A BOX OF TOYS
An anthology of Lewes writings
Diana Crook

An unusual celebration of fact and fiction, including Daisy Ashford, Jane Austen, William Cobbett, John Evelyn, Eve Garnett, Gideon Mantell, Tom Paine, Thomas Turner and Virginia Woolf.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 124 pages
Author
ISBN
Price £7.50

A DICTIONARY OF THE SUSSEX DIALECT
by Rev WD PARISH

The dictionary was first published in 1875 by the vicar of Selmeston, the Rev WD Parish. He also recorded provincialisms in use in the county at that time. This new edition is augmented by further pieces on the Sussex dialect, traditional recipes, and a mumming play from West Wittering from the writings of EV Lucas, who died in 1938. Illustrated throughout with line drawings of Sussex views made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Frederick L Griggs, ARA.

Paperback 220 x 150mm 192 pages
70 line drawings
2001 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 68 2
Price £7.50

A HISTORY OF SUSSEX
Philip Payton

Sussex is and has always been, a terribly English place: pastoral and in many ways
genteel; rich in history, with much of it still evident today; quintessentially the England that draws so many to these isles from overseas.

Whatever the truth, this book presents a scholarly, accessible and important account,
admirably filling a gap in the published history of the county.

Paperback 243 x 169mm 320 pages
Over 140 colour illustrations
Carnegie
ISBN
Price £19.99

A HISTORY OF WOMEN’S LIVES IN EASTBOURNE
Tina Brown

The south east coastal town of Eastbourne is probably best known today for being a popular seaside holiday resort, frequented by the retired generation. It has long, golden beaches and a gentle pace of life and, from that point of view, little has really changed from the mid 1850’s to today. However, for the women of the town and their advancements and achievements, a significant period was between 1850 and 1950, when changes in medicine, education, family life and the right to vote played an important part in their lives.

The First and Second World Wars also brought about their own changes and challenges. A History of Women’s Lives in Eastbourne delves deep into these historical subjects and more.

Paperback 176 pages
PUBLICATION JANUARY 2019
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £12.99

A HISTORY OF WOMEN’S LIVES IN HOVE AND PORTSLADE
Judy Middleton

Hove was famous for its private schools in Victorian times. This book contains a wealth of unusual facts in regards to the education of working class girls, gleaned from Log books.

Discover the significant parts women played in both World Wars, including memories of former Wrens about their time at Hove.

Learn how some eminent Hove men saw the justice of the Suffrage movement and supported it.

A fascinating insight into the lives of female domestic servants. Hove once employed a greater number than were hired in the posh parts of London.

A focus on women who made a difference, from a pioneering lady who promoted gardening for the fair sex, to ordinary women who worked in laundries, ran farms or owned boats for hire.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 248 pages
25 B&W illustrations
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £14.99

A LEWES DIARY 1916-1944
Mrs Henry Dudeney
Diana Crook (editor)

Originally published in 1998 A Lewes Diary has become popular both in Lewes and further afield, as it has a universal rather than just a local appeal. A once famous novelist, Mrs Dudeney’s acid comments led to her diaries being kept closed for nearly 40 years. She vividly describes her tragi-comic marriage to the celebrated mathematician Henry Dudeney, her career, her lover and two world wars, as well as her forays into High Society through her friendship with the millionaire politician Sir Philip Sassoon.

The passage of time has allowed this new edition to give previously withheld information on Mrs Dudeney’s lover, a Sussex artist, as well as intriguing gossip concerning a clergyman and an amateur actress.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 96 pages
Diana Crook
ISBN
Price £9.99

A QUESTION OF IDENTITY
The extraordinary exploits of a Sussex family from Munich to the Somme, St. Petersburg and the Holly

“Who do you think you are? Well, it has taken me some sixty odd years to find out. ‘A Question of Identity’ is the story of what I discovered.” Tim Parker, June 2018.

Just who were the Schwabes of Hastings  and what did they do? In this enchanting biography Tim Parker reveals their past, their extraordinary accomplishments, sacrifices and their true identity.

The book describes a luxury hotel in Hastings, the Albany, socialising with the celebrated authors Conan Doyle and Arthur Ransome, and MI6 Operations in St Petersburg at the time that Rasputin was shot and the revolution was fomenting. Then there were the trials and tribulations of two World Wars when the Schwabe family, eleven in number, suffered grievous loss and heart ache. As soon they were old enough the Schwabe sons joined the army serving in the First World War in the Fusiliers and the Royal Sussex Regiments. The next generation served with the Navy and the Royal Airforce in the Second World War.  

It is a riveting tale and there is glamour too, with theatre, the rise of the Elstree film studios, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker and Hollywood as well as engagement with occupational careers in the Merchant Navy, Textiles, Chemicals and a concert pianist too.
 
Like most real family sagas the reader will share elation but also pathos, the horrors of war, the uplifting support of family love and the successes which were proudly earned. August wanted to become an Englishman, and with the help of his family that’s what he became.

But where did the Schwabes go? An unusual name not found in the telephone directories of a later age. That is the mystery behind this intriguing true story.

On reading the story, Julian Parker, Master Mariner and grandson of Charles August Schwabe, said: “My father, like most men of his generation, was a private man, but I was astonished to learn that in those war years he never talked about he had been in Russia and, miraculously, had escaped from the notorious Peter & Paul Fortress and near certain execution by the Bolsheviks by swimming the mighty river Neva.”

Paperback 234 x 156mm 94 pages
43 illustrations in colour and B&W
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-48-2
Price £14.50

A SONG FROM IRONWOOD
S. K. Cooper

The first published novel by a Sussex author whose main interests include folklore, fields and farms.
A Song from Ironwood is a modern story of romance and friendship and honour,
featuring a playful character who is not easily forgotten.
It begins in the summer of 1987, when two people return to Sussex to visit the villages where they grew up. Kate, the narrator, goes to the downland village of Eartham to stay a few days with her friend Sian, a horse whisperer, who lives close to Madehurst, which is where Kate was born.
Then, while the girls are perambulating the quiet rural places they know so well, and
reflecting on the events which led to their friendship, they meet a hunky guy who has a
motorbike, and an old man seeking redemption.
What follows is a tender paean to first love, interwoven with strands of Sussex history and legend, set among the Wealden villages south of Petworth, in the summer of 1914.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 178 pages
The book contains a list of old Sussex apple varieties.
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910389-68-0
Price £8.00

A SOUTHDOWN FARM IN THE 1860's
by Maude Robinson of Saddlescombe

Maude Robinson was born in May 1859 at Saddlescombe where her father, Martin Robinson, had a 900-acre farm. Her childhood was idyllic and she wrote an account of it that appeared in the Sussex County Magazine in 1935. A South Down Farm in the Sixties was issued by J.M. Dent in 1938. The book provides many interesting insights into agricultural practices she also explains what home life was like on a farm in such a secluded situation. In 1872 Maude Robinson went to a private boarding school at Lewes. The school regime was Spartan but the mistresses were kindly and a good education was provided. One by one the older Robinson children moved away from Saddlescombe until, after the death of her parents, only Ernest, who ran the farm, and Maude remained. Both of them loved the downland and took an interest in its wildlife.

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 82 pages
19 photos
2004 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 93 4
Price £8.50

A SUSSEX BOOK OF WITCH LEGENDS
Shaun Cooper

Some villages have witch legends – but most do not. In East Sussex, there are at least 13 places which have them, and in West Sussex nearly 50. Some of these are fairly typical of the kinds of witch legends found all over Britain, such as that of Old Mother Venus of Laughton, who was said to become a hare, or Jenny Saker of Goring who changed into a big black dog, and Dame Prettylegs of Albourne who was reputed to immobilize wagons and teams, or Witch Killick of Crowborough who ill-wished a neighbour to fall sick; and then there are some which are not so common, such as one about Mrs. Kitchener of Loxwood who sat on a hurdle and rode it like a horse; and of the landlord of The Fox Inn, at Fox Hill, who was shot in the legs when he was a hare, and Nanny Smart of Hurstpierpoint who, old though she was, could not die until she had passed her witchcraft secrets to someone else; or Butter Ede of Petworth who always had a big black cat with her, and Old Martha of Plumpton who ran backwards brandishing long knives; or Dame Garson of Duddleswell, who was chased by hounds when she was a hare, and leapt in through the window of her cottage, calling: “Ah, my boys, you ain’t got me yet!”
But the fear of witchcraft seems to have lingered long in some of the remote parts of Sussex, even to within living memory – according to the sentiments of various Sussex writers – and so there are tales here which are even more eldritch, such as one about a witch-hare at Slinfold that was shot with a silver bullet, and another at Stedham who was torn to pieces by fox-hounds; or of the notorious Wigperry witch, who came back as a ghost and haunted Bedlam pond, sitting on the surface of the water, holding a spindle.
This book takes a close look at the witch legends of Sussex, and also describes many from the shires and other places, as well as the various old counter-spells that were used, and it discusses Sussex legends of fairies and dragons too.

The book has been developed from the earlier British Witch Legends of Sussex to become a very much revised, vastly expanded, and far more comprehensive volume, with a better folkloristic perspective on the subject, and it also has tales and witch lore from many more villages, including over twenty in Sussex.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 276 pages
If your neighbour has a black cat – BEWARE!
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-79-6
Price £13.00

A SUSSEX KIPLING
by David Arscott

All his Sussex Verse, several short stories set in the county and a selection from his letters and his autobiography \Something of Myself'

Paperback pages
Pomegranate Press
ISBN
Price £8.50

A SUSSEX WAYFARER’S NATURE NOTES
David Johnston

In addition to these nature notes, David also recorded interesting old barns and farm buildings; shepherd huts; redundant farm machinery, and in fact, any curious artifacts they came across. Also, the many country
people they met and spoke to – from Lords and Ladies, to old Sussex
farmers, country rustics and odd eccentrics – with snippets of
conversation they had with them. Then there are ‘events’ – the great storm of 1987, and the change it made to the countryside – also the floods; the snow storms – and the weather that he noted each day. All these things and ‘much more’ are within the pages of his diaries – the contents of which make up this wonderfully informative new book.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 112 pages
OakBarn Press
ISBN
Price £8.50

A TRUE HISTORY OF THE TWO NEARLY NEW TOWNS OF PEACEHAVEN AND TELSCOMBE
Stanley Bernard

For the first time, there is now a book showing how out of the village of Telscombe, the new town of Telscombe cliffs has grown, while the much newer Peacehaven born out of the old parish of Piddinghoe is more than just the coast road that most people see. Highlighted are the stories of people who have put the area on the map. In Telscombe
village there was Ambrose Gorham, the town of Telscombe cliffs was initially developed with the help of Ambrose Harman, while Arthur Harrison made a pioneering start of a new settlement at the Newhaven end of Peacehaven. There is of course the one man for whom Peacehaven is synonymous and that is its founder the entrepreneur Charles Neville, whose story has been largely rewritten in this book.

But for those who thought there was no history, a long look back to the earliest records of the area, show a fascinating insight into the lives of those who lived and worked in the area hundreds of years ago. There are also numerous pictures showing what life was like from the founding of the towns as they were in the 1920s through to just before the Second World War.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 154 pages
Fully illustrated with colour and B&W photos
Country Books
ISBN
Price £15.99

A-Z OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE
PLACES-PEOPLE-HISTORY
Kevin Newman

The Sussex seaside towns of Brighton and Hove have been a city since 2000
and attract millions of visitors every year. The city boasts a wealth of history and in this book local author Kevin Newman takes the reader on a selective and engaging tour of Britain’s premier coastal resort.

A–Z of Brighton and Hove delves into the stories behind the city’s most
notable streets, places, parks and buildings, as well as the dark secrets of its inhabitants, hidden lanes and ‘twittens’ (the Sussex name for alleyways). The book reveals the stories behind of some of the more unusual place names and the history of many of its distinctive features, and also tales of the city’s less famous (and infamous) sons and daughters and the places they frequented. It provides something for everyone, whether visiting or a citizen of the Old Ocean’s Bauble.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN 9781445692210
Price £14.99

A-Z OF CHICHESTER
Places – People – History
Philip MacDougal

The cathedral city of Chichester in West Sussex has a rich and colourful history that stretches all the way back to Roman times when it played an important part in the Roman invasion. Its main city streets follow the original pattern laid out almost two thousand years ago while the buildings that line many of those streets, when not medieval in origin, most frequently date to Georgian or Victorian times.
Well-known local author and historian Philip MacDougal takes the reader on a fascinating A–Z tour of the city’s history, exploring its lesser-known nooks and crannies, and along the way relating many a tale of the most interesting people and places. Fully illustrated with photographs from the past and present, the A–Z of Chichester will appeal to residents and visitors alike.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

A-Z OF EASTBOURNE
PLACES-PEOPLE-HISTORY
Kevin Gordon

The East Sussex seaside resort of Eastbourne at the end of the South Downs, alongside the famous Beachy Head, is largely a creation of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In the 19th century small hamlets in the area were developed by wealthy landowners, particularly William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, as an elegant planned town, and aided by the new railway connection to London the town grew rapidly. Visitors are still attracted to its unspoilt sea front without shops or amusement arcades and today it is one of the fastest growing seaside towns in Britain with an increasingly young population and is a burgeoning centre of industry, commerce and culture for the area.

A-Z of Eastbourne delves into the history of this Sussex resort, revealing interesting and significant moments in the story of the town. It highlights well-known landmarks and famous residents, and digs beneath the surface to uncover some of the lesser known facts about Eastbourne and its hidden gems. This fascinating A-Z tour of Eastbourne’s history is fully illustrated with photography and will appeal to all those with an interest in this popular seaside town in East Sussex.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 ILLUSTRATIONS
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

A-Z OF HORSHAM
PLACES-PEOPLE-HISTORY
Eddy Greenfield

The A–Z of Horsham delves into the history of this West Sussex market town. It highlights well-known town landmarks, famous (and infamous) residents and digs beneath the surface to uncover some of the lesser-known facts and hidden gems of Horsham. The town’s most significant landmarks and buildings include the Old Town Hall (scene of the Acid Bath Murder trials in 1949), the lonely tower of St Mark’s Church and Christ’s Hospital School, but Horsham’s story also includes tales of criminal, military, political, social and ancient history.

Famous names associated with the town include Barnes Wallis, Catherine Howard, test pilot Neville Duke and Percy Bysshe Shelley, but this book also unveils a darker underbelly to its history, including the time the town flirted with Mosley and his Blackshirts, why several residents were interned by the British government in the Second World War, how the population struggled against the plague and how Horsham was once the capital of political corruption. This fascinating A–Z tour of Horsham’s history is fully illustrated and will appeal to all those with an interest in this West Sussex town.

THE AUTHOR
Eddy Greenfield is a local historian based in West Sussex who has written for a number of local magazines in the Sussex area.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

AMY SAWYER OF DITCHLING
ARTIST, ECCENTRIC AND LADY OF LETTERS
Anne Parfitt-King

Amy Sawyer was a prolific and unusual Victorian artist, with an interest in folk tales, witches and faeries. She exhibited at the Royal Academy many times and at many other galleries. Today, she is an almost forgotten artist, but her Sussex Village Plays, written while living in the small village of Ditchling, are still remembered by the older residents. She is also recorded in the histories of her friends; Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, the Sinden family and Joanna and Hillary Bourne, who founded Ditchling Museum. In her last ten years, in the letters to her sister in Australia, she describes with wit and asperity life in the village.

Paperback 245 x 170mm 186 pages
Colour and black and white photos
Country Books
ISBN
Price £15.00

ANGELS ON CALL
Iris Watts

We all need guardian angels at some times in our lives. Children need them, too. Take Josh, for instance. He’s terrified of singing solo in his school’s carol service, or Harry who gets lost in a wood as darkness falls, and Stevie comes to their rescue. Stevie is a very modern angel who, with his friend Angelina, can shape shift into all sorts of helpful friends. Even a dolphin!
These charming stories about children being rescued from difficult
situations are written for young people from five years old upwards and are beautifully illustrated by Jo Dowers and Molly Moore who has just started at her secondary school.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 108 pages
Proceeds from the sale of this book are to be donated to Boxgrove Priory
Country Books
ISBN
Price £5.00

BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WEST SUSSEX
ONE COUNTY’S ROLE IN THE SPITFIRE SUMMER OF 1940
Eddy Greenfield

By July 1940, Britain stood alone in Europe. Hitler’s troops had reached the French coast after storming their way across northern Europe and it was assumed that the next battle of the Second World War would be fought on the beaches of southern England. Drawing extensively on records held in local and national archives, Eddy Greenfield provides a detailed and comprehensive day-by-day account of activity in and over West Sussex throughout the campaign from 10 July to 31 October 1940. It is not only a story of how the RAF and other defenders battled the Luftwaffe’s relentless onslaught, but also how the residents in the county’s towns and villages played their own part in the national war effort.

