IMAGES BEING RELOADED 

This unlikely collection of hundreds of photos, scraps and newspaper cuttings is kept in three old, battered and disintegrating albums that sheds cardboard crumbs whenever their pages are opened. Carelessly cut as if in haste many photos are fast fading, some beyond redemption, whilst others have been crudely over-pasted causing the images to crinkle and grow mould with age. Many are photos from the original glass plates some of which were then coloured and converted into ‘dot’ print for the Winton postcards. Newspaper articles, postcards and old theatrical and carnival programmes have been glued in a vague chronological order, one on top of the other sometimes making it impossible to see every complete item.
 Yet what remains is a remarkable record, not just of one family but of a 60-year chunk of Shoreham history from mid Victorian times to the 1940’s. Put together by a young Jessie Winton, granddaughter of W.E.Winton, photographer and organiser of Shoreham’s celebrated carnivals and regattas  with the resulting family photos, newspaper scraps and snippets reflecting her and her father’s (William Winton junior) love of their family, amateur dramatics and the events surrounding their friends and neighbours.

(For the sake of continuity the family photos have been put into chronological order within each branch of the Winton offspring so that their progress over the years can be more easily be followed.) The collection has been made available through the kindness and generosity of June Stirling, the current owner and granddaughter of W.E.Winton. Please note that these images are not for copying or downloading.