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Collector Alan Humphries has kindly allowed us to scan a compilation of photographs and postcards from his unique Southwick and Kingston collection. The images have been especially selected to provide an evocative picture of the area as it once was.
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Collector Alan Humphries has kindly allowed us to scan a compilation of photographs and postcards from his unique Southwick and Kingston collection. The images have been especially selected to provide an evocative picture of the area as it once was. The collection is considerable and even a selection will take time to put together.
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A gallery of images ©Sussex Archaeological Society’s Collection held at the Marlipins Museum in Shoreham. Should you require copies of any particular images these are available on request from [email protected]
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Hospital Parade, Shoreham-by-Sea. Parade with banner. Fund raising. Boys Brigade band, Boy Scouts and various league members. The parade is turning into Ham Road. Eades Store is on the left. Men, women and children are watching the parade. Copy from an original photograph.
Recruits/volunteers for Lord Kitchener's Army leaving Shoreham-by-Sea. First World War/World War One. High Street looking west. Large crowd of men near the Crown and Anchor pub. Women and children. Cars on street. Royal George pub in the middle distance. Taken from a glass negative. Sept. 1914
Lord Kitchener's visit.
Bungalow Town. Crowd in deckchairs at the beach club, Shoreham-by-Sea. Crowd watching Miss Kate Carney's entertainment. During the First World War. St.Mary's Church tower and brewery chimney are in the background. Most people are wearing hats.
Miown foundered off Shoreham. Two masts rigging and part of the wheel visible above the sea after the steamship "Miown" was wrecked in a gale one-and-a-half miles SSW of Shoreham. Unidentified man wearing civilian clothes and cloth cap stands in the rigging. The "Miown" was carrying a cargo of cement from London to Bristol and was wrecked so quickly there was no time to send distress signals. The crew took to the water and all were drowned with the exception of Captain Jones who stayed with his ship and survived six hours of exposure. Waterman John Short of Southwick saw the captains's plight and with neigbours William Gardiner owner of the boat "Florence" and Charlie Smart launched the boat and rowed out to the wreck to save the captain. "
Reed's Grocer and Draper, 29 and 31 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. Flint house (rebuilt c 1900) with shop window on left side of ground floor, sign above Grocer REED Draper" and "Ready made clothes warehouse". Clothes for sale hanging above shop window and along right side of house. Mattressess chairs a mangle and hip bath are displayed on the pavement. Man and woman wearing long aprons stand in shop doorway. Printed from glass negative by Bob Hill."
Southdown Golf Club, Shoreham-by-Sea. Golf club house situated in North Shoreham close to site of Southlands hospital. Building with decorative verandah. Photograph from a glass negative.
Adur, Shoreham-by-Sea. View looking north across the River Adur towards St Mary de Haura church. Tall Chimney of the Albion Brewery. Two masted barque alongside the ship building yard. Copy from a glass negative. Osman Pasha on stocks to the East.
Mill Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea. View south from top of Mill Lane across large field towards Shoreham town, tower of the church of St Mary de Haura visible on skyline. Cemetery gatehouse on left, Trinity Cottages second building from left in midground, on far right is the Catholic church. Also in middle ground Cambridge Lodge, Longcroft, and Victoria Road on right.
Bathing Parade, Army camp, Shoreham-by-Sea. Parade of male army recruits in civilian clothing and holding towels. Reprinted by Bob Hill from an original glass negative.
Thatched Cottage, Old Shoreham, Shoreham-by-Sea. View across field with cows grazing, barbed wire fence, towards front of cottage with thatched roof. Boys in knickerbockers and caps and girl wearing pinafore dress standing in front of door. Small window on first floor above door.
Burrells hotel 1905
Beach. Collecting Flint Stones from the Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea. Men are collecting stones, with horses and carts. Photograph reprinted from glass negative.
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Aerodrome. Mr. E Roll of the Full inside" revue stands in the cockpit of a Pashley Bros biplane at Shoreham Aerodrome (later Shoreham Airport) seated in front is pilot Eric Pashley. Almost full view of plane from the front showing wheels wings struts cockpit with propellor behind. "Pashley Bros" on side of cockpit. At left woman wearing cloche hat sits at the wheel of an open-topped Austro Daimler motor car licence number LK-8677 with tool-box and spare wheel on the running board AA badge and starting handle visible on front. Restaurant in left background with flag inscribed SCA (South Coast Aero-club?). Low gabled building in background in front of railway embankment is the Aero Club pavilion. Reprinted by Bob Hill from original Winton glass negative owned by John Saunders."
Naval seaplane number 113, Radley England Mk II, Shoreham-by-Sea. Close view of a bi-plane landed on mudflats on the beach, showing struts, wings, tailfin with number 113, small cockpit with propellor behind, floats. Houses in background and power station in distance on left. Reprinted by Bob Hill from original Winton glass negative owned by John Saunders.
Aerodrome. Madge Williams (left) and Cecil Pashley sit in Pashley's Farman biplane ready for a flight, possibly at Shoreham Aerodrome (later Shoreham Airport). Close view of plane showing wheels, struts, wings, small cockpit, propellor behind cockpit. Pashley and Williams wear flying helmets, he wears muffler and goggles. Plane is on flat grassy field with wooden fence and trees in background. Reprinted by Bob Hill from original Winton glass negative owned by John Saunders.
Aerodrome.
Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. Western end of High Street, looking west. Cart and horse. Lion and horse statues on the top of the central supporting arches. Toll keeper is on front right with a boy by the toll booth. Cast iron lamps on the bridge. Telegraph pole. The bridge was replaced in the 1920s.
Upper Shoreham Road
Bungalow Town, Old Fort Filming of a scene from the film The Showman's Dream" at the old fort east of Bungalow Town (now Shoreham Beach). Raised stage with backdrop depicting entrance to a circus and actors and actresses dressed as clown bandsmen and others in normal clothing. Man in sweater possibly director or camerman. Tripod at left. Film made by the Sunny South Film Company. Copy photograph from a glass negative."
Bungalow Town Film Making, 'The Showman's Dream', at the old fort, east of Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea. Film set of the picture made by Sunny South Films. Raised stage with backdrop depicting entrance to a circus, and actors and actresses, dressed as clown, bandsmen, policeman, and others in normal clothing. Camera man in foreground. The painted backdrop hangs on the brickwork of the Palmerston buildings of Shoreham Fort. Actors Will Evans (Showman) and Arthur Conquest. Copy photograph from a glass negative.
