East Sussex Record Office Report of the County Archivist 2010-11

Contents Introduction ...... 1 Public Services...... 3 Public Service statistics...... 4 Outreach and Learning...... 5 Document Services ...... 7 Work in Brighton and Hove ...... 20 Conservation ...... 25 Records Management ...... 27 Staff and Volunteers...... 28 Friends of the East Sussex Record Office...... 29 Appendix 1 – Record Office Staff, 2010/11 ...... 32 Appendix 2 – East Sussex Accessions ...... 33 Appendix 3 – Brighton and Hove Accessions...... 42

Introduction We began the year in a new department (Governance and Community Services) and a new place in the structure as part of Libraries and Culture. This has helped to strengthen still further our joint working with libraries.

Work towards achieving our new partnership historical resource centre was both busy but ultimately rewarding. In April and May we carried out our pre- planning consultation, with displays in libraries across East Sussex and Brighton & Hove as well as at The Maltings and the University of Sussex library. We also had afternoon and evening drop-in consultation sessions at Lewes, Eastbourne and Brighton Jubilee libraries, where representatives of our partners and contractors were on hand to answer questions in person. The planning application, submitted in the autumn, was unanimously approved by Brighton & Hove City Council’s planning committee on 15 December. As was to be expected, there were a number of conditions attached to the approval, which we worked on to comply with throughout the rest of the year and beyond.

We were kept busy finalising the details of the room layouts including the furniture and equipment, fixtures and fittings, ICT requirements and shelving for the Repository Block. We held a series of design workshops with our architect and partners to discuss and agree on all these elements; these meetings allowed the staff from all three partners to get to know each other better. We also had a trip to Clerkenwell to visit of furniture warehouses to get some idea of what is available for the moveable furniture. All this enabled Kier, our contractors, to finalise the requirements and cost plan and for us to

Page 1 of 45 achieve a final commitment with our partners. As I write (in August 2011) the contractors have just begun on site and we expect the building to be completed in the spring of 2013. These are exciting times.

We were pleased that this year we are once again a three-star service (out of a possible four) according to the National Archives Self-Assessment Process. We improved our overall score by 2.5% and made a massive improvement in our access and outreach score, increasing it by 13%. This means that we did go down elsewhere, mainly on the buildings side as during the year we had continuing problems with water getting into buildings and with mould growth.

It’s always pleasing to see achievement recognised. Last year’s report recorded ESRO’s involvement in Living the Poor Life, a nationwide project co- ordinated by The National Archives (TNA) to catalogue and digitise the correspondence between officials in 21 local nineteenth century Poor Law Unions and the Poor Law Commissioners. East Sussex Record Office recruited, encouraged and supervised a group of volunteers to work on the letters from the Rye Poor Law Union. The project was recognised in the National Council on Archives Volunteer Awards, in which it was Highly Commended, at the award presentations at The House of Lords in July. We were also dubbed Take One Champion for the South East. The Take One project is described in more detail in the Outreach and Learning section, but we were particularly pleased with this moniker because the role of the Champion is to promote use of the project’s ethos to museums and libraries throughout the region, not just to archives.

In these challenging financial times, we are also continuing to seek additional funding to support our activities. The majority of the work of the Outreach and Learning Officer is supported by grant funding; we continue to 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; and we charge for the provision of external services, such as private conservation work, where appropriate. I must pay special tribute to Pam Combes, chairman of FESRO since 2004, who stepped down this year. Under her leadership the Friends have become a major player in the funding of purchases, as well as contributing to both the social and academic life of the office.

During the summer the telephone system at The Maltings was transferred from BT to the county council-wide NGN (New Generation Network) system. Although it took a while to bed down, as we might have expected, our fears that we would need to change our contact telephone numbers were unfounded and we will be able to take those numbers easily to The Keep.

At the Record Centre there was some uncertainty concerning the renewal of the records management contract with Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC). The City Council was obliged to go out to tender and we decided not to bid since the contract was primarily for storage rather than the provision of a full records management service. As the end of the financial year approached work at the Record Centre concentrated on the disaggregation of the BHCC files, some 30,000 in all, and the staff involved must be congratulated for

Page 2 of 45 achieving this major piece of work on time. The new financial year offers the opportunity to reconfigure the service in the absence of both the responsibility for the city’s semi-current records and the income we received for providing it, in order to ensure that its work, so essential to the County Council, continues to its usual high standard.

Jane Bartlett was kept busy by requests under the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. The number of requests received under both statutes in 2010/11 was 827, a 14% increase over the previous year (724).

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.

The Record Office’s other activities and achievements, no less important than those already mentioned, are covered in the rest of this report.

Public Services Searchroom attendance remained stable this year though document production figures increased yet again, confirming the impression that visitors are staying longer and looking at more material. Most visitors (56%) were tracing their family trees, although this was fewer than the previous year (61%). 31% were studying local and house history, 5% were educational users and 3% business users. The number of hours of paid research recovered somewhat from the dip last year and the number of copies sold remained buoyant, increasing by nearly 25% on the previous year.

The number of postal and email enquiries was slightly down, but ranged as ever across a wide variety of subjects including, amongst many others, the formation of a loyalist society in Lewes in reaction to the Jacobinism of the French revolution; mayor of Lewes, Kenneth Charles Day, a founder member of VG stores; the descendants of the bell founder who made Big Ben and with a conspiracy-theorist’s link to Jack the Ripper; the life of William Broderick Thomas, designer of St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, one of the largest urban garden parks in the world; and the ever-popular subject of re-registering old tractors and motorcycles. We were also able to help a number of enquirers looking into their time in care in East Sussex and to help them fill gaps in their own personal histories.

Our archive holdings and the information they contain were used in ways that reached a wider audience through publication and exhibition. Information on an Eastbourne practitioner of the Alexander Technique (HH 44/27) was used in a book on the subject, and photographs from a sale catalogue of 1929 of the Gothic Hall at Herstmonceux Castle were displayed in the foyer of the Queen’s Theatre by Cameron Mackintosh and Delmont Mackintosh Theatres Ltd.

Page 3 of 45 We took part in the National Archives User Survey in February 2011. The results showed a continued high level of satisfaction with the quality of advice (84% good or very good) and helpfulness and friendliness of staff (87% good or very good) although they were several points down on the previous survey. 83% of respondents rated the overall service good or very good.

Asked to state where improvements were most necessary, 51% named visitor facilities, 22% physical access to the building, 17% onsite computer facilities, 14% copying services, 14% document delivery services and 14% opening hours. As well as working to address these points through the improved facilities that The Keep will provide, we are also looking for ways to make a difference before the move. We set up a user group as part of our consultations on The Keep, and will look to them to ensure that we are providing the best service possible.

The survey also revealed our visitors’ reasons for using the Record Office. 67% are studying for their own personal recreation but 12% are in formal education, 6% on personal or family business and 15% are using the record office in connection with their employment. Our visitors also contribute to the local economy. While the majority come to the area primarily to visit the Record Office, 1% stay overnight, 57% eat out locally, 61% use local services and 13% visit other places of interest.

Public Service statistics 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Search room visitors 4,683 4,937 4,318 4,235 Visitors not able to have 544 513 469 403 first choice of day Documents consulted 36,115 27,502 29,176 31,422 Post/email enquiries 3,381 3,988 3,804 3,787 Telephone enquiries 7,913 6,589 5,277 6,149 ESCC website hits 2,346,753 3,349,891 3,211,017 (ESRO pages) Copies sold 6,607 5,729 6,496 8,091 Hours of paid research 262 241 177 229

Page 4 of 45 Outreach and Learning Outreach and Learning worked with and supported a diverse range of community groups and heritage, voluntary and statutory organisations throughout the year.

Real People Real Voices The Paralympic Region project, Real People Real Voices, is near completion. This initiative is funded by the Olympics Legacy Trust UK and the South East England Development Agency and has been the result of a partnership with the Oyster project, a community group founded and run by people with disabilities, and Chailey Heritage School. Throughout last year, using the Revisiting Oyster member Sarah Gordy shows a Collections method, participants photo of the Girls’ Heritage Recreation developed their responses to Room (HB 130/2) which she has chosen perceptions and for her presentation. representations of disability through exploring the Chailey Heritage Archive. The project has been led and shaped by the group.

On the initiative of the participants we visited some of the places featured in the Chailey Heritage archive. At its current site, Oyster members involved in the project led an interactive presentation showing students and teachers documents showing aspects of the history of the Marine Hospital at Tidemills in Bishopstone, which they found of great interest. As we delved into the collection, more questions emerged and Oyster members became more involved and interested.

Exploring the archive in the light of people’s own experiences created a unique atmosphere of continuous enquiry, research and exploration. That process has in fact been the most important part of this project because it has nurtured ownership and confidence in the value and use of archives. It will help us make our holdings more representative of the different communities in Brighton and Hove and East Sussex and more inclusive of their stories.

Page 5 of 45 Take One In 2010 ESRO secured funding from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) to champion and deliver Take One projects in the South East, working jointly with the National Gallery.

As part of this opportunity we coordinated a Take One partnership involving the Schools, Libraries and Museum Service, the University of Sussex Special Collections, the National Trust (Batemans) and four schools in East Sussex and Brighton. Using the Take One model we trained teachers to deliver cross- curricular learning, starting with a single item: Rudyard Kipling’s illustration of The Elephant’s Child from the Just So Stories. Teachers were given the opportunity to find out how to use the different partners’ resources to develop their projects and inspire their pupils. The project ended with a dissemination day attended by teachers and heritage professionals, where we showcased the Take One projects from each school and set up a Take One virtual network for the region. The project was highly successful and helped ESRO, which is a member of the Take One Handbook steering group, to widen its connections with schools and heritage organisations across the South East.

Future Village and Meeting Places We have successfully completed Future Village, a partnership project led by Action in rural Sussex (AirS) and funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (photo above). With the aid of ESRO’s holdings, we worked with Year 8 students from Heathfield Community College and older people from the local community to explore what Heathfield was like 50 years ago. Participants then used their learning to inform and shape their vision for Heathfield in 50 years’ time, materialised in 3D models reflecting participants’ concerns, ideas and dreams.

The models created by participants have been uploaded onto the Community 21 website, a social networking and neighbourhood planning tool for 21st- century rural communities, co-developed by the University of Brighton and AirS. Project partners are now discussing how Future Village will work as a model of involvement and participation that can be shared with other rural communities.

This project benefitted from the contribution of the University of Brighton’s Inherited Futures Laboratory and lecturers and students from the 3D Design, Architecture and Sustainable Design Departments. According to the partner organisations, the contextual information and records provided by ESRO were essential in the evolution of an historical baseline on which assumptions for the future could be based. The results were presented at a Neighbourhood Planning Symposium as part of a Local Government Group Annual Conference.

