Part 1
1 BBCi wonder April 2014.
2 VCH.
3 Kelly’s Directory 1918.
4 See Albery’s Millennium of Facts. 1613, 1689,1807,1872.
5 VCH 175.
6 VCH 187
7 County Times 15.12.33
8 Beckett. p 198.
9 It started on 21 October 1871 as Horsham Advertiser, becoming the West Sussex County Times in 1893: see vol. 3 p 296.
10 West Sussex County Times 15.1.1921.
11 Clarke p 108.
12 Copper, G.T. (2009) Horsham Hero’s Horsham Museum Society.
13 Pers com.
14 Beckett p198-203
15 Albery p 117
16 Albery p117, Hudson p129
17 Marr, A (2009) p 180
18 HUDC minutes 6 October 1918.
19 Commemorative leaflet published when the new pumping station opened in 1932.
20 Clark p 97.
21 The others were Messrs. H. Hutton (N.U.Railwaymen), J. Bone (A.S. Locomotive Engineers), G. Shears (A.S. Engineers), J. Worcester (A.S. Locomotive Engineers and Firemen), W. Whiting (A.A. of workers) and Napier (Postman’s Federation).
22 County Times.
23 See Knight. ( 2011) Volume 4 History of Horsham pp. 99-121
24 Slyfield B. Archibald Slyfield Horsham’s Town Clerk 1919-1948. http://www.Horsham Society 25 This could have been the end of the story, but in 2009 the Museum was contacted by a researcher who had a list of towns which received a tank: Horsham was on it, and they wanted to know where it was – they were disappointed with the answer.
26 Taubenberger, J., Morens, M. (2006). “1918 Influenza Pandemic”. CDC EID. Archived from the original cited in wikipedia.org/wiki/1918 flu pandemic.
27 Horsham High School Logbook HMS No p93.
28 This and much that follows is taken from John Lawrence article, Flu: How Britain Coped in the 1918 Epidemic, published in The Independent, 2 October 2005 at the height of the Bird Flu scare http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/flu-how-britain-coped-in-the-1918-epidemic-511987.html.
29 Quoted by Lawrence above, as is the verse.
30 Logbook p 95.
31 Council Minutes 4 December 1918
32 High School Logbook page 96
33 Quoted in Lawrence above
34 Clarke p 98
35 Council minutes
36 Log Book p 96
37 Minutes 1.1.19 AND 26.3.19
38 Minutes 16 .7.19
39 Williams M. & Knight J. (2000) exhibition research for Man who wrote the Millennium
40 Clarke p 99
41 In modern-day parlance this would be called “spade ready”
42 When in June 1919 the German fleet scuttled its ships at Scapa Flow, thus bringing a finality to the War, some seven days later on 28 June, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. And then on 19 July the nation celebrated Peace Day (this might have marked the end of war in everyday existence, but compulsory military conscription didn’t end till 30 April 1920: various peace treaty negotiations continued, and it is not in fact till 31 August 1921 that the 1914-18 conflict is officially over as an Order in Council declares an end to the state of war – Beckett p219).
43 See Volume 3 History of Horsham for a fuller account
44 County Times 8. 2. 1919
45 See Volume II
46 See volume II
47 County Times 5.7.1919
48 Slyfield
49 Cinema in Sussex p 140
50 Sparrow G Foxes and physic
51 Clarke p 112
52 W.S.C.T. 8.10.19
53 West Sussex County Times.
54 West Sussex County Times 27.9.19
55 West Sussex County Times 15 November 1919
56 West Sussex County Times November 1919
57 HUDC Minutes 28/1/1920
58 V.C.H. p 202
59 Rodney Gunner in 2011 sent the following note – he did not know of this request for funds –“I do have dates for the German P.O.W. camp, they are Horsham Oct 18, Jan 19 28 North Street RH12 1RQ” this was a work camp, prisoners would have come from main camp at Pattishall Towcester, Northants, Main German Prison Camp. It was from this camp that all German prisoners were assigned to work camps in the South of England, others were posted to other camps in various locations throughout England”, R Gunner email 6.8.11.
60 Knight J. History of Horsham Vol 2 p 177.
61 H.U.D.C. Minutes 30. 3.1920.
62 PM October 1920 p 279-81
63 PM November 1920 312
64 PM December 1920 343
65 PM April 1921 203
66 Clarke P.
67 West Sussex County Times 21.1.1922
68 HUDC Minutes 3 1.1921
69 HUDC Minutes 3.1920
70 HUDC Minutes 27. 7. 1921.
71 West Sussex County Times 1921 the Census was on 24 April that year.
72 See volume 2 p 69-71.
73 HUDC Minutes October 1921.
74 West Sussex County Times 14.5.1921
75 History of the Independent Bus company
76 County Times 24.12.1921
77 HUDC Minutes 7.6.1921
78 PM 1922 p 370
79 Souvenir Programme
80 See Volume 1.
81 Unfortunately, not having the records, all one can do is surmise, but it is likely that when the YMCA was given the hall the three cottages were given with it, possibly to provide revenue.
