COMMENTS
August 2017
By John Hills
MYSTERY LAND (Edit | View page)
"Was reading with interest land by the Drove. My sisters and l used to play in this field a long time ago, when we were children living in Ea..."
By: Jean South Added: 30/08/2017
DAMAGED AT SEA (Edit | View page)
"I remember an elderly lady by the name of Mrs Winter telling me about this. She lived in Brighton Road. Sadly I was quite young and didn'..."
By: Keith Johnson Added: 30/08/2017
TWO SISTERS AT DIEPPE (Edit | View page)
"As I mentioned in my caption, this is Rennes or Nantes, one of the three sister ships that entered service shortly after WWII (Rennes w..."
By: Andy Gilbert Added: 30/08/2017
SUNSET AND MIST (Edit | View page)
"It always did look better from a distance :)"
By: Ron Herriott Added: 31/08/2017
JUNCTION OF CHAPEL STREET & BRIDGE STREET (Edit | View page)
"The Co-op was a place of wonder to a young child with it's different departments and it's ceiling mounted railway like cash and chan..."
By: Ron Herriott Added: 31/08/2017
CHRIST CHURCH CHURCH HALL (Edit | View page)
"At Christmas time in 1962 I played the lead role of Joseph in the nativity play in this hall. I was at Meeching County Junior School at the ..."
By: Ron Herriott Added: 31/08/2017
BRIDGE STREET (Edit | View page)
"There was an unlicensed betting shop behind the Book and Bacca shop. I remember my Mum sneaking in there and hoping nobody saw her."
By: Ron Herriott Added: 31/08/2017
TWO SISTERS AT DIEPPE (Edit | View page)
"Bonsoir, Mon arrière grand père, Jean LE GOFF, était le commandant du Cargo Rennes (one of the twin sisters called..."
By: LE PIERRES Béatrice Added: 28/08/2017
VILLANDRY and VALENCAY (Edit | View page)
"That had certainly crossed my mind, Mick. That was in October 1981. It was around a month before they started using the inner basin's ra..."
By: Andy Gilbert Added: 23/08/2017
G. SIMS - BOOK (Edit | View page)
"My late parents-in-law (Charles and Dorcas Ratcliffe from Aberavon) were also good friends with George Sims and acquired during the 1970s an..."
By: Alan Stanford Added: 23/08/2017
MYSTERY LAND (Edit | View page)
"I have looked at old OS Maps 1898 - 1950's. Cannot identify anything which might answer your question. Any chance you might put the phot..."
By: Richard Beckett Added: 17/08/2017
MY LIFE LIVING IN NEWHAVEN (Edit | View page)
"I was about a year old in the photo of me sat in the chair. Age amended. Alan, can you please confirm your email address as ..."
By: Alan Wiltshire Added: 17/08/2017
POPULATION OF NEWHAVEN (Edit | View page)
"The cement works opened in 1884, which contributed to the increase of population in the 1891 census."
By: Nicky Easton Added: 14/08/2017
VILLANDRY and VALENCAY (Edit | View page)
"I think this might have been when the linkspan at Dieppe collasped from the stern of the senlac killing a spanish lorry driver. The route cl..."
By: Mick Cutler Added: 13/08/2017
VILLANDRY and VALENCAY (Edit | View page)
"Yes, much more common to see them together in Dieppe. Lower photo looks interesting. I wonder if this was one of the all too frequent 'l..."
By: Andy Gilbert Added: 11/08/2017
NEWHAVEN SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS (Edit | View page)
"Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I visited the site. So sorry to read that so many of the teachers who I knew are no longer a..."
By: Jan Chapman Added: 09/08/2017
THE RIVERWALL c1956 (Edit | View page)
"In the bottom picture is: Phylis Wiltshire, Alan Wiltshire [18 months] & my granddad Alfred Wiltshire."
By: Alan Wiltshire Added: 09/08/2017
THE RIVERWALL c1956 (Edit | View page)
"The building is the Riverside Hall. "
By: Ron Herriott Added: 08/08/2017
LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST (Edit | View page)
"Hi, my great, great, great grandfather was William Lovegrove, the father of Georgina who married Ralph Reader's uncle. I know William Lo..."
By: Lorraine Tippett Added: 14/08/2017
SIDNEY GRAVETT (Edit | View page)
"I posted on another thread earlier today, but this thread seems to have has an intimate connection to the artist through his daughter...."
By: Martin Reynolds Added: 09/08/2017
SIDNEY GRAVETT (Edit | View page)
"i have recently acquired a very perso collection group of watercolours and prints that would seem to have belonged to Gravett. Did he live ..."
By: Martin Reynolds Added: 06/08/2017
NEWHAVEN BOY'S CLUB (Edit | View page)
"The person centre of the flag hands behind flag is Ray Townsend who was living in Lewes Road at the time. "
By: Francis Bulman Added: 02/08/2017
R.A.F. AIR SEA RESCUE (ASR), MARINE CRAFT SECTION (MCS Unit 1107) (Edit | View page)
"Air Sea Rescue Research help needed. Please! I am currently researching paintings in what were the recreation rooms of the Air Sea Rescue u..."
By: Harriet Parry Added: 04/08/2017