by adminwww | Jul 31, 2025
LADY MAXSE’S FONT or A STONE BOWL FROM WISBOROUGH GREEN? In August 1929, Sussex Notes and Queries published an article from Lady Maxse of Fittleworth, about a stone basin which she had recently purchased. She asked for suggestions as to its date or purpose. The...
by adminwww | Jul 3, 2025
F S Gray and T P Walsh There are two Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones in St. Peter’s churchyard marking the last resting place of soldiers who died on the Home Front in the Second World War (there is a third, for a First World War casualty). These men...
by adminwww | Jun 16, 2025
– 6094015 PRIVATE STANLEY ALLAN HERBERT SHEPPARD When this series of articles started in 2019 the intention was to publish short biographies of each of the Wisborough Green men who are remembered on the village war memorial on the 80th anniversary of their...
by adminwww | May 6, 2025
MAJOR SIMON ANTHONY CUNNINGHAM TRESTRAIL MC Simon Trestrail – who preferred to be known as Charles – was born at Long Ashton, Somerset in 1917, the eldest child of Alfred and Margaret Cunningham. His father, a solicitor and a Territorial had sold his practice and...
by adminwww | Apr 1, 2025
G.D. Johnston MA, BCL, FSA, FRGS, one of the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, was a barrister, topologist and historian. He was a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society, edited one of its journals, Sussex Notes and Queries and...
