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The Old School
School Lane
Storrington, West Sussex RH20 4LL
United Kingdom

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Times Past

Main articles in the Museum Newsletter "Times Past"
Click on the Issue number to view the appropriate copy of Times Past.

25 Winter 2006/2007

Victorian Harvest Home

Christ's Hospital: A Unique Sussex School

Storrington by M.D. Petre

Was 1066 Really All That Important?

24 Autumn 2006

The "Cokelers" of Loxwood

The Village of Amberley

23 Spring 2006

Amberley Church

St. Mary's Church, Storrington

Miss Yeats, a Very Special School Teacher.

Burpham's Failed Highwayman, Jack Upperton.

22 Winter 2005/2006

Storrington's Own Coinage

Arthur Mee's "Sussex" (Hodder and Stoughton)

The Notorious Election of 1847

21 Summer 2005

Thakeham Union Workhouse

What Brought a Family from Oakville, Ontario to West Sussex?

Roundabout at War.

20 Spring 2005

Restoring "Little Boltons", Church Street, Storrington.

Storrington Transport in Quieter Times

19 Winter 2004/2005

A Wedding at Steyning.

Maude Petre.

William Penn in Sussex.

Frank Knight.

18 Summer 2004

Amberley Castle - Or is it? And why was it built?.

William Frankland. Explorer and Inventor.

Walter Potter - Taxidermist Extraordinary.

17 Spring 2004

Churches in the district.

History of a Storrington Farmhouse. (Also in Issue 18)

What's in a (Storrington) name?

16 Winter 2003/2004

Dr. Finlay and the Crusader's Tomb.

A rather sad day

Regina v. Storrington. When is a road not a road? (also in Issue 17)

15 Summer 2003

The Mill that moved.

Storrington's Home Guard.

14 Spring 2003

The Old Bridge at Stopham.

A canal lost and found again.

The intriguing Mr. Wells.

13 Dec 2002

Charles Henry Frewer 1919-2002.

What's in a road name? - Monastery Lane.

Henry Bishop of Wiston.

William Penn and the Blue Idol.

12 Aug 2002

Storrington's vanished watermills.

The Meynells of Greatham.

(also in Issue 13)

The Roman Invasion [Revisited].

11 April 2002

Florence Mary Greenfield, Dec. 1900 to Feb. 2002

Storrington's Windmills.

Retained Fires Service Experiences - John Linfield.

10 Dec 2001

The English Civil War - 1642-6.

Challen's Cycle and Motor Depot.

Storrington's Rectories.

9 Aug 2001

A Museum of Family History.

Story of a Storrington Volunteer in

WW 11.

8 May 2001

Daisy and the Sad Poet.

7 Feb 2001

Fryen Park - Storrington.

Three Graves in Storrington.

6 Nov 2000

Storrington Military College.

Fl. Lt. C.R.Davis, DFC. Fighter Pilot.

A.F.Bell - "The Sullington Shepherd.

5 July 2000

Who was the "Sullington Shepherd"?.

J.W.Bramham - Local Artist.

Storrington's Rectories.

4 April 2000

Jomo Kenyatta - Famous Wartime Resident.

41 Spring 2012

The Sanctuary through the eyes of Franz Wilfrid Walter.

World War Two and Evacuation: Part two of Alan Simmonds' Memories.

A Murder at Pigland Farm. 

40 Winter 2011/2012

The Good Olde Days in Storrington.

World War Two and Evacuation -

The first part of Alan Simmonds' remarkable memories.

Family History Day, 16th October by Rob Challen.

39 Summer 2011

Arthur Francis Bell 1875-1918.

Roger Simpson describes the local poet, his family and friends.

The Weald - what happened to it and why?

by Philip Beaumont.

Finders Keepers and Old Tymes

by John Wharmby.

38 Spring 2011

Meg Everitt. -

John Wharmby sums up Meg's great contribution to the museum.

Church recordings by Jane Paton.

Back to the future in Storrington by Julia Edge.

37 Winter 2010/2011

The Museum in Festive Mood.

Medicine as it used to be.

Obituaries - John Winning & Anne Rapley.

A Message from the Vice-Chair, Shaaron Collet.

Famous Residents No 10 - Hugh de Selincourt.

36 Summer 2010

Storrington Museum Re-opens.

A Message from our Chair, Meg Everitt.

The Washington Boundary.

Famous Residents No 10 - John Mason on Hugh MacDiarmid and the Grieves in Thakeham.

35 Spring 2010

A New Decade - On the Shoulders of Gaints.

The Story So Far.

 Famous Residents No 10 - Elgar.

34 Winter 2009/2010

From the Chair

Memories of the Pond School and Miss Yeats

Miss Yeats the traveller

33 Summer 2009

Tudor May Revels

Museums at Night

Famous Residents - Arnold Bax

George Tyrrell

32 Spring 2009

A Smell of Rotten Eggs

Graffiti at Parham Park

Officers Reports to AGM 2009

31 Winter 2008/2009

A Tale of two Sisters and the Red Lion, Ashington.

More Hanging - Less Crime

30 Summer 2008

The Horsham Hanging Fair.

Storrington & District Artists with Works in the Museum.

The Roman Villa at Wiggonholt.

29 Spring 2008

"Sussex Born and Bred" True, False or Just Confusing?

One Farm - Three Generations - Two hundred years of continuous service.

John Charman - From Poorhouse to Paradise.

28 Winter 2007/2008

Queen Elizabeth (the first, of course) on tour!

William Alberry, Saddler, Musician and Sussex Historian.

27 Summer 2007

The Iron Industry in Sussex - Its Rise & Fall

1884 - The Year Worthing Declined to be Saved

26 Spring 2007

The Wilberforces in Sussex

Archaeology in and around Storrington.

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The Old School
School Lane
Storrington, West Sussex RH20 4LL
United Kingdom

ph: 01903 740188

enquiries@storringtonmuseum.org

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