Hardback 234 x 156mm 344 pages
PUBLICATION DATE SEPTEMBER 2021
Pen & Sword
ISBN 978-1-526792-65-5
Price £25.00

BLACK'S 1861 GUIDE TO SUSSEX
Incorporating 1859 Breads's guide to Worthing and a description of the Miller's Tomb

Facsimile of the South-Eastern Counties of England series and comprises 184 pages. There is a folding map of the county and steel engravings of the chain pier at Brighton, Hastings and Chichester Cathedral. Major towns are covered as well as the smaller villages.

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 276 pages
Engravings and folding map.
2000 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 21 7
Price £8.95

BOGNOR REGIS PUBS
David Muggleton

Once a small fishing hamlet, the origins of modern Bognor Regis lie in the attempt by Sir Richard Hotham to develop this part of the south coast as a fashionable resort in the late eighteenth century. Hotham’s original profession is given in the name of the town’s JD Wetherspoon outlet, the Hatter’s Inn, while the pub originally called the Railway Tavern has recently been renamed the Hothampton Arms in memory of Hotham’s preferred name for his resort. The oldest pub still trading in the town is the William Hardwicke, which was
built by 1817 as the New Inn. Bognor expanded with the arrival of the railway in 1864, which led to the building of new pubs such as the Terminus and the development of those already existing such as the Alexander Tavern.

David Muggleton takes us on a walking tour of this seaside town’s finest pubs, taking in the ex-Berkeley Arms, now home to the town museum; the Claremont Inn, whose interwar interior makes it a CAMRA heritage pub of some regional importance; and the Punch & Judy, originally the Orlando, but recently renamed as a reminder of the Tony Hancock film The Punch & Judy Man, filmed partly on location in the town.

THE AUTHOR
David Muggleton is a professional lecturer and writer with a particular interest in pub and brewery history. He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Pub History Society, Brewery History Society and CAMRA. Over the years, David has gained an extensive knowledge of Brighton pubs both by drinking in them and by delving deep into local archives to uncover their fascinating histories.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

BREWING IN WEST SUSSEX
David Muggleton

Beer originated in the Middle East about 8000 BC and took another three-and-a-half millennia to arrive across the Channel in Britain. In sixth-century Sussex – the kingdom of the South Saxons – social life centred upon the alehouse. Throughout the Middle Ages, brewing remained a domestic occupation: beer was sweet, and flavoured with herbs and spices. By 1600, when Henry Stanton was brewing in Crawley, the use of hops to flavour and preserve beer had become standard practice.
The growth of the large commercial brewers was a product of the Industrial Revolution, from which era date famous West Sussex family concerns such as the Hentys of Chichester, the Ockendens of Crawley and the Constables of Littlehampton. That these are no longer with us is due to a long process of acquisition during the twentieth century. With the takeover of the last of their line, King & Barnes of Horsham, in 2000, brewing in West Sussex was left to just a handful of small independents. Yet today there are nearly thirty breweries in this part of the county.
This fully illustrated and informative book pays homage to the brewing heritage of West Sussex while celebrating the current outpouring of creativity known as the microbrewery revolution.

THE AUTHOR
David Muggleton is a professional lecturer and writer with a particular interest in pub and brewery history. He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Pub History Society, Brewery History Society and CAMRA. Over the years, David has gained an extensive knowledge of Brighton pubs both by drinking in them and by delving deep into local archives to uncover their fascinating histories.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
Reading this book is a great way to work up a thirst!
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

BRIGHTON TIGERS
A STORY OF SPORTING PASSION
Kevin Wilsher & Stewart Roberts

Brighton Tigers were arguably the most successful and passionately supported ice hockey team in the country in the years between 1935 and 1965.
This book reveals for the first time the remarkable love affair between ice hockey and the sports fans of Brighton, Hove and surrounding towns. Thousands packed the Sports Stadium in West Street to cheer on the Tigers, helping them to become one of the leading teams in Britain and Europe.
Under the guidance of legendary player-coach Bobby Lee, the Tigers won the grand slam of domestic honours and later pulled off one of the biggest upsets in British ice hockey history, a 6-3 defeat of the mighty Soviet Union.As well as recording details of the various players and the games, we have included some slices of local history, including the Hippodrome which was originally an ice rink, and the Hove ice rink near the railway station in the early 1930s. 
With a foreword by Dick Knight, Life President of Brighton and Hove Albion, the stories and photos in this book will bring back fond memories to the many fans who still mourn the loss of the team, and provide answers to younger generations wondering what all the fuss was about.

Paperback 270 x 210mm 265 pages
authors
ISBN 978-1-527255-63-0
Price £18.95

BRIGHTON’S GRAPHIC WAR
Tim Piclher (editor)

Cover design by Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell
Foreword by Comic’s Laureate Dave Gibbons

With tales of the Suffragettes, the paranormal, conscientious objectors, wounded Indian soldiers and families torn apart by conflict, Brighton’s Graphic War focuses on the impact of World War One on home life.Created by 15 new young writers and artists, the book illustrates the huge social changes that took place from 1900 to 1920; from daily life at the workhouse, to wash day in Hove; conscripts returning home after the horrors of the front line, to rationing on the
domestic front – Brighton’s Graphic War details how the first modern war of the 20th Century impacted upon the people of a Sussex town.

Paperback 270 x 185mm 200 pages
This book should prove to be a real collector’s item
QueenSpark
ISBN
Price £12.99

BUILDING STOME ATLAS OF SUSSEX
Roger Cordiner and Anthony Brook

The traditional building stones of Sussex are described, mapped and analysed.
Full colour illustrations, extensive appendix, glossaries and index.

Paperback 210 X 297mm 160 pages
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE
authors
ISBN
Price £35.00

CHARLES II AND HIS ESCAPE INTO EXILE
CAPTURE OF THE KING
Martyn R Beardsley

Returning to England to try to reclaim his throne, King Charles II was defeated at the Battle of Worcester — but the battle to save his own life had only just begun. Pursued wherever he went by soldiers from the conflict as well as local militia, Charles donned peasant clothing, crudely cut his hair and tried to adopt a rustic accent. With the secret help of a succession of loyal citizens, he walked till his feet were shredded, waded rivers, coolly mixed with anti-royalists and enemy troopers — and, of course, hid in an oak tree. Never sure of who could be trusted, it was touch and go all the way to the coast and, hopefully, a boat that would take him to freedom.

Hardback 234 x 156mm 192 pages
32 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £19.99

CHICHESTER PUBS
David Muggleton

A fascinating tour of Chichester’s pub scene, charting the town’s taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.Chichester derives its name from the Saxon ‘Cisseceaster’, although it retains its street plan and city walls from its origins as the Roman settlement of ‘Noviomagus’. As the principal trading town of West Sussex, many inns and taverns were established here at an early date, particularly those offering hospitality for pilgrims travelling to the thirteenth century shine of St Richard in the Cathedral. Of nearly all the ancient inns, such as the Tabard of 1440, nothing survives except names in old documents. Most of the less salubrious pubs had their licenses revoked forever in the infamous ‘Massacre of 1903’, while further, more lamentable losses occurred in the early 1960s in the name of ‘slum-clearance’.

Yet the city contains some remarkable survivors, most notably the Dolphin & Anchor, now JD Wetherspoon but originally seventeenth century and, until 1910, two separate establishments, divided by political allegiance to the Whigs and Tories respectively. David Muggleton takes us on a tour of this compact but elegant city, taking in a variety of period pub architecture and history, including the Georgian Ship Hotel, where plans were discussed for the Allied invasion of Europe; the Victorian Park Tavern, once called the Ritz and meeting place of Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers; the Old Cross, rebuilt in 1928; and the contemporary real-ale-purveying café bar, Belle Isle.

The Author
David Muggleton is a professional lecturer and writer with a particular interest in pub and brewery history. He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Pub History Society, Brewery History Society and CAMRA. Over the years, David has gained an extensive knowledge of Brighton pubs both by drinking in them and by delving deep into local archives to uncover their fascinating histories.

100 illustrations

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
PUBLICATION DATE DECEMBER 2017
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

CORNISH AND SUSSEX RECOLLECTIONS IN TEXTILE ART
Catrin Edwards-Jones

Having studied physiotherapy and beauty therapy, the author worked as a beautician at Harvey Nichols and Yardley of Old Bond Street in London.
Marriage brought a move to Brighton, where she later studied portraiture and textile art at Brighton Art College. This led to her opening a studio in St. Ives, Cornwall. where she also taught Textile Art at the St. Ives School of Painting and Truro College. She now lives in Brighton, where she has studied creative writing at Sussex University.

Lavishly illustrated in colour and B&W.

Examples of: embroidery, painting, knitting, quilting, hangings, patchwork, patchwork with applied inserts, stained glass, machine quilted batik, applied leather on velvet, wax resist watercolours, transfer printing onto satin, etc.

Hardback 245 x 170mm 126 pages
A REMARKABLE ARTISTIC OUTPUT
Country Books
ISBN
Price £21.00

DEFYING THE DEMON
Smallpox in Sussex
Diana Crook

The dramatic story of the attempts to cope with and eventually eradicate this terrifying disease making poignant use of personal accounts. The 1950s Brighton outbreak is covered, as well as the fear that the virus could be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 135 pages
Author
ISBN
Price £9.99

EAST SUSSEX SMUGGLERS’ PUBS
Terry Townsend

For 150 years, from the beginning of the eighteenth century, East Sussex was in the forefront of smuggling due to its pivotal position between the merchant suppliers of Northern France and London customers eager for untaxed luxuries such as brandy, tea and tobacco.

The men landing contraband on Sussex beaches had two initial aims.The first to avoid detection, the second to move the merchandise swiftly inland to half way hiding places at farms, churches and pubs. Secrecy during these operations was facilitated by the threat of violence towards would-be informers and judicious bribing of legal authorities encouraging them to turn a blind eye.

In many cases the local inn became the smugglers’ centre of operations where plots were hatched, arrangements agreed and runs commissioned. The smugglers’ pub served as a meeting place, recruitment centre, distribution depot and valued customer. This was nowhere more so than in the incomparable smuggling town of Rye, riddled with linking tunnels and secret storage places.

Terry Townsend has identified a significant number of authentic Smugglers’ pubs distributed throughout East Sussex. These wonderful old buildings with their low-beamed ceilings, flagstone floors and inglenook fireplaces evoke a genuine sense of the desperate days of free traders.The events actually occurring during the smuggling heyday provide stories every bit as wild as any to be imagined.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Townsend has written extensively about English life in the eighteenth century
including books on smuggling, the Bristol slave trade and the life of Jane Austen. He lives in the West Country with his wife Carol and their cat Smudge. Terry is currently
researching Smugglers’ Pubs of East Devon.

Hardback 210 X 148mm 128 pages
A GOOD EXCUSE TO VISIT OLD PUBS IN EAST SUSSEX – CHEERS!
Halsgrove
ISBN
Price £9.99

East Sussex, Brighton & Hove:
Stone Age to Cold War
Kevin Newman

Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but Visitors’ Historic Britain is the first series of books to take readers on a tour of discovery of each of the county’s historic eras in turn.
Visitors’ Historic Britain – East Sussex follows its West Sussex predecessor and starts with the prehistoric era. We explore East Sussex from west to east, investigating both little known and well-visited sites that tell the story of our ancestors’ past. We encounter wild warriors, formidable founders of the county, indefatigable industrialists, excitable eccentrics whilst investigating the lives of Sussex and invaders and inhabitants.
Sussex is a country celebrated by writers, painters, royalty, artists and the millions who have enjoyed its changing coastline and verdant villages. Visitors’ Historic Britain – East
Sussex provides a unique series of journeys for those who are inquisitive about this quirky and history-changing part of the South-East.

The Author
Kevin Newman is a Sussex-born and dwelling author, tour guide, teacher, history
consultant, journalist and historian. A member of the Sussex Society of Authors, he has written school textbooks, for Sussex publications such as the Argus and Brighton and Hove Independent as well a range of books on Sussex. When not engaging people of all ages with the past, he escapes up on the South Downs on walks much shorter than Belloc managed.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 208 pages
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £14.99

EASTBOURNE
BUILDING A DUKE’S DREAM
Alex Askaroff

Legend tells that Eastbourne can never be destroyed because the 7th Duke of
Devonshire left his heart here. The Nazi’s had a good go. Eastbourne was one of the most bombed towns on the South Coast. They failed miserably. Even with all the modern buildings Eastbourne retains something unique, a special quality that’s hard to define.

A stroll anywhere along the promenade from Meads to Fisherman’s Green will fill you with awe and admiration. The
stunning Victorian architecture, the beautifully laid out boulevards, gardens and pier all add to Eastbourne’s intoxicating mix.

A dream, that started in the middle of the Victorian Era, continues to flourish to this day. Eastbourne still holds the accolade as one of the finest seaside resorts in the world. But how did the dream start? Where did it all begin? How were a few out-lying hamlets and farmers fields so superbly redesigned to bring this empress of
watering places to life?

In Eastbourne, Building A Duke’s Dream, world renowned author Alex Askaroff tells the story in his own unique style, reviving long forgotten characters from the town including the odd ghost, gruesome murder, sacred wells, smugglers, kings and queens, even a witch! It is a tale not to miss.

Paperback 230 x155 200 pages
Over 100 B&W illustrations
Country Books
ISBN
Price £9.99

EASTBOURNE HB
BUILDING A DUKE’ DREAM
Alex Askaroff

Legend tells that Eastbourne can never be destroyed because the 7th Duke of
Devonshire left his heart here. The Nazi’s had a good go. Eastbourne was one of the most bombed towns on the South Coast. They failed miserably. Even with all the modern buildings Eastbourne retains something unique, a special quality that’s hard to define.

A stroll anywhere along the promenade from Meads to Fisherman’s Green will fill you with awe and admiration. The
stunning Victorian architecture, the beautifully laid out boulevards, gardens and pier all add to Eastbourne’s intoxicating mix.

A dream, that started in the middle of the Victorian Era, continues to flourish to this day. Eastbourne still holds the accolade as one of the finest seaside resorts in the world. But how did the dream start? Where did it all begin? How were a few out-lying hamlets and farmers fields so superbly redesigned to bring this empress of
watering places to life?

In Eastbourne, Building A Duke’s Dream, world renowned author Alex Askaroff tells the story in his own unique style, reviving long forgotten characters from the town including the odd ghost, gruesome murder, sacred wells, smugglers, kings and queens, even a witch! It is a tale not to miss.

Hardback 246 X 189mm 194 pages
Over 100 B&W illustrations
Country Books
ISBN
Price £19.99

EASTBOURNE HISTORY TOUR
Kevin Gordon

Eastbourne History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the fascinating history of this town on the coast of East Sussex. Author Kevin Gordon guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the years as well as exploring its lesser-known sights and hidden corners. With the help of a handy location map, readers are invited to follow a timeline of events and discover for themselves the changing face of
Eastbourne.

THE AUTHOR
Kevin Gordon is a retired police officer who has a lifelong interest in Sussex History. He is the author of several Eastbourne and Seaford history books and has contributed many items for local newspapers. Kevin is a trustee of Seaford Museum and the Chairman of the Alfriston & Cuckmere Valley Historic Society. In 2016 he was appointed as the Honorary Historian for Seaford Town Council. He has been a volunteer at Seaford Museum for 20 years and maintains their Facebook page.

Paperback 168 x 124mm 96 pages
50 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £7.99

Fifty Years of The Seaford Head Local Nature Reserve 1969-2019
Written by Alison Baker for the Seaford Head Local Nature Reserve Management Committee
Alison Baker

1969 was a momentous year. Man walked on the Moon for the first time, the iconic Woodstock pop festival was held, the Beatles released their equally iconic Abbey Road album and, not to be outdone, Seaford Head became a Local Nature Reserve.
Declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1953 as part of the Seaford to Beachy Head designation, this popular and much used site is also part of the Sussex Downs National Park and the Sussex Heritage Coast. It is a Site of Nature Conservation Importance, a Local Geological Site, a Regionally Important Geomorphological Site and was declared a Voluntary Marine Conservation Area in 1987. The Vanguard Way long distance footpath passes through on its way from Newhaven to Croydon.
2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the designation of this unique location as a Local Nature Reserve and this book was commissioned to document and celebrate those first fifty years.

