Newsletter 36 Founded by David Arscott AUTUMN/WINTER 2015

A MUST for those who have young children – or grandchildren The author is donating all proceeds from this book to the restoration of Boxgrove Priory. The book is priced £5, but I have added £2 P&P, allowing the full amount to be donated to charity. THEO’S MAGIC GARDEN Iris Watts Country Books paperback 210 x 148mm 112 pages £7

Theo is a handsome and contented cat living in a cottage in a village with his mistress, Jenny. A cat, proud of his Persian lineage. But one day his life changes…

Jennyʼs brother, Magnus comes to stay and on leaving, sprinkles magic dust on the garden. That night all the garden statues come to life.

Sammy, the fox, proves a problem – until Magnusʼ cat, Tim, comes to stay. The magic dust has enabled the statues and cats to talk to each other – though Cosmos is still a nuisance.

These stories are written for Children from five years old upwards and are beautifully illustrated by Alex Forrester. www.sussexbooks.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01629 640670 2 EDITORIAL CHRISTMAS How frequently it arrives! As the late Tony Wales remarked to me one day: “You know you are old when breakfast comes round every fifteen minutes”. I haven’t reached my eighties yet – so perhaps mine arrive at twenty minutes? The Club had a lovely outing to Battle in September where the curator of the museum, Adrian Hall, and his wife, Sarah, did us proud. (See picture below, taken by Sussex Book Club member John Hayward.) After a tour of the museum and explanation of exhibits, including a mention of the famous battle, Adrian then led us on a guided walk through the town, pointing out the history of various buildings. Fortunately the threatened rain held off and members were then free to explore on their own, and some visited the abbey ruins. For me, the highlight was the marked contrast of development in the West, compared to the East, which has largely survived due to difficulty for commuters. How long will it be before we have to travel to East Sussex to be reminded of what grass looked like? I hope you find something of interest in the last newsletter of 2015 and would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a healthy, peaceful New Year. Happy reading, Dick Richardson

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First published in 2011, this is the latest 2015 reprint. In a relatively short time, this book has become essential reading for all those interested in the industrial archaeology of Sussex.

HAMMER ANDHELEN FURNACEPEARCE PONDS Pomegranate paperback 210 x 148mm 108 pages £8.99 Illustrated with both colour and mono images. Relics of the Wealden iron industry beautify the woodlands of the Kent and Sussex High Weald and adjacent parts of Surrey, but were created to power what has been described as the country’s first industrial revolution. This walker-friendly guide to the rich crop of surviving hammer and furnace ponds in the area traces the history of iron exploitation from pre-Roman times, but concentrates on the 16th and 17th centuries when the Weald throbbed to the sound of trip hammers. Fortunes were made by iron-masters such as the Fullers of Brightling, the Barhams of Wadhurst and the Streatfeildes of Chiddingstone, and several of their grand houses survive in the land- scape as a testimony to their wealth. Guns for government ordnance or sale to foreign governments were the major line, but the foundries turned out a range of products, from firebacks to grave slabs. A complete gazetteer of the surviving ponds with map references and access details, a list of relevant museums, a glossary of terms and ideas for further reading.

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With the historic Barry Building soon to be demolished what better time to purchase a copy of this authorative history: ’S COUNTY HOSPITAL 1828 – 2007 Harry Gaston 272 pages 165 photos Normally £15 Special price £10 The fascinating story of a great enterprise BARONESS CUMBERLEGE, FORMER HEALTH MINISTER

The ceaseless battle against wards becoming ripe with infection. The professional rivalry of doctors and the painful shortage of nurses. The ceaseless search for greater and greater funding to open specialist new wards and new laboratories. All the cries run like a dramatic river through the history of the Sussex County. A great read: everyone needs a copy. VAL BROWN, AUTHOR OF WOMEN’S HOSPITALS OF BRIGHTON AND

Two books for the (reduced) price of one of special interest to residents of Battle, Hastings, East- bourne, Newhaven, Cuckfield, Chailey, Southwick and Shoreham. A LINGERING FEAR, EAST SUSSEX HOSPITALS AND THE WORKHOUSE LEGACY Harry Gaston 247 pages 102 photos Normally £12.50 only £10 together with a FREE copy of

OUT OF THE SHADOWS: A HISTORY OF NEWHAVEN DOWNS, 1836-1996 Harry Gaston 54 pages 16 photos and 3 colour cover photos

Not available from bookshops, Limited Edition commissioned to mark the closure of the hospital and the opening of Newhaven Downs House in 1996.