Regatta 1911
Brunswick Road
Army Camp
Army Camp. Photo taken from 2nd floor of Thakeham House, Southlands Hospital. One of 4 photos that are a sequence panorama.
Army Camp East Camp
Army Camp. Photo taken from 2nd floor of Thakeham House, Southlands Hospital. One of 4 photos that are a sequence panorama.
Army Camp
Army camp
Gas Works at Southwick Canal, Southwick. Gas works wharf showing ship SS Shoreham, owned by Mr Stephenson-Clarke, unloading coal. Two steam driven cranes and railworks. Men next to wagons.
A horse-drawn coach with a team of four horses held by two men in bowler hats and a group of men and women seated in the coach, outside the Crown & Anchor pub on Shoreham High Street, two small boys in caps look on.
Tub race on the highway from Bramber to Upper Beeding (now The Street) during flooding showing the man identified as the winner with other tubs in the background, watched by onlookers standing on a partly submerged fence and men on horse-back. A man with a pipe and a boy are seated in the back of a horse-and-cart in the foreground, the ruins of Bramber Castle visible in the background. Lettering on the postcard reads Winner of tub race on Highway from Bramber to Upper Beeding during flood Feb. 2. 1904". Donated by Mrs Mopp."
Norfolk Bridge c1919-1920. The old chain-link suspension bridge (built 1832 and demolished in the 1920s) over the River Adur, showing the two arches at either end topped with statues of a lion and a horse, two men on the beach in the foreground standing by a building contractor's board reading John Gill Contractors Ltd ... London". "
Norfolk Bridge c1919-1920 The old chain-link suspension bridge (built 1832 and demolished in the 1920s) over the River Adur, viewed from the south (Shoreham Beach), showing decorative arches at either end of bridge.
Cement works chimney construction 1904?
Shoreham football club team, Shoreham-by-Sea. Group portrait taken outdoors of the 1904-05 team, West Sussex Senior League champions. Players wearing shirts with vertical stripes laced at the neck, long socks, boots. Two wearing caps and with Sussex FL badges on shirts. Players sit in two rows with arms folded, two men not wearing sports kit stand behind, one with moustache and bowler hat is Mr. Oswald Ball, manager of the team and headmaster of Ham Road School. Middle row third from right wearing white cap is E. D. Gates (captain), front row second left is A. E. Longstaff. Full list of team members given as: E. C. Ayling, goal; G. Gates, F. Rose, backs; W. Ellmer, Alf Maple, Art Maple, half-backs; F. Longstaff, A. E. Longstaff, H. Upton, E. D. Gates, C. Peak, forwards.
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922 Looking west from Shoreham town, showing the toll booth and men at work on demolition of the old chain suspension bridge (built 1832) for re-building. Signs on the bridge set the speed limit (5 miles), state that Heavy motor cars not allowed over this bridge" and advertise the building contractors "Unit Construction Coy Ltd." of Regent Street London. Reproduction of a photograph."
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922 Horse-and-cart and workmen removing debris from the northern end of the old chain suspension bridge under demolition, looking towards the high street showing the ironmongers shop, toll house (right) and toll keepers lodge (left). Reprinted from an original glass negative by Robert Hill.
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. Looking north to the new bridge over the River Adur under construction, with steam pump removing river water and steam crane with attached bucket at work on coffer dam to permit construction of new additional pier. Reprinted from an original glass negative by Robert Hill.
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1922
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
Norfolk Bridge 1923
High Street looking SE Royal George Hotel
Norfolk Bridge demolition 1922
Shoreham Grammar School, Shoreham-by-Sea, elevated view showing the school in centre, large building with two white gables next to walled garden and playing field with swings and a roundabout. Horse-drawn carriage on street, Norfolk Bridge - suspension bridge over the River Adur - in middle ground on left, railway line with train on right. The picture features on the front of a card sent with Christmas/New Year greetings from Shoreham Grammar School, dated 1933.
Kingston beach and harbour arms
Demolition of the North Chimney, Brighton A Power Station, Southwick. Chimney is toppling to the left. The remaining chimney is erect.
Aerodrome
Aerodrome. Pashley
Aerodrome. Men women and children gather round a crashed seaplane at Shoreham Airport. The plane was taking part in the Daily Mail air race, probably on 10 August 1914; the pilot escaped with his life. People in foreground partially obscuring the plane which lies on its side, part of fuselage visible with Daily Mail" marked on side all of tail visible with rear float at base of tail. Railway embankment and track in background. " Location identified as adjacent river Adur between river embankment and railway and Old Shoreham Road to the East.
Western Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. Horse drawn cart outside the Baptist Chapel. Lamp. Chapel in classical style. Men in suits and hats. Copy photograph.
Taxi-cab outside Burrell Arms, Brunswick Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. Full-length view of taxi showing front and side, wheels and carriage lamps visible. Back part of cab roof folded down. Three men wearing suits, caps, boots and gaiters, one smoking cigarette, sit on running-board. Horse in harness visible at right, Burrell Arms hotel in background.
Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. The old chain suspension bridge, designed by Tierney Clark (built 1832 and demolished in the 1920s), over the River Adur showing decorative arches, rowing boats on the bank. View taken from the northern end. Toll House in the foreground. The northern tower arch has a lion and the southern has a horse. Street lighting on each side of the bridge. Bridge erected by Bernard and Edward Howard.
Pashley
Aerodrome. Shoreham Airport Terminal Building interior.
Norfolk Bridge
Bungalow Town. Derelict clubhouse.
ATC at Victoria Road Infants school
ATC at Victoria Road Infants School playground
Railway Staff at the Entrance of Lancing ? Station, Lancing. Most of the men are in uniform with peaked caps, the rest are in suits. Station Master is seated. Railway posters.
High Street showing Dolphin Chambers and a bank (left), Eade's Stores and E.M. Larkin tobacconist (right), other small shops with awnings, pedestrians in street, a street light strung across the road on a wire. Photographic postcard.