Paperback 246 x 189mm 124 pages
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Country Books
ISBN
Price £13.50

FOREST, FOLKS & FAMILY POEMS
ASHDOWN FOREST AND ELSEWHERE
Rosalie Leng

Hilarity, sadness, jollity, lightheartedness, profundity and rhythm will be found in over one hundred poems brought together in this slim volume.

Through wartime and peace Rosalie, born at Haslemere in Surrey, has lived in Hastings, Trinidad and, for most of her life, in Crowborough. Being so near to Ashdown Forest, she has become more and more interested in its history, flora and fauna, and its conservation. She has worked as a volunteer for many years at the Forest Centre, as well as contributing poems to the ‘Ashdown Forest News’ taking many photographs during her walks there in all weathers throughout the seasons.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 142 pages
16 colour and B&W illustrations
Pitcairn-Knowles
ISBN
Price £9.50

FROM HADFOLDSHERN TO ADVERSANE
Deborah Evershed

First published in 2006. This illustrated book was the first publication of South Grove Books based in Petworth, West Sussex.
Driving through Adversane today you might think little of it – a staggered crossroads, pub and scattering of houses, but this hamlet has a history that enfolds the author’s family history.
Using her own memories, the stories handed down in her family and careful research, Deborah has sought to capture a hundred years in and around Adversane.
Start reading though and you will see she has done more than capture the stories – she has brought them vividly alive.In the 1850s the author’s great great great grandmother – also Deborah – ran a shop in Adversane, while her great great grandfather, Charles Puttock, was both blacksmith and landlord at the Blacksmith’s Arms. Charles’ daughter, another Deborah, became a teacher and married into the Taylor family. The author’s parents, David and Ethel Evershed moved to Adversane in the late 1940s and so the author came to be born and brought up in the cottages converted from the old malthouse opposite the Blacksmith’s Arms. So the book title represents a long journey through time that comes full circle back to the place.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 200 pages
ILLUSTRATED
South Grove Books
ISBN
Price £9.99

FROZEN FAIRYTALES
FOR ALL AGES
Evelyn Foster

In this difficult days, we all need inspiration. A recently published book might provide this.

It is: FROZEN FAIRYTALES by Evelyn Foster, published by Country Books: a collection of uplifting fairytales perfect for lockdown, birthday or Christmas.

Fairytales as Dickens said, help and comfort children ( and adults ! ) more than anything. Readers are reassured by Rapunzel finding resources in herself ( her hair ! ) and by someone as small as a child being able to outwit a giant. The happy endings, in particular, give readers hope for their own futures. This collection contains one where the hero is a doctor, and another where a boy and his grandmother triumphantly survive a plague.

It’s notable too that many fairytale heroines have to spend time in lockdown – in towers!

The book also, of course, aims to give pleasure to all those children who love the Frozen films!

Heroes and heroines of myth and fairytale are unselfish. They are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the community. These stories feel especially apt today.

So it’s great if both adults and children can enjoy them, as part of our common international heritage, and be inspired by their pleasure and its purpose. If we do, we may finally create a world in which we can all live more happily ever after ...!

The writer has lectured on myth and fairytale at the Royal Festival Hall, helped plan women of the world festivals at the Southbank Centre, and given myth and legend workshops at the British Museum.

She has also played an amazing amount of good fairies and Fairy Godmothers!

Paperback 198 x 129mm 60 pages
NEW BOOK FROM THIS WELL-KNOWN SUSSEX AUTHOR
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-75-8
Price £7.99

GERAT WAR BARCOMBE
News from a Sussex village
Ian Hilder

By the end of the War, Barcombe, an agricultural parish of 1,277 people, had supplied 176 men to the Armed Forces, 36 of whom did not return. What was daily life like for those who were left behind?
Life certainly wasn’t dull, with the parish led by a smock-wearing squire, commanding a cyclists’ battalion, while promoting a resurgence of the sport of stoolball for wounded servicemen. They are joined by a new Rector and schoolmaster and an unwitting collaborator in the ‘Piltdown Man’ hoax.
Using articles from the Sussex Express, supported by contemporary images, postcards and documents, we follow village life from the eager volunteers of 1914 and their news from the front, to the fund-raising events for refugees and servicemen, and on to conscription and the military tribunals of 1916. The village plans a fete for convalescing soldiers, while Women’s Land Army workers make their first appearance on local farms.
Once the war had ended the parish began to consider how best to commemorate the dead, support the survivors and plan for the Peace Celebrations.

Paperback 245 x 190mm 248 pages
Over 200 illustrations, many in colour
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-61-1
Price £15.00

GLORY DAYS
Alex Askaroff

We all love stories don’t we, especially true ones. For over 30 years Alex Askaroff has been carefully collecting and sharing priceless tales from his corner of England. At last his long awaited next volume is finally here. In his eleventh published book he shows us once again that he is the master of the short story.

We meet Little Sid, who earned his first medal cycling through The Blitz, before he was even old enough to go to war. We meet crazy farmers and mad dogs, great inventors and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters, from corrupt politicians and naked gardeners to the Hastings schoolboy who fooled the world to become the most famous First Nation Indian alive.

Alex Askaroff’s way with words, his funny and thought provoking stories, and the wonderful Sussex characters that he meets on his travels will leave you with a smile and a happy heart.

Once again Alex has brought his unique magic to the page and captures England, its history and its people as only he can.

140 B&W photos

Paperback 230 x 155mm 340 pages
The long-awaited book from our master storyteller
Country Books
ISBN
Price £14.99

Great War Barcombe
News from a Sussex village 1914-1919
edited by Ian Hilder BA FSG

Local historian Ian Hilder, introduces the reader to the inhabitants of a Sussex village
during the Great War in this well-illustrated and lively account.

By the end of the War, Barcombe, an agricultural parish of 1,277 people, had supplied 176 men to the Armed Forces, 36 of whom did not return. What was daily life like for those who were left behind?
Life certainly wasn’t dull, with the parish led by a smock-wearing squire, commanding a cyclists’ battalion, while promoting a resurgence of the sport of stoolball for wounded
servicemen. They are joined by a new Rector and schoolmaster and an unwitting
collaborator in the ‘Piltdown Man’ hoax.
Using articles from the Sussex Express, supported by contemporary images, postcards and documents, we follow village life from the eager volunteers of 1914 and their news from the front, to the fund-raising events for refugees and servicemen, and on to conscription and the military tribunals of 1916. The village plans a fete for convalescing soldiers, while Women’s Land Army workers make their first appearance on local farms.
Once the war had ended the parish began to consider how best to commemorate the dead, support the survivors and plan for the Peace Celebrations.

Paperback 246 X 189mm 248 pages
OVER 200 ILLUSTRATIONS, MANY IN COLOUR
Country Books
ISBN
Price £15.00

HAMMER AND FURNACE PONDS
Relics of the Wealden Iron Industry
Helen Pearce

They beautify the woodlands of the Sussex and Kent High Weald, but they were created to power what has been described as the country's first industrial revolution.
Helen Pearce's walker-friendly guide to the rich crop of surviving hammer and furnace ponds in the area traces the history of iron exploitation from pre-Roman times, but concentrates on the 16th and 17th centuries when the Weald throbbed to the sound of trip hammers.
Her attractively illustrated guide includes a complete gazetteer of surviving ponds, with map references and access details, and a list of museums with iron industry displays.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 96 pages
Updated reprint
Pomegranate Press
ISBN
Price £8.99

HANGED FOR A SHEEP:
BYGONE CRIME IN SUSSEX
by Dick Richardson

This book surveys crime and the treatment of criminals in bygone Sussex, illustrated with extracts from late 18th century copies of the Sussex Weekly Advertiser, the county's first weekly news-paper. “You may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.”The saying dates back to the days when sheep-stealing was punishable by death. For stealing a lamb you would be “hanged by the neck until you were dead.” The same punishment was meted out for stealing a sheep, so you ran no greater risk for stealing the more valuable article. (This law was repealed in 1828.)

CONTENTS: CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS • DUELS • FOOTPADS AND HIGHWAYMAN • KEEPING LAW AND ORDER PRISONS • PUNISHMENTS SERIOUS CRIME • SMUGGLERS • THEFT • INDEX OF SURNAMES • INDEX OF PLACE-NAMES

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 80 pages
Engravings, woodcuts and photographs.
2003 County Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 85 9
Price £6.95

HAROLD
THE KING WHO FELL AT HASTINGS
Peter Rex

Harold Godwinson, King of England, was unable to defend his realm from William the Conqueror’s invading Norman army in 1066. The Normans wreaked havoc across the country and changed the history of England forever.
This full-scale biography of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king reveals an astute political operator who, as Earl of Wessex, won the affection of the English people and the support of Edward the Confessor to succeed him. Peter Rex tells the story of a formidable warrior-king killed in battle in defence of his kingdom.

THE AUTHOR
Peter Rex was Head of History at Prince Thorpe College for twenty years. He was an acknowledged expert on Eleventh-century English and Norman history. He died in March 2012.

Paperback 198 x 129mm 304 pages
I was tempted to say “Keep and eye out for this book”
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £9.99

HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS
THE POSTCARD COLLECTION
Alan Spree

The town of Hastings, on the coast of East Sussex, was one of the medieval Cinque Ports on the south-east coast of England, benefitting from trade with Continental Europe. As the town developed into a seaside resort in the nineteenth century with the arrival of the railway, the adjoining settlement of St Leonards was built as an elegant new town to attract wealthy incomers. Hastings still operates a fishing fleet today and has grown into a large, culturally diverse town that welcomes many visitors to its ancient streets, historic old town and beaches.

In Hastings & St Leonards: The Postcard Collection author Alan Spree has drawn on a remarkable selection of old postcards to give a pictorial record of life in these towns in the past, from the Edwardian period to the end of the First World War. Although many landmarks have remained the same over the years, there have also been many changes in Hastings and St Leonards and the photographs show the towns and their communities adapting and changing over the course of this period. This fascinating collection of images will be of interest to those who have lived in Hastings and St Leonards or know them well.

THE AUTHOR
Alan Spree is the great-grandson of the postcard publisher John Henry Spree. Alan was born in Nottingham and went to school in Bilborough before moving to Portsmouth and growing up there.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
180 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

HAVE I GOT A STORY FOR YOU
His long-awaited new book
Alex Askaroff

We all love stories, and in Alex Askaroffs eighth book, HAVE I GOT A STORY FOR YOU, he continues with his fascinating travels around the South East of England, collecting more hilarious and enchanting tales as he goes. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, but all will have you captivated.
Once again Alex brings his unique magic to the page and captures England, its history and its people, as only he can.

Paperback 230 x 155mm 302 pages
WORTH IT FOR NINAS NAPLES PIZZA RECIPE!
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-906789-85-5
Price £12.50

HISTORIC ENGLAND : SUSSEX
UNIQUE IMAGES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF HISTORIC ENGLAND
Kevin Newman and contributions from Historic England

Sussex has been the home of everyone from dinosaurs and early humans, to holiday-
makers and the health-conscious. It has been Iron Age, Saxon, Viking and Norman battleground, gateway to England for invaders and home to monarchs, aristocrats, writers, painters and photographers. Since the 1750s it has also been the leading destination of those seeking coastal contentment or rural retreat. Boasting a backbone of seventy miles of the South Downs, beautiful beaches, and thriving resorts has meant the county maintains a warm place in many British hearts, and so many aspects of Sussex life have been captured on film or canvas.

In Historic England: Sussex, Brighton-born author Kevin Newman takes readers on a unique and illustrated journey through a personal selection of Sussex’s past using photographs from the Historic England Archive. Kevin brings his knowledge as author of numerous publications on Sussex to explain and bring alive photographs and illustrations ranging from the 1850s to the present day. Chapters focus on: Landmarks and scenery; Beautiful buildings; Public buildings; Entertainment and leisure; Education; People and their places; Work and industry.

THE AUTHOR
Kevin Newman is an author of history textbooks and he gives a number of historical talks and presentations when not running his organisation, All-Inclusive History. He also takes educational and corporate groups, such as Sotherby’s School of Art on architectural tours.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

HISTORIC ENGLAND: EASTBOURNE & AROUND
UNIQUE IMAGES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF HISTORIC ENGLAND
Kevin Gordon

This illustrated history portrays one of England’s finest seaside towns. It provides a nostalgic look at Eastbourne’s past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the unique Historic England Archive, the nation’s record of 12 million photographs, drawings and publications, ranging from the 1850s and the earliest days of photography up to the present day.
Historic England: Eastbourne shows the town as it once was, from its streets and squares to its parks and promenades. It remains a genteel resort with none of the glitz, glamour and ‘kiss-me-quickness’ of other seaside towns; even today there are no shops or amusement arcades along the seafront. This book provides a nostalgic trip through time and shows that Eastbourne is still the ‘Empress of the South’.

The Author
Kevin Gordon is a retired police officer who has a lifelong interest in Sussex History. He is the author of several Eastbourne and Seaford history books and has contributed many items for local newspapers. Kevin is a trustee of Seaford Museum and the Chairman of the Alfriston & Cuckmere Valley Historic Society. In 2016 he was appointed as the Honorary Historian for Seaford Town Council. He has been a volunteer at Seaford Museum for 20 years and maintains their Facebook page.

160 colour & B&W illustrations

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
A MUST for those who love Eastbourne
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

HOOPS & SIGNALS
THE STORY OF A SUSSEX GREAT GRANDFATHER
John Ireland

Thomas Ireland, an ancestor of the author, spent his whole life in the mid-Sussex village of Balcombe. From the early days of the London to Brighton railway line Thomas was a signalman at Balcombe tunnel, but long before that he had followed his father and other relatives into the woodland craft of the barrel hoop maker. Alongside his duties with the railway company he continued to be very active in this trade for the rest of his life. In joining the railway he made a quantum leap from the life of the rural workman into the industrial world. But what marks out this member of the nineteenth century rural working class is that he was highly literate. People from the village frequently came to him to have their letters read or written. Probably to a large extent self-taught, he read voraciously and – most significantly – wrote down what he learned in a series of thirty or so pocket note books. In most of these he kept a journal. John Ireland, who has known Balcombe all his life, inherited these diaries, and his book uses them to provide a prism through which the varied aspects of Thomas’s life and character are revealed.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 70 pages
Riral crafts and the early railway at Balcombe, Sussex
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-906789-79-4
Price £6.99

HOOVES IN THE HIGH STREET
THE HORSE HISTORY OF ALFRISTON
Cheryl Lutring

The otherwise overlooked horse activity in the village of Alfriston from 1850 to 2010.
75 B&W illustrations.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 120 pages
A great read – even if you do not have a horse!
Phreestyle Pholios
ISBN
Price £10.00

HOVE
THE POSTCARD COLLECTION
Trevor Cox

Hove, west of its immediate neighbour Brighton, was a small fishing village on the Sussex coast until its development in the early 19th century as a fashionable seaside resort for wealthy Londoners following the patronage of the Prince Regent, later George IV. Elegant Regency estates and large Victorian mansions were built in Hove, most of which survive today albeit as flats, and the town is also characterised by the wide boulevards and avenues laid down in that era. Sussex Cricket Club made Hove its home, as did Brighton & Hove Albion FC until it relocated in the 1990s. Hove has always retained its separate identity to Brighton, and today is proud to be a counterpoint to its neighbour.

Hove: The Postcard Collection takes the reader on an evocative journey into Hove’s past through a selection of old postcards which offer a fascinating window into the history of this historic town in East Sussex.

THE AUTHOR
Trevor Cox lives in Hove and has been collecting material on the local history of Hove for many years. He also writes for shipping magazines.

180 illustrations

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
Publication July 2019
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

ILLUSTRATED TALES OF SUSSEX
Christopher Horlock

The old county of Sussex is one of the most beautiful in England, but beneath its rural idyll lies a history that is surprising and often shocking.

Local author and historian Christopher Horlock brings us some of the county’s strange and mythical tales, bringing together a whole range of places, events and people that are seldom mentioned in standard histories or guides. Interesting remains, strange happenings, hoaxes, witchcraft and unusual memorials are featured, along with some new reminiscences on smuggling. Several little-known hill figures are featured, plus some famous individuals not usually associated with Sussex, including Guy Fawkes, Vincent van Gogh and John F. Kennedy. It’s an unusual mix of the curious, the quaint and the mysterious, where even those who know Sussex well will find something new and surprising.