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BACK ROW BRIGHTON £11.99 Just as Backyard and Back Street Brighton took Thatcher’s children back to the thirties and fifties, so Back Row Brighton transports us back to the heyday of cinema-going in the company of those who were there. It is an affectionate look at some of the city’s ‘lost cinemas’such as the Astoria, the Granada, the Continentale and the Regency. Alongside evocative archive photographs, the cinemas are recalled in touching and humorous stories of romance, excitement, grandeur and, occasionally, fleas. Some of these recollections are drawn from QueenSpark’s rich archive, others are the recorded reminiscenses of City elders asked to recall cinema-going in Brighton & Hove from the 1930s to 1960s.

BACKSTAGE BRIGHTON £11.99 Backstage Brighton is tipped to overtake Backyard Brighton as QueenSpark’s bestseller of all time.

In 1900 Brighton had more theatres than anywhere in the UK out- side London. Backstage Brighton celebrates theatre and theatre- going in the city past and present. If you ever wondered what once stood on the site of the or why the Sallis Benney is so-called, then you’ll be enthralled by the book’s fascinating journey through the history and heritage of Brighton & Hove’s many theatrical venues.

“The Grand was cheaper and more working class than the Theatre Royal. You could get a seat and entertainment for about a shilling. There were about 300 seats, and there were some real characters playing there, like Max Miller. The most expensive seat was one and six, but up in the gallery used to be nine pence. All the yobs used to go up there because it was so cheap. They used to throw sweet wrappers and everything down on people.” BILL RICHARDS (Local resident).

“My memories of Theatre Royal Brighton were ‘The Single Gulp’bar (a backstage bar)… with an old barmaid who couldn’t resist playing the fruit machine during performances, so always had to wait for a round of applause or a good laugh before she pulled the handle. I have to say that her timing was not that good!”STANLEY BATES

This extract from Backstage Brighton is a typically fond memory of the sometimes sleazy side of theatre-going in the city. There are many more – past and present – in this fascinating journey through the history and heritage of Brighton & Hove’s many theatrical venues.

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THE UNTOLDSussexSTORY OF OUR WarSECOND HeroesWORLD WAR VETERANS Ben James Foreword by Dame Vera Lynn 234 x 156mm Paperback £12.99 160pages + 16 b&w plates 30 b/w illustrations

A generation of ordinary young men and women were thrust into the most extraordinary of situations some 70 years ago. Sussex is full of war heroes, but soon they will be gone – along with their stories. This is not a book about Victoria Cross winners, but the untold accounts of everyday heroes, such as former train engineer Bob Morrell, who was beaten, starved and tortured in the brutal Japanese prisoner camps. It is about ex-pub landlord John Akehurst, one of Bomber Command’s finest, who gave the Germans the run-around Northern Europe after being shot down. It is about 86-year-old Shindy Perez and her remarkable escape from the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Untold stories of seemingly everyday men and women, such as the PoW escapee who survived by eating snow for weeks on end. The first book of its kind – and also the last while these veterans are alive. The intimate and human experience behind some of the war’s most famous battles and events. NOTE: PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2016

