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shorter, are either (as yet) unpublished or have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
Susses 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support illustrations, while unpublished ones will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.
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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 –
Allan, Ian (...and the Age of Steam)
1005 –
Allender, George Mander (...murdered in Monte Carlo)
1006 –
Anderson, Mr Robert (...Horsham's splendid station
master)
1007 –
Andre, James Lewis (...antiquarian, architect and
artist)
1008 –
Anthony, Captain (...Queen Mary visits)
1009 –
Atta, Sir Ofori (...makes a splash)
1010 –
Baker, John and Cruttenden, Ann (... John Baker,
diarist: Ann Cruttenden, burnt at the stake)
1011 –
Barttelot, Major (...murdered in Darkest Africa)
1012 –
Baynes, Gen and Davidson, Col: (...old Warnham
soldiers)
1013 –
Blatchford, Robert (...campaigning journalist who went
from left to right)
1014 –
Blunt, Gerald (...Springfield Park headmaster, and his
successors)
1015 –
Bond, Rev John (...an energetic and practical vicar)
1016 –
Borrer, William (...the botanist, and a lost garden in
Henfield)
1017 –
Bostock, Captain (...mauled by natives)
1018 –
Bostock, Dr EI (...'Horsham's premier townsman', and
his family)
1019 –
Bradburne, Col Samuel (...of Wellcross: retired
soldier and land improver)
1020 –
Broadwood, Lucy, Burstow, Henry (...and the local folk
song tradition)
1021 –
Burrell, Timothy (...two green geese and a barrel of
turnips: the journal of Timothy Burrell)
1022 –
Burrell, Thomas (...Horsham's first identified
publisher)
1023 –
Burstow, Edward (...Horsham's inventor of a bicycle
that got nowhere)
1024 –
Burstow, Henry (...bell ringer and song singer)
1025 –
Burstow, Henry (...on the characters of old Horsham)
1026 –
Caffyn, Matthew (...1628-1714: 'the Battle Axe of
Sussex')
1027 –
Caffyns, Sadlers and Kensetts (...300 years of
non-conformity in Horsham)
1028 –
Caine, Michael (...at Horsham's Theatre Royal)
1029 –
Campbell, Neil (...his terrible parachute accident in
Horsham)
1030 –
Carley, Gaius (...Sussex blacksmith of the old school)
1031 –
Carpenter, Samuel (...and the naming of Horsham
Pennsylvania)
1032 –
Cattley, Wildman ( ...v Jury Cramp, 'a Pharisaical
rabid tee-totaller)
1033 –
Charman, John (...a Horsham man on the Titanic)
1034 –
Cobham, Sir Alan (...at Horsham's National Aviation
Day)
1035 –
Comber, Thomas (...Old Collyerian and vice chancellor
of Cambridge)
1036 –
Coote, John (...of Horsham: an early magazine
publisher)
1037 –
Copnall, EW (...photographer of nawabs, rajahs, even
British royalty)
1038 –
Copnall, John (...1928-2007)
1039 –
Cotton, Reynell (...'s cricket song)
1040 –
Cramp, Jury (...the temperance movement – and a new
Horsham hotel)
1041 –
Cramp, Jury (see Cattley above)
1042 –
Daniel, Canon Evan (...an educator, much loved
locally)
1043 –
Dodridge, Sir John (...scholar, MP for Horsham – and
sleeping judge)
1044 –
Drummond, Capt George (...his horse trough)
1045 –
Dudley, Howard (...the precocious talent of Howard
Dudley)
1046 –
Elliott, Canon (...from local boy to King's Chaplain)
1047 –
Erskine, Lord (...built Buchan Hill)
1048 –
Evans, Col John 'Bashi'
1049 –
Evers, Samuel (...from India, through Arabia to
Horsham – and an early death)
1050 –
Evershed, Jane (...a Southwater centenarian
remembered)
1051 –
Fountain, Hoppy (...worked here)
1052 –
Garnet, Thomas (...Old Collyerian, martyr and saint)
1053 –
Genn, Leo (... Hollywood star in Barns Green panto)
1054 –
Godman, Capt (... Captain Godman's book of rules)
1055 –
Godman, Captain Richard Temple (...and the Charge of
the Heavy Brigade)
1056 –
Godman, Frederick Ducane (...of South Lodge)
1057 –
Godman, Percy Sanden
1058 –
Gregson, Molly MFH
1059 –
Grist, Mr (Mr Grist and his mills)
1060 –
Hamilton, Sir William Stirling (...the vicar, and a
little local difficulty)
1061 –
Harben, Sir Henry (...cricket fanatic and Horsham's
man from the Pru)
1062 –
Harvey, Rev EDL (...squire of Beedingwood)
1063 –
Hemingway, Ernest (... the Hemingway auction at
Warnham)
1064 –
Henderson, Abbey and Cayzer families (...of Sedgwick
Park)
1065 –
Henderson, Sir Nevile (...from Sedgwick Park to St
Petersburg)
1066 –
Hewett, Sir Prescott (...leaves Chestnut Lodge)
1067 –
Hodgson, Canon John Fisher (...'the old vicar')
1068 –
Holles, Denzil Lord (...Baron of Ifield in Sussex)
1069 –
Hornung family (...Raffles in Partridge Green, and the
Hornungs of Compton's Lea...)