THE AUTHOR
Christopher Horlock is an author and avid collector of old photographs of Brighton. He writes regularly for Sussex Life magazine and has previously written history books. This is his first book for Amberley.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4456-7899-3
Price £14.99

LADY THATCHER’S WINK
David Arscott

The novel envisages a general election a few years from now, with the government’s austerity programme cruelly intensified. Former Lewes MP and Coalition minister Norman Baker has compared its dark humour to the works of George Orwell. The plot revolves around a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in 10 Downing Street which is obscenely defaced. A chance encounter alerts the caretaker prime minister, a landed grandee, to the grim reality of the country he nominally runs. As he swings to the left, Labour leapfrog him to fill the vacancy and an elderly Charles III is worryingly susceptible to the attempts of a rabidly nationalistic party to increase the powers of the House of Windsor.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 170 pages
Any resemblances between the fictional characters in this book and figures in British public life ar
Pomegranate Press
ISBN
Price £7.99

LAND OF HOPE AND STORY
A celebration of Rural Britain’s history, myth and legend
Evelyn Foster

A BOOK FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVE GREAT BRITISH HISTORY AND THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE! LAND OF HOPE AND STORY: by Evelyn Foster, published by Country Books, is a celebration of British countryside, history, nostalgia and legend. Proceeds from the gift book will raise money for the National Trust. LAND OF HOPE AND STORY aims to raise spirits in these challenging times. It is full of fun, hope and positive patriotism, as well as a great love of Great Britain and its landscape. A book to lift any life and any lockdown!

Paperback 198 x 129mm 82 pages
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-85-7
Price £7.99

LEGENDS OF LAMPLIT LEWES
A Lewes ghost walk and tales of other strange things
Jane Hasler & Nick Cole

Lewes has its fair share of stories about strange things, history and legends. Legends of Lampit Lewes brings together a collection of these tales in which ghosts, murderers, saints and hangings abound. The book’s inspiration began in the 1990s when two friends, Jane Hasler and Nick Cole, discovered a shared interest in such things and a deep love of the town. Originally conceived and performed as a guided walk, including once at the Lewes Festival, the reader can now take this tour for themselves and learn of mysteries, miracles, murder, magic and quite a few phantoms too....if they dare! The book includes a route map of Lewes, with numbered stops for each story. Jane and Nick enjoyed creating this work and guiding the walk together though they only got to perform it a handful of times. Sadly, Nick died in 2011. Jane has now published it for posterity and for those interested in such things in the unique and historic town of Lewes. Illustrated by Kevin Stewart Cantwell BA (Hons.)

Paperback 210 X 148mm 70 pages
the author is offering discounts for multiple orders / wholesale price,
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-80-2
Price £8.50

LEWES AND EAST GRINSTEAD RAILWAY
THE BLUEBELL LINE
Richard C Long

A lively and accessible history of the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway, covering the whole story from start to finish, illustrated with a fantastic range of archive and contemporary photographs.

The railway opened in 1882 and was shortly after taken over by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, absorbed by Southern Ralway in 1923. BR closed the line in 1955 but public pressure forced it to reopen the next year. BR finally persuaded Parliament to close the line in 1958.

Bluebell Preservation Society was formed before the closure and from 1960 ran a preserved steam service from Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes – the first standard gauge heritage railway in England. The extension to East Grinstead had been planned for many years, the first extension north opened in 1990, but not completed until 2013.

Paperback 280 x 210mm 128 pages
A MUST for railway fans!
Ian Allen
ISBN
Price £19.99

LEWES IN DETAIL
an artist’s view
Marietta Van Dyck

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of her moving to Lewes, and almost twenty years since the publication of her first highly popular book Hidden Lewes, Marietta Van Dyck introduces a second published collection of the vivid pen and ink drawings she has regularly contributed to the ‘Eye for Detail’ series in the bi-monthly Lewes News.

Here, once again, are the often tucked away features which even long-time residents of the county town are likely to miss – subtle decorations above head-height, curious designs, intricate stone carvings, plaques, bargeboards, wrought iron brackets, leaded lights and door knockers.

Aided by a map at the back of the book, a keen reader is promised hours of visual appreciation along the town’s highways and twisting byways, each drawing accompanied by carefully researched historical vignettes.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 42 pages
An enchanting book – how many details in Lewes have you missed?
Pomegranate Press
ISBN
Price £5.00

LEWES PUBS
Kevin Newman

Since the days as a royal burgh (fortified town) in the days of King Alfred, Lewes has had a wealth of taverns, inns, alehouses and public houses. A fascinating journey through the town’s watering houses, past and present. He explores the trivial, the unknown, the spooky, the unusual, and tells of the many characters that have frequented them.

100 illustrations

Paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

LEWES RACECOURSE: A LEGACY LOST?
Foreword by Lord Rathcreedon, British Horse Racing Authority
Cheryl R Lutring

The only book devoted to the history of Lewes Racecourse which spans over 200 years from the early 1700s to its closure in 1964. It still operates as a base for racehorse trainers to this day. It is more than a dissertation of races, winners and odds. It is packed with anecdotes about characters and incidents which really bring the racecourse to life.

Contents: From the start; A view of the course: Racing: Of people past: Horses: The final furlong: Training facilities: Past the post: Royal plates at Lewes 1720-1764: Horses that have won more than four times at Lewes: Pratt & Co.: Sussex Ox: Not only thoroughbred racing: Pilot and jockey: Telscombe village: Some Sussex racecourses.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 144 pages
Fully illustrated with black and white photos, engravings and paintings.
Phreestyle Pholios
ISBN
Price £10.00

LEWES: THE POSTCARD COLLECTION
Bob Cairns

Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, started out as a bridging point and market town. Steeped in history, scholars believe it is possible that the civil parish was home to the Roman settlement of Mutuantonis. It doesn’t stop there, however. The castle was built by William de Warenne,son-in-law of William the Conqueror, in 1069 after the Norman Invasion. Originally known as Bray Castle, this impressive building stands at the highest point of Lewes and is well worth a visit.Intercepted by the River Ouse, there are a number of gorgeous countryside walks to take advantage of in this charming ancient town. The Postcard Collection beautifully illustrates the
culture and character of Lewes, taking us on a journey through its historical past.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 128 pages
NOW PUBLISHED!
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £12.99

LOCOMOTIVES OF THE LONDON BRIGHTON SOUTH COAST RAILWAY
John Christopher

A contemporary account of the LB&SCR’’s locomotives covering the company’s formative years from 1839 up to 1903. Originally published over 100 years ago this new edition is fully illustrated with over 150 linedrawings and photographs. A hard to find account of the early LB&SCR railway locomotives. Fully illustrated with line drawings and photographs throughout. The London Brighton & South Coast Railway – also known as the ‘Brighton Line’ – was an important pre-grouping railway. Many of the early locomotives were acquired through amalgamations with other companies and over 1,000 were built and in 1923, they were handed over to Southern Railways.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 160 pages
150 illustrations
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £12.99

LOST BRIGHTON
Christopher Horlock

Brighton has grown from a fashionable resort in Georgian times, and a popular place to visit for Londoners once the railways arrived in Sussex in the nineteenth century, to today’s lively conurbation on the south coast. In this book, local historian Christopher Horlock charts the changing face of Brighton from the end of the Victorian era to the present day. Not only are many famous lost landmarks recorded, such as the Chain and West piers, Hanningtons department store and the SS Brighton ice rink, but also industrial premises, churches, schools, theatres and cinemas, plus trams, trolleybuses and branch railways.

Lost Brighton presents a portrait of a city and a way of life that has radically changed or
disappeared today, showing not just the buildings, streets and industries that have gone or changed, but also a way of life. This fascinating photographic history of lost Brighton will appeal to all those who live in the city or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.

THE AUTHOR
Christopher Horlock is an author and avid collector of old photographs of Brighton. He writes regularly for ‘Sussex Life’ magazine and has previously written history books for a local publisher as well Amberley.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

LOST VILLAGES OF SUSSEX
Alex Vincent

Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted villages. Most
were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague epidemics, but some
were lost to coastal erosion or the encroaching sea, while others were
resettled elsewhere when the livelihood upon which the village relied
disappeared and some were even deliberately moved in later centuries on the whim of country house owners.

In this book author Alex Vincent surveys the lost villages of Sussex. By
examining old records and maps, the history of excavations in the area, local archaeological archives and records and the evidence of remaining buildings, ruins and old earthworks, he has recorded over 140 deserted, shrunken and shifted villages in East and West Sussex. He explores what remains on these sites currently, including their churches, which often stand alone today; now isolated farmhouses; ruins; fragments in later buildings and the sites of old houses and streets that are often just bumps in a field; pest houses and mass graves of plague victims; the importance of place names as a record of previous inhabitation; lost industries; and many more markers of a vanished world.

This fascinating picture of an important but often forgotten part of the history of Sussex over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in this corner of south-east England or have known it well.

THE AUTHOR
Alex Vincent is a local historian who has been researching Sussex history
and the lost villages of Sussex for many years, including the discovery of
three hitherto unknown shrunken and deserted mediaeval villages where the
author noticed earthworks. His previous publications include a series on the Roman Roads of Sussex and other counties in the South East of England
and Lost Churches and Chapels of Sussex.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

MIXED FRUIT FROM A SUSSEX TREE
John Snelling

Imagine if you will a long train journey, during which you start chatting with the stranger opposite and realise later that a couple of hours have passed easily by, full of fascinating anecdote, light and shade, wit and wisdom; an all too rare treat in our hectic but increasingly isolated modern life.You part as new friends, vowing to stay in touch. That is how I felt on reading this little gem of a book for the first time. Storytelling in an easy conversational style.

‘If you want to be a writer, write’ was never more apposite than here. John has clearly been thinking and writing for most of his life, and the range of this collection is impressive. Social comedy, local history, the use of very different voices and some subtle and moving poetry.

The silver thread which runs through it all is that of a devoted and close family within and outside the Anglican church, with some deft pen-portraits of great men and women who made a largely unsung difference to many lives. As a record of vanished times, small scale and local, it will be an ornament to any social history collection, and it fulfils an important role in the fast-disappearing narrative on which future historians and biographers will come to rely.

Amusing, thought-provoking, puckish and intimate by turns, peopled by types whom we we will all know from our own lives, but never stereotypical, this is a quiet celebration of an English life which many of us will recognise with affection and nostalgia without ever wishing to turn back the clock.

Hardback 210 x 148mm 272 pages
Preface by Christina Maude
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-52-9
Price £20.00

MY MARTEN FAMILY IN SUSSEX
Yeoman Farmers and General Baptists 1711 to 1830
Dr Annette Rose

A wonderful book from a new Sussex author. The interest of her first book extends beyond the Martens and Baptists as her family had connections with many famous places in the county – Old Ditchling Meeting House; Franklands Farm, Keymer; Itford Farmhouse; Exceat Farm, West Dean; Beddingham; Kingston, near Lewes; Little Horsted; Southover and finally, Charleston Farm, West Firle!

Annette Rose was born and brought up in Sussex. She was told that her father, Frank Marten, was “pure Sussex” but the family had little knowledge of the Marten ancestors beyond Frank’s grandfather William Marten (26th December 1845 – 8th May 1915), of the Maypole Inn, High Hurstwood, Sussex.Annette has an M.A. in Education and a PhD. in Family History and
Connected Places. She retired from teaching in 2001 and her mother passed away the following year, 2002, leaving many unidentified photographs and documents from the past. Annette then found that she was able to confirm the story of her father being “pure Sussex”, by following the lives of both sides of her paternal family back into 16th century Sussex.In this little book she has written about her Marten ancestors who lived in Sussex during the 18th and the early 19th centuries.

Annette now lives with her husband, John, in Bournemouth, Dorset.

35 colour pictures and 1 map

Paperback 230 x 170mm 54 pages
A MUST FOR ALL WHO LOVE SUSSEX AND ITS HISTORY
Dr Annette Rose
ISBN
Price £10.00

Mysteries of History in Sussex
Philip Pavey

Who created the Long Man of Wilmington on the Sussex Downs, and
for what purpose?
What evidence is there for the existence of ancient ley lines connecting historic sites of worship in the east of the county?
When did Christianity first arrive in pagan Sussex?
Where was King Harold buried after his defeat at the Battle of Hastings?
Did Canute order the waves to retreat at Bosham – and was his young daughter buried there?
These are among the many searching questions Philip Pavey explores in his
enthralling and painstaking sifting of historical fact and fiction. His investigations also cover aspects of folklore and their origins, a reported Civil War battle in the village of West Hoathly and the Bloomsbury painting of the Nativity.

Paperback ROYAL 72 pages
Pomegranate Press
ISBN
Price £5.99

NEWS FROM VICTORIAN NEWHAVEN
Stanley Bernard

Newhaven today is trying to revive itself but it can never get back to its heyday of the
Victorian era. This is the story of how the town grew into a major port with coming of the railway 1847, with a regular ferry service to France and Jersey from 1851. Houses shops and industry thrived until the end of the century.

This is not only the story of that development but also tries to look at live in general through newspaper reports of crimes that took place as well. Illustrated with many old pictures and is fully referenced, for further study.

The book came out the dissertation from his 2012 Masters Degree in local history awarded by The Open University. However all the academic work has been removed to make a more interesting read.

Paperback 210 x 150mm 93 pages
First published 2014
Amberley
ISBN
Price £12.99

NO PLACE TO LIE
SECRETS UNLOCKED, A PROMISE KEPT
Helen Garlick

On St David’s Day 1981, Helen receives a phone call in St Louis from her distraught father in Yorkshire, leading her to a heart-searing path of discovery. Her brother David’s shocking death at twenty in a remote mansion triggers a quest to unravel shrouded in secrets and silence.
Vividly evocative, Helen’s debut memoir No Place to Lie takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through suicide, trauma and shame to shine a light on what really happened to David, and the startling secret her mother took to her grave. Helen’s courageous and uplifting book brings powerful messages about hope, the healing power of talking, stepping towards recovery and connection to a life filled with humour, joy and love.

Paperback 198 x 129mm 262 pages
B&W illustrations
authors
ISBN 978-1-913532-18-6
Price £9.99

NOOKS AND CORNERS OF OLD SUSSEX
by Rev P de Putron

A facsimile of this scarce book published in 1875 of choice examples of Sussex archaeology. Over 300 early-mid 19th century engravings. Churches ‘restored’ by the Victorians; the Star Inn at Alfriston before the timber frame was exposed; the shrine of St Lawrence at Ottenham Abbey, Henfield; old manor houses, etc. An invaluable source for those researching local or family history.

Paperback 295 x 205 mm 160 pages
Was £18.50 – now £12.50
2005 Ashridge Press
ISBN 978 1 901214 49 9
Price £12.50

NORMAN: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
by Alex Askeroff

Paperback Large-format 216 pages
Black-and-white photographs
Crows Nest Publications
ISBN
Price £12.99

NORTH BRIGHTON: LONDON ROAD TO COLDEAN THROUGH TIME
Anthony Beeson

Brighton’s first suburb’, London Road, was for its first century almost entirely domestic in character and the haunt of the genteel middle classes whose gardens were praised by the Loudons. The early country suburb’s change to commercial and industrial use provides a fascinating picture of the rise and fall of a once prosperous community. It foreshadowed the suburbs, also covered by this volume, which would subsequently mushroom along the traditional northern routes out of the town, following the sale of Stanford land in the 1870s and over countryside once in the manors of Preston and Patcham. The areas covered include, London Road and its hinterland, New England and the Dyke Road, Ditchling Road and Hollingbury, and the ancient route to London, the Lewes Road, encompassing Preston Barracks, Moulsecoomb and Coldean. The rare illustrations come from the author’s private collection and provide a wonderful historical record of the area.
180 illustrations.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 160 pages
PUBLICATION DATE REVISED JUNE 2014
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

RAGGED LANDS
Viscountess Wolseley’s College for Lady Gardeners, Glynde
Diana Crook

Frances Wolseley, daughter of the famous soldier, opened her pioneering college in 1906. This entertaining account follows the progress of the college with its wayward students and discusses her eventual disinheritance by her parents.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 67 pages
Author
ISBN
Price £7.50

RANDOM THREADS 1: PATCHES OF HEAVEN
by Alex Askeroff

RANDOM THREADS FROM ALEX ASKEROFF AND CROWS NEST PUBLICATIONS
Tales from this master storyteller. Humorous encounters with Sussex characters, from war veterans and farmers to hop-pickers and
mill-workers the author has met whilst repairing sewing machines.