The year also saw the completion, also in partnership with AirS, of the Meeting Places project, designed to explore the stories behind community spaces in Battle. Involving students from Claverham Community College, Sedlescombe Primary and Netherfield Church of England Primary Schools as

Page 6 of 45 well as members of the local community, the resulting exhibition was launched at Battle Abbey.

Other activities Our continuing efforts to attract Secondary Schools and Colleges were rewarded with participation in the North Wealden Secondary History Network meeting coordinated by Heathfield Community College’s Head of History. We took this opportunity to show the wide range and diversity of our holdings as well as the flexibility and accessibility brought by Outreach and Learning activities. We were invited to support the History Annual Project where students are encouraged to undertake their own research. Students visited the Record Office, received training on the use of the archives and were supported through their projects, which earned them School and College Achievement and Attainment Table points (SCAATs). This was a successful pilot which we expect to include in our yearly programme.

Work Placements Once again this year Outreach and Learning has welcomed work placement students from Priory School and Lewes Old Grammar School as well as postgraduate placement from the University of Sussex’s Life History Master of Arts degree. As part of Take One we have also hosted and supported Learning Links teacher placements: the Arts coordinator of Hawkes Farm Primary School in Hailsham and the Key Stage 3 coordinator and English teacher from Uckfield Community Technical College. These teachers went on to develop their own Take One projects.

Outreach and learning statistics 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 Events and 34 49 87 71 activities Numbers 945 1,710 1,777 1,991 attending

Document Services Records have continued to pour into the office at a steady flow or even, at times, a torrent, making us very glad that a new office with much-needed extra space is now within our sights.

As the County Council’s record office, we are the final resting place for any of its records which are worthy of permanent preservation. There can be surprising discoveries, such as a deed of 1642 for a house at Eastbourne owned by the weaver Shadrack Peckham, found at Eastbourne Library (10545). Photographs and plans of Asham House, Beddingham, the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1912 to 1919 and demolished in 1994, reached us from Transport and Environment (10576), as did two interesting watercolours showing the proposed Phoenix Causeway, the only element of the contentious Lewes Relief Road to be built (10582). Although the vast majority of our holdings are on paper, archives do not have to be in that

Page 7 of 45 medium. We took architectural models of Newhaven Harbour, the Hastings by-pass and Eastbourne Park, c1970-1990 (10867), challenges to our often ingenious use of limited space.

We also take records from a range of other public bodies. Charge and cell registers for the (now) former Lewes Police Station, 1950-1965, joined the extensive archive of the Sussex Police Authority. It was good to discover the existence of additional records for Hellingly Hospital, some of which filled gaps in existing series (10876). A number were mouldy and had to spend time in the capacious freezer in Conservation in order to kill off the spores. The Environment Agency discovered a large canvas-backed tracing of an 1818 map of Pevensey Levels (10649) which also came our way.

The office is the destination of archives from other local authorities. Following reorganisations, Eastbourne Borough Council needed to part with the archive of its Building Control operation, for which we already held the drawings up to 1965 (10653). For the first time – we have been taking such records for over 30 years – we decided to make a selection, retaining plans for every new buildings and drawings of alterations to listed or otherwise interesting structures. We have of course retained a full list of all the plans. The process was enlivened by the discovery of the records for Hampden Park, East Dean, Westham and Willingdon, 1892-1938. These plans, which include the childhood home of Eric Ravilious in Hampden Park, had been assumed lost. Hastings Borough Council sent maps of listed buildings, street-naming, housenumbering and Second World War bomb-damage, 1951 (10550). Even sewers can fascinate, at least when depicted in century-old photographs showing the construction of the Lewes outfall sewer running towards the Ham Lane sewage works (10680) – see photo above.

Page 8 of 45 Thanks to our Friends organisation (FESRO) and grant-giving bodies such as the V & A Purchase Grant Fund, we have continued to preserve the county’s historical heritage by purchasing unique documents relating to the locality. Our major acquisition was a large book of maps and accounts relating to the Sheffield Park Estate (see centrefold). Earlier reports have mentioned the dispersal of the archive in the saleroom in 1954 and 1981, and our continuing attempts to remedy this disaster whenever the opportunity arises. The volume in question, with over 400 pages, is thought to have been constructed in the estate office by the steward Joseph Adams and consists of pages cut from a book of maps surveyed by Edward Wakefield in 1814, interleaved with detailed surveys of each farm, followed by a record of income and expenditure, both of the estate and of its owners, covering the years 1812- 1820. It is of more than local significance: the estate owner, John Baker Holroyd (1741-1821) was one of the greatest agricultural improvers of his day, and the book allows a unique view of the implementation of his theories, influenced by the prominent land-agent Edward Wakefield (1774-1854). There were also a number of loose papers interleaved, including household accounts of the Pelhams of Stanmer, 1802-1803. An item of such quality does not come up for sale frequently, and as anticipated there was much interest. The sale took place in Gloucestershire so our bidding was carried out by telephone, after which Christopher Whittick was ashen but triumphant, having managed to out-bid the determined opposition but in excess of the amount pledged by FESRO, the V & A, and the Friends of the National Libraries; the prize was too important to let slip. Luckily two private benefactors immediately came forward to make up the shortfall, for which we are very grateful (10528).

We had imagined that letters of Joseph Cribb (1892-1967) of Ditchling, sculptor and lettercutter, might also be an expensive buy. He was the first apprentice of Eric Gill, and anything connected with his famous master was likely to be much sought after. Cribb refused to leave when Gill decamped from Ditchling to Wales in 1924, took over his workshop, and continued his trade right to the end of his life. His work can be seen on several Brighton buildings including the Allied Irish Bank (formerly the Citizen’s Permanent Building Society), and in the Catholic church of St Teresa of Lisieux in Northiam. Having raised substantial guarantees, we were delighted when the letters were knocked down to us for a two-figure sum. The correspondence (photo below), covering the period 1927 to 1968, is between Cribb and Robert Cole (c1894-1976), a dealer in creative art. There are references to Cribb’s projects, including continued collaboration with Gill, a cure for death watch beetle, which seems to have been inadvertently introduced to Cole’s house on oak beams Cribb carved (the friendship survived), and his love of fishing and beetle-collecting (10882).The purchase also gave us a welcome opportunity to meet the current generations of the sculptor’s family.

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The same auction also included another correspondence between Cole and the bookbinder Anthony Gardner (1887-1973). Although the two batches had a common source, we could not easily justify this purchase because they had no local content. We collaborated with the Bodleian Library, which already holds Gardner’s papers, and bought them on their behalf, retaining copies to keep with the Cribb letters.

During July, our eagle-eyed monitor Ian Hilder spotted one or two lantern slides beginning to appear on eBay, and enquiries soon revealed that they were part of a much larger collection of didactic material used to illustrate religious and moral concepts. Many depict the Jireh Sunday School and the Lewes Ragged School in St Johns Street, suggesting a connection with the Vinall family who had links with both. Direct contact with the vendors in Brighton enabled us to acquire over sixty of them in one go, with the aid of generous support from FESRO. The photographs are a vivid depiction of Lewes youth during the 1890s: the Jireh scholars in their Sunday best (below left) are in poignant contrast to the Ragged School urchins (below right), most of whom, it has to be said, appear to be happy with their lot, or perhaps just excited at being photographed, then usually the preserve of the better-off (ACC 10564). The publication of a piece on this exciting accession in Viva Lewes led to books presented to former Ragged School scholar Charles Walls being deposited by his family (10804).

Page 10 of 45 Although probably not the most user-friendly documents in view of their rather impenetrable legal terminology and archaic handwriting, deeds are vital sources for house-history, and often contain incidental information on the owners and occupiers, and for neighbouring properties. We purchased a deed of 1468 for The Place at Worth in Hamsey, also known as The Swyrd or Breache’s tenement (10640), and deeds of Cliffe and East Chiltington, [1735]- 1883 (10549). Andrew Lusted, our ever-vigilant Glynde expert, spotted a deed of 1716 on eBay, supposedly of a house in the village; the reference turned out to be merely to the road to Glynde from the Cliffe, which was a disappointment to him, but not to one of our researchers interested in his house on Chapel Hill (10789). The name of the purchaser, John Baldy, provided a link with the ‘delectable eminence’ of gardens established above Cliffe Corner by his son Thomas Baldy (c1711-1782). This great leap forward in our knowledge of these celebrated gardens was made for the outlay of precisely £14.62, again funded by FESRO.

Unfortunately dealers and sellers on eBay regard each deed as an entity in itself, and often break up bundles to market their contents separately. This is very frustrating to the archivist because, as anyone researching their house- history will know, each is merely a link in a chain which needs to be complete to tell the whole story. Accordingly we are sometimes able to buy odd documents to add to those already held, as with deeds, 1611-1801, for 14 High Street, Lewes, formerly part of the library of Sir Robert Megarry (10830).

Man traps in Dallington? See entry for August 1794 (ACC 10791)

Accounts, covering the period 1792-1798, for Dallington signwriter, painter and monumental mason John Trill (1762-1835) contain a wealth of incidental detail. As well as receiving payments for local tombstones, we learn that Trill paid the unfortunate John Piper to take his place in the local militia (a common practice for those with sufficient means), was commissioned to paint warning signs for steel traps and springs (almost certainly mantraps) in 1794,

Page 11 of 45 and in 1797 visited Eastbourne for chalk stones to be used in painting works by the Earl of Ashburnham (10791).

Rather laboriously, we bought an interesting collection of Beckley photographs. The first two, the Beckley Home Guard in 1943, and the portly and redoubtable figure of Sergeant W Anthony, the village policeman from 1919 to 1932, were purchased from eBay; the rest, from the same source, turned up for auction at Rye two days later (10868). These photographs, many of Beckley stoolball team, 1921 (ACC 10868) which are copies, were shown at an exhibition in Beckley village hall in around 1990, by Brian Coleman (now deceased). Brian was the son of Ian Coleman of West End, Beckley, a builder, who took over Perigoes, the funeral directors of Northiam, and is shown in some of the photographs, which are thought to have been obtained in a house clearance; the whereabouts of the originals is unknown.

That the level of prosperity in Rye has greatly changed is evident from a certificate issued in 1547 by the mayor and jurats of Rye to Sir Thomas Cheyney, constable of Dover Castle, stating that there were no men living in Rye at the date of the king’s writ, nor during the previous three years, worth £40 a year in lands (10858). Moving rapidly forwards in time to 1923, the Rye area figures in a photograph of the seaside holiday in a bygone age, showing Camber Sands with tram carriages and motor cars on the beach (10827).