Shoreham football club reserves team, Shoreham-by-Sea, winners of the West Sussex Junior League 1900-01. Group portrait taken outdoors in front of Ravenscroft house (corner of Raven's Road and Mill Lane), home of R.B. Bell. Twelve team members in three rows standing and sitting, wearing shirts in two different-coloured vertical halves, shorts with belts, long socks, boots, some with shinguards. Trophy and dated ball centre foreground. In back row are three men wearing suits and ties. Identifications standing left-to-right: W. Winton linesman, C. Cheesman, H. Dell, R. B. Dell President, J. Savage, F. Cheesman, Oswald Ball Hon.Sec.; centre row sitting left-to-right: C. Atherfold, M. Slaughter, G. Gates, C. Upton captain, H. Ellmer, M. Cook; front l-r J. Bacon, J. E. Hackett vice-captain.
Buckingham Street
Buckingham Street
Adur panorama 1960s
Adur motorboat race
Shoreham Football Club
Shoreham Football Club
Shoreham Cricket Club
Lifeboat House
Bungalow Town
Steers - Southwick yard
High Street, Dolphin Chambers
Eastern Harbour arm
tram
Fire Brigade, Engine and Firemen, Shoreham-by-Sea. Fire Officers in uniform. Copy photograph.
A gallery of images from the Sussex Archaeological Society’s Collection held at the Marlipins Museum in Shoreham. Should you require copies of any particular images these are available on request from [email protected]
Collapse of Dry Dock - later the lock, in 1907.
Visit of General Booth (1829-1912) to Shoreham-by-Sea. Crowd of men and woman are gathered outside the Town Hall to see the founder of the Salvation Army. He is wearing a white beard. Capital and Counties bank is on the far right. A car is in the foreground.
High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. West end of the street. Kings Head pub in the background. West End Stores is next to it. Shops include W.H. Harker ironmongers, Southdown Bus Office, cigar store, and W.B. Muggeridge confectioner. Men, women and children on street. Car and bicycle at the end of the street.
"SS Brussels" on the bar at Shoreham Harbour Shoreham-by-Sea. July 5 1922 Single funnel ship shipwrecked at the harbour entrance. In background are the jetty and one of the "Mystery Towers" waiting demolition. Reproduction of an original photograph."
Bungalow Town. Rhodesia in distance
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town Belle Garde
Bungalow Town Belle Garde
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Toll Bridge
Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach, view looking east along the main seafront road. Bungalows on left along unmade road, and on right built on the top of the pebble beach. Telegraph poles. Postcard postmarked 23 July 1924, sent to Miss D (Daphne) L?, 49 Greenwood Road, Dalston, London E8, signed Marjorie.
Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach. View along pebble beach in foreground looking east with bungalows on left, low wicket fencing in front, some with verandah and balcony. Many of the bungalows were made from old railway carriages with outer wooden structure added.
Bungalow Town, Old Fort Road
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town Church of the Good Shepherd, Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach. View looking west with church (built 1913) in centre, houses on the beach (south) side of West Beach Road at left, one flying Union flag, telegraph poles in road. Motor car partially visible on right. In front of church a woman posts letter in large post box, man with small child, pram.
Adur Rail Bridge. Sir John Aird designed steel rail viaduct over Adur.
Sailing ship entering Shoreham Harbour, Shoreham-by-Sea. Dredger is next to it. River Adur. Brewery Chimney on wharf in the distance.
Bungalow Town The Nest
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town Beach Road. View of bungalow with sign La Boheme" over the door seen across top of pebble beach. Gable end showing bungalow formed of two railway carriages joined by a main room and with outer wooden structure and roof added. Weatherboard walls wicket fence with gate and paving stones forming a path to the beach."
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town "Seagull" bungalow Bungalow Town Shoreham Beach. View across pebble beach showing front of bungalow made from a railway carriage with additions at each end corrugated roof man and woman sitting in a deckchair and Lloyd loom chair on verandah behind wicket fence. Flagpole sign "Seagull" over entrance. Glimpse of downs in left background. Postcard postmarked 15 July 1906
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Norfolk Bridge. The old chain suspension bridge (built 1832 and demolished in the 1920s) over the River Adur showing decorative arches. Image taken from the South-west bank of the river.
Adur
Norfolk Suspension Bridge (built 1832), Shoreham-by-Sea. Bridge over the River Adur. Three ladies are posing under the arch. Adur quayside and of St Mary de Haura tower are in the background. Sailing boats in the distance. Horse statue stands on the first classical-style arch, a lion stands on the next.
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town Old Fort Road
Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach. Looking west across pebble beach in foreground, sea on left, wooden breakwaters, bungalows along top of beach at right, some two-storey buildings in background. Some bungalows have verandahs and balconies, wicket fences, one has model of a sailing ship on roof. Telegraph poles in background.
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Bungalow Town
Norfolk Bridge July 4th 1923 Opening of the Second Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea.
Norfolk Bridge Opening of the Second Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. Lord Leconfield is making a speech outside the Toll House at the opening. Men and women in hats are present.
Norfolk Bridge Opening of the Second Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. Men, women and children observing Lord Leconsfield opening the bridge. At west end of High Street. W.Bushby, butcher, and W.H. Harker, General Store, is in the background. Flags are over the crowd.
Norfolk Bridge Demolition of Norfolk Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. View from east bank of River Adur looking north west, sailing boats moored in right foreground. In middle ground the partly-demolished chain-link suspension bridge built in 1832, with superstructure and the top portion of the two stone arches already demolished. The new iron bridge that replaced it was opened in 1923.
Norfolk Bridge demolition 1922
Norfolk Bridge demolition, Shoreham-by-Sea. Close view of the south west end of the bridge with men atop partly demolished stone tower. The coffer dam, built to allow demolition and construction work, is visible below.
Marlipins interior
Marlipins interior
Marlipins exterior
Marlipins interior
Marlipins interior
Marlipins exterior decorative stone work
Marlipins interior 1928. Marlipins Museum
Marlipins Museum opening, Shoreham-by-Sea. Lady Harmsworth and Capt. H. Ross Hooper stand by the door of the museum when it re-opened in 1928. Full-length view of Lady Harmsworth wearing brimmed hat and fur coat and carry bouquet of flowers, opening the wooden door of the museum..