Paperback 224 pages
black-and-white photographs
Crows Nest Publications
ISBN
Price £9.99

RANDOM THREADS 2: SKYLARK COUNTRY
by Alex Askeroff

RANDOM THREADS FROM ALEX ASKEROFF AND CROWS NEST PUBLICATIONS
Tales from this master storyteller. Humorous encounters with Sussex characters, from war veterans and farmers to hop-pickers and
mill-workers the author has met whilst repairing sewing machines.

Paperback 176 pages
black-and-white photographs
Crows Nest Publications
ISBN
Price £9.99

RANDOM THREADS 3: HIGH STREETS & HEDGEROWS
by Alex Askeroff

RANDOM THREADS FROM ALEX ASKEROFF AND CROWS NEST PUBLICATIONS
Tales from this master storyteller. Humorous encounters with Sussex characters, from war veterans and farmers to hop-pickers and mill-workers the author has met whilst repairing sewing machines.

Paperback 224 pages
Black-and-white photographs
Crows Nest Publications
ISBN
Price £9.99

RECOLLECTIONS OF A SUSSEX PARSON
by Rev. Edward Boys Ellman

First published 1912. Edward Boys Ellman was born in 1815 and was rector of Berwick, East Sussex, for sixty years. A keen observer of life and people, this is a fascinating portrait of life in a small village in the 19th century. Among other humourous incidents is the installation of the barrel organ in the church - that insisted on playing secular tunes, and the lady in Lewes, who asked the shopkeeper to trim a yard off the bottom of a dress while she saved up for it! He died on 22nd February 1906. Index of surnames and place-names

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 269 pages
Photographs and line drawings.
2004 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 87 3
Price £9.95

RIDING ON
Angela Webber

In some 98,000 words this book tells the life story of an orphan who became the – now 87 year old – equestrian artist and mural painter Angela Webber, examples of whose work are in galleries and on walls in all parts of England.
She was taken from a London Adoption Home at the age of two by a rich Hull trawler owner and his wife to live in luxury in Yorkshire. At the age of six she launched her first ship, the Lord Austin, and was she was taught to ride by her Shetland pony – an experience that gave her an interest in everything equine.
The family moved to Sussex and Angela went on a 5,000 mile overland safari to Africa, returning to be featured on In Town Tonight. She then ran a riding school, painted pictures to order and murals on the walls of those who wanted them; and met and married Russell, assistant manager at a many-starred Eastbourne seafront hotel.
They opened a guest house which was hugely successful, then sold it and moved to do the same thing in Jevington – a Downland village containing more horses than humans. At first this was fine, then it failed. With bankruptcy threatening Russell took to the antique dealing, betting and the bottle and Angela found herself living on state benefits and caring for a grossly overweight alcohol and tobacco addicted husband who raged with increasing ferocity against her. Efforts to enlist the aid of Social Services were unsuccessful. Help, when it came, was from on High. As a result of an incredible religious experience Angela became a Catholic convert and so found the strength to cope with an ensuing series of disasters culminating in her husband’s death.
Now, in a flat in a Wealden District Council care home in Buxted her life in art – and with animals – goes on …

Paperback 250 x 160mm 193 pages
26 B&W illustrations and 18 colour pictures
CGB Books
ISBN
Price £9.99

ROTTINGDEAN THROUGH TIME
Douglas d’Enno

First printed 2009.

A unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour – the famous streets and faces, and what they meant to the people of Rottingdean throughout the 19th and into the 20th Century. Through the author’s factual captions for every picture, and carefully-selected choice of images, the reader can achieve a reliable view of the town’s history.
Follow a timeline of events and watch the changing face of Rottingdean, as Douglas d’Enno guides us through the town’s streets.

THE AUTHOR
Since 2004 retired translator Douglas d’Enno has written several Through Time books on the Sussex area for Amberley. He lives in Brighton and continues to be active in the writing of books.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
180 colour illustrations
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-84868-197-2
Price £12.99

RUSTIC RECIPES
THE WOODBURNER COOKBOOK

More than just a recipe book, but a lifestyle change, encouraging time out from busy schedules to learn from a simpler time. This book not only contains 50 recipes, ranging from hearty soups, to rustic French, Italian and Dutch dishes, to a section on foraging; but also gives snippets of
information on each recipe, for example; how the chocolate truffle was invented, why carrots are orange? etc.
The book is intended as a rough guide, encouraging its readers to try cooking on their woodburner when they have time, but equally it can be used as a standard recipe book.
This book is a way of bringing that desire for ‘The Good Life’ into everyday living.

THE AUTHOR
After my BSc Hons in Politics and Sociology, I went on to study an MSc in Personnel Management and Business Admin at Aston University. I subsequently worked as a Marketing Manager, writing, proofreading and editing articles and marketing materials. I then re-trained as a proofreader at King’s College London and set up my own proofreading business.
After my fourth child, I re-trained again as a swimming teacher and now run my own swim school. In my spare time I have written this book, inspired by my experience of cooking without power in our kitchen. I live in Sussex with my husband and four children.

Paperback 235 X 156 70 pages
7 colour photos and 7 line illustrations
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-60-4
Price £7.99

RYE HISTORY TOUR
Alan Dickinson

Rye History Tours is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this old Sussex port and shows how it has and has not changed during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Follow local author Alan Dickinson as he guides you through the streets and alleyways, pointing out the well-known and lesser-known landmarks along the way.

Full colour map and 50 illustrations

Paperback 168 x 124mm 96 pages
Pocket-sized to take with you on your journey.
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £7.99

SALTDEAN FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Douglas d’Enno

In this book author Douglas d’Enno traces the changing face of pictorial Saltdean over the course of its intriguing history, starting with a survey of archaeological finds, then of the foreshore and associated hazards and of early activities on the downland on which the community would gradually be built. Alongside the development of Saltdean as a leisure resort, modern housing increasingly drew in new residents before the Second World War, including a number of prominent figures. Its development was halted during the war but resumed in the 1950s and 1960s as the infrastructure of schools, shops and churches was created for the community. Following its use for war purposes, the Ocean Hotel remained virtually unused until 1953 when Billy Butlin dramatically restored its popularity. For its part, the lido lay derelict from 1945 until 1964, when it reopened to huge acclaim from locals and visitors. This fascinating collection of images will be of interest to those who know Saltdean and this corner of the Sussex coast east of Brighton, and equally to those unfamiliar with them.

240 B&W photographs

Paperback 234 x 165mm 128 pages
A fascinating portrait of the Saltdean area of East Sussex near Brighton presented through a remarka
Amberley
ISBN 978-1-4456-7755-2
Price £14.99

SCREEN STORIES
LEWES GOES TO THE PICTURES
Ruth Thomson

The building of Depot, Lewes’ new cinema, was the original catalyst for Screen Stories. Reel Lewes, a group of Lewes-based film professionals and researchers led by Ruth Thomson, has spent two years investigating the history of the three previous cinemas in the town: the County Theatre (Watergate Lane), Cinema de Luxe (School Hill) and the Odeon (Cliffe), which operated from 1910 to 1971.
The team recorded what Lewesians remember about cinema-going in the past. While not intended to be a comprehensive history of Lewes cinemas, Screen Stories does vividly bring to life the importance of film and cinema, both in the life of the town and in the lives of its residents.
Contents: Cinema de Luxe (1913-1963); Lewes Odeon (1934-1971); Wartime warmth, wonder and weapons (1939-1945); Cartoons, cowboys, cliffhangers and chaos (1936-1960s); going to the pictures post-war (1946-1960s); decline, demise and demolition (1963-1971); a hunger for the big screen (1970s– the present day).
78 historic photos and illustrations

Paperback 210 x 148mm 96 pages
All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to The Lewes History Group
Lewes History Group
ISBN
Price £10.50

SEASIDE HOTELS
Karen Averby

80 illustrations
The grand seaside hotel dominates the seaside resort landscapes of Britain, with bold, large scale buildings, often magnificent examples of the most fashionable architectural style of the time. From the imposing Victorian gothic Grands, Royals and Imperials, through to the modernist Art Deco 1930s and the Brutalist 1960s.
This book charts the rise, the fall and the rise again of the grand seaside hotel. Covering the whole of the UK, and featuring archive and modern colour pictures of many of the best buildings, it will appeal both to readers nostalgic for seaside holidays of days gone by, and those who have got to love these buildings more recently.

THE AUTHOR
Karen Averby is an independent architectural historian and heritage research consultant specialising in the architectural and social history of buildings. An enduring curiosity for the past explains her eclectic background in archaeology, archives and architectural history. Her
passion for history is surpassed only by that for the British coast.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 64 pages
Published May 2018
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £8.99

SECRET ARUNDEL
Eddy Greenfield

Secret Arundel explores the lesser-known history of the West Sussex town of Arundel through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
The town of Arundel in West Sussex is overlooked by Arundel Castle and the
Roman Catholic cathedral, which was built through the support of the Duke of Norfolk, but the history of Arundel is built on much more than the castle and the dukes and earls. Secret Arundel unveils the lesser-known stories of its townspeople and events. These include the wartime German spy scandal that rocked the town’s Home Guard and saw its second-in-command jailed in 1940, how escaped German POWs concealed themselves in a top-secret bunker that was originally intended to house resistance fighters in the event of a Nazi invasion, and the history of the town’s jailhouse and some of those who found themselves locked behind its iron bars.
With no fewer than three priories, a friary, a medieval church, a Gothic Revival cathedral and even a Commandery of the Knights Hospitallers nearby, Arundel has had a long and fascinating religious history. The town was also the site of a medieval Jewish community and a stronghold for nonconformism. In Secret Arundel the author explores the lost and disused churches and chapels dotted around the town and its immediate surroundings as well as other unusual stories.
With tales of remarkable characters, unusual events and tucked-away or
disappeared historical buildings and locations, Secret Arundel will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of this town in West Sussex.

THE AUTHOR
Eddy Greenfield is a local historian based in West Sussex who has written
books on the local history of the area and is also a contributor for a number of magazines in the Sussex area.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN 978-1-445696-01-0
Price £14.99

SECRET BEXHILL-ON-SEA
Alan Starr

The seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex is famous for its modernist 1930s De La Warr Pavilion but has a wealth of other fascinating stories connected with its history. Although still a small town at the start of the 19th century it was home to the King’s German Legion in 1804, made up of German troops who had escaped Hanover when taken over by Napoleon and who fought in the British Army. Later in the 19th century the De La Warr family transformed Bexhill into an elegant resort, the 8th Earl bringing motor racing to the town but also scandalising it with his two divorces. Author Alan Starr reveals the town’s connections with the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti and the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, who influenced building styles in the town, the Mysterious Cobbler who exercised his psychic imagination from his shoe shop, literary associations, including Spike Milligan’s time stationed in the town while in the Army, and much more.

With tales of remarkable characters, unusual events and tucked away historical buildings, Secret Bexhill-on-Sea will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of Bexhill.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SECRET CHICHESTER
Philip MacDougall

First printed 2016.
The author, a local historian, takes you on a journey through the City of Chichester revealing much of its lesser-known history. Here you will find the story behind the city’s 19th century banking crisis, the activities of a London mob of criminals who targeted the Goodwood races, a fascinating collection of letters written during the First World War and even how local politicians once bribed potential voters with beer.

THE AUTHOR
Dr. Philip MacDougall is a much published local historian who has written a number of books. He has a special attachment to the city and several of his books look at various aspects of both the city and the area. In his own village of Chidham, which he has also written about, he is a parish councillor and active in local affairs.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4456-5039-5
Price £14.99

SECRET CRAWLEY AND GATWICK
Tina Brown

The Crawley and Gatwick area are fascinating, both have seen so many changes with the airport at Gatwick being central to this area, and now the second largest urban area in Sussex. Crawley has always been known as trade route with good connections both to the city of London and then down to the coast at Brighton The coming of the railways brought prosperity to Crawley and saw its first major expansion as well as the development of Gatwick race course and the original Gatwick airfield; the site of both has now been swallowed by today’s airport. After World War 2, the town was designated a New Town and has seen a vast increase in population and building to become one of the most important business and employment centres in the South East of England.

Crawley has many buildings of historical importance dating back to the 15th
century, and many Grade 1 and 2 listed buildings of all ages up to the present day. Settlements close by on the Weald that are served by Crawley also have many
secrets and stories connected to them, including numerous historical churches and manor houses. Gatwick airport itself and some of the buildings that surround the main terminal buildings today, such as the origins of the name of the Beehive
Public House in the South Terminal.

THE AUTHOR
Tina Brown leads guided tours in Hastings, Eastbourne, Middlesbrough and other areas in Britain, and has also worked with the council of Hastings to produce local trails books. She has written books on Haunted Hastings, Haunted Sussex Theatres and Haunted Middlesbrough. As well as running guided tours and her own
website, she also tutors evening classes on the history of Gin, tattoos and other various specialist history topics.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SECRET EASTBOURNE
Kevin Gordon

The elegant Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort of Eastbourne has a long and
fascinating history. Kevin Gordon takes the reader on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the town’s past, delving beneath the surface to reveal dark deeds and strange tales with long-forgotten facts and amusing stories. Here you’ll meet royalty, abusive flower sellers and a bored saint, discover the murderous exploits of a teacher and even rioting salvationists. Secret Eastbourne lifts the lid on the hidden secrets that even many local people don’t know.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SECRET HORSHAM
Maggie Weir-Wilson

The West Sussex town of Horsham, lying on the River Arun in the Weald, has given its name to the famous Horsham Stone. The area was known for its fossils in Victorian times and rival collectors of the day made important discoveries in and around Horsham, including three Iguanodons. St Leonards Forest on the edge of Horsham has also shaped the town, iron smelting taking place there from Roman times, as well as charcoal and brick making.

In this book author Maggie Weir-Wilson reveals the hidden history of Horsham. Unsavoury tasks were banished to the Common on the edge of town such public hangings, an
isolation house in times of disease and leather tanning, while the town centre was the home of several weekly markets and annual fairs. A dragon was reported to be stalking the area in 1614 and is now a symbol of the town. The area was also the home of the young Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, as well as William Penn, the founder of Pennylvania, and the radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

There are tales of ghastly crimes and punishment, the impact of wars at home and abroad, famous and notorious characters, writers and artists, poverty, industry and wealth, and more, in Secret Horsham as the author explores the little-known history of the town.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SECRET RYE & AROUND
Terry Philpot

The East Sussex town of Rye has deep historical roots and its ancient streets hide many secrets. Author Terry Philpott takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the town’s past, unearthing tales of intrigue and grisly goings-on as he reveals the murkier side of Rye’s heritage. Along the way we are introduced to the great, the good and the bad, and the famous and
infamous characters who have all played a part in its lore and legends. From tales of notorious smuggling gangs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the local fishing fleet’s vital role in rescuing the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, Secret Rye delves beneath the surface of this old trading port, revealing a lesser-known and less savoury past that even most local people don’t know.

Terry Philpot is a writer and journalist. He has written and edited 20 books on subjects ranging from adoption to visiting London Cemeteries. He is also author of 19 entries in the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Independent and The Guardian. He is a regular writer and reviewer for The Tablet. He is a trustee of three charities and has won several awards for journalism.

100 illustrations

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
Explore the secret history of Rye through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

SECRET WORTHING
James Henry and Colin Walton

Worthing is an eclectic mix of Edwardian, Georgian and Victorian architecture with a splash of art deco – and a few medieval bits – if you know where to look! Walk in the foosteps of Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen – both short-term residents of the town.Discover some oddities and curiosities.


James Henry is an established fiction author with an interest in history, as does Colin Walton, born and bred in Worthing.

