Category Archives: Local History

Thomas Honywood – Horsham’s forgotten hero?

https://youtu.be/dPjB3u7DdZs Ask most people in Horsham ‘who was Thomas Honywood?’ and very few will have heard of him! Yet this extraordinary man introduced photography to Horsham and even created a new photographic process. In his role as an archaeologist, he also discovered the historic Horsham Hoard and was Captain of the Horsham Volunteer Fire Brigade.ContinueContinue reading “Thomas Honywood – Horsham’s forgotten hero?”

Horsham’s historic hailstones

Just some of the hailstones (and by no means the biggest) that fell. Photo courtesy West Sussex County Times The Great Storm of 1987 is remembered for its ferocity, but what about the ‘awful and magnificent storm’ of September 5 1958? That one made Horsham famous as the town still holds the record for theContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s historic hailstones”