Category: People
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An interesting 1994 article by Barbara Abbs, published in Sussex Archaeological Collections, traces the remarkable history of Woodlands Nursery at Maresfield in East Sussex, from its foundation in 1826 to its closure in 1922. The Founder – William Wood William Wood was born in 1781, the son of a Horsted Keynes butcher. After leaving home…
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Edward Wadsworth, RA was born in Cleckheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1889 and rejected a career in the family’s mill in favour of becoming a painter. He won a scholarship to the Slade where he was a friend and contemporary of Mark Gertler. He married Fanny Mary Eveleigh, a professional violinist 11 years his…
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Born at Preston, Lancashire, in 1787, Frances Winckley was the only daughter of Thomas Winckley, a prosperous Preston attorney and descendant of the de Winkelmondeleys who in Saxon times had settled in a corner between the Ribble and Calder rivers. Industry had not begun and Preston was mainly an agricultural town of broad streets and…
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About 1900 James Deadman (born 1856) from Chiddingly, who had married Rose Mary Thompson at Bodle St. Green in 1891 at the end of an army career of nine years in the Royal Sussex Regiment, brought his family to ‘Powder Mill Cottages’ and became neighbours of the Chatfield family and worked at Park Farm. Despite…
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by Gordon Marsh. First published in 2003 by Maresfield Conservation Group. IN JULY 1928 the Marsh family — Dad, Mum, Marjorie and I — moved from a tied cottage on a farm in Laughton to the then growing village of Maresfield. It was a good move so far as I was concerned. It had been…
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Picture circa 1935 shows the wedding breakfast to celebrate the marriage of Emily Holmes and Albert Miller. Albert Miller was one of the sons of Joseph Miller the local builder. J. Miller & Sons still traded in the village in the 1990s, the business carried on by Bill and Robin, grandsons of the founder. Mr…
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Miss Mabel Kenward, later Mrs Weston, lived at South View, Budletts, which is now Budletts Restaurant. Her father and brother were the local undertakers. Mrs Weston and her two cousins, the Misses Maude and Grace Kenward, sang in the Church choir for over 50 years. The left hand picture shows Mabel (fourth from left) at…
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The Reverend Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder was rector for nearly 40 years until his retirement in 1941 at the age of 93. Mr Ryder was a well-loved and respected figure in the village and an outstanding botanist. Many residents were grateful to him for kindling a love of plant life and encouraging the collection of…
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Betty Turner, 1991 Village life has never stood still. Villages have been built and re-built countless times as part of the evolution of the rural landscape. This surely must be true of Maresfield, when the long-awaited Bypass opened in November, 1989. The wheel has indeed turned full circle in the 160 years since Sir John…
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Betty Turner, 1991 I arrived at Maresfield on 18th March, 1941 in an army vanette as my father was attached to the newly-opened D.C.R.E. office in Maresfield Park. He had managed to rent a large house and garden that had been part of the stabling block of the Manor House of Count Münster, who had…