1070 –
Horsfield (...The History, Antiquities and Topography
of the County of Sussex)
1071 –
Howard, John (...new Horsham gaol 'a credit' says
penal reformer John Howard)
1072 –
Hurst, Sir Cecil (...international judge and Horsham
Society president)
1073 –
Hurst, Robert Henry (...the funeral of Horsham's
'grand old man')
1074 –
Hutchinson, Rev Thomas (...from Greek to Latin – to a
best seller)
1075 –
Hutton, Gen Sir Edward (...from Zulu War to Field
Place)
1076 –
Innes and Cayzer families (...Roffey Park, home to the
Innes and Cayzer families)
1077 –
Innes, Hammond (...his story started in the Causeway)
1078 –
Isham, Sir Charles (...garden gnome pioneer)
1079 –
Jekyll, Gertrude (...'s lost flower beds)
1080 –
Jenkinson, Sir Hilary (...famous scholar, but unknown
locally)
1081 –
Keatinge, Gen Richard Harte (...Horsham's VC)
1082 –
Kittle, Lt Ernest (...a very late casualty of the
Great War)
1083 –
Latilla, Herbert (...Marland's millionaire
philanthropist)
1084 –
Launder, John (...burnt to death at Steyning in 1555)
1085 –
Lawrence family (...Chart and Lawrence and the great
West Street fire)
1086 –
Lintot, Bernard (...and the Art of Gardening)
1087 –
Lintot, Henry and Ockley, Ann (... the generous to the
needy)
1088 –
Lintott (...so many artists, all named Lintott)
1089 –
Lintott, Henry Chamen (...an artist cut short)
1090 –
Livesey, Sir Michael (...his troops kill three in
Horsham)
1091 –
Lovegrove, Ada and Hurst, Dorothea (...forgotten
poetry, lost birds)
1092 –
Lucas, Charles Thomas (...of Warnham Court)
1093 –
Lyon family (...the Lyons of Harwood House)
1094 –
MacLeod of MacLeod (...Horsham's highland chieftain)
1095 –
Malloch Brown, Lord (...of St Leonard's Forest)
1096 –
Medwin, Thomas (...pioneer of the literary exposee)
1097 –
Meyerheim, Robert (...a German artist in Wimblehurst
Road)
1098 –
Millais, John Guille (...and his 3,000 dead birds)
1099 –
Mitchells' ( ...coaches)
1100 –
Nanney-Wynn, Col Edward (...of Maesyneuadd,
Llanfendigaid – and Farthings Hill)
1101 –
Oddie, Arthur Campbell (...the man who brought county
cricket to Horsham)
1102 –
Oliver, Thomas (...of Tanbridge: Victorian railwayman
par excellence)
1103 –
Oliver, Thomas (...revised)
1104 –
Osborn(e), Peter and George (...of Chicksands: both
Horsham MPs – briefly)
1105 –
Ottley, Rev Henry Bickersteth (...a short term
incumbent)
1106 –
Palmerston, Lord (...a future prime minister who lost
out in Horsham)
1107 –
Parry Jones, Sir Love and family (...the life and
times of a father and son)
1108 –
Pell, Dr John (...scholar of great repute, and a
Collyer's master – briefly)
1109 –
Pelling, Nellie (...amateur detective)
1110 -
Phillips, James (...a Horsham printer who nearly got
out of his depth)
1111 –
Piers, Sir Eustace Fitzmaurice (...women's libber with
a splendid name)
1112 –
Pigrome, Miss (...Miss Pigrome's awfully big
adventure)
1113 –
Priestley, Sir William (...of Westbrook Hall: an
obstetrics pioneer)
1114 –
Richardsons (...of East Street)
1115 –
Rivaz, Richard Charles DFC (...Collyer's master,
author and war hero)
1116 –
Robinson, Dr Charles John (...'a great antiquarian')
1117 –
Rodocanachi, Colonel (...and his North Street stables)
1118 –
Rose, Hugh James (...academic, theologian and vicar of
Horsham)
1119 –
Russell, Mr Watts (...entertains Rusper)
1120 –
Saillard, Philip (...wealthy ostrich feather merchant,
rebuilt Buchan Hill)
1121 –
St John, Major Edward Francis (...of Slinfold Lodge)
1122 –
Scrase-Dickins, Captain (...to the rescue)
1123 –
Shelley, Sir Bysshe (...old Sir Bysshe at Arun House)
1124 –
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (...Shelley with Byron in
Venice)
1125 –
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (...Poetical Essay: a major
