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Category Archives: Social History
Lewes History Group: Bulletin 7, (11 February 2011)
1. Next meeting on Monday 21 February 2011: Mark Perry-Nash 2. Malling Brooks from Cliffe Hill 3. Lewes History Group Organisation 4. Lewes History Group Accounts, 2010 5. Lewes Coaching Routes, 1845 6. Grim Discovery at the Priory 7. The … Continue reading
Posted in Lewes, Local History, Social History, Transport History, Uncategorized
Tagged Battle of Lewes, coaches, graves, Lewes Priory, Malling Brooks, Offham Downs, postcards, railway development, railway station, railways, The Friars
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Meeting – Monday 21 February, 7:30pm [Programme change]
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
Posted in Lewes, Local History, Social History
Tagged Poor Law
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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 6, (6 January 2011)
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
Posted in Education History, Legal History, Lewes, Local History, Social History
Tagged education, floods, Gideon Mantell, John Godlee, Lewes Gaol, Lewes Jail, North Street, prisoners, Quakers, schools
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