Of a similar age is a photograph of the staff of the Eastbourne Aviation Company standing proudly in front of the first BE2c bi-plane built by the company at the offices at The Crumbles, c1918 (10843).

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The work of Marjorie Hoare (1884-1953), who lived in Barcombe, is already represented in our holdings by her watercolour of land-girls at Barcombe Cross in 1944; we were able to acquire her drawing of Glynde Place, given by Aimée Brand to her husband Humphrey Brand as a Christmas present in 1940 (10592). Also relevant to Glynde Place are plans of proposed alterations to tennis courts in 1910, and a survey of Home Farm (10541).

The purchase of Ditchling Common terriers was mentioned in the previous annual report, and from the same source we bought papers of Charles Woolley, solicitor, a partner in Fitzhugh Gates (10611). However small the item, its value is immeasurable if relevant to one’s research. A local expert on Piddinghoe and one of our wills volunteers was delighted to see sale particulars for Court House Farm in 1882, a document which had so far eluded her (10788).

Local estate maps are such a valuable source that their appearance in auction rooms presents an irresistible challenge. With the help of FESRO and the V & A Purchase Grant Fund, we were able to purchase a map (below) by John Stonestreet of the estate of Walter Waters in Iden and Playden in 1735 (10567). Stonestreet’s surveys are among the foremost local examples of the manuscript cartographer’s art. The map distinguishes pasture, arable, marsh and woodland; shows the houses and outbuildings at Old Turk Farm in Playden and neighbouring dwellings at Bosney and Boonshill in Iden, along with the names of the owners, and a large number of marl-pits; it notes ‘Tis the custom of the marsh to keep half fence’, probably a reference to the joint ownership of fences.

So much for the records which we have inherited or purchased; what of the material without which no office can flourish, donations and deposits?

Two maps showing Ewhurst, Udimore, Westfield and Brede in 1768 and 1841 were a particularly generous donation (10583). The 1768 map is by the important local cartographer Thomas Colbran and shows the estate of John Holman of The Beacon; the other depicts Field Farm, Hosebrooks, Jacobs Farm and Late Hele’s, the estate of Robert Mercer, adding to the already considerable amount of material which we hold for that family.

Last year’s report recorded the death of local writer Julian Fane, a great friend to the office, and the donation of his works and papers. We have now received the final instalment of his archive: solander boxes containing manuscripts of his works (10577). This issue must mention another sad

Page 13 of 45 death, that of Alan Shelley, in November 2009. From 1984 with his wife Jenny, Alan ran the world-famous Bow Windows Bookshop in Lewes. We are grateful to Jenny Shelley for donating the shop’s archive, which includes fine sets of stock books, journals and catalogues going back to the firm’s origins in around 1960 (10692).

Another long-established Lewes business, Elphick and Son Ltd, corn and seed dealers, is represented by a ledger covering 1886 to 1892, containing records of wages to bargeman James Blunden, as well as accounts for seed, corn and coal (10638). We were also able to borrow family photographs for scanning, which record the five generations who ran the firm between 1823 and its closure in 2003.

A plan of the manor of Michelham’s wastelands in Hailsham, Arlington and Hellingly by William Figg of Lewes, 1852, joined the rest of the archive of Daniel White and Son of Hailsham, grocers, provision dealers, and drapers (10851). Gordon Head and Co Ltd, builders, of 174 London Road, Hailsham, was another acquisition (10689). Head started a one-man business in 1936, and expanded between 1945 and 1973 to employ over 100 workmen. The archive includes wages books and a selection of plans for the large number of local properties built by the firm, always personally supervised by Gordon. Other businesses represented are EJ Nichols (Bexhill) Ltd (10650), FJ Parsons (Hastings) Ltd, publishers and printers (10669), Rodmell village shop (10604), and Spiral Staircase Systems, Glynde (10677).

Moving from industry to recreation but remaining in Glynde, the loan for scanning of family albums of the Brand family of Glynde Place revealed a watercolour of Maude Brand dressed for stoolball, painted by her sister Gertrude in about 1866; Maude looks only a slip of a girl, but is believed to have later been the first to score a century at the game (10569). As I write, Andrew Lusted has recently published an illustrated history of this inherently Sussex game, arguably the first sport organised specifically for women. Our already considerable holdings for the Glynde and Beddingham Cricket Club were augmented by scorebooks and photographs (10887).

From the other side of the A27, the Gage family of Firle Place deposited papers of their relations, the Grenfells of Taplow Court in Berkshire, which were inherited through the marriage of Imogen Grenfell to Henry Rainald, 6th Viscount Gage in 1931 (10575). Anyone for stoolball? Imogen’s parents were William Henry Maude Brand c1866 (ACC Grenfell, later Baron Desborough of Taplow, 10569)

Page 14 of 45 and Ethel (née Fane), important society hosts whose house-parties were attended by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. Ethel (Ettie) Grenfell was the centre of an intellectual group known as the Souls, whose members included Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, Lord Curzon and Wilfred Scawen Blunt. The photographs depict the heyday of the Edwardian age before peace was shattered by the First World War, which claimed two of the couple’s sons, one of whom was Julian Grenfell the war poet.

Ettie’s uncle was Francis Thomas de Grey, seventh earl Cowper (1834-1905), hence the presence of papers of an earlier Countess, Emily Mary (Amelia) Lamb (1787-1869), a leader of fashionable society in Regency times. They concern a dispute over Emily’s diamonds (some given by George, Prince of Wales), that arose after the death of her husband in 1837. Two years later Emily married her former long-term lover Lord Palmerston, to the disapproval of certain sections of society, but not Queen Victoria, who wished the somewhat elderly couple well.

We were able to obtain a photocopy of a conveyance of the advowsons of Great Sampford and Hempstead in Essex by John Hammond, the last Abbot of Battle, to Robert Mordaunt in 1536, a transaction carried out only two years before Hammond’s surrender of his house to Henry VIII’s commissioners (10670). The Gwynne family of Folkington and Wootton Manor are represented by 19th-century plans of alterations to Wootton, and family papers, including the purchase of the estate in 1876 by James Eglinton Anderson Gwynne (10696).

Papers of the Seligman family of Emily Cowper’s diamonds, including a Shoyswell Manor in Etchingham, feathered hair ornament (bottom left), the and London, link the county to gift of George, Prince of Wales (ACC the banking community and the 10575) legal profession (10852). Isaac Seligman (1834-1928) was born in Bavaria, and at the age of 23 joined his elder brothers in America, where they had founded the merchant banking house J and W Seligman and Co in 1846. Isaac went on to run the London branch, Seligman Brothers, with his brother Leopold. In January 1869 he married Lina Messel (1851-1925), the sister of the stockbroker Ludwig Messel (1847-1915) who in 1890 purchased the Nymans estate, now a National Trust property. In the 1890s the couple bought Shoyswell Manor in Etchingham for the benefit of Lina’s health. The archive contains a fine watercolour of the

Page 15 of 45 property by their daughter Ouida, who married Harry Reginald Lewis in 1896. Harry, himself a well known lawyer, was a nephew and partner of the famous barrister Sir George Henry Lewis, a friend and confidant of Edward VII, Oscar Wilde and Edward Burne-Jones. We were able to borrow family photographs for scanning, which included Harry and Ouida Lewis at their rented home Northease in Iford, and a rare depiction of Jewish refugee children at Glyndebourne in 1939.

Our holdings reflect all sections of local society. Letters of the Stevens family of Willingdon were found in a skip after a house-clearance. Frances Stevens was a teacher at Upperton Congregational Church in Eastbourne, her husband Ben an architect who played the organ at the same church; their children variously became a nurse, a missionary in China, and an engineer and conscientious objector during the Second World War (10972).

It is gratifying when an initial deposit leads to further material. Jim Richards (1866-1949), of Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells, was a Methodist lay preacher, whose scrapbook is a good source for Hailsham Methodist Church in the 1880s and 1890s (10854). His day-job was canvas netmaking, carried out at home, and he later ran a bookseller’s, stationer’s and newsagent’s business in Tunbridge Wells with his wife Amy. After we expressed an interest, the donor found additional material including a photograph of the similar shops run by his father-in-law Edwin Isaac Baker in Hailsham High Street. Edwin was a noted local photographer and we already hold two of his albums, but had been puzzled by their abrupt end in 1897. The mystery is cleared up by the new deposit: Isaac stopped capturing images of his native Sussex when he moved to Tunbridge Wells with his daughter in the late 1890s.

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The A27 in quieter days is illustrated in an engraving and photographs of Ashcombe, spanning 1826 to about 1920, which belonged to the owners, the Sturgeon family (10659). Reminscences are also valuable in conjuring earlier times, and those of Norman Godden of Beckley tell us of village life and hop- picking in the 1940s and 1950s (10635). Papers and photographs of Gertrude Ellen Gray (née Winter; 1896-1985), show the Uckfield Carnival (above) early in the 20th century (10625). There was also a significant further deposit of papers of Erica Gertrude Levett, of Court Lodge Farm, Bodiam, dating from the 1890s to the 1950s (10644).

A number of local organisations deposited with us, some of them for the first time. The De La Warr Pavilion, an important player on the arts scene, sent several crates of programmes and other records, some of which pre-date the reopening of the Pavilion in 2005 (10599). Lewes is represented by the Caburn Housing Cooperative (10808), Lewes District Volunteer Action (10613), the Lewes Little Theatre (10597), the Monday Literary Club (107930), the League of Friends for the Victoria Hospital (10860), Lewes Play Council (10839) and the Waterloo Bonfire Society (10885).

From the other end of the county come the records of the Robertsbridge and District Archaeological Society, founded in 1962 at Robertsbridge Secondary Modern School by a couple of very young enthusiasts whose history teacher had the foresight to encourage their interest (10615). One has gone on to become one of the country’s leading experts in vernacular buildings and a tireless supporter of the office. On a maritime note, the Sussex Association of Naval Officers added minutes and other records to the already considerable archive mentioned in last year’s report (10532).

A depositor in Australia generously offered us a deed of 1666 relating to Waningore Park in Chailey (10874). It turned out to be a 500-year lease at a

Page 17 of 45 peppercorn rent of a right of passage to the park, and mentions an entrance- gate which had recently been built by the Lewes lawyer John Raynes. It complements beautifully a map showing the same area plotted by Robert Whitpaine in 1661, the year Raynes bought the park, which even shows the gate mentioned in the deed (AMS 4809). We also received weighty bundles of deeds dating from the 18th century for The Mill House, Northiam (10798), and 54 High Street, Robertsbridge (10641). Unfortunately a large proportion of the deeds held by the Mayfield solicitors Sprott and Sons were destroyed during a major clear-out in the 1960s, but we were glad to receive the remnant which had been saved from the debris by a concerned member of staff (10834).