Marlipins Museum Shoreham-by-Sea
Marlipins Museum Shoreham-by-Sea
Marlipins
Adur rail bridge - wooden trestle prior to replacement. pre-1896
Continue reading “Marlipins Gallery 13, 14 and 15” A gallery of images from the Sussex Archaeological Society’s Collection held at the Marlipins Museum in Shoreham. Should you require copies of any particular images these are available on request from [email protected]
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Recruiting for Kitcheners Army 1914
Collecting flints on Shoreham beach c.1890
Hospital Parade, Shoreham-by-Sea. Men, women and children are watching a parade marching down Brunswick Road. Men are matching with banners a drums followed by boy scouts. Eade's Store is on the left in Buckingham Road. Railway buildings are in the background right. Photograph taken from a glass negative. 1912
Norfolk Suspension Bridge looking west from the High Street
Horse-drawn Tram Outside the Burrell Hotel, Ham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. Double decker filled with passengers outside its usual stop at the Burrell Hotel. Bus going to Portslade, Southwick, Shoreham and Hove. c.1905
Spectators on the bridge watch as the lion statue is taken down from the old Norfolk suspension Bridge (built 1832) prior to demolition. The lion and horse statues taken down from the bridge arches were removed to Arundel Castle at the request of the Duchess of Norfolk. c.1922
Destruction by fire of 'Umtata' bungalow - firemen saved 'Cissbury' bungalow behind. 24th April 1915
Old Shoreham tram carriage tied to a flat bed cart drawn by one horse with a driver in a cap and shirt-sleeves on the grammar school playing field at Shoreham beach. The tram car was one of two used as a cricket pavilion for Shoreham Grammar School. 1934
Mr Goodchild of Shoreham and his family. Family portrait of men, women and children. They are on the lawn outside a house. Woman in the centre window with a baby. Croquet set in the foreground. Mr Edward Goodchild was the High Constable of Shoreham, Ship Owner and once proprietor of the Swiss Gardens. c.1860
Miles Student at Shoreham airport c.1957
Miles Sparrowjet at Shoreham airport c.1953
The shipwrecked barque the Liburna coming ashore at the shingle beach watched by bystanders, showing a broken sail. The Liburna did sail again. 15th March 1905
Nine members of the Head family pose on the front lawn of Buckingham House in front of a small, thatched, ivy-clad summerhouse at the edge of lawn tennis court c.1904
St Mary de Haura Parish Church, looking north. Note the pristine lettering on nearest gravestone
St. Mary's looking west at night
St.Marys from East Street
St. Marys interior
St Mary de Haura church
St Mary de Haura church
St Nicolas church decorated doorway
St.Nicolas church, Old Shoreham
West facing door of St. Mary de Haura church - photo c 1920 The decorative balls survived for centuries but have almost all been lost since this photo!
Interior of St Nicolas Parish Church, Old Shoreham, looking east along the nave across pews towards altar. Cruxiform shape with north and south transepts. Norman stone arch with 'zigzag' carving and cat's head in centre, writing on walls around arch. The chanel is entered through the screen. Altar in background. c.1920
Interior of St Nicolas Parish Church, Old Shoreham, looking east along the nave across pews towards altar. Cruxiform shape with north and south transepts. Norman stone arch with 'zigzag' carving and cat's head in centre, writing on walls around arch. The chanel is entered through the screen. Altar in background.
St Nicolas Parish Church, Old Shoreham, view from south west across the A283 road in foreground, stone walls and churchyard with gravestones to stone Norman church with tower in centre. In right foreground is signpost indicating Steyning and Horsham, A27, Worthing 5, Arundel 12. c.1935
Surviving part of outer tower at Bramber Castle
St. Botolphs church
St Julians Lane, Kingston
Dining Hall, Lancing Holiday Camp c.1928
Lancing Holiday Camp. Group of men and women stand in front of low building made of corrugated material with sign Lancing Holiday Camp". Most men wearing suits and some with ties. The holiday camp was founded in 1922 and situated between the railway and the A259 road at Lancing." 1923
Holidaymakers at Lancing Holiday Camp. Men women and children in open-topped bus and open-topped car pose for a photograph taken from south of the A259 road with buildings of Lancing Holiday Camp in background and south Downs in the distance. Women mostly wearing hats or berets, men mostly wearing suits and some with ties. The holiday camp was founded in 1922 and situated between the railway and the A259 road at Lancing. c.1930
RTYC (Royal Thames Yacht Club) 'Bulldog', Shoreham Harbour. (Not an SAS Marlpins photo - see next image)
On Board the RTYC (Royal Thames Yacht Club) 'Bulldog', Shoreham Harbour. Two men in yachting caps and women in boaters are sitting on deck of the yacht. One man has a telescope. Lifebelt on the floor. Funnel in the background. 27th May 1899
Uniformed coastguards and children at Coastguard Cottages, Southwick
Lock Gates (built 1855) at the Canal, Shoreham Harbour, Southwick. View looking east. Courtney and Birketts, ship builders, in the distance. Man standing on the lock. 1899
A Bermuda-rigged sailing boat at sea. View of full length of yacht under sail with two sailors aboard, other yachts in background.c.1928
Beeding cement works. View looking east from Coombes across fields and hedges to cement works chimneys and buildings with railway trucks in front. Chalk pit and South Downs in background. July 1957
Lancing Windmill, near Lancing Ring, Lancing. Close view of post mill with four sweeps (sails) on top of hill, near Lancing Ring. Mr. Moseley the miller stands in doorway wearing suit and cap. Other men on steps of mill and standing to one side near chalk pit. House and barn with piles of loaded sacks in background, group of trees known as Lancing Clump (now Lancing Ring) on skyline. Mill was originally in Hoe Court, but later moved to the south of Lancing Ring, adjacent to the quarry at top of Mill Lane. The windmill was demolished about 1905. photo c.1875
Lancing College Chapel, Lancing. During construction. Foundation stone was laid on 28 July 1868. Caen Stone. Dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicolas in 1875. Built in the gothic style with pointed arched windows and buttresses.
Lancing College Chapel interior
Lancing College aerial photo
Lancing College
Lancing College Chapel interior
Lancing College, Lancing, exterior view across lawns to college buildings in gothic style with pointed arched windows and buttresses. Constructed in mid-19th century with Caen stone and flint. Two horse-drawn carriages, coachmen and college servants stand in front of buildings. c.1900
Lancing College Chapel, Lancing. During construction. Foundation stone was laid on 28 July 1868. Caen Stone. Dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicolas in 1875. Built in the gothic style with pointed arched windows and buttresses. c.1870
Lancing College Chapel interior
Shoreham Grammar School, Pond Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, view across fence. Large Georgian house, with extended school buildings on either side. c.1910
Brighton & District Tramways Steam Locomotive No. 3 (11), Aveling & Porter Royalty No. 2229 / 1887. View showing front and side of tram locomotive, part of engine and driver wearing cap visible in cab. Engraving appeared in the journal Engineering 21 October 1887."
