Category Archives: Local History

Meeting – Monday 21 February, 7:30pm [Programme change]

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Admin

John Kay: Settlement Records in Lewes Parish Chests Under the Old Poor Law everyone was settled in a particular parish, in the same way that today we are citizens of a particular country. You might be allowed to live outside … Continue reading →

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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 6, (6 January 2011)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Admin

1.   Next meeting on Monday 10 January: Debby Matthews, ‘A tour around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes’ 2.   Lewes Floods of 1911 3.   Godlee’s Quaker School, 1826 4.   Elizabeth Ollive’s School, 1769 5.   Life in Lewes Jail in 1824 6.   North Street … Continue reading →

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Meeting – Monday 10 January, 7:30pm

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Admin

Debby Matthews: A Tour Around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes Debby Matthews will give an illustrated talk entitled ‘A tour around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes’, based on Mantell’s original guide-book to Lewes. Mantell’s book was in turn based on a visit back to … Continue reading →

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