82 County Times 22.1.22.
83 See Volume 3.
84 WSCT 22 July 1920
85 Briffett, D. (2009) Friends of Horsham Hospital p15.
86 The use of Terrazzo marble shows that “no expense spared” is not, in reality, true, as it is a fake marble: in essence it gives the feel of the hospital.
87 See Volume 3
88 Willson p 161
89 Willson p 160
90 Willson p 153
91 In the 1970s the Museum was offered a collection of geological samples from the Loader Museum; they had been stored in a basement, came in cardboard boxes and left till 1985/6 when they were stored properly, but unfortunately a great deal of scientific information was lost.
92 HUDC min. 23.12.1923.
93 E.M.Marchant History of Horsham High School for Girls. P7.
94 The British Clayworker Journal 1923 p 147.
95 According to the Bright Road Baptist Church website the old church, known as informally as the Tin Tabernacle, or formerly East Parade Baptist Church, was sold to the Y.M.C.A. who shipped it over to France.
96 West Sussex County Times 1923.
97 County Times, Redman History of the Cinema in West Sussex p 20.
98 Cannon J. August 2007 The Horsham Society Newsletter p 60.
99 Cannon and County Times, 15 according to History of the Cinema in West Sussex, under the leadership of Arthur Samuel Yarnold).
100 (According to Cinema in West Sussex it wasn’t operational till May 1924).
101 History of the Independent Bus Companies p 39 – check title.
102 WSCT 17.2.1923.
103 Signpost Vol 1. P.16
104 p.1
105 Signpost 1.p 6
106 Signpost 1 p 5
107 Signpost 1 p 10
108 Signpost 1 p 31
109 http://www.radiolicence.org.uk/licence1920s.html September 2012. If you bought a radio made by the British Broadcasting Company you could get 1/3 off the cost of the licence. Equally, your radio shouldn’t contain foreign parts.
110 Signpost 2 p30
111 p.6
112 Gaslight photography referred to gaslight paper, which today is known as contact paper.
113 The title of the journal was The Sanitary Record and Journal of Sanitary and Municipal Engineering.
114 Marchant p8
115 Marchant p 9
116 Marchant p 8
117 In Britain the Kings National Roll scheme was started in 1919. Employers were asked to sign up and pledge to employ disabled ex-servicemen, as 5% of their workforce. Employers on the roll could use a crest and were given preferential consideration for government contracts. http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/equality/news/news-items/disability-in-the-world-wars.cfm
118 Parlour style refers to the design by Godman for Oakhill: having paid for an architect to design the houses, the Council was not going to re-invent the wheel.
119 Pugh M. (2008) We danced all night p 400, The history of the BBC refers to this as their broadcast, partly because Marconi was part of a consortium that formed the British Broadcasting Company – it became a Corporation in 1927.
120 This was the Old Farmhouse at Broadbridge Farm.
121 The Sign Post 1924 no. 4 p 14.
122 See Albery (1947) Millennium, Knight J. (2006) History of Horsham Vol. 1.
123 Sign Post Volume 4 1924 p 13/14
124 Sign Post Volume 4 1924 p 30
125 Note this is the old Drill Hall in Park Street.
126 A London to Brighton Motor Road was suggested as early as 1908 when a relief road round Croydon was proposed – what became the Purley Way wasn’t built until 1925 having started work in 1919 http://www.croydononline.org/history/places/purleyway.asp?wtPF=True September 2012.
127 HUDC Minutes March 1925.
128 County Times 17.10.25.
129 Having worked at Littlehampton Museum before coming to Horsham, I undertook a history of the Museum. It was a beautiful library, with the museum at the rear of the building, which had roof lights, and as reported at the time, enabled visitors, particularly bald gentlemen, to get a good tan on the head.
130 Mr Lintott said that Mr A. Slyfield, the Clerk to the Urban District council had called a meeting of representatives of different organisations, and a preliminary committee included Messrs B. Brigg (Horsham Rotary Club), W. W. Kensett (Free Christian Library), E. E. Lawrence, JP (Free Church Council), M. H. Vernon (County Council), F. W. New (NUT), E. A. Adams (YMCA), H. Hotton, JP (Trades and Labour Council), Miss L. J. Churchman, JP (Higher Education Sub Committee),. Mrs Baker (WEA), Mr H. S. Apedaile (Chamber of Trade), and the Rev W M Peacock, MA (Collyer’s School). Mr W. Hoad thought they should have a small committee; but both Mrs Laughton and Mr Lawrence urged that from a large committee there would be more likelihood of securing a quorum. On the proposition of Mr A. F. Lower, seconded by Mrs Laughton, the meeting decided that the number be twelve and the following were elected: Mr E. A. Adams, Mrs Baker, Mr B. Brigg, Miss Churchman, Messrs H. Hutton, W. W. Kensett, E. E. Lawrence, W. H. H. Lintott, A. F. Lower, F. W. New, Rev W. M. Peacock and Mr Vernon. The Chairman said the provisional committee thought that one afternoon and evening would be sufficient to start with and suggested Wednesday afternoon to 4.30 and Saturday evenings 7 – 9. There was some discussion, Mr W. L. Watton suggesting Thursdays, Mr Lawrence pointing out that people shopped on Thursdays and would perhaps want to change books then and Mr Lower advocated another evening. The Chairman said they could alter arrangements if they were not convenient. Mr Watton suggested that Southwater was a long way off. Why not have a list and send the books out there. Mr Lawrence proposed that the hours for changing be Wednesdays, 2.30 – 4.30 and Saturdays 7 – 9. Mr C E Sweetapple seconded. Mr Lower moved as an amendment that Wednesday evening be added 7 – 9. Mr C E Sweetapple seconded. The proposer and seconder of the proposition accepted this, and the meeting endorsed all three times.