Royal George Hotel 1939
High Street demolition 1938
High Street demolition 12th March 1939 & 4th Aug 1939
Coach and Horses at the Bridge Inn, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. Side view of coach with two pairs of horses, driver and nine passengers sitting on roof, all wearing hats. Bridge Inn & Hotel in background "c.1890
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations for Queen Victoria, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. A crowded scene with men, women and children. Sussex Artillery Volunteers Office, Town Hall and Royal George Hotel are on the left. Marlipins pub on the right. 20th June 1897
Three men working on the oat harvest in a field in Southwick, possibly near Eastbrook Barn. Two men hold swap hooks and are in shirt-sleeves. Man at right wearing waistcoat and sun-hat is William Gardener, the farmer. Bundles of oats are tied and laid on the ground at their feet. 1904
Old walls Ropetackle
Warehouses Ropetackle
Ropetackle warehouses looking north
Pram Competition for the 1937 Coronation, Shoreham-by-Sea. Prams dressed and decorated for the children's pram competition in Buckingham Park. Children and some adults are in fancy dress. Men and women are standing behind them.
Decorated Floats going down Ham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, to celebrate the 1937 Coronation.. Two lorry floats carrying men, women and children wearing a variety of hats. Union Jack flags. Crowd are gathered along the road.
Fancy dress costumes at Buckingham Park celebration the 1937 Coronation
Decorated Bicycle Competition for the 1937 Coronation in Buckingham Park.
Decorated Float for the Celebration of the 1937 Coronation, Shoreham-by-Sea. Decorated lorry in Ham Road with men in fancy dress. Flags. Crowd of men, women and children are watching. Shops with awnings.
Children in fancy dress at Buckingham Park for the 1937 Coronation celebrations
Fancy dress costumes and decorated car. 1937 Coronation celebrations
Decorated float behind Shoreham Grammar School during 1937 Coronation celebrations
Decorated lorry Float, John Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. Celebrations for the 1937 Coronation. Decorated bicycles. Children in fancy dress. Union Jack. Houses in the background.
High Street Store, Shoreham-by-Sea. Arthur Eade is the owner. Double fronted shop with a shop assistant in white jacket, bow tie and long apron work clothes by the entrance. Window displays vim, Abbotts mineral water, bread, boxes, cakes. Boxes of biscuits at the door. People and a child are in the shop. Woman inside the shop looking out the window. c.1905
Interior of the bedroom of a railway carriage bungalow, Bungalow Town, Shoreham Beach. Decorative chest of drawers, brass bedstead, wooden chairs, photographs on wall, clothes and straw boater hat hanging on hook, candlestick with candle, net curtains, oilcloth and rug on floor. Many of the houses in Bungalow Town were made of two railway carriages with a connecting room built between them. c.1928
Wesleyan Chapel, New Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, looking east from the junction with Tarmount Road. Wesleyan Chapel on left, built 1829. Houses on both sides of street, some on right with shop windows on ground floor.
The old Bridge Inn (right) with the older Fountain Inn adjoining left
The original wooden railway bridge
Boats on the river - single sculls, clinker built - taking part in a race during the regatta. Line up for the starters horn watched by crowds in the harbour gathered on Dolphin Hard.Visible in the background is the brewery chimney, St Mary de Haura church tower and Stow's shipyard.c.1912
Western Road Methodist Church
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Lancing College
Lancing College viewed from the south
Lancing College
Lancing College
Lancing College Chapel
Lancing College interior
Lancing College interior
Lancing College Chapel crypt
Lancing College Chapel interior
Lancing College interior
Lancing College & Chapel
Lancing College
Lancing College
Lancing College from Mill Hill looking west
Lancing College
Lancing College
Lancing College and Chapel
Lancing College playing field. At the time of this photo the playing field was situated below the College on the Coombes Road (Marlipins index has this incorrectly noted as the Oxen Fields at Shoreham)
Lancing College aerial photo
Lancing College from the air
Lancing College from the air
Gibbs House, Lancing College
Upper Quad, Lancing College
Upper Quad, Lancing College
Kingston Lighthouse (Built 1846), near Shoreham-by-Sea. Stone structure. Lower Brighton Road at Shoreham Harbour. View looking east. Houses on the left. Horse and cart. River Adur on the right. Photo number 72466 JV
Manor House, Kingston, near Shoreham-by-Sea. On the corner of St Julian's Lane and Kingston Lane. Flint facade with tile roofing. Tall chimneys. General Corringe lived there in the 1920s. Later became Caius College, then Shoreham Grammar School, then Shoreham College. Comedian Max Miller (Thomas Sargent), lived at Ashcroft in Kingston Lane in the 1940s.
St Julian's Parish Church, Kingston, view from south west across churchyard with gravestone to nave in foreground, south entrance in centre, tower partially visible in background.
St Julian's Parish Church and Rectory, Kingston, view looking west from Kingston Lane with Church in left background, rectory on right, man standing with horse-drawn cart in front of street light/lamp post.
Southwick church
Lock wall under repair, Shoreham Harbour, Southwick. Close view of the first lock (now the Dry Dock) after part of the north wall collapsed 16 April 1907. Workmen stand on the rubble and on a boat in the dock, onlookers on quayside, masts of sailing ship visible above lock gates in background, boat in foreground.
Shoreham Harbour, Southwick, looking east towards lock from North side of Southwick Beach. Part of pebble beach and water in foreground, Courtney & Birkett Engineers & Yacht Builders building on left, rigged barge, several rigged ships and single funnel steam vessel entering lock in background.
Southwick Beach
Ward's Drug Store and Cabot's Post Office, Albion Street, Southwick in the early 1900's.
Southwick Green
Southwick Green
King Charles Cottage, Southwick Green
Sailmaking at Southwick
The original Sussex Pad
North Lancing cottage
North Lancing cottage
Hope Lodge at the south end of South Street, Lancing
Shops in Crabtree Lane, Lancing. Row of shops with awnings, shop windows on ground floor, flats on first floor. In foreground Aida" Art and Needlework. Car in road
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89.585 Waterfont of New Shoreham from coast road approach to Norfolk Bridge
View of the harbour taken from the south looking north. On the left, steam tug 'Stella' tows a steam yacht downriver. Between the two vessels, the sailing ship 'Osman Pasha' is on the stocks at the shipyard. St Mary de Haura church tower in the background.
