A talk by Geoffrey Mead to Beeding & Bramber Local History Society at 7:45pm on Wednesday 6th February in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding. There is a hard-to-detect car park immediately opposite. Dr. Mead is a geographer at the University of Sussex and his local history talks are always interesting and well illustrated.
Category Archives: Beeding & Bramber
Potter’s Museum of Curiosities
A talk by Alan Barwick (curator of Henfield Museum) to Beeding & Bramber Local History Society at 7:45pm on Wednesday 9th January 2019 in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding. There is a hard-to-detect car park immediately opposite. Alan’s talks are always worth hearing and the visual side has the benefit of his own large collection of local postcards.
Updated WWII history pamphlet now available
Pat Nightingale and Ken Wilson-Wheeler have released an updated version of their pamphlet World War Two in Beeding and Bramber. New to this version is an interesting page devoted to Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Lonsdale whose memorial can be found above the organ in St. Andrew’s. Like the earlier WWI book, the pamphlet covers Beeding, Bramber, Edburton, Fulking and Small Dole. It includes brief biographies of those who died including Flight Sergeant James William Lucas (son of Percy Lucas) and Chief Officer John A. Ridge, both of Fulking.
The updated pamphlet (price £6.00) can ordered direct from Pat at Bowfell, Hyde Street, Upper Beeding, BN44 3TG (01903-812847) or via email.
Subterranean Sussex
A talk by Stewart Angell (author of Tottington Manor: Sussex WWII Auxiliary Units HQ and The Secret Sussex Resistance) to Beeding & Bramber Local History Society at 7:45pm on Wednesday 3rd October in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding. There is a hard-to-detect car park immediately opposite.
Local WWII history pamphlet available now
Pat Nightingale and Ken Wilson-Wheeler have just published World War Two in Beeding and Bramber, the follow-up to their WWI book. Like the earlier volume, this profusely illustrated 43 page pamphlet covers Beeding, Bramber, Edburton, Fulking and Small Dole. The topics include evacuees, conscription, the Home Guard, air raids, farming, Canadian soldiers, casualties, the war memorials, and brief biographies of those who died including Flight Sergeant James William Lucas (son of Percy Lucas) and Chief Officer John A. Ridge, both of Fulking.
The pamphlet is available at Steyning Bookshop in Steyning High Street and at Beeding Newsagents in Upper Beeding High Street, price £6. It should soon also be available from Steyning Museum. The first (WWI) book remains available at £12. Both items can also be ordered direct from Pat on 01903-812847.
Shepherds of the South Downs
A talk by Ian Everest to Beeding & Bramber Local History Society at 7:45pm on Wednesday 4th October in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding. There is a hard-to-detect car park immediately opposite.
The Queen’s Six at St. Mary’s
At 8:00pm on Saturday 17th June at St Mary’s House, Bramber. Tickets include wine and canapés. Booking here.
Remembrance Sunday
Published earlier this year, this book covers all those listed on the Edburton & Fulking WWI memorial at St. Andrew’s and includes interesting biographical material on James Baker, Samuel Baker, William Baker, Charles Baldey, Arthur W. Brown, James E. Lucas, Elias Luff, Charles E. Sheppard and Richard Wearn.