131 The Sign Post March 1925.
132 HUDC Minutes January 1926.
133 HUDC Minutes February 1926.
134 Pugh M p401-2
135 Pugh M p402
136 From 1926 to 1933 The Empire Marketing Board, with state funds, began a massive poster campaign to promote the goods of the empire. The EMB published around 800 different designs and aspired to secure the best from many of the most distinguished designers of the period, and the high quality of much of the work, produced in a remarkable variety of styles, is one reason for preserving and collecting the posters. The majority of these posters were printed in either double crown size (76cm x 51cm), which are more common, or the larger quad crown and single sheet sizes which do not survive in quantity. Many of the smaller posters were sent out to schools for educational purposes, which may explain why they survive in greater numbers. Artists and their subjects included Gibraltar, Bombay, Malta and Aden by Charles Pears, Motor Manufacturing and Making Electrical Machinery by Clive Gardiner, Sugar Growing Mauritius by E. A. Cox, Gathering Cocoa Pods, Sorting Manganese Ore and Tea Picking Ceylon by Gerald Spencer Pryse, Dairying in Australia by Frank Newbould, Banana Palms by E. McKnight Kauffer, Empire Builders and the Empire Shop by Fred Taylor and East African Transport Old and New Style by Adrian Allinson From Onslows Auction House website 17.6.2014
137 Victoria County History Volume 6 part 2
138 Holmes F. Horsham Division St Johns Ambulance: A History. 1976.
139 Holmes p10 – when retired from service the vehicle was used by Messrs. H. Kay, often to carry football and cricket teams, then it finally ended its working life on a farm at Faygate.”
140 Saklatvala was arrested during the 1926 General Strike following a speech he made in support of striking coal miners, and was jailed for two months.
141 Another player was the artist Bainbridge Copnall,
142 The Signpost p3.
143 HUDC Minutes 1.12.26 and 29.12.26
144 The Sign Post p30
145 (Djabri & Smith ed. The Big Archive p 13, VCH p 130)
146 HUDC Minutes 31 August 1927
147 HUDC Minutes 27.7.27
148 These photographs were supplied by Glyn Wright.
149 M Pugh p 72
150 Central Sussex Electricity Special Order 1927 Electric Supply Corporation Ltd
151 HUDC Minutes 30.3.27
152 HUDC Minutes 18.10.27
153 HMS 343 – the King vs Richard Thornton, a Horsham schoolmaster, for depositing filth on the Gaol Green Kings Bench 1788.
154 Dr Timothy Cooper quoted in article by Kate Burt ‘A Hole lot of trouble’ Independent, 21 Sept 2010.
155 Cooper above
156 HUDC Minutes 30.3.27
157 HUDC Minutes 26 January 1927.
158 The Boots Book Lending Service was established in 1898 at the instigation of Florence Boot. By 1903, when there were 300 Boots stores across the country, 143 had a Booklovers’ Library and Members could take out a book at any one of the library branches and return it to any other. Membership cost from 10/6 a year for one volume up to 42/- for six and 7/- for each additional volume. Alternatively, a borrower could take a book for half a crown (2/6) returnable deposit and a penny or twopence a week. Library catalogues were issued, and these stressed the library’s reputation for the circulation of clean books and the beautifully-fitted libraries. The libraries were placed on the first floor or at the back of the branch, thus drawing the customer through as many departments as possible on their way. Libraries in the larger stores, such as those in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Brighton, were fitted with wooden bookshelves, window seats, chairs, tables and sofas, and even notepaper and fresh flowers. The librarian’s job was to know the book stock and advise readers to ensure that they never left the library dissatisfied or empty-handed. There were a variety of services available. ‘A’ subscribers could leave a booklist for books or suitable alternatives to be reserved for them on their next visit. There were also special ‘On Demand’ subscriptions, holiday and juvenile subscriptions, a postal service, and special arrangements for country members. The inter-war years saw the heyday of the library. By 1920 there were 500,000 subscribers and by 1938 books were being exchanged at the rate of 35 million each year, with light romance and whodunits being the most popular. During the Second World War the number of subscribers increased to a million. Boots was buying books at the rate of 1,250,000 a year, which gave the company considerable influence in the publishing world. In 1961 W. H. Smith closed its libraries and Boots took over its subscribers. In 1965 the Boots Booklovers’ Libraries, now with only 121 branches and 140,000 subscribers, were to close. The last branches closed in February 1966. http://www.infosciencetoday.org/library-history/boots-booklovers-library.html