The barque 'Alastor' anchored off Port-Louis, Mauritius after being dismasted during a hurricane in the Indian Ocean, whilst outward bound around the Horn. The ship was built in 1875 by Mounsey & Foster of Sunderland, weighed 873 gross tons and was owned by R. H. Penney of Shoreham. The 'Alastor' was the only Shoreham vessel ever to carry a skysail and her first suit of sails were the largest ever made at Penney's sail loft.
The barque 'Alastor' at sea in full sail and flying the Red Ensign flag, cliffs in the background, other boats and ships nearby and a buoy in the foreground. The ship was built in 1875 by Mounsey & Foster of Sunderland, weighed 873 gross tons and was owned by R. H. Penney of Shoreham. The 'Alastor' was the only Shoreham vessel ever to carry a skysail and her first suit of sails were the largest ever made at Penney's sail loft.
"The barque Britannia" at the Old Shipyard (later Suter's) Shoreham by Sea. Close view from the stern showing completed three masted ship supported on stocks on the river bank with masts, rigging, hull and keel clearly visible. Men on deck and on foreshore. River Adur in foreground, buildings on either side of ship and in background. 'Britannia' was one of the last two ships (apart from yachts) to be built at Shoreham."
Members of Shoreham Cricket Club pose for a group photograph standing and sitting in three rows in front of the pavilion and scoreboard at the club ground in Buckingham Park. Most wearing white open-neck shirts and white trousers. Inscription on mount Shoreham Cricket Club. To Mr. & Mrs. Brooke. From the club 1952". Identified as: Left to rightBack Row: S. Maple (Umpire) J. Dugnolle K.Lowe F. Wells A. Mills F.Barker L.Heasman T.Hollands G.Smart B.Ratcliff M.Thomas P.Cunningham E.Bates C.J.Shoppee N.Mederson F.Scott V.Ballardini R.Hales T.Brooks E.Hempson (Umpire) Middle Row: G.Rodway M.Scott G.Gammans J.Ward D.Harman E.Turrell W.Bushby P.O.Brand B.Williams T.Stenning E.Winton D.Christie Front Row: M.Miller (scorer) B.Pryce E.R.Winton R.Bartlett D.Timms E.Webb A.Best
Ship's bell from HMS Shoreham 1931 commissioning, close view of the bell hanging in front of dark curtain backdrop. Decorative relief at top and bottom of bell, inscription Presented to HMS Shoreham on the occasion of her first commission 1931" round the rim and "...& Harbour of Shoreham..." on the top with letter F above. The HMS Shoreham commissioned in 1931 was the third or fourth Royal Navy ship of this name."
Sunday School Gathering, Buckingham House, Shoreham-by-Sea. Boys and young men sit around a table in the grounds of Buckingham House, four men, including a vicar, and a woman stand in background. Boys dressed in their Sunday best" - wearing jackets most with ties some with a flower buttonhole and straw boaters at their feet all looking seriously towards photographer. Centre right at back wearing boater is Henry Head man at back right wearing top hat is possibly Dr. W. H. Harper church organist. "
Celebrating the 1937 Coronation, Shoreham-by-Sea. Float on open backed lorry with Union Jack flags. At the junction of Ham Road and Brunswick Road. Two carpenters are planing wood on the float. Crowd are watching them. Shop awnings in the distance.
Coronation Float, John Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. 1937 Coronation. Open backed float with miniature snooker table onboard and men in hats, dressed in white. Photograph of King George V and Queen Mary on the side of the float. Lorry belonged to John Brown and Son. Picture taken in the Old Grammar School playground in John Street. House in the background.
89.686 Camp Entrance Upper Shoreham Road / Downsway?
The Liburna wrecked off Shoreham-by-Sea. Side view showing full length of two-masted barque aground just offshore,bowsprit, masts, rigging and some sail visible. Group of onlookers on beach. Postcard with illegible postmark sent to Miss Short, Auckland Cott, Fishersgate, Portslade, Sussex, message to Dear Florrie" signed "Maud"."
West Camp Quartermaster's Stores with Boxing Arena, Shoreham-by-Sea. During the First World War, an army camp was built at Little Buckingham , west of Slonk Hill and north of Shoreham Town. The boxing arena was excavated out of the side of Mill Hill. Two soldiers in uniform.
West Camp Post Office, Little Buckingham, west of Slonk Hill, near Shoreham-by-Sea. Men in uniform with spades outside the army camp post office. Wooden huts.
West Camp Quartermaster's Stores with Boxing Arena, Shoreham-by-Sea. During the First World War, an army camp was built at Little Buckingham , west of Slonk Hill and north of Shoreham Town. The boxing arena was excavated out of the side of Mill Hill. Two soldiers in uniform.
Army Camp, near Shoreham-by-Sea. During the First World War, an army camp was built north of Shoreham Town. YMCA (Young Mens Christian Association) and S.A. (Salvation Army) wooden huts were built for soldiers off duty leisure time. There are further huts in the background. Soldiers in uniform.
Shoreham football club team, Shoreham-by-Sea. Group portrait taken outdoors of the 1905-06 team, winners of several trophies. Players sitting and standing in three rows, in foreground three trophies left-to-right: Royal Irish Rifles Challenge Cup, West Sussex Senior League Cup, Sussex Senior Cup. Ten of the eleven players wearing shirts with vertical stripes laced at the neck, long socks, boots. Three men wearing suits, waistcoats and with watch-chains stand in second row including Mr. Oswald Ball, second from right with moustache, headmaster of Ham Road School. Full identifications given as left-to-right - back row: G. Gates, J. W. Brooker, Art Maple; middle row: H. Reeks Esq. President, F.Stubbings, Alf Maple, W. Ellmer, O. Ball Hon. Sec., J. E. Hackett; front row: W. Slaughter, A. E. Longstaff, E. D. Gates (captain), H. Upton, C. Peak.