There have been additions to our extensive holdings of school records, including some dating from 1863 for Holy Cross CP School, Uckfield (10648). We visited Bodiam Manor School after it closed in 2010, a victim of the recession, and took away surviving records – the owners had been there since only 1999 (10645). Anglican and nonconformist churches are well represented. Among the large deposit from Christ Church United Reformed and Methodist Church (the former Lewes Tabernacle), were records of the Cliffe Old Chapel, Chapel Hill (10544). These included a copy of an 1814 plan of the chapel, which was established by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, in 1775. The East Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes has continued to ensure that we retain our position as the largest holder of WI records in the country.

This report has of necessity to be selective; a full list of the year’s accessions is given as an appendix. It concentrates on new material, the processing of which involves much of our time, leaving little space to deal with the other work of the section. We have continued our involvement with the lottery- funded project Pestalozzi - 50 Years in East Sussex, which has been delayed on account of major building works at the village. Christopher Whittick has undertaken pre-Keep preparation with John Farrant, ensuring that our large holdings from the Sussex Archaeological Society are entered on the CALM database. Work on the archive of the Hastings solicitors Young, Coles and Langdon has been ongoing since 2007 because of its size and conservation needs – practically all had to be freeze-dried to kill extensive mould-growth – but listing is now complete. The archive of the former Temple Grove School at Herons Ghyll was another considerable task, and the imminence of the celebration of the bi-centenary of the school’s foundation in 1810 provided the incentive for Anna Manthorpe to complete the catalogue, which runs to 79 pages in hard copy. Old Temple Grovians remember their school with great affection, and the event was celebrated in style in London, accompanied by a display of the school’s records from ESRO.

We have continued to run an evening session for volunteers working on probate records, and have a small but loyal band of helpers. The new databases we are creating record not only the name of the testator but also the names of witnesses, the date of probate and the value of the estate; later registers even include the date of death. In some instances only the name of the testator’s parish is recorded, but some wills enable us to identify the name or a more detailed location of their home. The discovery of the names of some

Page 18 of 45 inns and the ships on which mariners were serving has been particularly exciting. It can be difficult to resist the temptation to read the wills, especially when the eye is caught by items such as ‘the parrot in the glass case’. But on the whole, in the interests of completing the project, we control our desire to read all. Although comparatively small in number, the associated probate inventories have also been listed together with the names of the appraisers and the value of the goods recorded.

Anyone who has searched for a will in the maze of differing probate jurisdictions will appreciate the potential of this project. Many people besides the testator were involved in the probate process – witnesses, executors, sureties and valuers – and the probate archive includes a large number of ‘hidden’ series – bonds, commissions to administer oaths, renunciations. Revealing the mysteries of these documents, and the vast numbers of personal names which they contain, will be another lasting legacy of the project.

This is a good opportunity to give grateful thanks to all volunteers and everyone else who has contributed to our work this year: depositors for keeping the records rolling in, FESRO and other financial backers for providing often essential funding and support, and Ian Hilder and other monitors for acting as our eyes and ears in both conventional and electronic markets.

The will of Mary Mepham of Mayfield, undated but in the bundle for 1628 (PBT 2/2/5/35).

In vernacular Sussex with spellings to match, it was probably written by one of the witnesses, who refer to themselves in the first person. The use of lower-case gives the document a somehow contemporary feel.

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The Newhaven element of the Sheffield Park estate, 1814 (ACC 10528)

Work in Brighton and Hove It was with sadness that we learned of the closure of Ovingdean Hall School for deaf children (formerly Brighton Institute for the Deaf and Dumb) in July 2010; the school was opened in 1841 and was one of Brighton’s oldest institutions. We are indebted to the University of Sussex Deaf Studies team who put the school’s trustees in contact with ESRO. A brief meeting ensured that the archive came to us and we were delighted to add to it to our holdings (AMS 6926). The papers, which contain annual reports, minutes, and registers giving the name of every pupil admitted, are a rich source for local historians, genealogists and historians of Deaf Studies. Much of the more recent information in this archive is subject to the Data Protection Act and available only to the former pupil to whom it relates.

The generosity of FESRO allowed us to buy two more documents relating to schooling in Brighton: the commonplace and autograph book of Harriet Hindes (1850-1933), a pupil at the Diocesan Training College in the early 1870s (AMS 6894) which includes the signatures of her teachers and fellow pupils and a photograph album showing sports teams and building interiors at Roedean School in the closing years of the First World War (AMS 6935). The photos are of exceptional quality and give a clear idea of the impressive but utilitarian accommodation in which the girls lived and learned.

They are in stark contrast to the painting by Thomas Read Kemp’s second daughter, Caroline Kemp, showing her comfortable bedroom at 22 Sussex Square, Brighton (AMS 6943/4/6). Dating from 1834, the painting is perfectly preserved with colours apparently as vibrant as they were 170-odd years ago.

Page 20 of 45 In the same lot, purchased with the help of FESRO, we found an engraving entitled ‘Kemp esq of Kemp Town’ showing Thomas Read Kemp in about 1825 and, almost incredibly, this very same image can be seen in Caroline’s painting hanging above her chest of drawers. This material is almost certainly from the estate of Yvonne Dale, the late widow of the renowned historian of Brighton, Antony Dale, the more obviously noteworthy parts of whose collection were sold at Gorringes. I attended the auction and left emptyhanded and dejected as the lots we had hoped to buy reached stratospheric prices. Caroline Kemp’s painting and the other items in the same lot were not deemed worthy of Gorringes, but passed on to their weekly sale at Garden Street. There they were bought by a friendly dealer who offered them to us at a very generous price which more than compensated for my earlier disappointment. This beautifully illustrates the fact that the market value of an item doesn’t always reflect its worth to the archivist.

In December we received more sketches, this time of a topographical nature, of various locations from Littlehampton to Hastings, drawn in 1851 and 1852 (ACC 10814). Examples are shown below.

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The entrance to Hastings from the London Road drawn by an unknown artist in 1851 (ACC 10814)

The designs of John Gilkes, wallpaper stainer and producer of decorative plasterwork, were also far from utilitarian and, yet again, we have FESRO to thank for enabling us to purchase a series of his designs for plasterwork (ACC 10546). A short history of Gilkes’ firm appears in a directory of businesses in Brighton produced in 1911 to commemorate the coronation of George V (AMS 6686/2/2/5) which also shows the interior of his shop at 146 North Street, Brighton. Gilkes designed plasterwork for clients at a number of impressive local addresses including The Old Ship Hotel, the Burlington Hotel and 33 Adelaide Crescent, Hove.

Many of these drawings do not carry full addresses but give only the names of the house for which the designs were commissioned. One is for ‘Carisbrooke’, a name shared by five houses in the area. One of these was situated at 175 Preston Road which was the home of Joseph Sykes (c1812-1905), writer and philanthropist. Sykes moved to Brighton from Hull in 1844 and married Sarah Marie Huggett, who was his junior by 36 years, in 1880. Sykes’ papers came to us from Brighton Library in 1984 and I was unaware of them until I came across them while researching an enquiry about Preston. I took the opportunity to list the papers (now AMS 6944) and whilst sorting through them came across two small booklets that appeared to have nothing more in common with Sykes than the shared provenance of Brighton Library.

These papers were the property of Henry Hudson (1798-1879) of Portslade (AMS 6942) who was the bailiff of Hugh Fuller, a farmer of local importance who is shown on the tithe apportionments as the owner of 650 acres in Portslade and Aldrington, predominantly the latter. Hudson was clearly respected by his employer who remembered him generously in his will, in which he apologised for being ‘peevish and sullen without real cause but have always reproached myself for it afterwards’. Hudson’s diary covers the years 1836 to 1843 and records such events as the celebrations marking the coronation of Queen Victoria, the progress of the Hove to Shoreham railway through Aldrington and, more prosaically but no less interestingly, the names

Page 22 of 45 of local teenagers whom the vicar had asked Hudson to admonish for their behaviour in church which the clergyman considered a ‘Sin against God’.

The land in Aldrington referred to, and no doubt walked over, by Henry Hudson was gradually developed from the end of the nineteenth century and is now known for the desirable residential area called Poets’ Corner. During the 1940s the Wickham family lived at 74 Addison Road; the family’s daughter Connie was the recipient of numerous letters from her eventual 26 husband Arthur Brownings (ACC 10674). Brownings served with the Royal Signals throughout the Second World War and saw service in France, Eritrea, Egypt, Italy and eventually Holland. He married Connie Wickham in July 1945 and a recurrent theme of the letters is their difficulty of arranging a wedding and setting up a new home under wartime, or immediately post-war, conditions. He also describes his growing frustration with the military authorities for not demobbing him earlier; one letter states ‘We have been dumped here [a reception centre in Huddersfield] and many of us being spare we are getting taken out on route marches as far as a few streets away and then told not to go near the billet until a certain time. From then on we make our way around the town, get a cup of coffee ... and generally fritter away the time’.

Ennui and discomfort would almost certainly have been constant companions to Charles Palmer, the landlord of the Thatched House pub, Brighton, on his journey from Brighton to New Zealand via Plymouth and Melbourne in 1866/67 to visit his sons, Tom and Charlie, who had emigrated nine years earlier. Palmer wrote letters and notes which he compiled retrospectively into a journal (AMS 6949). Most people planning a trip to New Zealand in 2011 would consider the 24-hour journey so long and expensive that it would not be worth contemplating for a visit of less than two to three weeks. Palmer left Plymouth on 27 October 1866 and arrived at Hobson’s Bay, Melbourne, Australia, on 13 January 1867. He does not give exact dates for his arrival and departure at New Zealand, but since the journey from Melbourne took about nine days it is likely that he spent no longer than three weeks in the country. Palmer clearly had trouble tearing himself away from his sons but the prospect of seeing his wife again and his duties at the Thatched House brought him back to Brighton where he arrived safely in May or early June 1867.

The Thatched House stood on Black Lion Street, Brighton, and was bought by Tamplins before being sold to Brighton Corporation in 1939 (BH/G/2/770). We hold a large archive of Tamplin and Sons but far less for the Kemp Town Brewery, so a deposit of company records made by a former member of staff (AMS 6919) was very welcome. These papers include promotional material describing, and in some cases showing, the pubs owned by the company.

Even in these days of economic decline and heavy taxation on alcohol, Brighton still has more than its fair share of pubs. In the nineteenth century, the number was even higher and alcohol dependency appears as a theme throughout the records of the Mendicity Society. The archive of this body (later the Charity Organisation Society and now Brighton Money Advice and

Page 23 of 45 Community Support) came to us via Brighton Library and as a result of the Letter In The Attic Project (formerly LIA 53, now AMS 6930). In November 2010 I decided to list the applications for relief in detail to record the names and stories of the poor people making them. Unfortunately only just over 200 files have survived but they go some way to fill the gap left by the missing Brighton Workhouse registers, which almost certainly sent for salvage.

