PRINCIPAL CONTENTS
OF EAST GRINSTEAD SOCIETY BULLETINS
1 30-32
High St.
2
[short notes only].
3 Local
speech usages, East Grinstead in 1823.
4 Standen;
proposed shopping precinct; rem. (Rev. J. Harrison’s); Blackwell
Hollow; churchyard; Payne family;
Severals.
5 ‘Bow
Bells’ milestones; Old Hollybush Farm; rem. (Mrs M.L. Dempster’s);
Moat Church.
6 East
Grinstead fairs; local pronunciation; resources for study of East
Grinstead.
7 The
East Grinstead Pottery; 1882 railway station; Peashuttlers Gate.
8 Zion
Chapel; 9 Middle Row; East Grinstead War Memorial Ltd.
9 Pottery
memories; The Playfield; The Hermitage; East Grinstead’s ancient
arms.
10 ‘Daddy
Curly-locks’ (Rev. R.B. Matson); watch and clockmakers in East
Grinstead; The Hermitage (community centre plan).
11 7-9-11
High St; children’s games, c.1923; listed buildings; parish
registers; East Grinstead directories (list); Whalesbeech.
12 Estcots;
directories including East Grinstead (list).
13 Robinson
of Gravetye; East Grinstead guide books (list); East Grinstead’s
first historians.
14 East
Grinstead and its Environs (1885), review; printers and printing
in East Grinstead; East Grinstead almanacks etc. (list); East
Grinstead newspapers (list).
15 W.H.
Hills, The History of East Grinstead (1906), review; ‘The
Chiel’ (W.H. Hills); Forest Row directories and guidebooks (list); 6
Middle Row.
16 159-61
London Rd; George Bailey (C19 barber); rose and crown (arms); railway
history; East Grinstead Society postcards.
17 11-12
Middle Row; Goods Shed project; postcards, 2nd set.
18 Trees
in East Grinstead; early photographers in East Grinstead; Museum
project; 43-49 High St; collected views of East Grinstead list; Mid
Sussex District guide; names for new roads.
19 East
Grinstead Borough in Middle Ages; Pennifold family; Geoffrey Webb
(glass painter); I.D. Margary (obit).
20 Fire
brigade; Constitutional Buildings; W.H. Hills MSS; pipe divining.
21 Some
royal and national occasions in East Grinstead; first town trail
(review); East Grinstead 1952 and 77
22 ‘East
Grinstead from Lewes Rd’ by W.G. Moss, Colchester pictures by Bourne
(discussion of paintings); cloth working in East Grinstead; rare book
(W. Trice of East Grinstead, Pious and Religious Advice (1794);
old map, c.1740; chronology of Chequer Mead and Sackville Schools.
23 Air
raid warden’s memories; Victorian dairy at Brockhurst; Ogilby’s
road map, 1675; local newspapers; postcards, 3rd set; East
Grinstead guide books.
24 Cemetery
chapels; origins of the East Grinstead Society; young person’s guide
to local history in East Grinstead; the East Grinstead Society and
local history (10th anniversary review); air raid warden’s memories.
25 Museum
facts; proposed additions to listed buildings; Elephant’s Head coffee
tavern; Forest Way; gasworks water tower.
26 R.H.
Wood (obit.); Hackenden brickyard; The East Grinstead Society and
local amenity (10th anniversary review); additional listed buildings;
junior membership; The Gatehouse and Dovecotes.
27 Building
on East Grinstead Common; brickmaking in East Grinstead; Victorian
dairy at Standen; towards pedestrianisation; Owen and Bowen road map,
1720; parish church.
28 Sir
Edward Blount; Imberhorne manor; Orchard Cottage; limekilns in East
Grinstead; The Railway Hotel; rem. (antiquarian bookseller’s)
.
29 Orchard
Cottage; town centre plan; pedestranisation; East Grinstead’s
earliest parish register; Dame Katherine Grey; Sunday Schools in East
Grinstead; East Grinstead Pottery; rem. (dentist’s maid’s).
30 C.W.
Goolden, R.T. Mason (obits); Old Road; local clockmakers; 18 London
Rd; East Grinstead Observer; Rose and Crown; Hope
Brewery; brickmaking in East Grinstead.
31 Recovered
records; local clockmakers; rem. (C.E.K. Nutt’s); brewing in East
Grinstead; Sargent’s buses; Quarter Sessions and Assizes in East
Grinstead.
32 Fowle
family of clockmakers; iron graveslabs at parish church; Bedlams Bank
(London Rd); East Grinstead’s town bands; Garland Rd bus garage.