65 illustrations

Paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SERCRET HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS
Tina Brown

Secret Hastings & St Leonards explores the lesser-known episodes and characters of the town through the centuries. With tales of remarkable people, unusual events and tucked-away historical buildings, it will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of this East Sussex town.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SIGNALLING AND SIGNAL BOXES ALONG THE LB&SRC AND ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAY ROUTES
Allen Jackson

The Prince Regent first popularised Brighton as a pleasure destination in the eighteenth century, and the town acquired a reputation for pleasure for the masses after the coming of the railway. From these beginnings the railway grew to cover large parts of Surrey and Sussex, and went some way to establishing the railway commuter. The bowler-hatted city gent on the 07.10 to Victoria became a national stereotype.
These intensively worked lines were early converts to electric traction in the 1920s and 1930s and, consequently, much of its mechanical signalling was removed then. However, some mechanical signalling remained in seaside resorts other than Brighton and on other routes not seen as a modernisation priority. Massive investment in recent years has rendered or will shortly render the remaining mechanical signalling and signal boxes redundant, but the LB&SCR will live on at the Bluebell heritage railway. The Isle of Wight railway continues in a proud independent tradition; much of it was concerned with providing a conveyor belt for holidaymakers off the ferries in the summer months.
Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to illustrate lavishly the story of signalling in the principal constituents of the Southern Rail region – focusing here on the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway and Isle of Wight routes.
THE AUTHOR
Allen Jackson has worked for the RAF, as a teacher and now owns his business. He is a lifelong railway enthusiast who has published several books with Amberley.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
I was puffed out just reading the book!
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

SKY HIGH SUSSEX

Colour photos of Sussex taken from the air.

Hardback 110 x 155mm 64 pages
Halsgrove
ISBN
Price £4.99

SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLERS IN SUSSEX
by ‘A gentleman of Chichester’

The inhuman and unparalleled murders of Mr William Galley, a customs house officer, and Mr Daniel Chater, a shoemaker, fourteen notorious smugglers, with the trials and execution of seven of the criminals at Chichester 1748-9. Trials of John Mills and Henry Sheerman; and the trials at large of Thomas Kingsmill for breaking open the Custom House at Poole; also an article on ‘Smuggling in Sussex' by William Durrant Cooper, Esq.

Hardback 185 x 125 mm 280 pages
Engravings
2001 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 61 3
Price £20.00

SOME MILLS, MYTHS AND MEMORIES OF HIGHDOWN HILL
Peter R Stenning

Highdown Hill will be familiar to visitors and locals alike silhouetted against the northern skyline, with its commanding presence and crown of trees overlooking the ancient coastal villages of Goring and Ferring in West Sussex.
About the Author: As a small child, Peter was fascinated by John Olliver and his tomb, and as a teenager, became very interested in old windmills. When he left school he became apprentice with one of only two firms in Britain, at that time, who carried out restoration work on old mills.
He worked for this firm for a number of years, then left to join a local company of traditional stone-ground flour millers where he became the head millstone dresser. He also learnt a lot about milling and carrying 2cwt sacks of wheat. He left to become a journeyman millwright and worked for a firm in the Midlands, also working abroad on mills.
In the early 1970s he set up his own business and began working for museums and private customers. He later worked on windmills and watermills for the National Trust, county councils, and for commercial millers. In addition, he carried out some voluntary projects, working in more than a dozen counties.
He retired after spending more than 40 years on millwrighting work and has run every kind of mill to grind flour. His many other interests include the study of milling history and collecting mill memorabilia.

26 line drawings, 10 maps and 11 B&W photographs

Paperback 245 x 170mm 80 pages
THIS IS A SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES
Country Books
ISBN
Price £14.00

SOUTHERN ELECTRICS
THE SECOND GENERATION
Roger Palmer

The Southern Electric system was a self contained, roughly triangular area of lines with its apex in London and its base running along the south coast from Kent to Weymouth. It also made a couple of forays into Middlesex. Here, in unpublished colour photographs, is shown not only the variety of unit types that were around during the first twenty years since railway privatisation, but also the fact that on some services, Southern Electric types have penetrated the Home Counties whilst others have migrated to join their ranks.

Hardback 282 x 216mm 184 pages
196 previously unpublished colour photographs
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £25.00

SOUTHERN RAILWAY GALLERY
A PICTORIAL JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
John Scott-Morgan

Southern Railway Gallery is the first volume in a new series of picture books, designed to be of interest to railway historians and modellers. The series subjects are themed to include an interesting mixture of useful historic illustrations, depicting
locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure.
Southern Railway Gallery covers the history of the Southern Railway from its beginings in 1923, to nationalisation in 1948, covering most aspects of its fascinating history and operations. The book looks at aspects of the Southern from the early years in the early 1920s, when the company had old worn-out stock on many of its lines, through to the introduction of new modern rolling stock and the electrification of much of its network in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and parts of Hampshire.
The company operated an extensive rail and bus network on the Isle of Wight, which covered the whole island and is well remembered to this day.
Although the Southern introduced a number of modern new steam classes, its main goal was to electrify as much of the network as possible, however this did not preclude the company from introducing two classes of successful Pacific type locomotives in the 1940s.
The company owned and operated docks and harbours throughout its existence, having an extensive fleet of ferries and cargo vessels, some of which served with the Royal Navy in the Second World War as hospital ships. The Southern, also operated bus and road services, which covered many areas not served by a local railway station on the system.
The Southern Railway ceased to exist at midnight on 31 December 1947, after a remarkable existence of twenty-four years.
200 B&W illustrations – many rare unpublished

Hardback 282 x 216mm 120 pages
Published November 30th 2017
Pen and Sword Books
ISBN
Price £25.00

SOUTHERN RAILWAY, MAUNSELL MOGULS AND TANK LOCOMOTIVE CLASSES
David Maidmeny

The book covers the allocation, operation and performance of these classes and includes some personal reminiscences of the author who experienced the moguls at first hand. It also covers the sale of some of the Woolwich moguls to the CIE in Ireland and the conversion of a number to 2-6-4 freight tank engines for the Metropolitan Railway.

Hardback 240 x 150mm 240 pages
The book is lavishly illustrated with 300 black and white and thirty colour photographs.
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £35.00

SOUTHERN STEAM RECOLLECTIONS
A PORTRAIT OF THE LAST YEARS
Don Benn

This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network. We see how steam-age infrastructure has gradually given way to a streamlined modern railway. The beginning of the period saw the final stages of the Beeching cuts, with the closure of some rural branches and lesser-used stations. Since the 1980s the tide has turned and numerous lines and stations have joined or rejoined the network. As for freight, we see how the complex operations of the 20th century have been replaced by a far smaller number of specialised terminals, while marshalling yards in the traditional sense have all but
disappeared. And the long process of updating our railway signalling has continued apace, even though some semaphore gems have managed to survive into the 21st century.

Paperback 189 x 246 160 pages
150 ILLUSTRATIONS
Pen & Sword
ISBN
Price £25.00

SUSSEX AT WAR THROUGH TIME
Henry Buckton

This book examines the areas of Sussex that played an important part in the Second World War. Chichester became the nerve centre for the county’s civil defence and Tangmere and other aerodromes were involved in the Battle of Britain. Towns like Bognor Regis, Brighton and Hastings were repeatedly bombed by the Luftwaffe, while Eastbourne was the most targetted place in the South East outside London.
The beaches of Sussex became ideal invasion hotspots, which drew the county into the very centre of Britain’s war effort. Today Sussex is split into two counties – East and West – this book looks at both.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages
180 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SUSSEX BUSES
John Law

Southdown Motor Services, a subsidiary of the British Electric Traction Company, once
dominated the county of Sussex, with a history dating back to 1915. The National Bus
Company took over in 1969 and the company was split up in the 1980s, with the Brighton and much of the East Sussex areas becoming ‘Brighton & Hove’, bringing back memories of the former Tilling Group operator of a similar name. Brighton Corporation also ran buses in that town, as did neighbouring Eastbourne, both with fascinating fleets, though both concerns are no longer operating. The northern part of what is now West Sussex was the territory of London Country, particularly around East Grinstead and Crawley. In East Sussex, Maidstone & District ran most of the services around Hastings. Today Stagecoach and the Go Ahead Group are the principal bus operators in Sussex, with their operations supplemented by various small, but interesting,
independents.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
180 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SUSSEX FOLK AND SUSSEX WAYS
by Rev John Coker Egerton

Taken from the 1923 edition with a foreword by Seila Kaye-Smith. First published 1884, the author was rector of Burwash in the 19th century. 8 photos. He was rector of Burwash & opens the book with this prophetic statement: ‘In a few years' time the manners & customs of Sussex men, women & children will have passed away as utterly as pack-horses & stage wagons. Round frocks (smocks) will be extinct, & with them the characteristics of mind, thought, and speech which round frocks betokened. I well know the change must come, but I own that I look forward with but little satisfaction to the time when our boys & girls will all speak a uniform language prescribed by the Committee of Council on Education, & when our men & women will think only just as other people think.' He was a keen observer of the Sussex ‘peasant' - “I knew she was old, Vicar, because her flannel petticoats were made of silk!” Extracts from the parish registers.

Appendix: History of Burwash.

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 160 pages
8 B&W photos
2005 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 98 9
Price £9.95

SUSSEX FOLK: THE FOLK SONG REVIVAL IN SUSSEX
by Clive Bennet

Introduction by Shirley Collins. This book outlines the development of the folk song movement across Sussex from Chichester to Hastings with a detailed survey of theclubs in the densely populated central coastal area around Brighton. This ranges from the first Brighton skiffle club through the variousother sessions in Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne and Lewes up until the start of the new millennium. Within these pages are over 200 illustrations together with details of virtually all the clubs, venues, organisers and resident singers featured in the area for the past forty years.

Paperback 220 x 150mm 200 pages
2002 Country Books
ISBN 1 898941 78 5
Price £14.95

SUSSEX IN BYGONE DAYS
by Nathaniel Paine Blaker

First published 1906. Nathaniel Paine Blaker was born at Mays, in Selmeston in 1835, a farm was owned by his maternal grandfather, Joseph Fuller. His father was a farmer, a member of a family who, for 300 years, had been owners of land and agriculturists at Portslade, Kingston and Shoreham. During Nathaniel's first year, the family moved to Perching in Edburton. He was sent to a school run by Miss Lee in Lewes when he was eight, and a year later he went to Steyning Grammar School where he developed a love of shooting. Leaving school at 16, he began learning farming, but after a year he asked his father to place him as a pupil at the Sussex County Hospital. He was apprenticed for five years to the house surgeon, the last two to be spent at Guy's Hospital, London. In 1859, he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Convict Hospital in Lewes. In 1860, he became house surgeon at Brighton and Hove Dispensary, becoming house surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital in1864. In this collection of essays he writes of the last half of the 19th century. There are extensive pieces on Steyning, Lewes and farming. His thoughts on bringing up children would not be considered ‘PC‘ in today's terms - he remarks that the traditional Christening gift was a cane! Spare the rod…

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 156 pages
2007 Ashridge Press/Country Books
ISBN 978 1 901214 84 0
Price £12.50

SUSSEX INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
Colin Tyson

At first glance the largely rural county of ‘Sussex by the Sea’ may not be the first to spring to mind when it comes to the subject of industrial heritage, but closer
inspection reveals that it had its fair share of extractive industries, such as early chalk quarries and lime works, thanks to the geology of the Sussex Downland, and from the interior Wealden Clays came brickworks and iron forges and furnaces.

At first goods moved on early turnpikes and by long-closed canals. Sussex was later at the forefront of transport developments, pioneering the world’s oldest electric railway and the world’s first air terminal building. Coastal fishing villages developed into large bathing resorts upon the arrival of the railways from London. The county has its fair share of surviving windmills and watermills from a more rural industrial past, as well as the ‘cathedrals of steam’ – the water treatment pumping stations, built to meet the needs of growing towns.

This book outlines the important place that Sussex trades held in the economy of southern England, and illustrates what remains to be seen today of past industries in what is now essentially a post-industrial era.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
180 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SUSSEX RAILWAY STATIONS THROUGH TIME
Douglas d’Enno

In 1841 the London and Brighton Railway constructed the line from Norwood to the coast. In this book the author explores the absorbing and sometimes colourful story of the railway stations in Sussex. The older photographs feature early postcards and carefully selected images from railway archives and publications. The extent of change in these stations can be fully
appreciated.

Paperback 235 x 165mm 96 pages
See what Dr Beeching did!
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SUSSEX SAINTS & MARTYRS
Man’s inhumanity towards man…
Philip Pavey

In contrast to the pre-Reformation saints, whose acts furthered civilisation and humanity as well as the Christian faith, the heroism of these sixteenth century lives has been tempered by the barbarity inflicted and endured – between people who were all Christians. How could our ancestors be so incredibly cruel; would the martyrs on each side, heroic though they were, have approved of the same treatment given to their counterparts?

Holy Sussex · St Wilfrid · Dicuill, St Brighthelm · St Cuthman · St Lewina · St Dunstan · St Leonard · St Richard · Sussex Protestant Martyrs ·
Sussex Catholic Martyrs · St Philp Howard

Paperback Royal 66 pages
Map and black and white photos
Country Books
ISBN
Price £6.99

SUSSEX STEAM
Michael Hymans

200 illustrations.

Packed with rare and unpublished images, this book takes the reader on a journey of the steam trains that used to call Sussex home. Taking in the first route travelled, a number of secondary routes, locomotive sheds and the works in Brighton, these fascinating photographs offer a nostalgic look back to a time when steam was king.
Offering scenic shots ranging from the days of the LB&SCR to the final days of steam, many images reveal aspects of the local landscape now lost to history, such as signal boxes and forgotten station nameplates. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Sussex Steam paints a terrific portrait of services throughout the county’s 120 years of steam travel.
THE AUTHOR
Michael Hymans is a bus and railway enthusiast and collector based in Sussex.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 128 pages
First printed 2016
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4456-6306-7
Price £12.99

SUSSEX THROUGH TIME
Douglas d’Enno

180 illustrations.

This companion volume to Sussex Coast Through Time is unique in being the first ‘then and now’ book to portray the numerous and diverse communities of East and West Sussex through rich sepia and stunning colour images. Most of the early pictures have never previously been
published and include a number of rarities that can only now be widely enjoyed. Far from simply depicting street scenes, the focus occasionally shifts, with suitable background, to an event, a group of buildings or perhaps even simply a shop or house to illustrate local change – for better or worse – down the years. Sussex Through Time is an important addition to the literature on Sussex and forms a valuable and long-awaited comparative record of most of the settlements lying within this extensive county.

THE AUTHOR
Since 2004 retired translator Douglas d’Enno has written a local parish history, two books on true crime in Brighton, where he lives and several Through Time books on the Sussex area for Amberley in recent years. He has acquired a detailed knowledge of the county in all its attractive variety. He now contributes to a number of community magazines and continues to be active in the writing of books.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 96 pages
First printed 2013
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4456-0900-3
Price £14.99

SUSSEX TRANSPORT HERITAGE
Colin Tyson

Ever since the Romans built Stane Street, Sussex has needed strategic transportation as an aid to commerce and its ever-growing population. Sussex roads only improved with the arrival of the Turnpike Trusts, creating toll houses, coaching inns, milestones and bridges, while the rise of the private motor car brought filling stations. Waterborne transport has left its mark in the form of short-lived canals, locks and bridges, along with sea ports and docks. The railways then spread their network of main lines and branch lines and left a legacy of stations, signal boxes, goods sheds and impressive viaducts, along with light railways and narrow gauge industrial lines. Sussex can lay claim to Britain’s oldest electric railway, the steepest surviving cliff lift, the first municipally-owned motor bus operator in the world and is the destination of the longest-running motoring event in the world. Into the twentieth century and new forms of transport such as aircraft led to the building of airports. Gatwick – London’s second airport and the second busiest single runway airport in the world – had much more humble beginnings.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
180 RARE AND UNPUBLISHED IMAGES
Amberley
ISBN
Price £14.99

SUSSEX’S MILITARY HERITAGE
Dean Hollands

The county of Sussex, today divided into East and West Sussex, has a rich
military history that stretches back through the centuries. With its coastline facing continental Europe, Sussex has experienced the impact of invasions from Celtic and Roman times, followed by waves of Saxon, Viking and Norman invaders. Defences were built along the shoreline against the threat of later French invasion, particularly during the Napoleonic scare, and the county was again in the front line during the First and Second World Wars, both in the aerial battle and as a possible seaborne invasion route both for the Allies and the Germans. Inland, Sussex’s military heritage can also be seen throughout the county, with battle sites from medieval times through to the Civil War and numerous buildings and other structures still standing.
Sussex’s Military Heritage explores the military heritage of the county, from Iron Age camps and Roman fortifications to medieval castles, Martello towers, Second World War airfields and Cold War defences, but also the proud history of the military units that were raised in the county and sent to fight in conflicts abroad. This book will be of interest to all those who would like to know more about Sussex’s remarkable military heritage.

