PROFILES OF
HORSHAM: PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS FROM ITS PAST
A catalogue of features on the
history of Horsham and its surroundings, from the
16th-20th century, all written by Brian Slyfield
Copies of the listed articles are
freely available on request to anyone who wishes to
learn a little more about the history of their town,
or to expand their interest in a certain area. The
articles, generally up to 2,000 words in length, but
with a few much shorter, are either (as yet)
unpublished or have already been published, mainly in
the Horsham Society Newsletter.
They are available to Horsham
Society members and the general public. To request an
article please write to Brian Slyfield, Arun House,
Denne Road, Horsham, West Sussex
RH12 1JF, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope large
enough to take 1-3 folded A4 sheets, and quote the
required article's reference number. Please note that
all articles remain the copyright of Brian Slyfield,
and should not be reproduced without prior permission.
Articles that have already been
published will include support illustrations, while
unpublished ones will generally consist of text only.
The list is being added to on a regular
basis, and will be updated from time to time.
This is a new Horsham Society
initiative: do get in touch!
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1. Articles
on individuals and families
Ref:
1001 –
Albery, William (...and
the importance of making records)
1002 –
Albery, William and Sainsbury, Kathleen (...Horsham's
millennium man...)
1003 –
Allcard, Edward and family (...generous
town benefactors)
1004 –
Anderson, Mr Robert (...Horsham's
splendid station master)
1005 –
Andre, James Lewis (...antiquarian,
architect and artist)
1006 –
Anthony, Captain (...Queen
Mary visits)
1007 –
Atta, Sir Ofori (...makes
a splash)
1008 –
Baker, John and Cruttenden, Ann (...
John Baker, diarist:
Ann Cruttenden, burnt at the stake)
1009 –
Barttelot, Major (...murdered
in Darkest Africa)
1010 –
Baynes, Gen and Davidson, Col: (...old
Warnham soldiers)
1011 –
Blatchford, Robert (...campaigning
journalist who went from left to right)
1012 –
Blunt, Gerald (...Springfield
Park headmaster, and his successors)
1013 –
Bond, Rev John (...an
energetic and practical vicar)
1014 –
Borrer, William (...the
botanist, and a lost garden in Henfield)
1015 –
Bostock, Captain (...mauled
by natives)
1016 –
Bostock, Dr EI (...'Horsham's
premier townsman', and his family)
1017 –
Bradburne, Col Samuel (...of
Wellcross: retired soldier and land improver)
1018 –
Burrell, Timothy (...two
green geese and a barrel of turnips: the journal of
Timothy Burrell)
1019 –
Burrell, Thomas (...Horsham's
first identified publisher)
1020 –
Burstow, Edward (...Horsham's
inventor of a bicycle that got nowhere)
1021 –
Burstow, Henry (...bell
ringer and song singer)
1022 –
Burstow, Henry (...on
the characters of old Horsham)
1023 –
Caffyn, Matthew (...1628-1714:
'the Battle Axe of Sussex')
1024 –
Caffyns, Sadlers and Kensetts (...300
years of non-conformity in Horsham)
1025 –
Caine, Michael (...at
Horsham's Theatre Royal)
1026 –
Campbell, Neil (...his
terrible parachute accident in Horsham)
1027 –
Carley, Gaius (...Sussex
blacksmith of the old school)
1028 –
Carpenter, Samuel (...and
the naming of Horsham Pennsylvania)
1029 –
Cattley, Wildman ( ...v
Jury Cramp, 'a Pharisaical rabid tee-totaller)
1030 –
Charman, John (...a
Horsham man on the Titanic)
1031 –
Cobham, Sir Alan (...at
Horsham's National Aviation Day)
1032 –
Comber, Thomas (...Old
Collyerian and vice chancellor of Cambridge)
1033 –
Coote, John (...of
Horsham: an early magazine publisher)
1034 –
Copnall, EW (...photographer
of nawabs, rajahs, even British royalty)
1035 –
Copnall, John (...1928-2007)
1036 –
Cramp, Jury (...the
temperence movement – and a new Horsham hotel)
1037 –
Cramp, Jury (see Cattley above)
1038 –
Daniel, Canon Evan (...an
educator, much loved locally)
1039 –
Dodridge, Sir John (...scholar,
MP for Horsham – and sleeping judge)
1040 –
Drummond, Capt George (...his
horse trough)
1041 –
Dudley, Howard (...the
precocious talent of Howard Dudley)
1042 –
Elliott, Canon (...from
local boy to King's Chaplain)
1043 –
Evers, Samuel (...from
India, through Arabia to Horsham – and an early death)
1044 –
Fountain, Hoppy (...worked
here)
1045 –
Garnet, Thomas (...Old
Collyerian, martyr and saint)
1046 –
Genn, Leo (...