159 Adapted from labels made from notes made by Ian Walker for an exhibition at The Drill Hall.
160 In 1881 Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo, bought the Estate from Mr. George Smith. Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson, the first Lord Cowdray, bought it and surrounding land in 1894 making an estate of about 5500 acres. Lord Cowdray died in 1930, his wife in 1932, and to pay off death duties the family sold part of the estate to the Downside Monks (now Worth Abbey land). The rest of the estate is now in trust for future generations of the family. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-528000-132000/page/2
161 Notes made by D. Gates for the Museum catalogue of paintings.
162 Cinema in West Sussex p 42
163 Albery W. (1927) A Parliamentary History of Horsham p Vii (7)
164 As above p x (10)
165 Albery above p 15
166 Albery above p 14
167 Sussex County Magazine 1955 vol 29 – William Albery of Horsham by W. J. Dore-Dennis p 375 80. Pilfold Medwin, as may be recalled from Volume 3, was the last burgage holder and the son of Thomas Charles Medwin who was steward to the Duke of Norfolk back in the 1790s when he was contesting the town with the Ingram/Irwin family.
168 Sussex County Magazine cited above.
169 In the Albery archives is a spreadsheet dated 5 October 1927 drawn up by Longman’s the publisher setting out the costs etc. of the work – the costs make for fascinating reading. The account starts on May 5 1927: Albery was charged £2 2/- for setting up the account and £38 3/- 1d for 55 tone (‘ton’ or ‘tonne’?) blocks and 5 zincos, as well as £3 1/- 9d for permission to reproduce the illustrations. On 30 August he was charged in total £316 12/-6d for printing 1000 trade copies and £99 13/ 10d for 305 large paper edition(s?). He then had to pay for the printing of the dust covers, both large and trade, as well as some extra illustrations for the large paper edition. Albery was also charged a commission on the sales he generated by Longmans, of 10%, 100 ordinary copies and 282 large paper copies, making a grand total of £574 2s 0d. On the income side, Albery had 1008 trade copies at 12/6d each and 305 large paper at 25/- . Albery had sold 285 large paper and 139 copies; Longmans therefore had 819 left having sold 35 trade copies and sent 15 to America, whilst they had sold a further 11 large paper copies with 9 in hand. This meant that the amount left on the books was £548. A further account some 2 years later shows that Longmans still had 730 copies of the trade edition, of which 600 copies were still unbound.
170 Founded in 1921 as an international association of autonomous national, regional and local radical pacifist organizations under the name Paco (Peace’ in Esperanto) in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, by Kees Boeke and others; member of the International Antimilitarist Bureau; secretariat in Bilthoven 1921-1923; renamed War Resisters’ International (WRI) in 1923, with its secretariat in Enfield, London 1923-1968. Still in existence today (2012). http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/w/ARCH01537full.php
171 Overy R. ( ) The Morbid Age p 190
172 Horsham Museum Society Annual Report 1928 p5
173 County Times 17.12.27
174 County Times 28 .1. 1928
175 County Times 19.5.28
176 HUDC Minutes 17.7.1928
177 The County Times 21.7.1928
178 County Times 21.6.28
179 The Sign Post, June 1928
180 Victoria County History Volume 6 Part 2 p 173 note 46
181 Comber G.W. (1996) Bygone Corn Mills in the Horsham area. Horsham Museum Society.
182 Minute 26.9.28
183 HDUC Minute 26.9.28
184 “the accommodation difficulties in the Town Hall now disappeared, 1,000 books have been received of which the larger proportion are novels. The Opening times Wednesday 2.30-4.15pm & 6-7pm Saturday 6.30pm-8pm On some Saturday evenings over 300 readers exchange books”. Mr. New also suggested as an experiment that the library open 11-12 during Saturday which agreed.
185 It would be wrong to think of these books as for children; children’s books would be raised later in the story.
186 The above history has been taken from the minutes and reports of the Library Committee, and from Victoria County History Volume 6 pt 2 p 154.
187 Clarke
188 County Times 9.3.1928
189 Pugh Hurrah for Blackshirts – p35
190 Clarke p143
191 Pugh p35
192 Wilson p166
193 PM 1929 p11
194 WSCT 20.4.29
195 Annual Report Horsham Museum Society 1929 P6
196 PCM 1929 383
197 Guardian 24.10.09
198 Parker S, The Great Crash p28
199 Horsham Past and Present Illustrated History of the Town and District – 1849-1929 p 8
Part 2
1 Pugh Hurrah for Blackshirts p 197.
2 John Maynard Keynes was one of the greats of economic theory, producing a string of influential books and articles. His basic premise, to a large extent counter-intuitive, was that if everyone stops buying or spending because of a recession then the state has to step in and help the economy to grow. In the late 1970s and early 1980s this orthodoxy was challenged, and the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argued that the state’s economy was like a person’s housekeeping budget: you cannot spend more than you can afford. However, Keynes would argue that that was the wrong analogy as the state is not governed by the same controls.