Shoreham football club team, Shoreham-by-Sea. Group portrait taken outdoors of the 1905-06 team, winners of the Sussex League, Challenge Cup and other competitions. Most players wearing shirts with vertical stripes laced at the neck, long socks, boots. Identifications include: middle row left-to-right: W. Slaughter, A.E. Longstaff, E. D. Gates (captain), unknown, C. Peak; front row left: F. Stubbings. Four men not wearing playing kit stand in back row including Mr. Oswald Ball, centre with bowler hat, pipe and moustache (team manager and headmaster of Ham Road School), and trainer J. E. Hackett on right..
Southwick FC trophies 1911
Football Team, Shoreham-by-Sea. Group photograph of early football team of men wearing college caps with peaks, three quarter length trousers, and joining long black socks. They are posing with the football. There is a hand coloured image of this photograph, see 89/724.
89.727 Members of the Company of the Royal Artillery in a Field, Shoreham-by-Sea?
Marlipins Interior
Motor car outside Marlipins, Shoreham-by-Sea. Side view of car in foreground showing wheels, running-board, mudguards, suitcase tied on back, man waves cap from window of front passenger seat. Marlipins and Gates the Builders (now Marlipins museum) in background. Men women and children wave at car from pavement.
Adur Toll Bridge
Adur Toll Bridge
Toll Bridge over the River Arun, Shoreham-by-Sea. Wooden bridge. Norman church, St. Nicolas, is on the far left. Toll booth and gates are at the end of the bridge. Railway signal box on far right.
Adur Toll Bridge
Toll Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. Wooden bridge. Lancing College and Chapel are on the far right. Sussex Pad Hotel, houses and the Lancing Ring are on the far left. Windmill in distance.
89.774 St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
Red Lion, St Nicolas, The Street, The Street, Toll Bridge
Sussex Pad Inn destroyed by fire, Lancing. Woman and children look at still-smoking rubble of the Sussex Pad Inn after it was destroyed by fire on 26 October 1905. Possibly fireman in uniform and two other men stand on pile of bricks, policeman in uniform on left. Bicyles lean against fence on right.
St Nicolas Church from Adur
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Nicolas's Church Shoreham (interior)
Church of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea. View through gates across churchyard looking north east towards the west entrance of New Shoreham Parish Church. Square tower and south wing of church clearly visible. Buildings of East Street in background right and St Mary's Road background left.
St Mary's Church Shoreham
War memorial, and Westminster Bank
St Mary's Church Shoreham (From Church Street
St Mary's Church Shoreham (From East Street)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (From East Street war memorial )
St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea. Stone church viewed from the north west. Graveyard with tomb stones in the foreground. Photo number 51905
St Mary's Church Shoreham (From St. Mary's Road entrance) )
St Mary's Church Shoreham (From ruins looking East))
St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea. Stone structure. Viewed from south. War memorial in the centre. Westminster Bank on the left. Cars parked in the foreground. Telegraph pole. Street lighting.
St Mary's Church Shoreham door detail
89.819 St Mary's Church Shoreham
St.Mary's tower when used as a look-out post during WW2
St Mary's Church Shoreham
PC St Mary's Church Shoreham
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
89.842 St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
89.848 Interior of St Mary de Haura Church, New Shoreham, Shoreham-by-Sea. Showing the south aisle with gothic pointed arches and pillars. Stone structure. Postcard of a photograph taken on completion of the restoration of the church..
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
89.859 View along the busy High Street showing on the south side: the Crown & Anchor pub with a large model of a pirate standing in a ship above the door, Methodist Church, Town Hall, Royal George pub served by the Kemp Town brewery; north side: the Marlipins museum and pub, small shops with awnings onto street; many cars and a motorbike with a sidecar in the road, a light strung across the street. Photographic postcard.
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
St Mary's Church Shoreham (interior)
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'Britannia' on the stocks at Shoreham
Tug 'Mistletoe', Single Funnel Paddle Steamer, Southwick Canal and lock. Wooden ship with flags. Lost at sea c1900 with Captain William Brazier.
Southwick Canal and Beach, Southwick. View looking towards Shoreham. River Adur at low tide. Boats and derrick in midstream. Sailing boats in the background. Chalk cliff.
Prince George arrives to open the new lock and Lifeboat Station
Football team, Shoreham-by-Sea. Thirteen team members in three rows standing and sitting in outdoor setting with trees in backtround. Twelve players wearing shirts in two different-coloured vertical halves, shorts with belts, long socks, boots, some with shinguards. Five men wearing suits, caps or hats, and ties stand in back row. On the ground in front a trophy with inscription Challenge Cup and ball dated 1902-03. Probably a Shoreham FC team as shirts are the same, and some team members and officials are the same, as in a other photographs. Centre of back row with bowler hat is Oswald Ball who was for a number of years team manager of Shoreham FC.
Wedding carriages outside Burrell Hotel, Ham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. Five horse-drawn carriages wait in line, drivers wear top hats and buttoned jackets, horses have white rosettes below the ear to denote a wedding and coachmen have white ribbons on their whips. Burrell Hotel with the name T. P. Palmer over the door, signs Family & Commercial Hotel" "Dinners & Teas". Men wearing suits waistcoasts ties stand by the carriages group of children in background. Street lights attached to front of hotel."
Soldiers from Shoreham Camp parade before embarkation to France.
Lifeboat the 1st 'William Restell' in the lifeboat shed with a notice above the door reading Royal National Lifeboat Institution Lifeboat Supported by Volunteer Contributions" with a crowd including many children and two dogs standing outside launching ropes on slip in foreground. Photocopy of an original photograph."
Mystery Tower
Mystery Tower leaving for Southampton Water.
Mystery Tower under tow to become Nab Tower at Southampton Water
'Melbourne' bungalow, once stood just east of the footbridge
Model of HMS Victory visiting Shoreham
Snow at Erringham Road 1890's
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04.3316
04.3317
The ship pilots of Shoreham near the old lifeboathouse on Kingston beach
06.3555. Toll Bridge renovation 2006
Southwick Locks
Courtney Burkett yacht builders at Southwick
Southwick canal
Southwick near the lock with the picture house in the background. This was previously the Star Laundry run by the family of F. G. Miles who founded Miles Aircraft at Shoreham airport.
West end of Bungalow Town beach just below The Church of the Good Shepherd
Mystery Towers
Mystery Towers work at night
Major Sexton was a larger than life character in Bungalow Town and a generous patron of many of the town's charities.