By the time the Mendicity Society had been created to help support the town’s poor, the Brighton Hebrew Philanthropic Society had already been running for 26 years; it is now known as the Brighton and Hove Jewish Welfare Board. The charity was established in 1846 in response to the increased number of impecunious travellers, many of them Jewish, arriving in Brighton on the newly-opened London Brighton and South Coast Railway. Unfortunately the earliest minute books are not known to survive but records from 1933 to 2002 have been deposited with ESRO (AMS 6924). During the Second World War a refugee hostel for victims of Nazi persecution was opened in Vernon Terrace, Brighton, financed and run by the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief; many of the members of the Welfare Board were involved with its administration. Unfortunately records of this period do not survive but the archive contains much useful information relating to the applicants and the decision-making process of the charity. Given their level of detail, the charity have asked that the records be closed for 50 years; even the earlier records may be subject to the Data Protection Act.

With the closure of Ovingdean Hall in mind it is reassuring to know that many of Brighton’s older charities and clubs are still alive and well. Another venerable Brighton institution is Brighton Swimming Club, established in 1860 by a group of enthusiasts including the one-legged Captain John Henry Camp. The club is famous for its sea swimming events but also held enormously successful swimming galas at North Road Baths in 1910, 1913 and 1920. The archive contains minutes, membership records, posters of events and photographs (AMS 6946) but contacts at the club have said that items previously thought lost are beginning to appear so there may be an update in next year’s Annual Report.

Every year staff at Brighton Museum kindly redirect potential depositors to us and in September we received nine autograph books kept between 1898 and 1953 by Miss Maud Stagg, a theatrical-boarding-house owner who lived at 4 St James’s Place, Brighton (AMS 6928). Miss Stagg put up a number of well- known actors of the day and was described in a local press article as the ‘unofficial landlady to Brighton’s Theatre Royal’. Amongst the signatures are those of Michael Redgrave, Michael Holden and Sybil Thorndike, who appears to have been a regular visitor. One guest, Philippe Swinnerton, was

Page 24 of 45 so impressed he produced a comic sketch showing the dishevelled then rejuvenated appearance of himself and his wife before and after their stay at the guesthouse (below).

Conservation The year has been another busy one in Conservation. My time has been divided between conserving documents that are unfit for production, packaging and planning for the move to The Keep and managing the volunteers and students who want work experience in the studio. We haven’t had so many volunteers this year and our former regulars have been forced to take paid employment and finish off their PhDs. Last year was a bumper one for volunteers and the year to come is already shaping up to be promising for student work placements. Usually we have work-experience students who have just completed their BA in Conservation and need practice in the studio environment but I am very happy to take anyone who has an interest in caring for archival material. The training is basic but vital for the long-term preservation of our holdings.

Conserving the Unfit for Production items we hold is a very satisfying part of my work and for the last six years has given me great pleasure and a sense of achievement. To transform something be it a book, map or simple loose leaf from its worst state into a working part of the archive is tremendous. Often the reason something is unfit for production to the public is because handling it would cause irreparable losses. Some of the things I have conserved have been unfit for use for a very long time and the selection process can be difficult with so much to do. Although I try to work through the list in the order of the time they were reported unfit, a request from a member of the public usually takes precedence since our aim is to be as helpful as we can, subject to the welfare of the documents, which has to be my priority. This year saw a lot of architectural drawings come through the studio in an unfit state. Forty Hastings building plans were conserved with only one remaining unfit for

Page 25 of 45 production, and a series of beautiful but very badly damaged drawings for elements of the Folkington estate, dating from 1865 to 1885, were brought back to life and made ready for use (below).

One high-profile document that came into the studio was Tom Paine’s separation agreement from his wife Elizabeth Olive, dated 4 June 1774. It is a single sheet of hand-made laid paper with deckle edges, which at some point in its life had been attached to a sheet of lining paper. This paper was causing structural problems to the document and we decided to remove the lining. The inks were tested and proved fugitive in water, so the removal Folkington Estate plan after conservation of the backing had to be done (ACC 10696) mechanically using a scalpel. This job alone took a week and the result was astonishing. The verso revealed an inscription that was previously invisible; and the document literally fell apart. The next stage in the conservation treatment was to stabilise the loose sections of the document and repair the damage done by the lining. The new support sheet on the back was made with a section cut out to leave the inscription visible for the future. Strips of melinex now hold the conserved document to the lining sheet, leaving the tension of the document free whilst stabilised. The document was then encapsulated and a four-flap enclosure made to measure for its further protection. A long but worthwhile job was complete. Many more documents, books and maps continue to pour in for conservation work but there are too many to list them all. These are just a few which have proved significant in the year.

Paid work continues to come into the studio from organisations and private individuals, with work continuing on the Lancing College chapel drawings. This job has been ongoing since 2008 and I conserve at least ten drawings every year. Many of these drawings are very important, and are used by the current craftsmen to restore lost or damaged architectural details. Many have been damaged by mould, insects and water and prove a constant challenge to my skills as a conservator. They are mechanically cleaned, repaired using archival materials and encapsulated for long-term preservation. This year I also undertook a project for Brighton University of 40 coloured posters by McDonald ‘Max’ Gill. These were huge, some measuring 4 feet long, and had to be cleaned, flattened, repaired and encapsulated ready for framing and exhibition at the University. This was a challenging job because of the size of the posters, which entered the studio quite tightly rolled. One of my work- placement students assisted with the task as flattening them needed at least two pairs of hands. The project was extremely successful and the exhibition was received with great acclaim. Sussex University also continue to use the

Page 26 of 45 service for work on their rare books collection. Each book brings its own challenges and proves very rewarding to me as well as to the University. Other smaller jobs come through the studio but once again are simply too many to mention.

I owe a great deal of thanks to my many volunteers and hope the coming year is equally as rewarding and challenging for all of us.

Records Management Since 1997, East Sussex County Council has been contracted to provide Brighton and Hove City Council with modern records storage services. The original contract expired in August 2009 and was extended temporarily while the City Council reviewed its records management needs. In the end, the City Council was obliged to go out to tender in the autumn of 2010 and we decided not to bid since the contract was primarily for storage rather than full records management. The main focus of staff towards the end of this year was therefore to work on the closedown of the contract, the disaggregation of some 30,000 files from the larger whole, and on the future of the service.

Perhaps the Record Centre’s biggest achievement this year was the computerisation of those Social Services service user records, including those of looked-after children and adopted people, for which only card references and paper listing sheets had been available. Records have been input into the Record Centre database, speeding up the retrieval process which has led to business efficiencies and will ensure that records are more easily accessible.

The Record Centre continued to contribute to the success of the County Council’s accommodation strategy by managing records which could no longer be held by departments due to space rationalisation and office closures. So pressure on space remains as prominent a feature as ever. Each year, we take in more records than are due for destruction, and so the extension of Rebecca Cox’s contract and the appointment of Ellen Scaife to reduce the backlog of records transferred from the records management system and awaiting archive appraisal has been very welcome.

Work continued on moving over from a team-based retention schedule to a Corporate Functional Retention Schedule in line with current best practice guidelines. Considerable progress was made on the Children’s Services schedule, which will be completed in the new financial year.

As ever, work-experience placements, tours and advice were provided to people considering a career in archives and records management. We continued to meet our target of ensuring that all records are produced and returned to our customers within 24 hours of receiving the request.

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2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 20010/11 Transfers received 1,792 1,856 1,629 1,278 metres metres metres metres Transfers received: ESCC 928 m 865 m 888 m 906 m BHCC 804 m 920 m 734 m 310 m Others N/A 71 m 76 m 62 m Destruction of time- 1,328 m 1,156 m 811 m 714 m expired material Files returned to 3,629 4,528 4,373 5,534 departments

Staff and Volunteers Ellen Taylor, Senior Archivist: Records Management, successfully completed her postgraduate Diploma in Archives Studies from Aberystwyth University, which she undertook by distance learning while holding down her full-time job at the Record Centre. She is now a fully qualified archivist.

There were a few staff changes at the Record Centre during the year. In August, we said goodbye to James Painter, who had done sterling service as an agency worker, and in September we welcomed two new members of staff: Alison Ford as Deeds Clerk and Anne Evans as Records Clerk, job- sharing with Georges Reynolds. We were pleased to be able to fund the extension of Rebecca Cox’s contract as Appraisal Archivist and the short-term appointment in October of a second part-time appraisal archivist, Ellen Scaife, to further reduce the backlog of records awaiting archive appraisal. At the end of the year, we were also able to employ short-term agency staff, Maimuna Jammeh and Danielle Humphries, to improve access to adoption records.

We remain most grateful for the contribution made by our growing band of volunteers. In 2010/11 we had 38 volunteers who contributed over 3,000 hours to the Record Office. They carry out work that would not otherwise be possible, including listing and indexing and assisting with conservation and outreach work and running FESRO. 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 was involved in the negotiations to merge the organisation into the new Archives and Records Association; as a member of the National Council on Archives; the Renaissance South East Surrey East and West regional sub-panel; and as a trustee of Rye Museum. Christopher Whittick became chairman of the Sussex Historic Churches Trust and served on the editorial board of Sussex Archaeological Collections, the Bodiam Castle Management Committee, as a trustee of the Westgate Chapel in Lewes and of the Tom Paine Project. He taught palaeography and administrative history for the University of Sussex, at the Latin and

Page 28 of 45 palaeography summer school at Keele and on the UCL archives course, and was interviewed on the subject by Lisa Tarbuck on Radio 2. He is a Vice- President of the Sussex Archaeological Society, and his article on the history of St Nicholas Hospital in Lewes appeared in its journal this year. 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.

Friends of the East Sussex Record Office FESRO has had a very lively year, in which our activities ranged from involvement in planning for the Keep, via the provision of both learning and recreation for our members, to the contribution of over £16,700 towards the purchase of 48 groups of documents many and various, ranging from the splendid survey of the Sheffield Park estate (covered elsewhere in this report) to a centenary History of Rotherfield Methodist Church, snapped up on eBay for £2.90. We are proud to have made it possible for the Record Office to become such an effective presence in the saleroom, and we continue to be grateful to Ian Hilder for his essential work of monitoring eBay and negotiating with vendors.