33 Local
clockmakers; Albert Arthur Winser; William May; Thomas Dadswell I and
II; iron graveslabs; house-numbering
in East Grinstead; Margary collection of East Grinstead postcards.
34 [Inadequate index of
personal names in Hills' History, superseded by accurate one in Bulletin
69]
35 Working
with W.H. Hills; Rodgers’ bus service; Sargent’s buses; history of
Ashurst Wood (review); Three Crowns; new church bells; May Day
in East Grinstead.
36 Buses
at Three Crowns; libraries in East Grinstead; East
Grinstead’s railways, 1884-1984; second town trail.
37 Cooper’s
‘Pioneer’ bus service; documents found in church roof; rem. (B.W.
Desmond’s, 1).
38 Garland
Rd bus garage; mystery of W.R. Pepper (local writer); W. Best and Son,
coal merchants; ‘P. and P.’ bus service; rem. (Desmond 2).
39 Hatchments;
William Reynolds Pepper; house-naming in East Grinstead; inscriptions
by workmen; rem. (Desmond 3).
40 Index of personal names in Bulletins
1-38 and High St report.
41 Old
Pest House; history of Ashurst Wood; origins of Plawhatch estate; rem.
(Desmond 4).
42 Inscriptions
by workmen; rem. (Desmond 5); Thomas, Lord Scales; 150 years ago;
pumphouse at Luxfords Farm.
43 Barton
St Mary; Roebuck, Wych Cross; John Stenning and Son Ltd,
1792-1987.
44 An
old firm (surveyors, land-agents and auctioneers from c.1785).
45 The
William Hall papers; Dorset House; rem. (Desmond 6).
46 Dorset
House; wall-paintings in East Grinstead; Mount Noddy.
47 Wall-paintings
in East Grinstead; Mount Noddy; rem. (evacuees of East Grinstead).
48 Quarter
Sessions and Assizes in East Grinstead; Hammerwood Park and Ashdown
House; Wealden Buildings (review).
49 Queen’s
Rd Cemetery; tallow-chandlers in East Grinstead; Sainsbury’s in East
Grinstead; rem. (Desmond 8).
50 The
Bulletin 50 issues on; Moat Pond.
51 The
Playfield; final stress in East Grinstead place-names; lighting at
home.
52 Final
stress; cellars in East Grinstead High St.
53 Mount
Noddy; Brotherhood hall?; local pictures by J.L. Bourne; final stress;
turnpike tickets; T.V. Smith (1888-1960).
54 Baldwins
Hill; Free Churches in East Grinstead; brickmaking in East Grinstead;
final stress; temperance excursions.
55
Free Churches in East Grinstead; local pronunciation of place-names;
rose and crown (arms); brickmaking; Coleman’s East Grinstead plant
catalogue, 1836; temperance excursions; 1929 bypass plan; 1932
vignette.
56 P.D.
Wood as historian; cottages in East Grinstead borough; 1-2 Judges
Terrace and Clarendon House; East Grinstead - Horsted Keynes railway.
57 Mediaeval
borough of East Grinstead; Free Churches; transport in East Grinstead
in 1845; East Grinstead in 1895; house-numbering in East Grinstead.
58 Topography
of East Grinstead’s Domesday Book entries.
59 East
Grinstead in Domesday Book; East Grinstead in 1896; Brian Desmond; rem.
(Desmond 9); Tooth family papers; Mrs Neighbour.
60 Index
of place-names in Bulletins 1-59.
61 Domesday
Book and origins of settlement in East Grinstead; W.H. Hills’
postcards; East Grinstead in 1937.
62 Manors
of Maresfield and Duddleswell in East Grinstead; early ironworking in
East Grinstead.
63 Index of
personal names in Bulletins 40-62.
64 Place-name
Warlege; wells in East Grinstead High St; Edwin Arthur Harding; W.H.
Hills and his History; East Grinstead Society 30th
anniversary review.
65
Origins of Ashurst Wood; Place-name Ildhalle; waste-disposal in East
Grinstead; early music-making in East Grinstead’s Free
Churches; early cycle-makers in East
Grinstead; rem. (Mrs A.M. Leppard’s); Free Churches addenda.
66 Indices of
non-local place-names, maps, advertisements and illustrations in Bulletins
1-65.
67 ‘Grinstead Weald’; Lingfield Rd area c.1860-1900.
68 Parents
of some East Grinstead manors; W.R. Pepper; Domesday Book and early
settlements; Hundreds, Tithing and Hamlet; Lingfield Rd
area; early cycle-makers.
