Recent Comments on SBS:

  1. Thank you for your prompt reply. I guess I am a little concerned that there is an inference in some…

  2. Great to hear from another member of the Maple family – there are more articles on here of the Maples…

  3. Hello John, I’ve no idea why I decided to look up Shoreham Grammer but I have. You have mentioned names…

  4. Steve, thanks for your recounting of the incident. That detail tallies with Christopher Kenneford’s recent recollection which prompted my conclusion…

  5. I was a “Maple”. Interesting to read a bit about our family. My Grandfather was Alfred, his son generally known…

  6. This is the first time I have looked at this web site and analysis/observations of this crash. I am currently…

  7. Hi Does anyone know where the school records went to after the school was closed< My wife's grandfather attended the…

  8. Hi Adam, my name is Stuart Mitchell and I was at SGS from 1969 to 1976, and just found this…

  9. Susan Hirst (nee Piper) on Beves Shed

    Sandra and Alec – please see below Karen Houlgate’s comments my reply to you. Lovely to hear from you both.

  10. Susan Hirst (nee Piper) on Beves Shed

    Hi Sandra and Alec. Have inly just read your reply but it was so good to hear your comments re…

  11. I remember this tragic event as I was returning by train as a 15 year old to Shoreham from Worthing…

  12. Can you tell me if a book has been plublished about these grdens – Swiss gardens? If not why not?…

  13. Digitals safely received thanks Sandra and will be added to the article.

  14. PS. I’m emailing digital copies to Roger now, and can let you have the originals if wanted? (I’m in Southwick)

  15. PS. I’m emailing digital copies to Roger now, and can let you have the originals if wanted? (I’m in Southwick)

  16. I’m so sorry I hadn’t seen your message til now! I saw the pictures in the folder on my tablet…

  17. I was at SGS 1961-65. I wrote novel, The Clamour King, based on my experiences at the school. It was…

  18. Very interesting to stumble upon a video of the tenements, land, and farm once owned by my 3rd Great Grandaunt…

  19. My grandfather Pte Thomas William Brown 1890-1918 from Highgate, London (SR755, 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers) was posted to Shoreham on…

  20. I was there 1987, I hated it, I’m 42 now. Remember standing outside because I thought it was home time,…

  21. A simple google will help you find Eudroma.: https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/02/12/sea-change-for-a-fine-mediterranean-dish

  22. IM LOOKING FOR THE CURRENT BERTH OF THE EUDROMA…..MY FAMILY USED TO OWN HER AND IM COMING TO THE ISLANDS…

  23. I completed my nurse training at Southland’s school of nursing, the school being on the ground floor and our rooms…

  24. Hello Sandra, do you still have the images you said are of the Arthur Wright? My dad, Alan Thompson, was…

  25. Hello. I have only just seen your message, but hope that you will see this and that you may find…

  26. Miss Barrett brings back memories, I was a tad naughty and one day stood on my desk and tapped the…

  27. I was a 14 year old school boy who travelled by train from school to Shoreham, On the late Friday…

  28. My late father John Floyd was also employed by Beves for a short period of time in the early 1960’s…

  29. 1943 I left Culford in Bury St. Edmunds Sufolk as a boarder to join Shoreham Grammar at the time living…

  30. Stunning photograph. The nearest smack is registered in Cork. Although we had first class smacks (letters coming first shows it’s…

  31. The directories suggest the Home was just west of the junction with Windlesham Gardens.

  32. Perhaps the Windlesham Nursing Home on the south side of Windlesham Road David (1940 street directory on this website)

  33. I went to Victoria Road school from 1945 until 1951. Miss Ball and Miss Burtenshaw. I then went on to…

  34. My cousin was born at Windlesham Nursing home, Shoreham in June 1946. I worked at Shoreham Airport for 10 years…

  35. The Royal Coach opened in 1958 as The Royal Coach. The only pubs with a tenuous aeronautic title would be…

  36. Unfortunately we have no street directories for that period but I know it was called the Royal Coach for some…