3 See Rose The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
4 WSCT 7 April 1933
5 WSCT 21.10.32
6 In 1926 the Hadow Report recommended raising the school leaving age to fifteen and making a clear break at the age of eleven when all children were to go on either to ‘modern’ or to ‘academic’, that is, grammar, schools.” Pugh 210
7 Pugh p212
8 (The name given to suede binding)
9 Volume 3 p13
10 Page 11
11 P11
12 A. N. Wilson p164
13 WSCT 28.3.31
14 WSCT 8.7.32
15 WSCT 7.3.3
16 WSCT 14.6.30
17 HUDC Minutes 31.1.31 & 21.2.31.
18 A much-quoted phrase first made popular by Dr Reid, Labour Minister for Home Office, describing the Border Agency in 2005.
19 The Council noted that it would only undertake the full scheme if it got the grant – “The manager of the local branch of the Ministry of Labour informed him that the number of unemployed on the register at Horsham was four times the number usually registered at this time of the year”.
20 WSCT 3.1.1931.
21 HUDC Minutes 28.3.1931
22 HUDC Minutes 28.3.31
23 WSCT 28.12.31
24 WSCT 28.2.1931
25 See Volume One for an account of its construction.
26 County Times 31.1.31.
27 Horsham Museum Society Annual Report 1930 p 13-15.
28 HUDC Minutes 28/3 31.
29 County Times 15.3.30
30 Dr Jennifer Kloester
31 ONDB 25.9.2005
32 WSCT 12.2.32
33 See Volume 3 – Thomas Honywood, inventor, photographer, amateur archaeologist, founder of Horsham Voluntary Fire Brigade.
34 County Times 19.2.32
35 WSCT 12.8.32
36 Siney A. The Horsham Fire Brigade – a further note – pp 59-60 HH No. 4 Autumn 2001.
37 Defence of the Realm Act Regulation 40B. In May 1916 the Army Council uses these powers to enact Regulation 40B, which bans the sale of cocaine, opium, cannabis and other psychoactive drugs to troops. Only two months later, the provision is widened to also criminalise the civilian possession of opium and cocaine without a prescription. Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 The Act implements the Hague Convention in Britain by extending and reinforcing DORA Regulation 40B. As well as opium, it bans cocaine following stories of ‘crazed soldiers’ in WWI. It also creates the offence of being an occupier of premises permitting the smoking of prepared opium. The Act represents Britain’s first formal drug legislation, and solidifies the precedence of the Home Office over the Ministry of Health in the area of drug policy. 1926 The Rolleston Committee Report The Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction is set up to assess the best approach to the problem of addiction. Its report argues that addiction is a disease and recommends policy changes to reflect this. The recommendations form the basis of the ‘British System’, which allows doctors to prescribe drugs to dependent users in a regulated and safe manner. The system survives several decades before coming under fire in the 1960s. 1928 Amendment to Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 (UK) The amendment adds cannabis (plant material, resin and oil) to the Act’s list of substances and makes possession of the drug an offence. http://www.tdpf.org.uk/resources/drug-policy-timeline
38 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2007 John Cannon p.60-61 – Major Middleton and the Capitol Theatre
39 County Times 18.11.32
40 Established in 19 April 1837, it provided land for growing of foodstuffs – see Horsham History Vol 2 p 177
41 Gardiner Juliet The Thirties an Intimate History 2010 p 121-3
42 Gardiner p 122
43 London Road Methodist Church Horsham 1832-2007 The Story so Far.
44 WSCT 16.12.33
45 The high number for 24 December was because of extra support given to those in need for Christmas. The cost of the relief was funded by, amongst other things, a whist drive which raised £61 12s 8½ d.
46 County Times 27.1.33.
47 County Times 10. 2 33.
48 County Times 31.3.33
49 County Times 28.7.33
50 County Times 15.7.33
51 HUDC Minutes 16 10.33
52 HUDC Finance Committee Minutes 18.10.33
53 See Volume 2 p 313-319
54 Water Committee Mins. 25 4 33
55 County Times 5.5.33
56 HUDC mins. 18.1.33
57 Winbolt in Sussex Archaeological Collections vol. 74 (p 247-8)
58 Volume One p 9
59 Horsham Museum Society Annual Report 1933 p 13
60 Today this seems a poor deal, unless the retail price was in fact the trade price as the supplier was getting 95% of the cost; most retailers buy stock in and expect at least 30% -50% markup or higher to cover the costs of running the shop and still make a profit; here, the Council is covering those costs – clearly the driver was to increase electrical usage rather than the hardware – the “software” rather than the “hardware”.
