896 (11015); stables of H Escott at Lewes, 1896 (11133) • Rotherfield, scrapbook of newscuttings, 1987-1989 (11000) • Rye, photographs and other items; 1841-1989 (11135) • Sale particulars: the Rotherfield Estate,1960; Dower House Farm in Waldron and Framfield, 1961 (10985) • Slides showing electrical transformers being transported in Lewes, Surrey and Kent, c1964 (10932) • Southlands workhouse and hospital, history, 1990 (11073) • Sussex Historic Landscape Characterisation, final report (digital version), 2003-2011 (10915) • The Southern Watering Places, by Dr Edwin Lee, 1856 (11164) • Wadhurst, Woodcote Farm, legal papers, [1836] - 1960 (10930) • Winchelsea, illustrated verses on the church by LPK, 1861 (11127)

Geoffrey and Thomas Boleyn grant their manor of Pashley to trustees, 1455 (ACC 11238)

36 Appendix 3 Brighton and Hove Accessions

A list of the principal Brighton and Hove accessions received between April 2011 and the end of March 2012. The accession number of the documents is given in brackets; not all deposits are yet listed in detail and may not be available for consultation.

Brighton and Hove City Council: • Audit reports and papers used in the course of a fraud investigation, 1997-2004 (11036) • Countryside managers' policy and subject files, 1987-2000 (11047) • Files concerning sport and leisure, and the seafront, 1933-2003 (11046) • Financial, area, traffic, and safety files, 1964-2003 (11042) • General filing, c1990 (11030) • General school files, 1994-2003 (11050) • Historic building grants, project, conservation information, ecology and conservation files, 1968-2003 (11044) • Immigration case files, 1992-1995 (11033) • Interreg project, planning enquiry and noise pollution files, 2003-2004 (11045) • Music Service files, childcare/schools/colleges, projects, 1981-1998 (11049) • NEOS Technology files from Paul Bevan; 1988-1994 (11028) • Outdoor and special event files; 2002 (11032) • Poison and firework licensing registrations, 1997-2004 (11031) • Policy and plan files, OFSTED LEA inspections, DMT management papers, 1996-2004 (11048) • Policy files and related correspondence, 1965-2000 (11040, 11041) • Project grant files, 1994-2003 (11029) • Property acquisition files, c1950-2003 (11037) • Property and design files,1938-2000 (11039) • Property files and seafront general files, 1931-1998 (11035) • Right to buy files; c1950-2003 (11038) • Owen Williams, BHCC project files, 1992-2002 (11043) • Roll of honour showing staff of Brighton Corporation killed during the Second World War, 1939-1945 (11075) • VCB project files, 1993-2006 (11034)

Other Public Authorities: • Fire Brigade in East Sussex, Brighton and Hove, papers, 1950s (11112)

Ecclesiastical Parishes: • Hove, All Saints, parish magazines, 1957-1958 (11124) • Bevendean, Holy Nativity, history and photographs, 1953-2012 (11184) • Coldean, St Magdalen, history and photographs, 1955-2011 (11148)

Other Churches: • Brighton and Hove Methodist Circuit, papers; 1952-2011 (10938) • Brighton Central Free Church magazines, 1983-1990 (11113) • Hove, Kingdom Hall, marriage register; 1990-1999 (11093) • United Reformed: William Allin Hounsom Memorial Congregational Sunday School, minute books and attendance registers, 1939-1957 (11013)

37 Schools and Education (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes): • Brighton, Fitzherbert Secondary School, governors' minutes, 1957-1988 (11185) • Hove, Whittingehame College, letter from a teacher, 1933 (11120) • Patcham County Infants School, records, 1939-1997 (10909) • University of Brighton, student record cards; c1920-1989 (11011)

Solicitors: • Attree and Cooper, solicitors, Brighton, letters, 1792-1861 (10963, 11016, 11027, 11074, 11081, 11089, 11111, 11123, 11150, 11159, 11204) • Curwens solicitors, Waltham Abbey, Essex, deeds of property in Portslade and papers relating to the disputed will of a Hove resident; 1889-1929 (10954)

Charities: • Brighton and Hove Almshouses Charity and predecessor bodies, papers, 1833-1998 (10989)

Other business records: • Brighton Palace Pier Theatre, programme, 1920 (11201) • Findlater, Mackie and Co Ltd, wine merchants, Rottingdean, price list, 1937 (10981) • Invoice issued by D Mutton, cook and confectioner, Kings Road, Brighton for supply of real turtle soup, 1891 (10999) • Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, menu and scans of similar items, 1938-39 (11088) • Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton, menus, 1953 (10955)