Hollywood star in Barns Green panto)
1047 –
Godman, Capt (...
Captain Godman's book of rules)
1048 –
Godman, Captain Richard Temple (...and
the Charge of the Heavy Brigade)
1049 –
Grist, Mr (Mr
Grist and his mills)
1050 –
Hamilton, Sir William Stirling (...the
vicar, and a little local difficulty)
1051 –
Harben, Sir Henry (...cricket
fanatic and Horsham's man from the Pru)
1052 –
Harvey, Rev EDL (...squire
of Beedingwood)
1053 –
Hemingway, Ernest (...
the Hemingway auction
at Warnham)
1054 –
Henderson, Abbey and Cayzer families (...of
Sedgwick Park)
1055 –
Henderson, Sir Nevile (...from
Sedgwick Park to St Petersburg)
1056 –
Hewett, Sir Prescott (...leaves
Chestnut Lodge)
1057 –
Hodgson, Canon John Fisher (...'the
old vicar')
1058 –
Hornung family (...Raffles
in Partridge Green, and the Hornungs of Compton's
Lea...)
1059 –
Horsfield (...The
History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of
Sussex)
1060 –
Howard, John (...new
Horsham gaol 'a credit' says penal reformer John
Howard)
1061 –
Hurst, Sir Cecil (...international
judge and Horsham Society president)
1062 –
Hurst, Robert Henry (...the
funeral of Horsham's 'grand old man')
1063 –
Hutchinson, Rev Thomas (...from
Greek to Latin – to a best seller)
1064 –
Hutton, Gen Sir Edward (...from
Zulu War to Field Place)
1065 –
Innes and Cayzer families (...Roffey
Park, home to the Innes and Cayzer families)
1066 –
Innes, Hammond (...his
story started in the Causeway)
1067 –
Isham, Sir Charles (...garden
gnome pioneer)
1068 –
Jenkinson, Sir Hilary (...famous
scholar, but unknown locally)
1069 –
Keatinge, Gen Richard Harte (...Horsham's
VC)
1070 –
Kittle, Lt Ernest (...a
very late casualty of the Great War)
1071 –
Latilla, Herbert (...Marland's
millionaire philanthropist)
1072 –
Launder, John (...burnt
to death at Steyning in 1555)
1073 –
Lawrence family (...Chart
and Lawrence and the great West Street fire)
1074 –
Lintot, Bernard (...and
the Art of Gardening)
1075 –
Lintot, Henry and Ockley, Ann (...
the generous to the
needy)
1076 –
Lintott (...so
many artists, all named Lintott)
1077 –
Lintott, Henry Chamen (...an
artist cut short)
1078 –
Livesey, Sir Michael (...his
troops kill three in Horsham)
1079 –
Lovegrove, Ada and Hurst, Dorothea (...forgotten
poetry, lost birds)
1080 –
Lucas, Charles Thomas (...of
Warnham Court)
1081 –
Lyon family (...the
Lyons of Harwood House)
1082 –
MacLeod of MacLeod (...Horsham's
highland chieftain)
1083 –
Malloch Brown, Lord (...of
St Leonard's Forest)
1084 –
Medwin, Thomas (...pioneer
of the literary exposee)
1085 –
Meyerheim, Robert (...a
German artist in Wimblehurst Road)
1086 –
Millais, John Guille (...and
his 3,000 dead birds)
1087 –
Mitchells' ( ...coaches)
1088 –
Nanney-Wynn, Col Edward (...of
Maesyneuadd, Llanfendigaid – and Farthings Hill)
1089 –
Oddie, Arthur Campbell (...the
man who brought county cricket to Horsham)
1090 –
Oliver, Thomas (...of
Tanbridge: Victorian railwayman par excellence)
1091 –
Osborn(e), Peter and George (...of
Chicksands: both Horsham MPs – briefly)
1092 –
Ottley, Rev Henry Bickersteth (...a
short term incumbent)
1093 –
Palmerston, Lord (...a
future prime minister who lost out in Horsham)
1094 –
Parry Jones, Sir Love and family (...the
life and times of a father and son)
1095 –
Pell, Dr John (...scholar
of great repute, and a Collyer's master – briefly)
1096 –
Pelling, Nellie (...amateur
detective)
1097 -
Phillips, James (...a
Horsham printer who nearly got out of his depth)
1098 –
Piers, Sir Eustace Fitzmaurice (...women's
libber with a splendid name)
1099 –
Pigrome, Miss (...Miss
Pigrome's awfully big adventure)
1100 –
Priestley, Sir William (...of
Westbrook Hall: an obstetrics pioneer)
1101 –
Richardsons (...of
East Street)
1102 –
Rivaz, Richard Charles DFC (...Collyer's
master, author and war hero)
1103 –
Robinson, Dr Charles John (...'a
great antiquarian')
1104 –
Rose, Hugh James (...academic,
theologian and vicar of Horsham)
1105 – St
John, Major Edward Francis (...of
Slinfold Lodge)
1106 –
Scrase-Dickins, Captain (...to
the rescue)
1107 –
Shelley, Sir Bysshe (...old
Sir Bysshe at Arun House)
1108 –
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (...Shelley
with Byron in Venice)
1109 –
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (...Poetical
Essay: a major Shelley discovery)
1110 –
Shiel, MP (...