But the greatest vote of thanks must go to Pam Combes, who stood down from the office of chairman at the Annual General Meeting in March 2011 after holding the post for seven years. Under her leadership, FESRO has developed the closest possible links with the Record Office, and her willingness to get involved, not just in the running and promotion of FESRO but by participation in its projects and events, has been the defining aspect of her time in the chair. As if to underline that point, Pam continues to serve as editor of the FESRO Newsletter.

At the AGM Lady Teviot was elected to the chair, and two new trustees to the committee: Stanley Bernard, who takes over as administrative secretary, and Diana Hansen, who has recently completed a second degree at the University of Sussex and brings to FESRO a wealth of experience gained as a senior civil servant. After the business meeting, Christopher Whittick gave an illustrated lecture on the project to complete the Sussex element of the Manorial Documents Register, on which he is to embark at the end of the year.

Three very successful visits took place in the year under review.

Page 29 of 45 In May a small group of hardy individuals from East and West Sussex met in a car park in Steyning for the joint meeting of WSAS and FESRO. The walk was led by Janet Pennington, author of Steyning Scandals – Secrets of a Sussex Market Town 1547-1947. For those of us who had not already read it, the walk was better than an audio book. For Janet not only knows the village like the back of her hand but enjoys telling you about it.

Sunshine smiled upon us as we met with the Friends of Isfield Church for our joint visit to the church and Isfield Place on 17 July. Christopher Whittick opened the proceedings by disabusing us of any lingering ideas we might have had that there was once a village surrounding the isolated church. The simple early building, possibly represented by the aisle of the present church, lay close to the original Isfield manor house, situated within a substantial moated site that lies between the church and the river Ouse. As it does today, the church served both the manor and the other dwellings that lay dispersed about the large Wealden parish.

The most striking feature of the church is the the Shurley chapel (below), which occupied a south transept, where the presence of the family memorials overwhelms all else. During the 1760s one of the most significant pieces of Romanesque sculpture in England, the Tournai marble grave slab of Gundrada de Warenne from Lewes Priory, was found to have been used as a base for the memorial to Edward Shurley, who died in 1558. In 1775 the grave slab was returned to Southover church, where it can still be seen.

Led by our hosts, the party left the church and made its way over the fields to Isfield Place, where we enjoyed refreshing tea and biscuits in the fine 18th-century barn. Skirting the largely Victorian domestic ranges built by the King family we walked through the gardens created in part within what had once been the principal rooms of the Tudor mansion. Climbing the surviving, but later embellished, wall turrets, we were able to observe how three of them, lying to the west of the house, had been incorporated into the line of gun emplacements built to defend the Ouse valley during the 1939-1945 war.

Taking advantage of its capacious car park, some 30 Friends gathered in the Heritage Room of the Star Inn on Sunday 26 September. Our guide Juliet Clarke has researched documents at ESRO and elsewhere for 20 years, and as I write the publication of her book, tracing its medieval and early modern development, is imminent.

Juliet began by revealing that a recent architectural analysis of the Star by David and Barbara Martin had chimed in with her own research to establish

Page 30 of 45 that the structure was almost certainly rebuilt as an inn about 1480 by John Archer, whose family were powerful traders in Exeter. Reinforced by an excellently conceived map, Juliet’s tour examined the topographical evidence for key features of the market town’s development: the Saxon river crossing serving the Downland highway; the Norman north/south route linking the Weald with the sea coast; the changing function of the Tye, Alfriston’s green space; the origins of the Clergy House; the encroachments of the market place, and the location of Battle Abbey’s curia and demesne farmhouse.

After this brisk and well structured tour, the return to tea in the Heritage Room was a final bonus.

When the last Annual Report appeared a year ago, the weekly volunteer wills workshop, carried out by ESRO staff, members of FESRO and other volunteers, was well under way. In the intervening twelve months, we have completed the records both of the Deanery of South Malling and the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Battle, and have made great inroads into the much larger archive of the Archdeaconry of Lewes.

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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 Archive Assistants Izabella Bicsak-Snitter Andrew Lusted (p/t) Sarah Jackson (p/t) Andrew Boulton General/Technical Assistant David Calvert 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 (from September) Deeds Clerk Alison Ford (from September) Senior Records Clerk, Brighton & Hove Vacant Records Clerk, Brighton & Hove Gary Hook Appraisal Archivists (p/t) Rebecca Cox MA Ellen Scaife (from December) Records Management Officer David Myers

Other Programme Manager, The Keep Wendy Walker BA Freedom of Information Officer Jane Bartlett BA Museum Development Officer Helen Derbyshire BA, MA

Page 32 of 45 Appendix 2 – East Sussex Accessions A list of the principal East Sussex accessions received between April 2010 and the end of March 2011. 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.

Contents:

County Council: ...... 33 Sussex Police Authority: ...... 34 Health Authorities and Hospitals:...... 34 River, Water and Sewerage Authorities:...... 34 Other Public Authorities: ...... 34 Borough and District Councils:...... 34 Parish and Town Councils: ...... 35 Ecclesiastical Parishes: ...... 35 Other Churches: ...... 35 Schools (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes):...... 36 Solicitors: ...... 36 Other business records:...... 36 Estate and Family: ...... 37 Charities: ...... 38 Clubs, societies and associations: ...... 38 Maps and plans: ...... 39 Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and family):...... 39 Other records:...... 40

County Council:  Adult Social Care: Strategy and Division Commission, records including Age Well Project, 2006-2007 (10629)  Chairman’s Office, papers including receptions and engagements, 2004-2009 (10845)  Communications Team: press releases; intranet news; 2000-2010 (10561)  Corporate Resources: mortgages to other local authorities, 1958-1961 (10838)  Hastings and St Leonards Excellence Cluster, records, 2006-2010 (10697)  Leslie Sidney Jay, County Planning Officer, transparencies, c1950- 1974 (10857)  Libraries: deed of house at Eastbourne, 1642, found at Eastbourne Library (10545)  Social Services: Adult Social Care, Beaconwood Unit, records, 2005- 2010 (10698); records including minutes of Staff and Senior Care Officers; closure of Ridgewood Rise, 2004-2008 (10844)  Transport and Environment: aerial photographs, 1960s - 1970s, and architectural models of Newhaven Harbour, Hastings by-pass, and

Page 33 of 45 Eastbourne Park, c1970-1990 (10867); photographs and plans of Asham House, Beddingham, 1991-1994 (10576); two watercolours showing the proposed Lewes Relief Road at Phoenix Causeway, by EJ Thring, c1965 (10582); County Archaeologist, measured drawings of Winchelsea Greyfriars, 1984-1986, and the former broadcasting station at Kings Standing, Withyham, 1999-2000 (10587)

Sussex Police Authority:  ‘D’ Division duty reports (3), 1896 (10557)  Records, 1950-1995, including charge and cell registers for Lewes Police Station, 1950-1965 (10601)

Health Authorities and Hospitals:  Chailey Heritage, postcards, 1920s (10799)  Hellingly Hospital, records including staffing, 20th century

River, Water and Sewerage Authorities:  Heathfield and District Water Company, photograph of offices at High Street, Burwash, decorated for the coronation, [1953] (10686)  East Sussex River Board and Sussex River Authority, reports, 1951- 1974 (10639)  Environment Agency, tracing of map of Pevensey Levels by William Figg (1818), c1900 (10649)

Other Public Authorities:  East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service manuals, monthly amendments, 2009-2010 (10533); Brigade Management Team agendas, papers and minutes, 2000-2003 (10637); minutes, 2004-2005 (10662)  Learning Skills Council, minutes, 2001-2010 (10619

Borough and District Councils:  Eastbourne Borough Council: records including building control plans (including Hampden Park, East Dean, Westham and Willingdon), with related registers, 1892-1993 (10653)  Hailsham Rural District Council, areas where air raid shelters may be distributed, c1939 (10595)  Hastings Borough Council, maps of listed buildings, street naming, house numbering and Second World War bomb damage, 1951 (10550)  Lewes Borough Council: photographs showing the construction of the Lewes outfall sewer, 1912 (10680)  Rother District Council, printed reports, c1989-1994 (10825)  Wealden District Council: minutes of the Planning Sub-Committees North and South, 2005-2009 (10527); photographs by Geoffrey Kavanagh of traditional building materials as part of the Lewes Town Flint Walls Survey, c1990-2000 (10563)

Page 34 of 45 Parish and Town Councils:  East Hoathly with Halland Parish Council, records, 19th-20th century (10660)  Newhaven Town Council, scanned copies of photographs of a visit to the former Newhaven Union workhouse, 2010 (10684)  Rye, certificate that none in the town is possessed of land worth £40, 1547 (10858)

Ecclesiastical Parishes:  Bexhill St Augustine, marriage register, 1992-2003 (10663); marriage register, 2003-2006 (10836)  Ditchling, Streat and Westmeston, plans, 1947-1971 (10617)  Herstmonceux, Eastbourne Christ Church, Stone Cross with North Langney and Westham, marriage registers, 1984-2009 (10841)  Herstmonceux, papers of George Elliott concerning the restoration of the Dacre tomb, [1449]-2010 (10833)  Hollington St Leonard, records, 1963-2008, including marriage register, 1999-2006 (10794)  Icklesham, marriage register, 1990-1998 (10796); marriage register, 1998-2008 (10636)  Kingston, records, 1968-2003 (10870)  Newhaven, marriage and banns register, 1981-2010 (10821)  Penhurst: banns register 1856-1956, service registers 1879-1975 (10596)  Rotherfield, marriage register, 2008-2010 (10664)  Salehurst, records (addnl), 17th cent-c2000  Uckfield, records, 1845-c2000 (10529)  Wilmington, abstract of title to the manor of Wilmington, [1835]-1839 (10591)  Wivelsfield, PCC minutes and parish magazines, 1918-2009 (10618); records, 1966-2007 (10807)

Other Churches:

Baptist:  Mayfield, West Street Baptist Chapel, marriage register, 1971-1995 (10699)  Seaford Baptist Church, records, c1901-2002 (10815)

Independent:  Eastbourne, Kings Centre, marriage register, 2005-2009 (10842)  Lewes, Jireh Chapel, publications of William Huntington, c1790-1804 (10630)

Methodist:  Burgess Hill Church, baptism register, 1923-1982; marriage registers, 1955-1995 (10657)

Page 35 of 45  Haywards Heath Methodist Church, records including Church Council minutes, 1989-2004 (10673)  Hurstpierpoint Church, records, 1889-1997 (10643)  Newhaven Methodist Church, marriage register, 2001-2005 (10822)  Rotherfield Methodist Church, centenary booklet, 1979 (10665)

United Reformed:  Lewes, Christ Church United Reformed and Methodist Church, including Lewes Tabernacle, records, 1817-2009 (10544)  Sussex East District Council minutes, 1992-2007 (10590)