Estate and Family: • Borrer family of Portslade, copies of an album, and a pedigree of the Cooper family of Icklesham, 1831-1870s (11115) • Camfield of Brighton, formerly of Groombridge Place in Speldhurst, Kent, marriage settlement of Matilda Susanna Camfield and William Henty, 1834 (10987) • Charlton, Robert, of Brighton Swimming Club, papers, c1951-2010 (11065) • Furner, Frederic, of Brighton, certificate entitling him to act as King's Bench attorney, 1830 (11199) • Hangleton Waterworks, album compiled by Tom Puttock, manager, c1910-c1995 (11021) • Jones, Charles, of Brighton, seaman, certificates of discharge, 1886-1894 (11154) • Larking (née Owen), Olive Joan, Hove, photographs, c1930-c1955 (11158) • Miller, Reginald Horace Ethelbert, of Brighton Municipal Secondary School for Boys, school reports and certificates, 1921-1929 (10917) • Nye, Alice Isabel, of Prospect House, 39 Freshfield Road, Brighton, autograph books, c1910-c1930 (11176) • Reeves, Ross, of Brighton, diaries, c2000-c2010 (10944)

Clubs, societies and associations: • Brighton Equitable Co-Operative Society laundry, Portland Road, Hove, souvenir programme, 1934 (11202) • Brighton Police Museum, photographs and papers; c1930-c1970 (11126) • Brighton Swimming Club, records (addnl), 1860-1936 (11064) • Brighton Tigers programme, 23 May 1965 (11175) • British Mazdaznan Association, photograph of members, 1938 (11188) • Ellison's Entertainers, Brighton, photograph, 1919 (11186) • Masonic: Duke of Richmond Lodge (No 3143), minutes, 1939-2009 (10924)

38 • Max Miller Appreciation Society publications, 1999-2011 (10975) • Natural History Society of Brighton and Sussex, 1855-1916 (11055) • Round Hill Reporter newsletters, 2000-2010 (11138) • West Pier Trust, records (addnl), 20th century (11094)

Maps and plans: • Brighton and Hove, street plans, c1955-1960 (10890)

Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and Family): • Brighton, land in Church Furlong, North Laine, and Hove Street, Hove, 1820-1903 (11187) • Brighton, Hanover Terrace, enfranchisement of the site, 1823 (10969) • Brighton, land in Hilly Laine, 1805-1807 (11182); land in North Laine and Hilly Laine, 1803-1837 (11022); 1817-1823 (11203) • Brighton, 44 Ladysmith Road, 1925-1973 (11157) • Brighton, 5 Powis Road, 1901 (11052) • Brighton, various properties, [1742]-1960 (11177) • Brighton and Hove, various properties, c1850-c1950 (11054) • Hove, 18 Eaton Road, [1794]-1961 (10926) • Hove, 12 Osborne Villas, 1852-1883 (11096) • Patcham, 1672-c1956 (11020) • Woodingdean, 21 Chalkland Rise, [1921]-1991 (11197)

Other records: • Brighton Improvement Act, 1825 (10952) • Brighton and Lewes Speed Trial programmes; 1930s (10892) • Brighton Dome programme, Southern Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948 (11070) • Brighton mayoralty scrapbooks, 1932-1937 (10965) • Brighton, sale particulars of properties, 1872-1945 (10957) • General Gas Light and Coke Company, Bond Street, Brighton, letter from John Brettell of Northampton regarding the transfer of shares, 1832 (11019) • Home Protection Volunteer Brigade, Brighton, scanned photograph, c1914 (11145) • Hotel Metropole, Brighton, menu for the Easter Saturday Gala Dinner at the Café Anglais, 1935 (11200) • Photograph album of the Stock Exchange London to Brighton Walk, 1928-1933 (10891) • Royal Pavilion, Brighton, programme of the Regency Exhibition, 1959 (10937) • Science of Life magazines, 1960-1980 (11095)

39 Rats indeed – the last Annual Report for two years: the next will be published from The Keep

40 eastsussex.gov.uk

East Sussex Record Office Report of the County Archivist April 2011 to March 2012

Front cover: Looking forward to The Keep? Maude Funnell restrains Ambrose Gorham’s greyhounds, c (AMS ‚ƒ„/†/„‡) Back cover: The last Christmas of peace – programme of festivities at the Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, ‘ƒ-‘ (ACC ƒƒ/). ††/‘_