Shelley discovery)
1126 –
Shiel, MP (... from New Road, Southwater – aka King
Felipe I of Redonda)
1127 –
Shrewsbury and Mills (...some Old Collyerian tales)
1128 –
Shrubb, Alfie (...Horsham's sporting superstar)
1129 –
Simpson, Rev Henry Winckworth (...a prisoner in his
own church)
1130 –
Slipper, Mr Shipley (...painless dentistry)
1131 –
Slyfield, Archibald (...Horsham's town clerk
1919-1948)
1132 –
Smith-Dorrien, Gen Sir Horace (...at South Lodge)
1133 –
Smythe, Frank (...author and mountaineer, lived at
Colgate)
1134 –
Sparrow, Dr Geoffrey (...'no ordinary person')
1135 –
Steere, Mr Lee (...of Jayes Park: founder of the
Crawley and Horsham Hunt)
1136 –
Stone, Benjamin (...the story of)
1137 –
Styles GC, George (...an Old Collyerian remembered)
1138 –
Synnott, Rev Edward Fitzgerald (... five years' hell
in a country parish)
1139 –
Wallis, Henry Boyd (...of Graylands: an old Africa
hand)
1140 –
Wells, James (...baker: a very odd fellow)
1141 –
White, Drummer (... the sad story of Drummer White)
1142 –
Whitshed, Adm Sir James (...of Holbrook Park: master
and commander)
1143 –
Winbolt, Samuel Edward (...at least 60 publications to
his name)
1144 –
Winterton, Earl (...46 years our MP)
1145 –
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 –
Follow the trail
2011 –
Galley and Chater (...'the unparalleled murders of
Galley and Chater')
2012 –
Goodsell, William (...a young arsonist hanged in
Horsham)
2013 –
Holloway, William (...'the ferocious murderer, and a
Horsham broadside)
2014 –
Law and disorder (...local style)
2015 –
Leney, Daniel (...young and innocent – but hanged in
Horsham)
2016 –
Less serious bigamy
2017 –
Pledge and Whale (...'two perfidious, traiterous,
malicious devilish women')
2018 –
Rabbit Women (...watch out: Rabbit Women about)
2019 –
Rabbit Women (...update: Rabbit Women in Horsham)
2020 –
Sensational 18th century Irish trial
2020 –
Stolen swedes
2021 –
Tobacco ring (Horsham's teenage tobacco ring)
2022 –
Tricycle thieves in Partridge Green
2023 –
Upperton, Jack (...mail robber, was hanged in chains)
2024 –
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 –
Beautiful teeth (...for a pleasing appearance)
3004 –
Beehive Inn (...and a problem next door)
3005 –
Black Death (...the Black Death's long, remorseless
journey to Horsham)
3006 –
Black spot
3007 –
Bonfire night (...1877)
3008 –
Botched Carfax improvements
3009 –
Broadbridge Heath (...Village Improvement Society)
3010 –
Broadside (...a Horsham broadside, and the trade in
dead bodies)
3011 –
Carnival time
3012 –
Cemetery (...Denne Road cemetery: Horsham's best kept
secret)
3013 –
Cemetery (...Harry and Susan Lindfield)
3014 –
Chapbook (...God's judgment against false swearing: a
rare Horsham chapbook)
3015 –
Christmas 1896 with Mr Page
3016 –
Christmas at St Mary's
3017 –
Christmas (...in Horsham – 100 years ago)
3018 –
Church bazaar (...the grand church bazaar of 1885)
3019 –
Church clock and standard time
3020 –
Cinema (...what's on at the cinema?...we're spoiled
for choice)
3021 –
Circus (...here comes the circus)
3022 –
Collyer's (...at Collyer's in 1924)
3023 –
Competitive reading
3024 –
Coolhurst annual outing
3025
- Collyer's Museum in 1924
3026 –
Collyer's School inauguration day
3027 –
Coronation (...Horsham's Big Day: the 1937 Coronation
celebrations)
3028 –
Cricket Week (...Percy Fender at Horsham Cricket Week
1913)
3029 –
Death toll (...huge death toll...ten killed...many
injured)
3030 –
Denne Road Gospel Hall
3031 –
Empty skies (...over Horsham)
3032 –
Examination time
3033 –
Excursionists visit Horsham
3034 –
Fancy dress (...do come to our fancy dress party)
3035 –
Fete champetre (...in Horsham Park)
3036 –
Fire brigade (...'can there be a nobler work?')