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THE SHIP-BUILDING HISTORY OF SHOREHAM THE SHIPS AND MARINERS OF SHOREHAM HENRY CHEAL JUNIOR FACSIMILE OF FIRST EDITION 1909 Paperback 220 x 140mm £14.50 141 pages with 16 half tone illustrations “The days have gone by when sailing ships of large tonnage were launched at Shoreham. The vast strides made in marine engineering and the building of steamships long since silenced the once busy yards so far as the building of sailing ships is concerned, though indeed, as we shall have occasion to observe later, the industry of yacht-building still flourishes. Ship-building flourished in Shoreham from an early date, down to our own day, but some thirty years have now lapsed since the last merchant ship went off the stocks. Of all those that had been built, two only have been seen in the Harbour within the last two or three years, but in this (1909) year’s registers no vessels built by any of the old Shoreham builders are given as now existing. This being so, it seemed to the writer something of a reproach that some attempt had not been made to rescue from partial if not entire oblivion, a record of these wood-built sailers, which were indeed so famous in their time that none of their size could beat them.” HENRY CHEAL JUNIOR 1909 CONTENTS: The River Adur; Ancient ships and mariners; Shoreham pirates and privateers; The flight of the King; The Shoreham men-of-war and their commanders; The Shoreham merchant ships; Shoreham shipwrecks and disasters; The oyster fishery; Smuggling at Shoreham; List of master mariners at Shoreham.

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BATTLE AND DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY The Brave Remembered – Battle at War 1914–1919 A poignant history of WW1 concerning the men connected with Battle who fought by GEORGE KILOH paperback 234 x 156mm 246 pages £12.50 Black and white illustrations, 14 black and white maps, 8 colour maps Over 500 men from or strongly connected to Battle went to war, 112 of whom died as a direct result. Who were these people? Where did they live, what did they do for a living, who were their families? Rarely do we even have an accurate list of those who fought in World War I. This book aims to remedy the matter for the small Sussex town of Battle. Every year we celebrate with feeling those who died in the First World War, among other wars. All those who returned – many physically wounded, perhaps most of them scarred in other ways – have now died too. We usually have no lists for them, let alone other information. Yet in the great majority of cases whether a man lived or died was a matter of accident: their battalions, the actions involved, even the weather. They were just as brave, or not, as those who died. We should remember all of them.

Winchelsea Historical Methodist Chapel The unique history of the tiny early Methodist chapel in Winchelsea, East Sussex by Keith D Foord paperback 210 x 149mm 62 pages £6.00 Colour 15 images, Black and white 25 images

This book is a brief history of this little gem of a Methodist Heritage site. Methodist pioneers went to the very eastern part of Sussex in 1756 and the Wesleyan Society founded at Rye in that year was the first in the county of Sussex. John Wesley went to the area two years later and then made many more visits. Many of those who lived in Winchelsea after 1758 would have been able to have seen him and would have walked or ridden to Rye to hear his preaching. A Methodist meeting was originated in Winchelsea itself in 1771 after a visit from John Wesley, who preached in Winchelsea in the open air. The Winchelsea society registered a place for Worship in 1774 and opened their Chapel in 1785. This has changed very little since then. It is one of the few remaining Chapel buildings in Kent and Sussex in which the founder of , John Wesley, preached. This was in 1789. On John Wesley's last visit to Winchelsea in October 1790, only a few months before he died, he preached his very last open air sermon to a throng of hearers under an ash tree by St. Thomas' churchyard.