THE AUTHOR
Dean Hollands is a local and military historian who served in the Army and
Surrey Police. He conducts guided tours of World War I and II battlefields in Europe and is an associate member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He is also researcher and volunteer at Aldershot Military Museum.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
120 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN 978-1-445695-17-4
Price £14.99

SWEET BELLS JANGLED OUT OF TUNE
James Gardner

In 1859 the first public asylum in Sussex opened amidst great publicity near Haywards Heath. For in mid-Victorian England, mental health reformers
believed in something revolutionary: that a well-run progressive asylum could solve the increasing problem of ‘madness’ in society. The asylum’s first superintendent was Dr Charles Lockhard Robertson, a man of great strength and foresight in the treatment of the insane. His humane methods contrasted strongly with the appalling practices adopted in places such as Bethnal Green Asylum in London. This book looks at the wide range of treatments he employed, included Roman baths, pet therapy and ‘moral treatment’. Although St Francis closed in 1995, its impressive main building still remains and stands as a powerful and lasting monument to the reforming zeal of Victorian Society and to the
spirit of men such as Robertson.

Hardback 321 pages
Published by the author
ISBN
Price £17.95

TALES FROM THE COAST
by Alex Askaroff

Introducing the long-awaited new book
from that master spinner of local tales, Alex Askaroff…

Paperback 384 pages
Crows Nest Publications
ISBN
Price £12.99

THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK THE MONKEY AND JIM
No.1 THE MAGIC ISLAND
Peter J Stenning

A story for children with 21 B&W illustrations by the author.

Limited edition signed by the author

Paperback 210 x 148mm 24 pages
A great gift for children
Country Books
ISBN 978-1-910489-63-5
Price £5.00

THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
John Graham and Martin Mace

The Battle of Hastings is the most defining event in English history. As such, its every detail has been analysed by scholars and interpreted by historians. Yet one of the most fundamental aspect of the battle the place upon which it was fought has never been seriously questioned, until now. Could it really be the case that for almost 1,000 years everyone has been studying the wrong location? In this in-depth study, the authors examine the early sources and the modern interpretations to unravel the compulsive evidence that historians have chosen to ignore because it does not fit the traditional view of where the battle was fought. Most importantly, the authors investigate the terrain of the battlefield and the archaeological data to reveal exactly where history was made.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 192 pages
PUBLICATION APRIL 2021
Pen & Sword
ISBN 978-1-399013-19-2
Price £14.99

THE BLUEBELL RAILWAY
David Christie

The Bluebell Railway was the premier preserved line in the thirty-year period covered in this book. Busy as he was with recording working BR’s team in the mid-sixties, David Christie’s first visit to the line was by train in 1964 and then from 1967 more frequently by car, with a total of eighteen trips. The greater proportion of these were in the period 1969-72 when the line was usually worked by tank engines and nothing larger than the ‘Duke dog’ 4-4-0. The later, more infrequent visits witnessed a change from the ‘sleepy branch line’ image to more of a ‘cross-country’ feel, using longer trains with larger locomotives.
With an array of incredible unpublished photography covering the heyday of this iconic line, from 1964 to 1993, the author offers a nostalgic and brilliantly evocative record of this wonderful period in the life of the Bluebell Railway.

THE AUTHOR
Born in Romford, Essex, in 1943, David Christie began photographing transport in 1962 when he decided to capture the final days of steam on Britain’s rail network. He also recorded buses, especially around London, before moving to Scotland, where he still lives today.

180 illUstrations

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
David Christie offers up thirty years of wonderful photos of the Bluebell Railway.
Amberley Publishing
ISBN
Price £14.99

The Bluebell Railway Revisited
Matt Allen

The Bluebell Railway was originally a part of the former Lewes to East Grinstead line and when closure by British Railways loomed a keen band of volunteers worked hard to prevent the line being confined to history.
In this book, premier railway photographer Mat Allen takes a photographic journey along the 11 miles of track showing all the Bluebell has to offer and the new extension to East Grinstead. In more than 140 colour images he captures the essence of this magnificent jewel in the British heritage crown.

Hardback 230 x 214mm 144 pages
Colour pictures throughout
Halsgrove
ISBN
Price £14.99

THE CHURCH GALLERY MINSTRELS
OF OLD SUSSEX
by Rev. K. H. McDermott

This book was first privately published by the Rev. K. H. MacDermott in 1922 as SUSSEX CHURCH MUSIC IN THE PAST and printed by Moore & Wingham of Chichester. He was rector of the parish of Selsey in West Sussex, and as a young man, he had met and corresponded with gallery musicians born in the 18th century. Here is an account of the old Singers and Minstrels, the Bands, Psalmodies and Hymn-books of Sussex Churches from the end of the 17th Century to the latter half of the 19th Century. There is an appendix on the author's collection at the Sussex Archaeological Society in Lewes and a FREE CD of thirteen traditional Sussex carols performed by ‘Hope in the Valley' recorded in 1983. CD Contents: These carols were collected and collated by Dr Vic Gammon. This performance by ‘Hope in the Valley' - a group of singers and musicians from all over Sussex, and directed by Mary Motley. It was recorded in the Spring of 1983 by Mike Howell. The recording is dedicated to the memory of John Ticehurst, a founder member of the group who died in January 1983.

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 128 pages
Free 13 track CD.
Ashridge Press/Country Books
ISBN 978 1 901214 73 4
Price £14.50

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF A.A. MILNE
Nadia Cohen

Very few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children’s stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear.
Generations of children have grown up loving the tales of Winnie The Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, which are still among the most popular – and profitable – fictional characters in the world.
But while the adorable poems and stories have brought unparalleled joy to millions, Alan Alexander Milne, himself was never able to enjoy the fame and fortune they brought him. He died deeply resenting Pooh’s success, as far as he was concerned those stories were just such a tiny fraction of his literary work, but nothing else he produced came close in terms of public appreciation.
Milne died still unable to reconcile the fact that no matter what else he wrote, regardless of all the plays and stories for adults he had published, he would always be remembered as a children’s
storyteller. And his son, widely hailed as the inspiration for the adorable
character of Christopher Robin, could never accept his unique place in literary history either. He had barely reached his teens before he grew to loathe his famous father, who he bitterly accused of exploiting his early years.
The Extraordinary Life of AA Milne delves deep into the life of Milne and sheds light on new places, and tells stories untold.

32 illustrations

Hardback 234 x 156mm 184 pages
Published November 30th 2017
Pen and Sword Books
ISBN
Price £19.99

THE FLORA OF SUSSEX

Hardback 0 pages
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN BY THE PUBLISHER
Pisces (NatureBureau)
ISBN
Price £0.00

THE FRIENDLY GHOSTS OF WHITE LODGE
ROEDEAN BRIGHTON
Catrin Edwards-Jones

The story of a remarkable house, White Lodge on the cliff at Roedean, near Brighton. It was designed and built by Sir John W. Simpson in 1903 for Mrs. Fanny Mertineau, and later named ‘The Corner House’. Over the following years a few young lady boarders from Roedean School for Girls, unable to return home for the holidays, were transferred to Mrs. Martineau’s home. It was sold in 1921, following her demise. In 1924 Lady Victoria Sackville of ‘Knole’ Sevenoaks, Kent, purchased ‘The Corner House’ including an extra parcel of land up to Roedean School for the sum of £11,500 and renamed it ‘White Lodge’. In 1928, she sold the land on the eastern side to the Mayor of Brighton for £10,500 – the present miniature golf course. The house was enlarged by Sir Edwin Lutyens who added the east and west wings with an aesthetic ‘Arts and Crafts’ design. At a later date, he designed and constructed a sunken rose garden – still unchanged today. On the death of Lady Sackville the house passed to her grandson, Nigel Nicolson, and five years later, it was sold. The new owner divided the building into seven apartments. David Ellis, co-writer of ‘The Daleks’ lived in Flat 3, and had encountered the vision of a lady in a long gown drifting along a corridor. Could it have been Lady Sackville? She was also seen at other times by different people. And then there is the ghost of Crawford…

Paperback 210 x 148mm 16 pages
5 B&W and 4 colour pictures
Country Books
ISBN
Price £4.95

THE GODDESS: A DEMON
Richard Marsh

A Victorian Gothic Horror novel first published in 1900.

John Ferguson has a dream in which his friend Edwin Lawrence is attacked in the night by a laughing female fiend. He wakes up to find a beautiful, mysterious woman stepping into his room through the window. She is covered in blood and cannot remember her name. The following morning, Lawrence is found dead, his body and face slashed beyond recognition…

3 B&W photographs

Paperback 198 x 129mm 256 pages
With a new introduction on the author by Shaun Cooper.
Country Books
ISBN
Price £9.99

THE HISTORY OF DITCHLING
IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX
by Henry Cheale, Jun.

Facsimile of the first edition of 1901. An invaluable document for those searching their family tree. Alfred the Great and Catherine of Aragon both owned manors in the village. On the basis of this, the author believed that the king spent much time here and that “Wings Place” or the “Old House” is a fragment of a palace built by Queen Catherine! Ignoring these flights of fancy, the book is otherwise thoroughly researched. Contents include: Ancient Ditchling and the manors, Ditchling Park, old inhabitants, miscellaneous notes, St Margaret's Church, rectors and vicars, monumental inscriptions and memorials, the Meeting House, the ‘Jernal' of a Ditchling man, and the neighbourhood. Subsidy rolls 1378-9 for Ditchling, Strete Hundred 1549, Ditchling 1562, 1600, 1623, Ditchling wills at Lewes 1541-1640, Ditchling administrators. 1578-1640, Ditchling Churchwardens 1638-1750. The appendices include: family trees of the Chatfield family, the Attrees of Wivelsfield and the Pooles.

Paperback 183 x 125 mm 184 pages
12 illustrations by Arthur B Packham.
2004 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 89 7
Price £9.95

THE HISTORY OF THE BRIGHTON WORKHOUSES
by James Gardner

The spectre of the workhouse haunted the old, the sick, the un-employed, the young and the vulnerable. Its buildings were not symbols of civic pride to adorn urban centres, but were cheap, bleak, grimly austere and oppressive to the poor. They were usually on the edge of town, much like the last standing Brighton workhouse in Elm Grove, now Brighton General Hospital. It superseded the one at Church Hill, just north of St Nicholas’ church, from where in 1862 the pauper childen were sent to Warren Farm Industrial Schools in Woodingdean – so isolated an area that contemporaries referred to it as “East America”.Using a wide range of original sources, the author seeks to give a voice to those men, women and children who found themselves, not in the  elegant seafront hotels of which Brighton has been so proud, but instead as inmates of its workhouses. This book is about their forgotten lives..

Hardback 460 pages
illustrated

ISBN
Price £19.95

THE HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX
by Rev. Thomas Walker Horsfield

published by J. Baxter, Lewes 1835. Taken from the first subscribers' edition of 1835, complete in two volumes including maps and all illustrations. It includes a new biographical note on Horsfield by Richard Knowles.

This work in two volumes covered every aspect of the history of Sussex - its families and its places - and became the standard reference book for all subsequent Sussex historians. EXPECT TO PAY AROUND £600.00 FOR A FIRST EDITION. Volume I is for East Sussex and volume II for the West and comprise around 1,000 pages. There are 2 copper engraved frontispieces, 2 large folding county maps with elevation views, 54 copper engraved plates, and a further 80 woodcuts.

Paperback 297 x 210 mm 1000 pages
In Two volumes,, folding maps, 54 copper engraved
2009
ISBN 978 1 906789 16 9
Price £90.00

THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF
The Story of the Building that Stood on Seaford Head
Lynn Lawson

The view of Seaford Head from the promenade is the defining image of this seaside town. In photographs of this view taken in the first half of the twentieth century, a distinctive house can be seen, standing in isolation on the cliff. The history of this building reflects the history of Seaford and the country as a whole during this turbulent period, which witnessed two world wars; the emancipation of women; and the arrival of the car, cinema, and low cost ‘package’ holidays.

This book tells the story of that ‘house on the cliff’ – built in the reign of Queen Victoria, demolished in the 1960s, but with traces of its
existence still visible on Seaford Head today.

68 B&W and 34 colour photos, maps and plans

Paperback 245 x 170mm 120 pages
A MUST dor all interested in SEAFORD and Sussex local history
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THE LADIES OF MILLER'S
Diane Crook

An amusing account of these eccentric and aristocratic sisters who, with their Bloomsbury friends, set up an art centre in Lewes during WW2 and afterwards revitalised the craft of lithography for British artists.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 44 pages
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THE LIFE OF A MAN: RON SPICER 1929-1996
by Dick Richardson & Doris Spicer

A short biography of Ron Spicer, Sussex herdsman & folksinger. Ron worked on a farm near West Hoathly all his life with a herd of Guerneys, and achieved his life's ambition - to win best of breed at the South of England Show - just before he died.

Forewords by Baroness Trumpington & Vic Smith.

Paperback 200 x 210 mm 64 pages
27 B&W photos
1997 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 06 4
Price £6.50

THE LONDON TO BRIGHTON LINE THROUGH TIME
Simon Jeffs

The London to Brighton Line was opened in 1841 providing a service between London Bridge Station and the South Coast. It started carrying day trippers, but the rapid expansion of the suburbs south of London during the 19th century meant that the line (absorbed into the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway) was soon running plentiful commuter services. Extending to Victoria Station in 1860, it was the first UK main line to be electrified, opening throughout in 1933.

THE AUTHOR
Simon Jeffs is a member of the Southern Electric Group and has co-authored a recent history of the Brighton Belle service. He lives in Eastbourne.

Paperback 234 x 156mm 96 pages
First printed 2013
Amberley Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4456-0079=9
Price £14.99

THE MAGIC SEWING MACHINE
Alex Askaroff

The midnight hour had come and gone and upstairs in Eastbourne’s favourite sewing shop came the sound of gentle snoring from the shop’s owner, Albert Cade. Albert blissfully hugged his pillow and giggled away to himself, dreaming dreams that only the happiest of people ever dream.

Follow Albert and his magic sewing machine on the best day of the year as he and his beloved dog Sylko prepare for The Grand Ball. With Ragtail, Squealer and Stinker, the three shop mice creating havoc – it will be a day that few will ever forget.

27 colour illustrations and 1 B&W photo

Paperback 230 x 155mm 48 pages
Also available in hardback ISBN 978-1-910489-58-1 priced £11.99
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ISBN 978-1910489-57.4
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THE MISTRESS OF STANTONS FARM
by Marcus Woodward

First published 1938. Sussanah Hooker was born in 1814 at Smallfield Place, Surrey. She married Mr Stacey of Stantons and ruled her household at East Chiltington with a rod of iron. She died in 1893 and is buried at Westmeston in East Sussex. There is an introduction by Arthur Beckett. Contents include: Receipts for Food for the Poor, Life at the Farm, Directions to Servants, Ornaments for Grand Entertainments, The Doctor, The Squire, The Parson, Grandma, the Sorceror, Pickles, Preserves and Candies, Grandma's Herb Garden, Vegetables and Herbs, Rural Worthies, Cullis, Sauces and Eggs, Grandma holds her Court, Distilling Cordial Waters, The Good Things of Sussex, Puddings and Savouries, etc., Wine-Making Day, Home-made wines, Punches, etc., A Tale of a Wash-Tub, Family Receipts, Baking Day, Baked Puddings, etc., The Household Gods, Necessary Knowledge, Christmas Gambols, Creams and Syllabubs, The Sign of the Old Thatch, Buns, Black Caps, and Snow Balls, etc.