3037 –
Fire brigade slackers
3038 –
Foot and mouth (...in Southwater, but back in 1866)
3039 –
Germans (...when the Germans captured Horsham)
3040 –
Goat trouble (...at the Green Dragon)
3041 –
Head gardeners (...Horsham's head gardeners fight it
out)
3042 –
Heath (...'a poore man child, found dead on the
Heath')
3043 –
Heron's Ghyll (...a school for the daughters of
gentlemen only)
3044 –
Horace Street benefactor
3045 –
Horsham Amateur Musical Society
3046 –
Horsham and Crawley (...early days with the Horsham
and Crawley)
3047 –
Horsham Industrial Society
3048 –
Horsham, Itchingfield, Slinfold (...tales from an 1890
parish magazine)
3049 –
Horsham July Fair
3050 –
Horsham Museum finds a new home
3051 –
Horsham over 100 years ago (...all in the local paper)
3052 –
Horsham Sanitary Steam Laundry
3053 –
Horsham's brand new station
3054 –
Horsham's first parish magazine
3055 –
Horsham's new fire appliance
3056 –
HUDC meets for the first time
3057 –
Incineration (...we've been there before)
3058 –
Israel in Egypt
3059 –
Keeping to the old ways
3060 –
Library (...a fragment of an old Horsham library, and
others)
3061 –
Lintot books (...first division Lintot books)
3062 –
Local otters (...once persecuted, now protected)
3063 –
Lower Beeding (...grand mansion to farm cottage:
memories from a parish magazine)
3064 –
Manor House (...a prep school for over half a century)
3065 –
Minnihaha Amateur Minstrels (...help out with St
Mark's)
3066 –
Motor car seen in Horsham
3067 –
Mr Amerigo (...and his remarkable jazz ensemble)
3068 –
Mrs Alec Tweedie on cycling for women
3069 –
Names (...choosing a name, making a statement?)
3070 –
Nasty incident at St Mary's
3071 –
Normandy (...notes on the Normandy)
3072 –
Oakhill Road ( a disgrace to barbarism)
3073 –
On pitch violence (...it was ever thus)
3074 –
Opening of Horsham Park
3075 –
Our pretty cemetery
3076 –
Park Surgery (...the Park Surgery story: from 15 North
Street to Albion Way)
3077 –
Peripatetic pillar box
3078 –
Pike alert
3079 –
Post Office problems (...nothing new)
3080 –
Queen Victoria (...Queen Victoria's drinking fountain)
3081 –
Queen Victoria (...fifty years our Queen)
3082 –
Queen Victoria (...her last journey)
3083 –
Rabbit stops play
3084 –
Rabid dogs in Horsham
3085 –
Rally round everyone! (WW1)
3086 –
Redman's sauce
3087 –
Ritz (...when the Ritz first opened)
3088 –
Rudgwick's first cottagers show
3089 –
Saturday night in the Carfax – back in1891
3090 –
'Savage jungle rhythm'
3091 –
Sgt Fuggles helps out
3092 –
St Mark's Church (...a lfe too short)
3093 –
St Mary's Jack of the clock howse
3094 –
Steam organs forbidden
3095 –
Skating (...on thin ice)
3096 –
Slinfold Flower Show 1889
3097
– Snapshot (...a snapshot of Horsham in 1839)
3098 –
Southwater Sparrow Club
3099 –
Speed traps
3100 –
St Mary's pulpit
3101 –
Stoolball (...who's for stoolball?)
3102 –
Street name (...what's in a street name?...quite a
lot, actually)
3103 –
Stuffing an elephant
3104 –
Smelly old Crown Passage
3105 –
Tee-total Red Indian chief in Horsham
3106 –
Terra Nova (...the good ship Terra Nova: a tale of
adventure on the high seas)
3107 –
Tool kit and work box for Zanzibar
3108 –
Town Hall (...Charlie Parsons, Town Hall guardian)
3109 –
Trip to the Zoological Gardens
3110 –
Vulgar drovers and filthy cattle
3111 –
War reports (WW1)
3112 –
Wedding lists
3113 –
Well, well
3114 –
When the Rolling Stones came to town
3115 –
Where are they now?
3116 –
Women station masters (...are cheaper)
3117 –
WSCT (...Horsham 100 years ago – all in the WSCT)
Lists updated October 2009
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