69 Index of
personal names in Hills, History of East Grinstead; place-names
index in same: addenda and corrigenda.
70 Wealden
estates, parents and droveways; Hundreds, Tithings, Hamlet; High St
wells; place-name Saint Hill; East Grinstead
Observer, 30 March 1950; bus services 1950; Lingfield Rd area.
71 E.C.
Byford (obit); Mount Noddy; place-name Dallingridge; E.W. Young; 19th
century Moat Rd.
72 Index rerun,
Bulletins 1-71.
73 Dendrochronology
project; East Grinstead Hundred 1579; pageant of East Grinstead 1951.
74 P.J.
Gray (obit); mid-15th century housing boom; Hundred, 1564 and 79;
Wallhatch; extended review of new History of East
Grinstead.
75 E.F.
Skinner; 1873 guidebook; review of Bulletins 51-75; Hamlet;
7-9-11 High St; parish church bells and ringers.
76 Hamlet;
church tower; Gullege and Alfreys; 7-9-11 High St; John Turley;
Armoury Mission and Williams family; place-names.
77 7-9-11
High St; 1-2 Judges Terrace; Wellington Town; 19th century Moat Rd;
Whalesbeech and Whalesbergh; John Turley I and II;
Edward Gardner; house-numbering; rem. (Desmond 10); 1952 in East
Grinstead.
78 Index of
local place-names, Bulletins 61-77; articles of permanent
interest in East Grinstead Society Newsletters.
79 New
vision of wildwood; Whalesbeech, Whalesbergh and Whaleshatch;
Hackenden and Hamlet of East Grinstead; 4 High St; reminiscences of Dr
Golding-Bird.
80 Frans
Vera and Ashdown Forest; Whales in East Grinstead; excavations at
7-9-11 High St; 34-40 High St; East Grinstead’s first police and
police-house; 1946 vignette.
81 The
Feld; 68 High St; Forest Row, 1920s; wartime childhood in East
Grinstead.
82 The
Feld; Clarendon House; almshouses; farm work, 1945.
83 Early
history of Ridgehill; Hide of Healdeleia; Old Stone House; place-names
(final stress, ‘ash’); rem (Dr Golding-Bird, Grammar School);
post-war street-names.
84 Index of
personal names, Bulletins 63-83.
85 Prehistory
of Ridgehill; Hide of Healdeleia; buildings addenda and corrigenda;
Wickenden’s confectioner’s business; Lingfield
Lodge and Suva Lodge.
86 Place-names
containing leah; Burghle/Berklegh/Bartleys; rem. (market);
post-war street-names; street-name bank.
87
Ferraria; church origins; East Grinstead martyrs; reminiscences
(laying-out Blackwell Farm estate); name-bank.
88
Glebelands; Imberhorne Farm C15 roof; J.M. Neale in English and Latin;
Society of St Margaret; Cantelupe Road and market;
post-war-street-names; street-name bank.
89 Coombe; faces on organ-pipes; rem. (housemaid's life at Dutton Homestall, 1937-38).
90 Glebelands; Worsted Farm; Lady E. Fox Pitt & Thos Gould; working for C. & H. Gasson.
91 Glebelands; Worsted Farm; Hoskins farm; 'A Native' (A.S. Bridgland); workers for C. & H. Gasson; extensive urban survey of E.G.
92 Working at E.G. Library, 1963-66; Rev. D.Y. Blakiston.
93 Keith Brown (obit.); meadowlands in mediaeval E.G.; E.G. in 1401; Brambletye Crossing; glebelands; Moat or Binfield Nursery; 'E.G. In winter' (painting by A. Bowers); Rev. D.Y. Blakiston; Barclays Bank; postwar aspirations.
94
Index of all place-names outside our ancient parish from Bulletins 1
to 93; Index of illustrations, maps, plans and advertisements from
Bulletins 66-93.
95 Land-use in mediaeval E.G.; Red Lions in E.G.; Sarah
Wardroper; cartoon (Pepper/Hills); 1943 mass funeral; working at E.G.
library, 1970-84.
96 Land-use II; earliest residents of Sackville College; Henry
Pocock genealogy; Peter Williams; casual postman's recollections,
1954-56.
97 Sackville House; Shuckburgh Cottage; town
criers; Raymond H. & Winifred J. Wood; St Luke's church in
context, 1955-59; celebrating school's 150th anniversary.
98 James & Drew Pickesse; Mr Bean to Mrs Dolphin
(tailor's); Why study history?; Girls' National School;
Reginald Tite.
