by adminwww | Dec 1, 2025
Reverend William Mainprice Reverend Mainprice was vicar of Wisborough Green for 22 years between 1896 and 1919. William Mainprice was born on 5th December 1850 in Great Yarmouth, the son of John, a farmer and Susannah his wife. For some reason William was not...
by adminwww | Nov 3, 2025
Some WG Land Army Girls in World War Two The Girls were paid 28s per week, 14s of which went on bed and board. They worked a 48 hour week in winter and 50 hours a week in summer and, until the introduction of the Land Girls Charter in 1943, did not get holiday. The...
by adminwww | Sep 3, 2025
The Henry and Effie Squires Collection A poignant collection in the History Society’s archive is the Henry and Effie Squires Collection. Comprising over 270 photographs and some items of memorabilia, only a handful of the photographs carry any identification of their...
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...
