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  1. Interesting. My grandfather came from Ropetackle. Joe Bradford (christened Wallace Bradford). It was a carpark by the time he showed…

  2. Great photos and a good informative website. I’d love to read some of the history on this pub like the…

  4. June Cother trained at Southlands, back in her teen years………not sure exact date……somewhere I have letters from her to her…

  6. Thank you so much for sharing that incredible history. Myself and mates when we were children used to jump over…

  9. My husband used to live on the beach in one of the railway carriage bungalowscalled tollemarche he went to scool…

  13. The garden shop at 417 Upper Shoreham Road was previously a grocery shop called Adur Stores. It was run by…

  14. A then-National Rivers Authority engineer once told me, during a raging night storm which he and the police were monitoring…

  15. According to the 1940 Kelly’s directory David, the chairman of Shoreham UDC was Sidney John Williams JP

  16. Does anyone remember who the chairman of shoreham was during the war years? He doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere.

  17. 1963 ish. Featured in Paul Plumb’s film A river Runs Through This Town, or Shoreham Peeps… both on the Video…

  18. 1963 ish. Featured in Paul Plumb’s film A river Runs Through This Town, or Shoreham Peeps… both on the Video…

  19. I was at Buckingham Road school when a Tiger Moth crashed in a house on the west side of Buckingham…

  21. Suters the yacht builders had that area down to the riverside David, up to the 1960’s when it was sold…

  22. David A C Stranack on Paintings

    Re. Painting B85. I remember when we moved to Shoreham after the War (1945) seeing a large wooden ship of…

  23. I did not see any fire from the engine prior to the crash – only some plumes of smoke. This…

  25. Peter I agree with your observation ,although some of the teachers were ok such as Slim,Buckley,Edwards Mrs, but a lot…

  28. We have little on Dr Reginald Brown I’m afraid, Nicholas. I have been able though to trace what appear to…

  29. Hello SbS I am tracing Dr Reginald Brown who lived in Shoreham by Sea in the 1930’s. He was a…

  30. I was living at 24 Mill Lane at the time of the V1 landing in the allotments. The noise was…

  31. Hello Lynn, the following comes from Henry Cheal’s book “The Story of Shoreham”. Moderlove Strete was the present Middle Street,…

  34. J E Bebbington – Became a senior person with The MacQuarrie Dictionary in Australia

  35. Had my first kiss beside the wall at the playground back gate. A young lady from Southwick as I recall…

  36. Is anyone reading this who was a pupil at Cauis School Kingston Lane in the 1950’s. As a former Pupil…

  37. For further information on this ship, I can recommend the book “Dover in Shoreham – Building a Frigate in 1653-54″…

  39. Hi Clare. There is reference to The Hermitage at Widewater: https://www.shorehambysea.com/widewater-bungalows-lost-to-storms/ and https://www.shorehambysea.com/catty-brown-and-framnaes/ and in 1921 here: https://www.shorehambysea.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Pikes-1921-Bungalow-Town.pdf There is…

  40. Hi This is such an amazing website. Thank you. I am researching a chap called Montagu Lomax who gave his…

  45. Hi, I have information from the 1841 census pg 44 that Henry (surname not readable) Mary, Robert, Norman and Jane…

  46. Many thanks Karolyn, we’ll use that when we next update.

  47. There’s a great range of paintings of Shoreham here with interesting information to go with them but for image B30…

  49. PS Perhaps the Vestry Committee records for St.Mary may help more (if they still exist.0

  50. I’ve been through our records Tony but can only find a vague reference to it (below) in the John Hindes…

  51. Someone has suggested to me that a paupers’ graveyard could have existed outside the current eastern wall of St Mary…