SOME MILLS, MYTHS AND MEMORIES OF HIGHDOWN HILL
Peter R Stenning

Highdown Hill will be familiar to visitors and locals alike silhouetted against the northern skyline, with its commanding presence and crown of trees overlooking the ancient coastal villages of Goring and Ferring in West Sussex.
About the Author: As a small child, Peter was fascinated by John Olliver and his tomb, and as a teenager, became very interested in old windmills. When he left school he became apprentice with one of only two firms in Britain, at that time, who carried out restoration work on old mills.
He worked for this firm for a number of years, then left to join a local company of traditional stone-ground flour millers where he became the head millstone dresser. He also learnt a lot about milling and carrying 2cwt sacks of wheat. He left to become a journeyman millwright and worked for a firm in the Midlands, also working abroad on mills.
In the early 1970s he set up his own business and began working for museums and private customers. He later worked on windmills and watermills for the National Trust, county councils, and for commercial millers. In addition, he carried out some voluntary projects, working in more than a dozen counties.
He retired after spending more than 40 years on millwrighting work and has run every kind of mill to grind flour. His many other interests include the study of milling history and collecting mill memorabilia.

26 line drawings, 10 maps and 11 B&W photographs

Paperback 245 x 170mm 80 pages
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WRITTEN BY READERS
LETTERS TO THE SUSSEX COUNTY MAGAZINE 1928-1932
Dick Richardson

The Sussex County Magazine was founded by Arthur Beckett in 1927 and ceased publication in 1956. The best, and probably the first county magazine in the country, it carried little, if any advertising, which led to its ultimate downfall. The Magazine provides a veritable treasure trove of articles on the county. In this slim volume I have selected and edited readers‘ letters from 1928-1932. This is a book for dipping into, and there should be something for everyone with a love of Sussex.
Contents include: Longevity: Windmills: Budgen’s map of Sussex: Old Sussex toasts: A Guestling carter’s adventure: Ebernoe Horn Fair: Latten bells: The bag of gold: Breaking up a sub-marine: Sussex place-names: Slindon House and Sellinger’s Round: An East Grinstead playbill 1758: Isaac Ingall – Battle’s old man: A dolmen goddess in Sussex: Eastbourne in 1826: Round-frock, smock or Banyan?: Coal in Sussex?: Harold’s bodyguard at Hastings: Two meetings with fairies: A John Fuller madallion: The Jevington “Argin”: Old Zeb: John Dudeney’s burial place: The derivation of “Lydes”: Old industries at East Hoathly: Gundrada de Warrenne: Friday in place-names: The House of Howard: The Roman road – Chichester to Portslade: Sussex windmills: The mummers’ play: A bark mill: An old-fashioned remedy: Nan Kemp’s grave: Starvemouse Plain: The Clatterdown legend of Herstmonceux Castle: The Henfield doll: Dog-drawn fish carts: The village pound:Recipes for apple butter: Curious Sussex customs: Hog-asses: Sussex epitaphs: Henfield’s inhabitants 1840: Gooch’ strong beer: Anne Page of Hastings: Bethesda Chapel, Lewes: St Paul’s Cathedral gates and railings: The lock-up, Slindon: A Ditchling road cross: Executions at Horsham: A present from Bexhill to Horace Walpole: Pallinghma Lock, near Pulborough: Curious Christian names: Potato wine: The White Horse, Bodle Street: A West Chiltington legend: Who was Barney?: A Sussex puritan jury: Brede pottery: Hogs puddings: A woman grave digger: The Cowfold brass: Firing the anvil: Jack Upperton’s gibbet: Wife-selling in Sussex: The old forge, Brighton: How Seaford made a breakwater: An old Sussex kinife-grinder: The howling boys: The treadmill, House of Correction, Brighton: A smuggler’s account book: Sidlesham church chest: Charles Lee, “King of the Gipsies”, Chailey Mill: etc.

Paperback 210 X 148mm 76 pages
49 half-tone photos and illustrations
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ISBN 978 1 906789 82 4
Price £7.50