St Mary's bells
St Mary's bells
A contemporary art view of the 1920's steel bridge
Demolishing the steel bridge 1970's
Demolishing the steel bridge 1970's
Unusual natural lighting against a darkened sky creates a surreal view of the steel bridge
St Mary's church
Toll Bridge, Shoreham-by-Sea. View from the south west across field to River Adur with wooden toll bridge on left. Buildings of Old Shoreham in distance on far bank, including St Nicolas Church in centre, Red Lion public house on extreme right.
Children Leaving Coliseum Theatre after a matinee, Shoreham-by-Sea. Banner across the theatre stating 'Main Street'. The theatre stood on the site of what became the Civic Centre on Brighton Road.
Oscar Morison by his Bleriot
Harold Hume (Hal) Piffard (1867-1938) with his Pusher biplane, on the beach at Bungalow Town. Piffard stands to the left of the plane between the tall man in shirtsleeves and the man in the flat cap. Other men women and children in background. Plane is partly obscured, visible are wings, engine and propellor, struts, floats. The Pusher biplane was powered by a 40 HP ENV engine with a seven-foot propellor, front elevator and rear stabiliser. Information from the Worthing Herald 29 April 2004, p.19: Woman in the centre is Miss Barbara O'Manning, a former art student. Harold Hume Piffard, who pioneered the development of Shoreham aerodrome in 1909, was an old boy of Lancing College and later studied art in Paris and at the Royal Academy. Miss O'Manning helped Piffard design an early model aircraft and was involved in the construction of his full-sized aeroplane, the Humming Bird (also known as the Mayfly).
Two Bristol Box Kite biplanes piloted by Oscar Morison and Mr. Gilmour take part in an air race from Shoreham to Roedean on 13 May 1911. The planes are pictured flying above a grass-covered field with low buildings in background, possibly Shoreham Airport. Postcard inscribed on front Mr. Morison and Mr. Gilmour race from Shoreham to Roedean May 13/11. F. Rowe Shoreham"."
Gilmour at Hove Lawns
Pilot Oscar Morison seated in his Bristol Box Kite biplane, possibly at Shoreham or Roedean. Close view of front of plane showing wheels, runners, struts, wings, propellor and engine behind pilot. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowe stand at right, airport manager at left.
Graham Gilmour sits in his biplane (possibly a Bristol Box Kite) before leaving on a flight to Amesbury on 26 May 1911. Close view of front of plane, pilot wearing tam-o'-shanter hat and long coat. Wings, struts, wheels and runners clearly visible also part of propellor behind pilot. Three men stand in front of plane all wearing suits, hats, ties. Postcard inscribed on front Mr. Gilmour flies to Amesbury 100 miles May 26/11. F. Rowe". Postmarked 17 February 1912 and sent to Miss Bessie Clark Cornhill Rolvenden Kent with message: "My Dear Bessie this is a photo of the young Mr. Gilmour it is so sad we knew him so well through the flying ground. Many a chat with him I have had. I have his autographs with the others. Shoreham is quite upset about it knowing him so well. Write soon with love from us all had a photo of Tom this morning" unsigned. "
Cecil and Eric Pashley stand in front of their Farman biplane at Shoreham Airport. Both men wear suits and shirts with ties, one wears a cap. Close view of the propellor and engine at rear of cockpit, struts and wheels also visible. In background is hangar no. 6. Eric Pashley was killed in World War One, Cecil continued at Shoreham, formed the Southdown Flying Club, and trained pilots for many years.
Southwick War Memorial
Southwick Green with the Green School in the background
Sailing Ship 'Mathew' at Sea. Photograph of an Indian Ink drawing of a three masted ship showing three views of the same vessel (a merchantman). Flying the Red Ensign. Captain was Charles Payne. Built at Shoreham in 1763.
Two large three masted wooden Barque boats, Shuttleworth Shipyard, Southwick. Ships Yarrow, Arcuturs and Astrea were built for shipowner R.H. Penney in 1864.
Two Masted Ship 'Agricola'?, Shuttleworth Shipyard, Southwick. Ladders around the ship. Rowing boats, man with dog. Houses in the background.
Three Masted Barque 'Alastor' at Anchor, later (probably 1950s) renamed 'The Bounty'. Sailing ship at anchor on the sea. 823 Tons. The last and largest sailing ship built for Mr Penney (Sunderland 1875).
Wreck of Brig 'Tally Ho', Eastbourne, East Sussex. Ship on the beach. Crowd of people on beach. Mast is broken off. Wooden groyne. The 'Tally Ho' was built in Shoreham in 1854 and owned by the Gates family.
Three-masted barque 'Britannia' on the River Adur moored at the Old Shipyard - later Suter's Yard - in Shoreham harbour. The ship weighed 800 tons, was built by Dyer & Son of Shoreham and was one of the last square-rigged built at Shoreham. The ship was wrecked during a hurricane on route to Montreal in September 1883, when 13 lives were lost including the Captain's wife and two children.
Britannia on the stocks
Two-masted brig 'Sarah' moored at Littlehampton with buildings in the background and the rigging of another ship in the foreground. The ship was built by May & Thwaites at Kingston for Brighton coal merchant W. Banfield.
Three-masted schooner Osprey" in full sail at sea crew members on deck pennants and the Red Ensign flying from rear mast. Boat with five men in foreground three-masted ship in left background and sailing boat in right background.The "Osprey" was built at the Old Shipyard in New Shoreham in 1855-1856 by J. B. Balley for R. H. Penney for £3164. She was the first of Penney's vessels to be used for world-wide trade and was lost off Scotland in 1865."
Two-masted wooden brig in full sail flying the Red Ensign flag, with men in a rowing boat hauling in a lobster pot in the foreground. The ship weighed 198 tons and was built in 1854 by J.B. Balley in Shoreham, for £2558 for a Quaker coal-merchant R.H. Penney of Southwick. The ship continued in service as a collier for over 20 years. Photograph of an oil painting by W. Jenner.
Two-masted schooner in full sail flying the Red Ensign flag and a pennant reading 'Kingston' coming into harbour at Valletta, Malta on a stormy sea with another ship in the background. The ship weighed 105 tons and was the first to be built by May & Thwaites of Kingston, near Shoreham-by-Sea, in 1838, for a Quaker coal merchant E. Lucas for use as a collier. Print of a watercolour painting by Maltese artist Nicholas S. Cammillieri.
Font at St Mary's church
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