61 Electricity Committee Minutes 2.1. 9. 33
62 County Times 2.3.34
63 HUDC Electricity Committee 16.5.34
64 HUDC General Purposes Committee 15.2.33
65 County Times 5.1.34
66 County Times 23.3.34
67 Note this was not the Rediffusion company but one that operated on similar lines. Rediffusion was the trading name of Broadcast Relay Service Ltd, formed in 1928. In 1929 the company introduced its first cable radio service in Hull to customers frustrated with the difficulties of tuning into weak radio broadcasts. Initially, the service consisted primarily of rebroadcasts of the BBC Radio service, which was reflected in the trading name: Rediffusion simply means “broadcasting again”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediffusion 41.1.14.
68 Gardner p298
69 Knighted in 1926, Sir Alan Cobham, in May 1927, founded Alan Cobham Aviation Limited with offices in New Bond Street in London, which he shared with Malcolm Campbell (the racing car designer and driver). By 1932, Sir Alan’s enthusiasm had turned towards providing his own touring air show. Although formally registered as National Aviation Day (later Display) Limited, his travelling fleet of aircraft and airborne performers was more popularly referred to as ‘Cobham’s Flying Circus’. Spectacular aerobatic pilots, wing-walkers, parachutists and novelty turns excited the crowds the length and breadth of the country. It consisted of a team of up to fourteen aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, and many skilled pilots. It toured the country; it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying, and bringing “air-mindedness” to the population. These continued until the end of the 1935 season. On 29 October 2012 the County Times had a photograph of an airliner, part of that day, in its nostalgic photographic section, submitted by a reader whose father had attended the event.
70 Gardiner p243
71 Gardiner p236
72 Garner 239-241
73 Garner 355
74 Garner 486
75 Some farmers traded up their carts and wagons at the end of the War, with the profits they made, to motor cars, which earned the name “war memorials”. Pugh .
76 Gardner 241
77 Pugh 263-269
78 See Volume 3 p 57
79 Gardner 241
80 Gardner 242
81 As above
82 VCH 170
83 VCH 170
84 Gardner 260-270
85 Public Health Committee 18-9-1933
86 Public Health Committee Minutes 19-9-1933
87 Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1933
88 Housing Committee 21-3- 33
89 Housing Committee 27.9.1933
90 Horsham Museum Society Annual Report 1933 p 11
91 Fagan B. Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist p 46
92 Fagan above
93 Clarke p 52. Unfortunately they cannot be located today – if they were donated to the Museum no catalogue entry was made, perhaps because everyone knew the donor, but by 2014 all signs of existence has been lost – in the late 1960s/early 1970s, according to Mrs Standing, the then curator Mr Kevin Chapell threw out a lot of archaeology which he didn’t like to make space for costumes, but no documentation of this exists.
94 The Nature of the Horsham Industry and its place within the British Mesolithic by A. G. Woodcock Chichester Museum – occasional paper no. 1. See also volume 1 Horsham History for a look at Mesolithic Horsham.
95 This was re-discovered by the author behind the barn and was being thought of as waste stone – it now is on display in the Flints and Fossils gallery and has been since 1994.
96 Technically, recession occurs when two or more quarters of GDP fall – so the recession of 2008-12 was far shorter than the four years identified; therefore, the ‘age of austerity’ might be a better term, but that has problems with usage.
97 Gardiner p209
98 County Times 10-2-33 The cinema owners wouldn’t show films as the tax was so high – the same argument over personal tax rates for the wealthy.
99 See Volume 4 for the full story.
100 The Horsham Unemployment Committee apply for consent to use the Park for dances on 8 and 22 June and 6 and 20 July in connection with the engagements of the Borough Silver Band, the proceeds being devoted to the Horsham Unemployment Fund.” Application granted.
101 HDC minutes 16 Jan 1933. Council allocated £50 in estimates to paint the bandstand. (20 March minutes) 16 Oct it was reported that only one tender received “the gold leaf included in the previous specification to be deleted and paint of another tint substituted.
102 Council minute July 26.
103 Pugh p 134
104 Pugh 140-1
105 Pugh 150
106 Pugh 148
107 Pugh 149
108 Pugh 164
109 Pugh 267
110 County Times March 18, 1938
111 County Times Sept 9, 38
112 Pugh 310
113 Haines S. p 133
114 Pugh 316
115 In Horsham, the County Times: “Over 100 people attended a meeting organised by Horsham branch of the British Union of Fascists at the Town Hall yesterday week when the speaker was Mr. J. A. McNab from headquarters….Mr Jorian E. K. Jenks is prospective British Union candidate for the Horsham and Worthing Parliamentary Division. Mr. Jenks is a farmer at Angmering. He is aged 37 and he has travelled in various parts of the British Empire, including Australia and New Zealand. He was educated at Hailebury College, Harper Adams Agricultural College and Balliol College Oxford. He has been engaged in agriculture all of his life, six years of which was spent in the Dominions. At various times he has been ploughman, cowman, manager, lecturer, administrator and research worker. He has been interested in economics and monetary science, more especially as affecting farming and land settlement. He is part author of “Farming and Money” published in 1935. During the war he served in the Royal Flying Corps”.