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BATTLE AND DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY 1066 and the Battle of Hastings – Preludes, Events and Postscripts by Keith D Foord and Neil Clephane-Cameron paperback 246 x 194mm 208 pages £14.00 colour illustrations and maps This wide-ranging book is for anyone who wishes to take a critical look at the Battle of Hastings, its local history, setting, causes and events. Written by two local historians who live in Battle, East Sussex, the scene of the Battle of Hastings, this well illustrated book puts the fateful year of 1066 into a wide context of the local geography, local, English and Norman histories, as well as looking at the places, people and politics involved. In a book of interweaving chapters Keith Foord and Neil Clephane-Cameron have gone back to basics, starting with local geographic and general histories to set the scene of Williamʼs landings and the Battle of Hastings, shedding light on aspects that are very often overlooked, sometimes misinterpreted, or taken for granted. They describe the cultural effects on of successive migrations, including the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and also cover the Viking influences on Normandy. Having set the background, there follow concise histories of the main protagonists: Harold Godwinson and William II of Normandy, their families, and predecessors, with reviews of the main events of 1066 and their immediate aftermath, including the building of Battle Abbey as a monument. Where alternative explanations or doubts arise they discuss these logically and candidly, and raise the odd question. The Methodist Road to Battle by Keith D Foord paperback 210 x 149mm 104 pages £7.00 54 black and white images This small book covers the early historical background of Methodism in South-East Sussex that includes the local role of John Wesley, the influence of military Methodists, the founding of the earliest Wesleyan Chapels in and around Rye and Winchelsea, the spread into the Hastings, Battle and Bexhill areas, the development of the Hastings, Rye and Bexhill Methodist Circuit via the old Sussex and Rye Circuits, the tale of the preacher behind the building of the original Battle Wesleyan Chapel and Battle Methodist history up until moving to its new home, the Emmanuel Centre in 2013. We can only surmise at the lives of those who pioneered Methodism in the more distant past which was another world in which the majority lived in poverty, with poor roads, no cars, no radio, phones, TV or internet. But they did have their voices, music and travelling entertainers and preachers. Wesley in trying to widen the involvement and outlook of the established church used his voice to preach and produced a social revolution.

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BATTLE AND DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY BATTLE ABBEY & BATTLE CHURCHES SINCE 1066 by Keith D Foord paperback 216 x 138mm 200 pages £12.50 Colour 36 images, black and white 73 images Following the Battle of Hastings in 1066 William the Conqueror pledged to build an Abbey at the site of his victory, with its high altar on the very spot that Harold Godwinson had fallen. Four years later five Benedictine monks climbed a virtually uninhabited ridge in eastern Sussex. On this unlikely site they founded a monastery and an Abbey Church fit for a Conqueror. Early in the 12th century the Abbey built a separate church for the people. Christianity evolved and diversified; Henry VIII dissolved the Abbeys and formed the Church of England; Catholicism went underground; Non- conformity developed and Catholicism revived. After 1538 the people of Battle sadly observed the destruction of the Abbey Church and with it a way of life that had sustained the town to that date. Since then other Battle churches have evolved and some have been demolished or abandoned. Five have survived and grown. This book is about all the Christian Churches past and present within the Banlieu of Battle Abbey, their histories, their people, their charismatic leaders and benefactors.

A WOMAN LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HELENA HALL’S JOURNAL FROM THE HOME FRONT Editors: Linda Grace & Margaret Nicolle Pen & Sword hardback 240 x 160mm 268 pages £25.00 16 black and white plates. Helena Hall’s daily diary of the war years in Lindfield, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evovcative personal records of the period. An intimate account of civilian life in the countryside seventy years ago. She describes everyday activities, and the war that overshadowed her marriage. Born in Shoreham in 1873, the daughter of an architect and engineer, she was only 11 years old when her mother died in 1884. After boarding school in Tundridge Wells, she went to live in Brighton with the family of Rev. Arthur Gill, where one of the children in her charge was the young Eric Gill. After studying at the Royal College of Heraldry, she moved to Lindfield in 1920.