Paperback 210 x 148 mm 187 pages
Black and white photosgraphs.
2004 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 88 0
Price £9.95

THE SHINING CORD OF SHEILA KAYE-SMITH
Shaun Cooper

Sheila Kaye-Smith was a Sussex writer. She wrote more than 30 novels, most of them set in that county, and some in Kent, and she also wrote short stories, poetry, articles, and non-fiction books. One of her most popular novels was made into a film. This new biography about her contains a lot of original research, as well as excerpts from book reviews, articles, interviews, and other sources. Highlights will undoubtedly be the quotes from and plot descriptions of two unfinished novels; details about some of her lesser known stories, as well as the sections about Baa, Trimmer and Pearl, Platnix, The Lodge, Old Gadgett, City Red, The Fairy Housemaid, The Little Flower, the gleams, and, of course, the Shining Cord.
Extras:
Picture Gallery (in full colour), Production Notes, and Easter Eggs.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 214 pages
Biography of Sheila Kaye-Smith 1887-1956
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ISBN 978-1-910489-47-5
Price £12.50

THE SHIPS AND MARINERS OF SHOREHAM
Facsimile of first edition 1909
by Henry Cheal junior

“The days have gone by when sailing ships of large tonnage were launched at Shoreham. The vast strides made in marine engineering and the building of steamships long since silenced the once busy yards so far as the building of sailing ships is concerned, though indeed, as we shall have occasion to observe later, the industry of yacht-building still flourishes.Ship-building flourished in Shoreham from an early date, down to our own day, but some thirty years have now lapsed since the last merchant ship went off the stocks. Of all those that had been built, two only have been seen in the Harbour within the last two or three years, but in this (1909) year's registers no vessels built by any of the old Shoreham builders are given as now existing. This being so, it seemed to the writer something of a reproach that some attempt had not been made to rescue from partial if not entire oblivion, a record of these wood-built sailers, which were indeed so famous in their time that none of their size could beat them.”
Henry Cheal junior 1909.

Contents: The River Adur; Ancient ships and mariners; Shoreham pirates and privateers; The flight of the King; The Shoreham men-of-war and their commanders; The Shoreham merchant ships; Shoreham shipwrecks and disasters; The oyster fishery; Smuggling at Shoreham; List of master mariners at Shoreham.

Paperback 220 x 140 mm 141 pages
16 half tone illustrations
2009
ISBN 978 1 906789 20 6
Price £14.50

THE STORY OF HENFIELD
by Rev Henry de Candole

A facsimile of this classic first published in 1947. The beginnings of Henfield; Saxon and Norman times; the manor of Stretham; communications - river, road and rail; the church and village in the middle ages; the Bysshopp family; Elizabeth I to the civil war; Henfield Place and the Holneys; old Henfield papers; the church in the 18th and 19th centuries; village life, trade and industries; houses, inns and schools; references, index.

Paperback 220 x 136 mm 207 pages
9 photographs
2005 Ashridge Press
ISBN 978 1 901214 48 2
Price £14.50

THE STORY OF SHOREHAM
by Henry Cheal

Facsimile of the first edition of 1921. The history of Shoreham from early times with references to the surrounding area, Lancing, Steyning, etc. The Saxons; the town & harbour in the Middle Ages; watermills & windmills; Old Erringham; early deeds of the Blaker, Monk & Bridger families; De Braose & De Mowbray families; fairs & markets; inns; bungalow town; suspension brudge; ancient religious houses; the ancient ferry; the Marlipins; forgotten street names; smugglers; ship building; etc. Index. Line illus by Arthur B Packham.

Paperback 200 x 138 mm 286 pages
Folding illus map.
2005 Country Books
ISBN 978 1 898941 96 5
Price £14.50

THE STORY OF ST MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL, WASHINGTON
Kevin Newman

Yes, this is Washington in West Sussex!
A history of the school from its foundation in 1867. The first school: learning: fun and games: behaviour: wartimes: teaching and other staff: some successful students. 75 historic B&W photographs, 2 maps and 2 plans. 12 colour photos.

The author is well-known in Sussex for his local books on the county from Amberley:
Brighton and Hove In 50 Buildings
Lewes Pubs
Secret Brighton
50 Gems of Sussex

Paperback 235 x 165mm 72 pages
All proceeds from the sale of this book are being donated to the school.
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THE SUN STREET STORY
A STREET STORIES PROJECT FOR LEWES HISTORY GROUP
Brian Cheesmur, Rosemary Page, Frances Stenlake and Susan Wekks

The team found some surprises as they dug up the past. Besides the origins of the street and the
varying construction of its 19th century houses, the team’s discoveries included finding that an
employee of Albion Russell and Sons (which later became Russell and Bromley) had made boots in Sun Street; that the Fruiterers Arms (closed in late 1990s) was the home of the Lewes Wanderers Cycle Club; and that in the 1950s, the Salvation Army held Sunday meetings in the street under a gas lamp. And did you know that part of Sun Street would have been demolished in the 1960s if the ‘proposed Relief Road’ had gone ahead?

3 maps, 36 col photos, 42 B&W photos, 19 line illustrations

It also includes many colourful stories from the local press of the time, plus previously unpublished family stories and photos from current and former residents.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 83 pages
As Lewes History Group are a charity, this book includes postage in order that all monies go to them
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THE SUSSEX RECIPE BOOK
Dick Richardson

A collection of culinary receipts and others, for ailments of man and beast and dealing with houseshold matters. This book has three sections – from a 17/18th century household book formerly in the library of Arundel Castle, from Susannah Stacey of East Chiltington, and finally, a selection from various sources.

The book is illustrated with fifty-eight 18/19th century engravings.

Contents include: Arundel Household Book – cakes, puddings, medical remedies, wines, preserves, pickles and sauces, soups and stews.

Susannah Stacey – food for the poor, directions to servants, pot-pourri, pickles preserves and candies, vegetables and herbs, cullis, sauces and eggs, puddings and savouries, creams and syllabubs.

Miscellaneous – savouries, fish, puddings, stews, food for Christmas. Bolster pudding, potato and cheese cakes, bacon pudding, mock pork pie, Windmill Hill thin biscuits, coager cakes, military pudding, Ripe tart, pond pudding, Chiddingly hot pot, pippin pye, rose petal jam, apple marmalade, rice and apple pudding, mackerel pudding, Claversham rissoles, ten-to-one pie, partridge pudding, Hastings gurnet, gingerbread.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 116 pages
First published in 2005 and now back in print
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ISBN 978-1-898941-99-6
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THE SUSSEX TRUG
Form, function and craft
Sarah Page

Foreword by RAY MEARS

The Sussex Trug is a wooden basket made almost exclusively in one small area of East Sussex, using natural, sustainable, local materials. Trugmaker Sarah Page takes us into the lives of the makers and explores the fascinating history of the craft in the area. Follow each stage of trugmaking in words and pictures, and understand the traditional techniques of woodland management, whereby the materials for making trugs are sustainably managed.

An important and timely record of a declining way of life, the book is illustrated with stunning new photography and a wealth of archive pictures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in gardening, Sussex history or traditional crafts.

Hardback 184 x 141mm 192 pages
100 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
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THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT
James Gardner

The Balcombe Tunnel murder in Sussex was the most sensational news item back in 1881 surpassing in newspaper coverage even the assassinations of the Russian Tsar and the American President. It was only the second murder to have been committed on an English train. On a sunny Monday afternoon in June, a retired businessman was brutally attacked in a first class carriage on the London to Brighton train and thrown into the tunnel. Eventually, a young twenty-one year old author and journalist, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, was convicted and hanged at Lewes prison. In the last ten days of his life he wrote a fascinating 19,000 word autobiography. Only discovered by the author over a hundred years later, it throws new light on a man and a crime that both shocked and fascinated Victorian society.
Illustrated paperback.

Paperback 192 pages
Published by the author
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The Twittens
The Saxon and Norman Lanes of Lewes
Kim Clark

12 pages in colour.
South of the county town's historic high street lie narrow thoroughfares, dropping down between ancient flint walls to the foot of the downland spur. Many date from the days when King Alfred fortified the town against the Danes, while others became part of a new pedestrian netwrk as Lewes extended its boundaries in Norman times. Kim Clark's celebration of these ancient twittens is illustrated by photographs, the line drawings of Marietta Van Dyke and the paintings of Peter Messer.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 62 pages
What’s a twitten? In case you wondered…
Pomegranate Press on behalf of the Friends of Lewes
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THEOS MAGIC GARDEN
Iris Watts

Theo is a handsome and contented cat living in a cottage in a Sussex village with his mistress, Jenny. A cat, proud of his Persian lineage. But one day his life changes…
Jenny’s brother, Magnus comes to stay and on leaving, sprinkles magic dust on the garden. That night all the garden statues come to life.
Sammy the fox proves a problem – until Magnus’ cat, Tim, comes to stay. The magic dust has enabled the statues and cats to talk to each other – though Cosmos is still a nuisance.
The author is donating all proceeds from this book to the restoration of Boxgrove Priory. The book is priced £5, but I have added £2 P&P, so that the maximum amount benefits the charity.

Paperback 210 x 148 112 pages
These stories are written for Children from five years old upwards and they are beautifully illust
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ISBN 978-1-910489-08-6
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Thomas the Priory Cat
Iris Watts

The priory is Boxgrove in West Sussex, and Thomas is the resourceful cat who makes his home in the church after his mistress dies. These charming stories are written for children from five years upwards, and are beautifully illustrated by Alex Forrester.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 64 pages
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TOPOGRAPHICAL TUNBRIDGE WARE
An Illustrated Guide to the Mosaic Views on Tunbridge Ware
Howard Rockley

116 colour and 2 mono photographs.
Anyone with an interest in antiques who has looked at a Tunbridge Ware mosaic view and wondered what, where and how, will find this an indispensible aid. Briefly describing the changing techniques of
construction over time and the difficulties of attribution to a particular manufacturer, it illustrates 58 topographical views, ranging from the frequently encountered to the very rare.

Paperback 210 x 148mm 72 pages
Over the border? Almost, once Tunbridge Wells was in Sussex! There are views of Hurstmonceux, Pevens
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TREASURE CHEST
A SEAFORD ANTHOLOGY
Diana Crook

Seaford has a turbulent history as a former Cinque Port and rotten borough with
dramatic accounts of smuggling, looting, maritime battles and disasters as well as power struggles and political chicanery. Leaving a mark on the town is a medley of eccentric, artistic and ambitious visitors and residents. Today, battle still continues to contain the ravages of the sea that has
dominated the story of the town.
Diana Crook’s attractively varied
anthology extends from the theft of St Lewinna’s bones in 1058 to the more recent declaration of Wendy, the Seaford talking cat.
A feast of good stories, some of which have not been seen in print before,
Treasure Chest entertains, amuses and
instructs.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 136 pages
Diana Crook
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UP THE DOWNS!
A runner’s celebration of the Sussex hills
Jack Arscott

When Jack Arscott first began to run the Sussex Downs he little thought it would turn into an obsession. Yet within months the chalk hills from Eastbourne in the east to the Hampshire border had provoked an ambition to test his stamina on the notoriously exhausting Moyleman marathon – a distance he had never attempted
before.
Our novice enthusiast charts a dozen of his favourite off-road routes, records the gruelling weather conditions.
Colourfully illustrated, and with hard-won tips on body management and running techniques, this burgeoning sport will appeal both to absolute beginners seeking
encouragement and to diehard veterans who will sympathise with every strained tendon.

Paperback 235 x 155mm 76 pages
22 pages of colour illustrations
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VISITORS’ HISTORIC BRITAIN:
WEST SUSSEX
Kevin Newman

A unique approach to West Sussex’s history – this is the first book for those residing or
visiting West Sussex to take people on a series of journeys across the county’s different past eras – from west to east.

The book pays homage to great past Sussex travel writers such as EV Lucas and Hillaire Belloc by suggesting visitors attempt ‘Sussex without Sat-nav’ – ditching modern technology to use directions and maps, foot and cycle instead of merely cars and sat-navs.

The book provides suggested routes to explore the county an era at a time, provided by an author who has spent many years exploring the county’s well and lesser-known sites of interest.

Never before has such a comprehensive and varied selection of sites been collected together. VHS will provide even the most knowledgable Sussexian with new ideas for visits and days out.

The book supports local food, drink and hostelries with sections suggesting places to rest and revive as well as restaurants, cafés and  fine inns, with our ‘lunch locally’ and ‘Sussex stay-overs’ sections. We even discover a café that provides ice cream for dogs!

Paperback 234 x 156mm 216 pages
30 B&W illustrations and maps
Pen & Sword
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WORTHING PUBS
David Muggleton, Colin Walton and James Henry

The hamlet of Worthing began to develop as a fashionable seaside resort
during the late eighteenth century. It attained town status in 1803 when its administration was invested in a board of commissioners that first met at the Nelson Hotel. Inns of greater antiquity were the White Horse at West Tarring, the Maltsters Arms at Broadwater and the Anchor in Worthing High Street. Other well-established pubs, such as the town centre Warwick and the Cricketers at Broadwater, began as basic beer retailers and brewing victuallers of the early Victorian period.
Several pubs in the area are of architectural interest. The ornate Grand
Victorian opened in 1900 as the Central Hotel, the half-timbered design of the Thomas á Becket (1910) was in homage to the nearby medieval Parsonage
Row cottages, while the imposing Downlands was built in 1939 in the classic roadhouse style. Worthing Pubs takes us on a fully illustrated tour of the historical hostelries in the district, yet also acknowledges how the local drinking culture has been shaped by the contemporary craft-beer bar and the burgeoning micropub scene.

THE AUTHORS
David Muggleton is a professional lecturer and writer with a particular interest in pub and brewery history. He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers, Pub History Society, Brewery History Society and CAMRA. Over the years, David has gained an extensive knowledge of Brighton pubs both by drinking in them and by delving deep into local archives to uncover their fascinating histories.
Colin Walton is a born and bred Worthingite with a lifelong interest in history, having graduated with a BA (Hons) in the subject in 1996. He is co-researcher on the worthingpubhistory.com history site, and Worthing, The Curmudgeons Guide with James Henry. With a passion for the history of Worthing he is a tour guide for the National Lottery funded Worthing Heritage Alliance.
James Henry is an established fiction author who also has an interest in local history. Teaming up with Colin Walton, they set about researching the history of their local pubs and hostelries dating back to the sixteenth century. It was inevitable that along the way they would accumulate a wealth of knowledge on their home town.

Paperback 234 x 165mm 96 pages
100 illustrations
Amberley
ISBN 978-1-445688-02-2
Price £14.99

WRITTEN BY READERS
LETTERS TO THE SUSSEX COUNTY MAGAZINE 1928-1932
Dick Richardson

The Sussex County Magazine was founded by Arthur Beckett in 1927 and ceased publication in 1956. The best, and probably the first county magazine in the country, it carried little, if any advertising, which led to its ultimate downfall. The Magazine provides a veritable treasure trove of articles on the county. In this slim volume I have selected and edited readers‘ letters from 1928-1932. This is a book for dipping into, and there should be something for everyone with a love of Sussex.
Contents include: Longevity: Windmills: Budgen’s map of Sussex: Old Sussex toasts: A Guestling carter’s adventure: Ebernoe Horn Fair: Latten bells: The bag of gold: Breaking up a sub-marine: Sussex place-names: Slindon House and Sellinger’s Round: An East Grinstead playbill 1758: Isaac Ingall – Battle’s old man: A dolmen goddess in Sussex: Eastbourne in 1826: Round-frock, smock or Banyan?: Coal in Sussex?: Harold’s bodyguard at Hastings: Two meetings with fairies: A John Fuller madallion: The Jevington “Argin”: Old Zeb: John Dudeney’s burial place: The derivation of “Lydes”: Old industries at East Hoathly: Gundrada de Warrenne: Friday in place-names: The House of Howard: The Roman road – Chichester to Portslade: Sussex windmills: The mummers’ play: A bark mill: An old-fashioned remedy: Nan Kemp’s grave: Starvemouse Plain: The Clatterdown legend of Herstmonceux Castle: The Henfield doll: Dog-drawn fish carts: The village pound:Recipes for apple butter: Curious Sussex customs: Hog-asses: Sussex epitaphs: Henfield’s inhabitants 1840: Gooch’ strong beer: Anne Page of Hastings: Bethesda Chapel, Lewes: St Paul’s Cathedral gates and railings: The lock-up, Slindon: A Ditchling road cross: Executions at Horsham: A present from Bexhill to Horace Walpole: Pallinghma Lock, near Pulborough: Curious Christian names: Potato wine: The White Horse, Bodle Street: A West Chiltington legend: Who was Barney?: A Sussex puritan jury: Brede pottery: Hogs puddings: A woman grave digger: The Cowfold brass: Firing the anvil: Jack Upperton’s gibbet: Wife-selling in Sussex: The old forge, Brighton: How Seaford made a breakwater: An old Sussex kinife-grinder: The howling boys: The treadmill, House of Correction, Brighton: A smuggler’s account book: Sidlesham church chest: Charles Lee, “King of the Gipsies”, Chailey Mill: etc.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 76 pages
49 half-tone photos and illustrations
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ISBN 978 1 906789 82 4
Price £7.50