116 County Times 5.1.1934
117 14 March General Purposes Committee
118 General Purposes Committee 18 April Surveyors report
119 General Purposes Committee 16 May
120 HDC minutes 19.12.19 34
121 HUDC General Purposes Minutes 13.6.1934
122 HUDC General Purposes Minutes 18.7.1934
123 HUDC Public Health Minutes 18.6.1934
124 HUDC General Purposes Committee 17.10.1934
125 HUDC Housing Committee 19. 3. 1935
126 HUDC General Purposes Committee 10…9.35
127 County Times 7.9.34
128 Alan Siney The Horsham Fire Brigade – a further note –Horsham Heritage Autumn 2001p 59-60
129 HUDC Water Committee 20.3.34
130 HUDC Water Committee 17.7.34
131 HUDC Water Committee 18.9.34
132 HUDC Water Committee 23.4.35
133 25 June 1935 – at a special committee the agreement to supply water was sent for approval by the RDC at a cost of 10.9d
134 HUDC Finance Committee 18 July
135 Electricity Committee 16.1.35
136 HUDC General Purpose Committee 5.12.34
137 The Relief Work Committee 24.10.34
138 Nana Sir Ofori Atta I (1881–1943).”Ofori Atta was the son of a senior official of the palace; his mother was the descendant of one of the founders of the kingdom…. Once in power, he was determined to return Akyem Abuakwa to its former glory. His approach to politics was a mix of educational modernism and aristocratic nepotism that gave as much importance to merit as it did to blood.” Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, “The Past Never Stays Behind: Biographical Narrative and African Colonial History”, Journal of Historical Biography 2 (Autumn 2007)
139 Slyfield quoted in Chapmen p 19
140 Finance Committee 25 April The Clerk mentioned that it has been possible to engage unemployed men for a total of 21,900 hours up to week ending 12 April and the application for £1,500 was solely for labour costs
141 Finance Committee 23.1.1935
142 County Times 21.9.1934
143 County Times 1.6.1934
144 WSCT 1.6 34
145 HMS 943
146 HUDC Minutes 31.10.1934
147 Gardiner p148
148 Gardiner p148-9, 639
149 He rented from Roy Armstrong, the future first Director of the Weald and Downland Museum, part of Highover on Heath Common, part of what was originally Vera Pragnell’s Sanctuary.
150 According to http://www.jumieka.com/idiam.html it is spoken as Byain daag a daag, bifuo daag a misa daag. – in English, Behind dog it’s dog, before dog it’s mister dog.
151 County Times 4.1.1935
152 Electricity Committee 13 Feb 1935
153 Electricity Committee 15 May 1935
154 In fact, as I am working on this history of Horsham the majority of Horsham street lamps are being replaced – Feb. 2014
155 Gardiner p683-5
156 WSCT 22.2.1935
157 Finance Committee 20.2.1935
158 Finance Committee 20.3.1935
159 County Times 20.3.35
160 HUDC Mins. 27.2.35
161 Wilshire P. The Pound in Your Pocket p 136 – for full discussion see pp 136-158
162 Wilshire P. The Pound in Your Pocket p 157
163 General Purposes Committee 16 Oct 1935 Planning applications North Street Cinema G. Coles 40 Craven Street W. C. 2 – approved General Purposes Committee 4 December 1935 North Street – Cinema – Godman & Kay – approved.