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KENT AND EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY CUCKFIELD CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL Tenterden to Bodiam for times 11 – 13 December Tel: 01580 765155 KATE RUSBY AT CHRISTMAS BATEMANʼS,BURWASH 11 December Rudyard Kiplingʼs Home Concert Hall Tel: 01435 882302 for times ATUDOR CHRISTMAS EASTBOURNE SOCIETY BONFIRE December Michelham Priory 3 October Tel: 01323 735970 Tel: 01323 844224 for details ROMAN ARMY WEEK SANTA CRUISES 26 – 30 OCTOBER FISHBOURNE 20-23 December Wey & Arun Canal Tel: 01273 486260 for details Onslow Arms, Loxwood NORMANS AND CRUSADERS CHANCTONBURY RING MORRIS MEN 28 – 29 October Arundel Castle 26 December Tipteering (mummers) Tel: 01903 882173 for details 11am Marquis of Granby, Sompting 12.30am Frankland Arms, Washington RACING AT PLUMPTON 2 November BONFIRE CELEBRATIONS 2016 5 November CHANCTONBURY RING MORRIS MEN BATTLE BONFIRE 2 January 2016 Apple Howling 6pm 7 November Old Mill Farm, Wobblegate, Bolney PETWORTH FESTIVAL THE SNOW QUEEN 4 - 8 November 2/3 January 2016 Ballet Brighton Dome Concert Hall HURSTMONCEUX OBSERVATORY 13 November 6-30 – 11pm open PAM AYRES evening £5.00. Tel: 01323 832731 14 February Chichester Festival Theatre Box office Tel: 01243 781312 RYE BONFIRE CELEBRATIONS 14 November Tel: 01797 223136 KNOTS OF MAY –CHANCTONBURY MORRIS 25 March 2016 11am Good Friday HAYWARDS HEATH WINTER FESTIVAL Long-rope skipping 28 November Rose Cottage, Alciston SUSSEX FAMILY CHRISTMAS FAIR FORD MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION 29 November 10am – 4pm April 2016 Charmandean Centre, Worthing BELLOWHEAD BRIGHTON ICE RINK 18 April 2016 November – January 2016 Brighton Dome Concert Hall LONDON –BRIGHTON VETERAN CAR RUN CHARLESTON FESTIVAL 2016 (May?) 1 December Tel: 01323 811626 for details SELSEY CHRISTMAS MARKET 3 - 5 December The Old Pavilion

ARDINGLY WINTER FAIR All details correct 5 - 6 December 19 October 2015 S of England Showground

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A forgetten talent – but she was a woman!

AMYARTIST, SAWYER ECCENTRIC AND OF LADY DITCHLING OF LETTERS ANNE PARFITT-KING Country Books paperback 245 x 170mm 186 pages £15.00 36 colour and 65 black and white illustrations

my Sawyer was a prolific and unusual Victorian artist, with an interest in folk tales, witches and faeries. She exhibited at the Royal Academy many times and at many Aother galleries. Today, she is an almost forgotten artist, but her Sussex Village Plays, written while living in the small village of Ditchling, are still re- membered by the older residents. She is also recorded in the histories of her friends; Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, the Sinden family and Joanna and Hillary Bourne, who founded Ditchling Museum. In her last ten years, in the letters to her sister in Australia, she describes with wit and asperity life in the village.

1933–1939 There are many paintings of Miss in Hyde Park or Kensington – I forget which! The Sawyer by other artists at this period and roads are beastly with motors and it’s so much comments about her unusual personality and further to get into the fields. I daren’t use the ladder the clothing she wore. Joanna Bourne says: at the end of the garden, which is still a field though the lane at the end is full of bungalows.” “Who else would have dared to float through the village dressed in Leopard skin or some other exotic ‘I see Jessie Leach and her daughter were had up and garment far removed from current fashion?” fined £5 for driving without a license or insurance, also stopped from driving for a year. She will be “After Xmas I’m thinking of preparing the plays for mad…” publication. I shall of course have to pay but there’s a Sussex Publisher who would do it and do his best “There’s no unemployment, gales pass us by, snow to push it. Of course it would only interest Sussex falls heavily all around, and no flake shoves its nose people but Sussex is so fashionable just now I might in. But this infernal blast from Russia did get us in get some money back – anyhow I’ll risk it. I made the neck. The young went skating, the sun shone but £150 on the Stock Exchange – he tells me the cost there’s an epidemic of flu. There was 18 degrees of would be under a hundred and I think they are too frost for several days.” good to be utterly lost. And I must have something to do… I can’t get about or do gardening…” “I’m weeding Hitler’s garden, he’ll find it nice and tidy if he comes, unless he messes it up himself (by “I never gathered a mushroom though they were bombing).” swarming – I did so want to. Why a friend picked 7

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THE STORY OF SHOREHAM HENRY CHEAL This is a facsimile of the first edition of 1921. The author was Hon. Curator and Librarian of the Sussex Archaeological Society. Paperback 200 x 138mm 288 pages £14.50 65 line illustrations by Arthur B Packham. Folding illustrated map.