Schools (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes):  Bexhill County Grammar School for Girls, papers including school reports and Old Girls’ Association newsletters, 1951-1964 (10786); Old Girls’ Association newsletters, 1958-1962 (10608)  Bexhill, Down County Secondary School for Girls, school report for Pauline Hosker, 1956 (10644)  Bexhill, Jo Roadway Chantry CP School, records including OFSTED inspection, 1996-2007 (10846)  Bodiam Manor School, records, 1960s-2010 (10645)  Eastbourne, school photographs of Eastbourne High School, 1928; The Bedwell (C of E) Central School, 1931; Willowfield Central School, 1932-1933 (10531)  Etchingham CE School, minutes, 2003-2004 (10558)  Frant CE School, records, [1830]-2000 (10875)  Lewes County School for Girls, copy of self-portrait of art teacher FE Georges, 1930; two photographs of the Millennium Reunion, 2000 (10785)  Lewes, County Secondary School for Girls, school photograph, 1926 (10690)  Seaford Adult Education Centre, minutes and brochures, 1992-2010 (10570)  Seaford, Newlands School, scarf, 1980s (10573)  Uckfield, Holy Cross CE School, records including log books and admission registers, 1863-1998 (10648)

Solicitors:  Sprott and Sons, solicitors, Mayfield, deeds, 17th-20th cent (10834)

Other business records:  Bow Windows Bookshop, 128 High Street, Lewes, records, 1960-2010 (10692)  Caffyns Ltd, The Caffyn Chronicles, 1931, and motorists’ maps, c1930 (10585)  Daniel White and Son, Hailsham, grocers, provision dealers and drapers, plan of the Waste Lands in Hailsham, Arlington and Hellingly, by William Figg, 1852 (10851)  Eastbourne Aviation Company, group photograph, 1918 (10843)

Page 36 of 45  Elphick and Son Ltd of Lewes, corn and seed merchants, 1883-1992 (10638)  EJ Nichols (Bexhill) Ltd, accounts, 1955-1982 (10650)  Gordon Head and Co Ltd, builders, Hailsham, records, 1936-1999 (10689)  FJ Parsons (Hastings) Ltd, publishers and printers, lists of staff, 1953- 1966 (10669)  Rownsons, Britannia Mill, Heathfield, retailers of sanitary earthenware, blank headed paper, 1960s (10679)  Rodmell village shop, day books, 1865-1883 (10604)  Spiral Staircase Systems, Glynde, a history of the firm and details of its projects, 2006 (10677)

Estate and Family:  Battle Abbey, copy conveyance of the advowsons of Great Sampford and Hempstead in Essex to Robert Mordaunt, 1536 (10670)  Brand of Glynde Place: scanned photograph albums, 1861-1970s (10569); plans of proposed alterations to tennis courts, and survey of Home Farm, 1910 (10541)  Burgess family, scanned photographs, mainly by Frank Burgess of Ringmer, c1890-1920 (10878)  Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922), Hindleap Lodge, Forest Row, letter to [? Thomas Charles Hunter] Hedderwick, 1900 (10688)  Collingridge, Ruth, cine film, 1930s (10797)  Courthope, of Whiligh in Ticehurst, two letters, 1875 (10694)  Cribb, Joseph, of Ditchling, sculptor and letter-cutter, correspondence with G Robert Cole of Southgate, London, 1929-1968; copies of papers relating to Anthony Gardner, bookbinder and artist, 1927-1974 (10882)  Fane, Julian, of Lewes, writer, correspondence and papers concerning his writing, 1940s – 2009 (10577)  Foster, Robert of Battle, clerk, will, 1773 (10607)  Fuller of Brightling Park, Bonhams sale catalogue, including the Brightling Park table, 2011 (10861)  Gage family of Firle, catalogue of paintings by Henry Nicolas Gage, 2010 (10584); records of the Grenfell family of Taplow Court in Berkshire, 1827 - c1940 (10575)  Godden, Norman, of Beckley, reminiscences concerning farming, 1940s-1950s (10635)  Gray, Gertrude Ellen (née Winter; 1896-1985), born in Uckfield, papers and photographs, including Uckfield Carnival, 1912-2010 (10625)  Gwynne family of Folkington Manor and Wootton Manor in Folkington, records, c1865-2009 (10696)  Hunnisett of Folkington, papers and photographs, 1918-c1965 (10562)  Jones of East Hoathly, copy family photographs of East Hoathly and area, c1860- c1920 (10568)  Levett of Court Lodge Farm, Bodiam, papers of Erica Gertrude Levett (addnl), 1890s-1950s (10655)

Page 37 of 45  Markham of Ades in Chailey, letter concerning payment for a Buhl cabinet, 1815 (10571)  Puttick, James Frederick and Beatrice Mary, 1 Burlow Cottages, Cockslow, Hellingly, papers, 1908-1964 (10816)  Ravilious: research notes of Barry and Saria Viney with collected documents concerning the life of Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), c1914- 2010 (10580)  Richards, James (Jim) of Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells, Methodist lay preacher, scrapbook and copy photographs, c1853-1950 (10854)  Rogerson family of Lewes, photographs and letters, c1850-1938 (10672)  Sclater, of Newick, history of the Sutton Hall Estate, 2010 (10864)  Seligman family of Shoyswell Manor in Etchingham, and London, watercolour of Shoyswell Manor, 1890s (10537); photographs and papers, [1762] - c2010 (10852)  Sheffield Park Estate, map book and loose papers, 1779-1821 (10528); sale catalogues, 1954-1971 (10832); John Baker-Holroyd, microfilm of letters at the William L Clements Library, University of Michigan (10879)  Stevens family of Willingdon, letters and papers, 1889-1949 (10792)  Sturgeon of Ashcombe in Lewes St Anne, photographs and postcards, [1832]-2010 (10659)  Tolley/Watson family, papers, including Jireh Chapel, c1864-1922 (10802)  Trill, John, of Dallington (1762-1835), signwriter, painter, and monumental mason, accounts, 1792-1798 (10791)  Turner, John, of Rotherfield, will, 1644 (10850) White family of Chiddingly and Berwick, family history and booklet concerning the history of cricket at the Dicker, 1977-1978 (10675)

Charities:  Alciston and Selmeston Village Hall, brief history, 1930-1988 (10652)

Clubs, societies and associations:  Action in rural Sussex, Changing Estates Project re Ditchling and Heathfield, 2008-2009 (10551)  Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (Polegate and Willingdon Branch), minutes, 2006-2009 (10863)  De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, records, 1930-2006 (10599)  East Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes: records of Wartling WI, Wannock Glen WI, Hooe WI, Brook Valley WI, Burwash WI and Warren Woodingdean WI, 1961-2010 (10560); records, 1929-2009, including Crowborough Vale WI, Newick Green WI; Heathfield Broad Oak WI, Buxted WI, Etchingham WI, Mile Oak WI, Rodmell and Southease WI, Telscombe Cliffs WI (10849); Hammerwood and Holtye WI, Rotherfield WI and Westham and Hankham WI, records, 1931- 2004 (10606); Saltdean Oval WI, Maresfield Afternoon WI and Rye Group, records, 1918-2010 (10880)

Page 38 of 45  East Sussex Scout Association: souvenir brochure of the Martlets 2007 Jamboree celebrating the East Sussex Scouting Centenary, 2007 (10695)  Glynde and Beddingham Cricket Club records including scorebooks, 1994-2010, and photographs, 1928-2003 (10887)  Lewes, Caburn Housing Cooperative, records, 1992-2002 (10808)  Lewes District Volunteer Action, records including Newhaven Volunteer Bureau and Peacehaven and Telscombe Volunteer Bureau, 1993-2008 (10613)  Lewes Little Theatre, records, 2008-2010 (10597)  Lewes, Monday Literary Club, records, 1962-2000 (10793)  Lewes Play Council, records, 2002-2009 (addnl) (10839)  Lewes, Victoria Hospital, League of Friends, records, 20th-century (10860)  Lewes, Waterloo Bonfire Society, records, 1980-2010 (10885)  Masonic: Wellington Lodge, Rye, declaration book, 1935-1969 (10534)  Northiam Horticultural Society, records, 2003-2009 (10547)  Northiam Village Hall Trust, records including minutes, 1970-1989 (10605)  Robertsbridge and District Archaeological Society, records, 1912-2004 (10615)  Seaford Choral Society, minutes, 1963-1970, 1976-1985 (10817)  Sussex Association of Naval Officers, records including minutes, 1874- 2003 (10532)  The Sussex Association for the Improvement of Agriculture, annual report, 1885 (10682)  Sussex Cricket Association: Eastbourne, Lewes and Newhaven District, minutes, 1943-1958 (10872)  Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, report on King’s Standing, Crowborough, by RG Martin, 2000, revised 2010 (10586)  Wealden Buildings Study Group, site visit notes, 2010 (10848)  WRVS Heritage Plus Project, publications, 2008-2010 (10620); records (addnl), c1940-2010 (10824)

Maps and plans:  Eastbourne, proposed eastern groyne at Langney Point, 1937 (10855)  Ewhurst, Udimore, Westfield and Brede: map of the estate of John Holman of The Beacon, Ewhurst, by T Colbran, 1768; map of the estate of Robert Mercer, esq, in Udimore, Westfield and Brede by J S Thomson of Tenterden, 1841 (10583)  Hastings, printed map of the road from London to Hastings, 1834 (10578)  Iden and Playden, estate of Walter Waters by John Stonestreet, 1735 (10567)

Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and family):  Chailey, lease of right of passage to Waningore Park, 1666 (10874)  Chiltington and Cliffe, deeds, 1735-1883 (10549)

Page 39 of 45  Hamsey, The Place at Worth, 1468 (10640)  Hastings, including 9 Vale Road, 7 West Street, and 11 and 12 Priory Avenue, 1839-1896 (10588)  Hastings, including 143 Perth Road, Hollington, 1884-1926; Eastbourne, land in Hartfield Square, 1886-1890 (10646)  Lewes, 37 New Road; 7 and 8 Nevill Road, Crowborough; land in New Alexandra Road, Uckfield; 13 Milton Road, Eastbourne; 1889-1959 (10810); Lewes, 14 High Street, 1611-1771 (10830); 8 Cleve Terrace, [1870]-1915 (10829); part of a messuage in the Cliffe occupied by Richard Green, 1716 (10789)  Northiam, The Mill House, [1724]-1968 (10798)  Playden, Churchfield, part of The Lodge estate, [1921]-1952 (10859)  Robertsbridge, 54 High Street, [1765]-1885 (10641)  Warbleton, Frost Cottage, [1592-1968] (10647)