from New Road, Southwater – aka King Felipe I of
Redonda)
1111 –
Shrewsbury and Mills (...some
Old Collyerian tales)
1112 –
Shrubb, Alfie (...Horsham's
sporting superstar)
1113 –
Simpson, Rev Henry Winckworth (...a
prisoner in his own church)
1114 –
Slipper, Mr Shipley (...painless
dentistry)
1115 –
Slyfield, Archibald (...Horsham's
town clerk 1919-1948)
1116 –
Smith-Dorrien, Gen Sir Horace (...at
South Lodge)
1117 –
Smythe, Frank (...author
and mountaineer, lived at Colgate)
1118 –
Sparrow, Dr Geoffrey (...'no
ordinary person')
1119 –
Steere, Mr Lee (...of
Jayes Park: founder of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt)
1120 –
Styles GC, George (...an
Old Collyerian remembered)
1121 –
Synnott, Rev Edward Fitzgerald (...
five years' hell in a
country parish)
1122 –
Wallis, Henry Boyd (...of
Graylands: an old Africa hand)
1123 –
White, Drummer (...
the sad story of
Drummer White)
1124 –
Whitshed, Adm Sir James (...of
Holbrook Park: master and commander)
1125 –
Winbolt, Samuel Edward (...at
least 60 publications to his name)
1126 –
Winterton, Earl (...46
years our MP)
1127 –
Zambeccari, Count (...the
day Count Zambeccari dropped in)
2.
Articles on criminals and trials
Ref:
2001 –
Aged toper, and other sad tales
2002 –
Bignall, Robert (...the
touch of a dead man's hand)
2003 –
Bingham, Curate (...arson
and anonymous letters: the curious case of Curate
Bingham)
2004 –
Bloodhounds (...bring
on the bloodhounds)
2005 –
Courtroom (...toffs
v. hoi polloi in an Edwardian courtroom)
2006 –
Cullen, Donellan and Shee (...Irish
soldiers hanged together at Horsham)
2007 –
Debtors (...a
debtor's lot was not a happy one)
2008 –
Dumb Man (...the
Dumb Man was pressed to death in Horsham gaol)
2009 –
Elizabethan justice on the Home Circuit
2010 –
Galley and Chater (...'the
unparalleled murders of Galley and Chater')
2011 –
Goodsell, William (...a
young arsonist hanged in Horsham)
2012 –
Holloway, William (...'the
ferocious murderer, and a Horsham broadside)
2013 – Law
and disorder (...local
style)
2014 –
Leney, Daniel (...young
and innocent – but hanged in Horsham)
2015 –
Less serious bigamy
2016 –
Pledge and Whale (...'two
perfidious, traiterous, malicious devilish women')
2017 –
Rabbit Women (...watch
out: Rabbit Women about)
2018 –
Rabbit Women (...update:
Rabbit Women in Horsham)
2019 –
Tobacco ring (Horsham's
teenage tobacco ring)
2020 –
Tricycle thieves in Partridge Green
2021 –
Upperton, Jack (...mail
robber, was hanged in chains)
2022 –
Victorian Horsham (...before
the bench in Victorian Horsham)
3.Articles
on places, events, activities etc
Ref:
3001 –
Anyone for stoolball?