CONTENTS: The history of Shoreham from early times with references to the surrounding area, Lancing, etc. The Saxons. The town & harbour in the Middle Ages. Watermills & windmills. Old Erringham. Early deeds of the Blaker, Monk & Bridger families. The De Braose & De Mowbray families. Fairs & markets. Inns. Bungalow Town. The Suspension brudge. Ancient religious houses. The ancient ferry. The Marlipins. Forgotten street names. Smugglers. Ship building. etc. Index.

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Just in time for last Christmas – the latest book May just be from Sussex author Alex Askaroff the best tale that has never ISAAC SINGER made it to THE FIRST CAPITALIST Hollywood! The story of Isaac Merritt Singer is straight out of American folklore. Isaac ran away from a troubled home to a carnival passsing through town. From living on his wits, Isaac became one of the wealthiest men of his era, long before Ford and Rockefeller.

Isaac’s story is one of wars and women, when he died he was married to the most beautiful woman in Europe, 30 years his junior. In his will he named over 20 of his children, making each one rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Isaac’s inventions helped kick-start the growth that made America the first Super Power. His business techniques, salesmanship and entrepreneurial skill brought jobs to millions of people around the world and made Singer a household name.

Published by Country Books 230 x 155mm 240 pages fully illustrated Paperback £17.00 £12.99 to members Hardback £27.00 £19.99 to members

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Paperback 203 x 127mm 168 pages £7.99

CAUTIONARY PILGRIM: WALKING BACKWARDS WITH BELLOC written and illustrated by NICK FLINT Country Books paperback 234 x 156mm 82 pages £8.50 Nick Flint is Sussex born and bred, having lived half his life in the East and half in the West of the County. A parish priest in the Church of England for 25 years he is married with one daughter. During the course of writing Cautionary Pilgrim he discovered he is distantly related to Mad Jack Fuller. He believes he is the first literary rector in his village since his predecessor in 1919 wrote Five Years’ Hell in a Country Parish. ʻThe book has an extraordinary atmosphereʼ JOHN BIRD Satirist and Comedian from TVʼs Bremner, Bird and Fortune ʻA work of engaging wit and styleʼ CHRISTOPHER WINN Author of the I Never Knew That... books, now a TV series. ʻSoaked in the lore and animated by the Spirit of Bellocʼ MALCOLM GUITE Author of Faith Hope and Poetry, and Sounding the Seasons ʻAn affectionate travelogue, punctuated with delightful drawingsʼ NICHOLAS FRAYLING Dean Emeritus of Chichester Cathedral www.sussexbooks.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 01629 640670 16 NEWBOOKS

WILL’S WAR IN BRIGHTON Nisse Visser Cider Brandy Scribblers paperback 203 x 127mm 172 pages £7.99

June 1940. Will Markall is twelve years old and so far has been enjoying the war. It has brought about changes to his native seaside town of Brighton which are endlessly fascinating. Spitfires, disrupted lessons, easy pennies, mutoscopic voyeurism, gun batteries on the seafront and the Luftwaffe freely distributing highly collectable shiny cannon shells when fighters strafe the streets. As the summer progresses however, Will discovers that war has its disadvantages too. Trying to make sense of it all in an increasingly bewildering world Will and his best mate Jamie and Jamieʼs neighbour Brenda know one thing for sure: if the invasion comes they will put up a fight and teach the Nazi thugs a thing or two.

Cider Brandy Scribblers paperback 203 x 127mm 172 pages £7.99

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Walking to Sussex and Hampshire Churches with Diana Pé

Four walking guides to lead you from church to church throughout Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with detailed maps and photo- graphs of other buildings along the way.