Other records:  Barcombe, article “A Century of Farming at Barcombe” by John Cornwell, c2010 (10626)  Beckley, scanned photographs including Sergeant W Anthony, Beckley village policeman, c1930; Beckley Home Guard, 1943 (10868)  Civil Defence, Eastbourne Division, magazine, 1965 (10556)  Clarke’s Mid-Sussex Directory and Yearbook (includes Ditchling and Wivelsfield), 1888-1955 (10819)  Deeds and papers, c1840-1908, including an engraving of proposed development, Warrior Square, St Leonards, c1840; list of pupils, Southdown House, Lewes, 1900 (10600)  DVD Thomas Paine; the most valuable Englishman ever; written and presented by Kenneth Griffith (10642)  Fairwarp Village Hall, papers, 2003-2009; Fairwarp Echo, c1990-2011 (addnl) (10847)  Flimwell, CD of postcards of Flimwell, 1913-1933 (10803)  Glynde, drawing of Glynde Place by Marjorie Hoare, 1940 (10592)  Hadlow Down, specifications and plans for a house at Hadlow Down, 1965-1967 (10572)  Hastings, programmes of the Gaiety Theatre, 1910 (10610); photographs, 1922-1929 (10862)  Heathfield Fair (Cuckoo Fair), catalogue of store and dairy cattle, 1945 (10700)  Icklesham Post Office, photograph, c1930; Anne Cottage, Hadlow Down, deed, 1922 (10693)  Lewes, bills issued by the Star Inn, also the Kings Head Inn, Cuckfield, 1811-1816; photocopy print of Newhaven bridge, 1801 (10554)  Lewes Bonfire programmes, 2010 (10790)  Lewes, lantern slides, including the Jireh Chapel Sunday School and the Ragged School, c1890-1895 (10564)  Local Act for repairing the road from Hurst Green to Burwash, 1808 (10552)

Page 40 of 45  Phillips, M, autograph book, 1906-1912 (10559) Photographs including Hastings, Ditchling and Plumpton, 1928-1935 (10809)  Piddinghoe, Court House Farm sale particulars, 1879-1882 (10788)  Printed history of the exploitation of natural gas at Heathfield, of Gas Companies in the Eastern Weald and the fraudulent practices of Edward Eaton, 1875-1928 (10612)  Raynes, the Rev Thomas of Waldron, letter, 1833; letter concerning Phillip Standing, pensioner of the Royal Artillery, 1839; copy will of Samuel Fyson, of Brighton and London, 1849 (10837)  Ringmer, scanned postcard of a Ringmer wedding, c1910 (10538)  Rotherfield, sale particulars of Lincey’s and Drawford estate, Rotherfield, 1885 (10678)  Rye, records including a photograph of Camber Sands, 1923 (10827)  Saunders, Don, photocopy postal history of Rotherfield, 19-20th cent (10835)  Slides showing Sussex views, c1965-1975 (10666)  Life in Telscombe Village, 1904-2004: a photographic record of Telscombe residents, 2008 (10654)  Walls, Charles, books presented whilst a student at Lewes Ragged School, 1911-1915 (10804)  Wedgwood, Pamela, papers concerning a planning dispute regarding a solar panel, 2000-2002 (10574)

Page 41 of 45 Appendix 3 – Brighton and Hove Accessions A list of the principal Brighton and Hove accessions received between April 2010 and the end of March 2011. 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.

Contents

Brighton and Hove City Council:...... 42 Health Authorities and Hospitals:...... 42 Ecclesiastical Parishes: ...... 42 Other Churches: ...... 42 Schools (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes):...... 43 Solicitors: ...... 43 Other business records:...... 43 Estate and Family: ...... 43 Charities: ...... 44 Clubs, societies and associations: ...... 44 Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and Family): ...... 44 Other records:...... 44

Brighton and Hove City Council:  Photograph albums showing Brighton Borough Council Safety in Action weeks, 1992-1995 (10865)

Health Authorities and Hospitals:  St Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath: annual reports, patient reception papers, chaplain's report book, c1890-c1965 (10624)

Ecclesiastical Parishes:  Bevendean, Holy Nativity, parish registers, 1957-2007 (10628)  Brighton, Chapel Royal, papers, 1920s - 1950s (10869)  Coldean, St Mary Magdalene, registers of banns, licences and building plans, 1956-c1975 (10535)  Hove, St Andrew, marriage register and parish magazines, 19th-20th century (10589)  Preston, St Alban, parish magazines and Mothers' Union records, c1950-c1970 (10795)  Preston, St Peter, notes by the Revd Charles Townsend, c1838 (10555)

Other Churches:  Brighton and Hove Methodist Circuit records, 1908-2010 (10651)

Page 42 of 45 Schools (see also Ecclesiastical Parishes):  Diocesan Training College, Brighton, student's commonplace and autograph book, 1871-1872 (10548)  Hove, official opening programme of Nevill County Secondary School, 1958 (10831)  Moulsecoomb Primary School, 1999-2004 (10787)  Ovingdean Hall School, formerly Brighton Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, records, c1840-c2010 (10622)  Roedean School, photograph album, c1919; photograph of Hove Fire Brigade, 1945 (10693)  Westlain School, Stanmer School and Falmer School, records, c1960- c2010 (10616)

Solicitors:  Attree and Cooper, letters (addnl), 1785-1846 (10540); 1787-1811 (10806); letter from  Edward Polehampton concerning his education of Thomas Attree's son, 1818 (10543)  Curwens, Waltham Abbey, Essex, client papers, 1889-1929 (10954)  Fitzhugh Gates, papers of former partner, Charles Woolley, and deeds, 16th-20th century (10611)

Other business records:  Jenner and Parker, auctioneers, book of property sales at auction, 1880-1919 (10881)  John Gilkes and Sons Ltd, Brighton, designs for plaster ceiling and wall mouldings, c1917-c1927 (10546)  Glaisyer and Kemp, chemists, Brighton, photocopies of labels, 19th century (10554); letter, 1814 (10676)  Kemp Town Brewery, Brighton, staff records, roll of honour, articles of association and company history, 1897-1965 (10603)  Ledger of an unidentified Brighton or Hove business, 1916-1923 (10623)  Southern Precision Ltd, Eastern Place, Brighton, deeds and papers, 1950s-1980s (10634)  Theatre Royal Brighton, building report; 2011 (10873); programmes, c1960-c2000 (10784); programmes, 1985-1986 (10632)  Wilmshurst, Ninian, clockmaker, receipted account for a town clock, 1757 (10581)

Estate and Family:  Kemp, Thomas Read and family, drawings and prints, c1825-1907 (10823)  Brownings, Arthur Charles of Hove, serving with the 16 AGRA [Army Group Artillery] Signal Section, letters, c1855-2006 (10674)  Graves family of Preston, papers and photographs including deeds of land purchased by LB&SCR from Brighton Grammar, 1890s-1950s (10539)

Page 43 of 45  Gurr, Bertram, school teacher of Brighton, Laughton and Ringmer, papers, c1905-c1930 (10614)  Palmer, Charles, of Brighton, transcript of journal recording his journey from Blenheim, New Zealand, to Gravesend, Kent, 1867 (10820)  Parsons, Captain Robert Henderson, MC and Sergeant John Parsons, letters, 1915-c1945 (10883)  Phillips, Kathleen of Croydon, evacuee, recollections, 1939-1940 (10579)  Seelig, Franziska, 22 Tivoli Crescent, Brighton, copy will and associated papers, 1968-1970 (10631)  Woodhead family of Brighton, memoir, c1900 (10685)

Charities:  Brighton and Hove Jewish Welfare Board, minutes, annual reports and correspondence, 1933-2006 (10633)

Clubs, societies and associations:  Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society Field Unit, field notebooks, 2007-2008 (10818)  Brighton and Hove Camera Club, minutes, programmes, newsletters and prints, 1896 and 2005-2009 (10783)  Brighton Rotary Club, minutes and monthly newsletters, 1980-1982 (10668)  Brighton Swimming Club, records including minutes, 1860-2007 (10812)  Masonic: Temple Lodge, Brighton, records, 1959-2006 (10656)  North Portslade Community Newspaper, 2008-2010 (10593)

Title deeds (see also Solicitors, and Estate and Family):  Brighton, conveyance of land in Rock Gardens, [1791]-1819 (10667)  Brighton, properties in Carlyle Street, Toronto Terrace and Hollingdean Terrace, 1901-1937 (10691)  Brighton, 62 Church Street and 14a Ship Street, 1846-1971 (10866)  Brighton, 8 Grafton Streeet, Brighton, [1819]-1878 (10588); mortgage of 8 Grafton Street, and Marehill, Pulborough, West Sussex, 2 Jul 1867 (10609)  Brighton, Hove, Lewes, Seaford, Wadhurst, Peacehaven and Portslade, deeds, [1742]-1980 (10530)  Brighton, 14 Surrey Street, [1750]-1960 (10800)  Brighton, deeds, [1851]-1999 (10683)  Hove, 28 Albany Villas, 1856-1918 (10598)  Hove, 1 The Green, Barrowfield Lodge Estate, lease, 1936 (10877)  Ovingdean, photocopy deeds and papers relating to Sea Dene, 15 Beacon Hill, [1910]-1957 (10661)

Other records:  Autograph book of music hall stars visiting Brighton, 1940s-1950s (10886)

Page 44 of 45  Brighton and Eastbourne theatre programmes, c1920-1966 (10594); 1943-1982 (10840)  Delamotte, William Alfred, copies of paintings of St Nicholas Church, Brighton, and other local scenes, 1853 (10813)  Etchings of Brighton by Colonel R C Goff, c1890 (10828)  Falmer, letter concerning repairs to Falmer Farm, 1762 (10805)  Hook, Mrs Clara, of Brighton, identity and rationing cards, with leaflets, postcards and handbills relating to places and events in Eastbourne and Lewes (10627)  Jackman's Library, 252 Portland Road, Hove, handbill, c1930 (10826)  Kemp, Grover, Brighton, letter to Stephen Moriarty, Dieppe, France, 1847 (10811)  Letters, various, 1827-1831 (10542)  London Brighton and South Coast Railway circulars, 1872-1915 (10553)  Ovingdean, photographs including Woodland Grange, 1930s  Photograph of the weddding of Beatrice Davis and Nathaniel Simmons of Brighton, 1909 (10856)  Postcard of Brighton, Hove and Sussex Horticultural Society outing to Mrs Cheal's Nursery, Crawley, Sep 1921 (10536)  Scott, Albert, Warren Farm schoolboy, scanned photographs, 1923 (10681)  Sketchbook of Sussex views, 1851-1852 (10814)  Stagg, Miss Maud, theatrical boarding house owner, 4 St James's Place, Brighton, autograph books, 1898-1953 (10658)

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