3002 –
Bandstand (...a
bandstand in the Carfax?...capital notion)
3003 –
Beehive Inn (...and
a problem next door)
3004 –
Black Death (...the
Black Death's long, remorseless journey to Horsham)
3005 –
Black spot
3006 –
Bonfire night (...1877)
3007 –
Broadbridge Heath (...Village
Improvement Society)
3008 –
Broadside (...a
Horsham broadside, and the trade in dead bodies)
3009 –
Cemetery (...Denne
Road cemetery: Horsham's best kept secret)
3010 –
Cemetery (...Harry
and Susan Lindfield)
3011 –
Chapbook (...God's
judgment against false swearing: a rare Horsham
chapbook)
3012 –
Christmas (...in
Horsham – 100 years ago)
3013 –
Church bazaar (...the
grand church bazaar of 1885)
3014 –
Cinema (...what's
on at the cinema?...we're spoiled for choice)
3015 –
Circus (...here
comes the circus)
3016 –
Collyer's (...at
Collyer's in 1924)
3017 –
Coolhurst annual outing
3018 -
Collyer's Museum in 1924
3019 –
Coronation (...Horsham's
Big Day: the 1937 Coronation celebrations)
3020 –
Cricket Week (...Percy
Fender at Horsham Cricket Week 1913)
3021 –
Death toll (...huge
death toll...ten killed...many injured)
3022 –
Empty skies (...over
Horsham)
3019 –
Fancy dress (...do
come to our fancy dress party)
3020 –
Fete champetre (...in
Horsham Park)
3021 –
Fire brigade (...'can
there be a nobler work?')
3022 –
Fire brigade slackers
3023 –
Foot and mouth (...in
Southwater, but back in 1866)
3024 –
Germans (...when
the Germans captured Horsham)
3025 –
Head gardeners (...Horsham's
head gardeners fight it out)
3026 –
Heath (...'a poore
man child, found dead on the Heath')
3027 –
Horsham and Crawley (...early
days with the Horsham and Crawley)
3028 –
Horsham, Itchingfield, Slinfold (...tales
from an 1890 parish magazine)
3029 –
Horsham Museum finds a new home
3030 –
Horsham Sanitary Steam Laundry
3031 –
Horsham's brand new station
3032 –
Incineration (...we've
been there before)
3033 –
Keeping to the old ways
3034 –
Library (...a
fragment of an old Horsham library, and others)
3035 –
Lintot books (...first
division Lintot books)
3036 –
Local otters (...once
persecuted, now protected)
3037 –
Lower Beeding (...grand
mansion to farm cottage: memories from a parish
magazine)
3038 –
Names (...choosing
a name, making a statement?)
3039 –
Nasty incident at St Mary's
3040 –
Normandy (...notes
on the Normandy)
3041 –
Oakhill Road ( a
disgrace to barbarism)
3042 – On
pitch violence (...it
was ever thus)
3043 –
Opening of Horsham Park
3044 – Our
pretty cemetery
3045 –
Park Surgery (...the
Park Surgery story: from 15 North Street to Albion Way)
3046 –
Post Office problems (...nothing
new)
3047 –
Queen Victoria (...Queen
Victoria's drinking fountain)
3048 –
Queen Victoria (...fifty
years our Queen)
3049 –
Queen Victoria (...her
last journey)
3050 –
Rabbit stops play
3051
– Rally round everyone! (WW1)
3052 –
Redman's sauce
3053 –
Ritz (...when the
Ritz first opened)
3054 –
Saturday night in the Carfax – back in1891
3055 –
'Savage jungle rhythm'
3056 –
Skating (...on
thin ice)
3057 -
Slinfold Flower Show 1889
3058 -
Snapshot (...a
snapshot of Horsham in 1839)
3059 –
Southwater Sparrow Club
3060 –
Speed traps
3061 – St
Mary's pulpit
3062 –
Stoolball (...who's
for stoolball?)
3063 –
Street name (...what's
in a street name?...quite a lot, actually)
3064 –
Stuffing an elephant
3065 –
Smelly old Crown Passage
3066 –
Tee-total Red Indian chief in Horsham
3067 –
Terra Nova (...the
good ship Terra Nova: a tale of adventure on the high
seas)
3068 –
Town Hall (...Charlie
Parsons, Town Hall guardian)
3069 –
Vulgar drovers and filthy cattle
3070 – War
reports (WW1)
3071 –
Wedding lists
3072 –
Well, well
3073 –
When the Rolling Stones came to town
3074 –
WSCT (...Horsham
100 years ago – all in the WSCT)
Lists updated January 2008
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