West Sussex Church Walks £6.95 Mid Sussex Church Walks £6.95 East Sussex Church Walks £6.95 Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Church Walks £7.95

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LEWES: THE POSTCARD COLLECTION BOB CAIRNS Amberley paperback 235 x 165mm 128 pages £12.99

Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, started out as a bridging point and market town. Steeped in history, scholars believe it is possible that the civil parish was home to the Roman settlement of Mutuantonis. It doesn’t stop there, however. The castle was built by William de Warenne, son-in-law of William the Conqueror, in 1069 after the Norman Invasion. Originally known as Bray Castle, this impressive building stands at the highest point of Lewes and is well worth a visit. Intercepted by the River Ouse, there are a number of gorgeous countryside walks to take advantage of in this charming ancient town. The Postcard Collection beautifully illustrates the culture and character of Lewes, taking us on a journey through its historical past.

Bob Cairns has lived in Ringmer for over 40 years and worked in Lewes for 39 years. He was born in Newhaven, and with family there for 400 years. He has collected Edwardian picture postcards of Lewes, Ringmer and the surrounding villages for 40 years and enjoys sharing his collection with any- one who shows an interest. He has amassed 2000 cards of Lewes and 1800 of the surrounding villages. His previous title for Amberley was Lewes Through Time (2012).

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THE CHURCH GALLERY MINSTRELS OF OLD SUSSEX REV. K. H. MACDERMOTT Country Books paperback 210 x 148mm 128 pages £14.50 Black and white photographs FREE CD with thirteen traditional Sussex village carols

This book was first privately published by the Rev. K. H. MacDermott in 1922 as SUSSEX CHURCH MUSIC IN THE PAST and printed by Moore & Wingham of Chichester. He was rector of Selsey in West Sussex, and as a young man, he had met and corresponded with gallery musicians born in the 18th century. Here is an account of the old Singers and Minstrels, the Bands, Psalmodies and Hymn-books of Sussex Churches from the end of the 17th Century to the latter half of the 19th Century. There is an appendix on the author’s collection in Lewes at the Barbican House Museum. The FREE CD features thirteen traditional Sussex carols performed by ‘Hope in the Valley’ recorded in 1983 and are listed below.

1. THE DITCHLING CAROL 8. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT ALL CHRISTIANS SING Music by Peter Parsons, shoemaker of Ditchling, Arranged by Vic Gammon. Tune from Mrs who died in 1901 aged 76. Cranston of Billingshurst, 1907. Text from George Night of Horsham and Mrs Verral of Monksgate. 2. HORSHAM TIPTEERS’CAROL Arranged by Vic Gammon. Sung by mummers in 9. THE COMTON TIPTEERS’S CAROL the neighbourhood of Horsham 1878-81. Arranged by Vic Gammon. From The Wonderful Weald by Arthur Beckett. 3. THEN LET US BE MERRY From a manuscript written by William Harris, the 10. THE BURWASH CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS DAY blacksmith of Rodmell, 1842. Claimed for John Fleming by his grand-children, and still sung by old men in 1932. 4. THE SINNER’S REDEMPTION Arranged by Vic Gammon. From the singing of 11. WAKE YE SHEPHERDS William Lanning, Terwick, 1911. From the manuscript of William Voice of Hand- cross. 5. BLOW YE THE TRUMPETS From John Bailey of Ringmer’s manuscript book, 12. COME ALL YE WORTHY CHRISTIAN MEN started 1833. Arranged by Vic Gammon. From the singing of Henry Hills of Lodsworth. 6. HARK,HARK WHAT NEWS Sam Willet, ‘the singing baker of Cuckfield’ 13. SHEPHERDS ARISE communicated this to Lucy Broadwood in 1901. From the singing of the Copper family of Rottingdean. 7. THE FALMER CAROL Communicated by Fred Jones to MacDermott.

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