EAST SUSSEX RECORD OFFICE East Sussex Accessions 2016 A list of the principal East Sussex accessions received during the year. 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, and others may now be listed under permanent references. County Council: • Bexhill Borough Council: inherited records of private street works, 1911-1967 (12464) • Charnock, Denys, Borough Engineer, papers and photographs, 1970s - 1980s (12463) • Deeds of sold properties: 1 Garfield Road, Hailsham, [1807]-[1924] (12558); 7 Terminus Avenue, Bexhill, [1877-2016] (12569) • Democratic Services, committee minutes, 1994-2015 (12422); council and committee minutes, 2013-2016 (12685) • Education: Children's Officer, papers relating to the placement of children in residential care, 1912-1956 (12516) • East Sussex Record Office: Shared Journeys Oral History Project, 2012-2013 (12648) • Highways: highway terrier 1942-1992, Land Charges Register maps 1925-1974, maps and lists of roads 1930-1933, aerial photographs 1987-1991 (12431) • Libraries and Information: antiquarian volumes from Eastbourne Library, 1730- 1886 (12428) • Lord Lieutenancy papers, c2000-2016 (12726) • Olesen, Ralph, formerly of ESCC Highways, papers, 1970s - 1980s (12424) • Registration Service, Eastbourne and Hailsham Districts marriage notice books, 1930-2009 (12561) • Schools Library and Museum Service, papers and photographs, 1809-c1930 (12643); glass lantern slides including travellers, c1900-1930 (12662) • Social Services: Manor Close Children's Centre, Uckfield, photograph albums, 1990s (12584) Sussex Police Authority: • John Dibley, photograph of George Smith, 1902 (12694) Magistrates' Courts: • Eastbourne, Hastings and Worthing Combined Courts, adoption registers, 1927- 2013 (12509) • Eastbourne Magistrates Court, minutes, 1911-1992 (12536) • Hastings and Horsham Magistrate Court Records; 1955-2003 (12733) Coroners: • East Sussex Coroner, inquest papers, 2001 (12745) River, Water and Sewerage Authorities: • Plan of the River Rother and Rye Harbour by William Cubitt, JC Sharrard and Sydney Hall, 1839-1840 (12570) Borough and District Councils: • Eastbourne Borough Council: building control files (sample), 1970s (12535): Planning Department plans, c1900-2000 (12537) • Hastings Borough Council: records formerly at Hastings Museum, c1200-c1900 (7038) • Rother District Council: Bexhill Town Forum minutes, 1996-2009 (12735) Parish and Town Councils: • Barcombe, records including minutes, 1965-2010 (12473); minutes of Parish Meetings, 1894-1997 (12538) • Crowhurst, minutes and action plans, c2000-2010 (12554) • Polegate, records, 1969-2007 (12484) • Winchelsea Corporation: minutes of the Greyfriars League of Friends, 1983-1995 (12723) Ecclesiastical Parishes: • Bexhill St Peter, accounts, 1988-2013 (12718) • Brightling, papers, 1966-2008 (12507) • Camber, registers, 1957-2014 (12628) • Chailey St Peter, NADFAS report, 2016 (12659) • Crowborough St John, marriage registers, 1990-2014 (12435) • Eastbourne, Christ Church, marriage registers, 1955-1985 (12589); All Souls, records, 1881-2015 (12455) • Hammerwood, NADFAS report, 2014 (12722); marriage register, 2004-2014 (12738) • Hamsey, records, 1887-2000 (12543) • Hurst Green, records, c1890-2009 (12653) • Ore Christ Church, parish magazines, 1901-2005 (12568) • Ringmer, PCC minutes and other records, 1969-2015 (12586) • Rotherfield, PCC minutes, 1939-1993 (12703); parish magazines, 1938-1941 (12506); papers relating to the Rotherfield 1200 celebrations, 1990-1993 (12704) • Selmeston and Alciston: exchange of glebe with the Gage Estate, 1851 (12573) • Ticehurst, extracts from parish magazines for baptisms, marriages and burials, 1876-1881 (3894) • Uckfield Holy Cross, PCC minutes, parish magazines and newsletters, 1998-2015 (12542) • Warbleton, poor rate, 1709 (12483) • Waldron, marriage register, 1996-2004 (12527) • Waldron Cross-in-Hand, marriage register, 1960-1997 (12530) • Wivelsfield, records, 1885-2013 (12571) Other Churches: • Greenfield Methodist Church, records, 20th cent (12444) • St Andrew's United Reformed Church, Eastbourne, marriage register, 2007-2013 (12562) • Society of Friends: Eastbourne Local Meeting records, 1932-2011 (12466); Gardner Street Mission transcript of minutes, 1894-1920 (12590) • Sussex Congregational Union, records, 20th cent (12467) • Wadhurst Methodist Church, marriage register, 1964-2002 (12580) Schools and Colleges: • Battle and Langton CE Primary School, pupil record cards, 1986 - c2003 (12500) • Bexhill, Chantry CP School, governors' and PTA minutes, 1996-2011 (12599) • Eastbourne: Roselands Infant School, newsletters and circulars, c2010 (12454); photograph of Ascham St Vincent's School, 1931, photograph of Pennell House, Eastbourne College, 1962 (12567); Eastbourne High School, magazines and yearbooks, 1935-1941 (12701); Eastbourne Training College, photographs and recording, 1958-1960 (12720) • Heathfield, All Saints' and St Richard's CE Primary School, log books, 1880- 1992 (12674) • Netherfield CE School, scanned photographs, c1918-1924 (12689) • Newhaven, Meeching Valley Primary School, records, c1970-2000 (12578) • Rye, Freda Gardham School, photographs and examples of children's work, c2000 (12625) • St Leonards, The Grove School, admission registers, 1937-2000 (12683) • Seaford, Cradle Hill School, newsletters, 2009-2015 (12585) Solicitors: • Cornfield Law, solicitors, Eastbourne, client papers, 20th cent (addnl) (12730) • Currey and Co, London: client papers of the Bowerman family of Hastings and St Leonards, 1830-1960 (12622) • Harringtons (formerly Raper and Fovargue), client papers, 18th - 20th cent (addnl) (12528) • Percy Walker of Hastings, and predecessors: firm's and clients' papers, c1595- 1915 (addnl) (12574) • Young, Coles and Langdon, solicitors, Hastings: clients’ papers, 18th - 20th cent (12510); clients’ papers, c1700-1960 (12736) Other business records: • Lewes Cattle Market, records including share register and register of members, 1878-1958 (addnl) (12515) • Railtrack, plans of stations and railway structures, (12491) • Strutt and Parker, Lewes, pocket folding maps of the Chichester estates, 1910- c1960 (12632) Estate and Family: • Abergavenny, letter from Thomas Read Kemp to Daniel Rowland concerning the Newhaven Road, 1824 (12637) • Allcorn family photographs, c1910 (12656) • Attwell, Mabel Lucie, illustrator, papers collected by John Henty, c1908-2016 (12524) • Baker-Holroyd, Earls of Sheffield: copy letter from Humphry Repton to Lord Sheffield, 1805 (12481) • Barchard of Little Horsted, records, largely the papers of George Barchard (1829- 1892) and his son George William Barchard of Herstmonceux (1866-1939), [1803]-2015 (addnl) (12695) • Battle Abbey, Battle: photocopies of deeds of the former Battle Abbey estate at Lewisham, Brockley and West Greenwich, 1294-1583 (12430); copies of 32 Battle Abbey charters, one Robertsbridge Abbey charter and two Ewhurst charters in the collection of AWF Fuller at the University of London Library, Senate House, c1150-1599 (12690) • Brent, Colin and Judy: research papers, 2000-2016 (3893) • Campion of Danny in Hurstpierpoint: deeds of property in Houndsditch, London, 1792-1863 and unrelated property in Herstmonceux, 1822-1844 (12427) • Challice: licence of Roger Challice as curate of Mayfield, 1770 (12636) • Child family of Michelham in Arlington: records,1693-2015 (12503); records including the New Zealand branch of the family, [1786]-2004 (12646) (addnl) • Cook, Ron, of Lewes, mayoral scrapbooks, 1988-1994 (12693) • Dawes and Pettit families of of Palehouse Common, Framfield, and Eastbourne: correspondence recording their service in two world wars, 1916-1945, and the death of Bert Dawes (1896-1917) of the 7th Btn Royal Sussex Regiment on 18 August 1917 (12534) • De La Warr of Buckhurst, in Withyham, papers, 2015 (addnl) (12495) • Franks, Jim, papers, 20th cent (12665) • Gage of Firle, photograph album, c1880 (12684) • Gilbert Estate, East Dean, estate files, 1876-1987 (12663) • Glynde Place, settlement on the marriage of Mary Morley and Edmund Hill, 1553 (12479) • Hammond of Battle, appointment of new trustee of the marriage settlement of Ellen Hammond, 1787 (12508) • Healy, Beryl, Mayor of Eastbourne, photograph albums, 1997-2000 (12478) • Johnstone family of Rother House, Rotherfield, letters, 1831-1855 (12614) • Lamb of Beauport in Hollington, and Adamson of Rushton Park in Mountfield, photograph albums, visiting book and games book, 1886-1971 (12601) • Leppard, Michael of East Grinstead, former schoolmaster at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School, papers, 1960s - 1970s (addnl) (12471) • Lewin, Henry Grote (b1874), railway historian, diaries, 1903-1937 (12673) • Lucas of Brighton: will, 1856; manor of Newick: admission of William Cole Thompson, 1858 (12617) • Pain, Victor James (1909-1994) of Hastings, papers including local cricket and football, 1925-1970s (12519) • Ravilious and Garwood families of Eastbourne: diaries of Tirzah Ravilious, 1931-1938 (12531); photographs and negatives taken by Eric Ravilious while in Florence, 1925 (12539) • Rector, Bill, of Lewes, working papers, 1960s (3892) • Shelley of Alfriston, apprenticeship of Charles Shelley to Edward Geering, 1805 (12707) • Stevens family of Willingdon: letters from Benjamin Stevens to his future wife Frances Mary Davidson, 1906-1909 (12682); letters, including from German exchange students and paying guests, 1930-1939 (12705) • Tickner, Vincent, research notes and publications