164 Housing Committee 19 11 1935
165 WSCT March 1936 on April 3 2014 it was republished having had a second edition in 1941.
166 Pugh p382
167 Gardiner 446
168 HUDC minutes 28.10.36
169 HUDC minutes 25.11.36
170 Clarke p 164
171 HUDC minutes 21 12.36
172 County Times 18 12.36
173 Pers com.
174 West Sussex County Times 19 June 1936
175 Allen Eyles ONDB 24.9.05
176 County Times 9.10.36
177 CountyTimes 4.9. 36
178 County Times 31.1.1936
179 HUDC Jan.1936
180 County Times 8. 4. 1936
181 Council minutes 20 June 38 – the Council paid 16/- for photographs of the Chinese wallpaper and one set be offered to the museum society
182 Parks management committee 19th july20th September Parks management committee Signpost October 37
183 Public Health Committee 19.7.36
184 Museum Society AGM report 1936-7
185 County Times 19.6. 1936
186 The Sussex County Magazine Vol. 10
187 County Times 28.2.36
188 WHERE PART OF A HOUSE IS SUB-LET, THE ROOMS OCCUPIED BY THE SUB-TENANT CONSTITUTE A SEPARATE HOUSE.” (From Shelter web site 11.2.2013) What counts as overcrowding? Overcrowding is defined by the number of people who stay in a room and the amount of space they have there. The number of people per room If two people of the opposite sex have to sleep in the same room the accommodation will be overcrowded unless:
· the two people are married or a cohabiting couple, or
· one person is a child under ten years old. The number of people of the same sex (unless they are a same-sex couple) who can sleep in one room is restricted by the size of the room (see below). The amount of space in each room Rooms that are counted include living rooms, bedrooms and large kitchens. For the space and floor area calculations:
· children under one year old are ignored
· children between one and ten years old count as a half
· rooms under 50 square feet are ignored. As a general rule:
· 1 room = 2 people
· 2 rooms = 3 people
· 3 rooms = 5 people
· 4 rooms = 7.5 people
· 5 or more rooms = 2 people per room. But the floor area of a room also determines how many people can sleep in it:
· floor area 110 sq feet (10.2 sq metres approx) = 2 people
· floor area 90 – 109 sq ft (8.4 – 10.2 sq m approx) = 1.5 people
· floor area 70 – 89 sq ft (6.5 – 8.4 sq m approx) = 1 person
· floor area 50 – 69 sq ft (4.6 – 6.5 sq m approx) = 0.5 people.
189 Public Health Committee 15.2.1937
190 County Times 12.6.36
191 Museum poster ref 1999.713
192 Back to the Wall catalogue p 110
193 County Times Sept. 37
194 County Times June 37
195 Juliet Gardiner p392
196 County Times 18.12.1936
197 Reynolds, D. (2013) The Long Shadow p 249
198 County Times 24.7.36
199 General Purposes Committee 17.7.1935 Air Raid Precautions The home office official circulars have been received, but consideration was adjourned until further detailed pamphlets are to hand. On 10 September the Clerk reported that Air Raid Precautions Handbook No.2 received from the Home Office on the subject of anti-gas precautions and first aid for air raid casualties. Finance Committee 11 December 1935 Air Raid Precautions That in response to an invitation received from W.S.C.C. that the Chairman, & Cllr. Bryce, Surveyor and representative of the fire brigade go to the meeting held on 19 Dec at 2.30 at Chichester.
200 Gardner 424-427
201 Another such event was reported in County Times 22 Oct 1937. A sum of about £30 was raised at a jumble sale and concert in the Albion Hall, Horsham yesterday week in aid of the Basque children’s home at Worthing. They were arranged by the Horsham Branch of the International Friendship League.
202 The County Times 31 Jan 1936 reported that “the Horsham Infant Welfare Clinic whose centre at Tan Cottage Brighton road was established during the early days of the war and whose attendance at first was about 15, has gradually grown to from 50 to 80 each week and will be moving soon to the Collyer’s hostel, Hurst Road, which has been taken by the County Council.
203 Hewell Why did C.I.B.A. come to Horsham? Horsham Heritage No 9 2003 p68-70 – and Makers of Medicine by J. Snelling 1989.
204 ONDB David Kindersley 24/09/05
205 Gardiner – p 447
206 Finance Committee 20.1.1937
207 Finance Committee 2.9.1937
208 Woolmar C. 2007 Fire & Steam p 235-240
209 Woolmer 240
210 County Times Nov 37
211 County Times 8. 4.1937
212 County Times 4. 22 38
213 County Times 18.3.1938
214 General Purposes Committee 8. 12. 37
215 The General Purposes Committee 16. 3. 38
216 Gardiner p 585
217 County Times 28.1.38
218 Vol 3 p41
219 Faber, D. (2008) Munich The 1938 Appeasement Crisis
220 Henderson wrote Failure of a Mission: Berlin, 1937–1939 (1940) and Water under the bridges (1945)
221 See Reynolds D. In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
222 Neville pxi
223 Neville p63
224 As above
225 Neville p 64
226 As above
227 Neville p 175
228 Neville p XV
229 County Times 25.11.38, General Purpose Committee Feb 9, 38
230 General Purposes Committee 13.7.38
231 VCH 193
232 County Times 28.7,39
233 VCH 193
234 General Purposes Special Committee 27 7.1938
235 General Purposes Committee 14.9.38
236 Housing Committee 19.7.38
237 HUDC Minutes 20.9.38
238 28.11.1938
239 Finance Committee 19.1.1938
240 Gardiner 431
241 Electricity Committee 9. 1.1939
242 General Purposes Committee 11.1.39
243 WSCT 6-1-39
244 County Times 13.1.1939
245 Parks Committee 13.2.1939
246 A.R.P. Executive Committee 20. 3.1939
247 A.R.P. Joint Committee 18.2.1939
248 Housing Committee 21.3.1939
249 County Times 6.1.1939
250 Street fights were a common occurrence and little of it ever went to court – see Pugh
251 HDC minutes 12.6.1939
252 See Volume 2 p 25
253 A.R.P. Committee 18.7.39
254 Parks Management Committee 18.7.39
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