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...
by adminwww | Mar 4, 2025
The Nurse’s Car In 1939, the parish subscribed to the purchase of a car for the District Nurse who hitherto might have had, in the words of the vicar, Rev. R.A. Edwards, to “cycle through the rain from Pallingham to Malham” in order to attend to patients. The...
by adminwww | Nov 7, 2024
Seymour Jeal, Upfield Apprentice In June’s edition of Ad Vincula we were introduced to Allen Watts Upfield, successful shopkeeper, community leader and man of property. No doubt he employed several apprentices over the years and the indenture for one of them, Seymour...
by adminwww | Oct 3, 2024
Captain Richard Fort (of The Elms) Richard Ford was born on 11th February 1860 in Brussels, the son of Francis Clare Ford, a career diplomat. Richard’s mother was the daughter of the Marques de Garafola in Naples. Francis Clare Ford’s career took him to postings...
by adminwww | Sep 2, 2024
The Sea Captain and the Garden Designer Joseph William Greenhill was born in 1880 in Ontario, Canada to George and Rachel Greenhill who had both been born in England but had emigrated in the 1870s. Joseph came to England in 1898 to study to become a mariner in the...
