I get many queries for more information on a subject and as I cannot answer them all, this page is for visitor's to put questions to other browser's in the hope that they may know the answer!
If you have a question you would like to ask then send an E-mail and I shall place it here.
Alternatively, if you know, or think you may know the answers to any of the questions placed here, then send an E-mail to say so.
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Date: | Question: |
| Andy | 09.07.03 | I was chatting to a couple of chaps who operated a small trawler (e.g. commercial fisherman). In the course of the discussion I mentioned rabbits and shushed and told it was unlucky to name them, and locally they were referred to as Bexhill Donkeys. I have come across numerous nautical supersitions but never this one and would be interested in it's derivation. |
| Edward Kingston-Jones | 18.04.03 | I love the website. I am especially interested in the story of St.Dunstan and the devil. I live in St. Dunstan's Road, London. If anyone has any information on stories about St.Dunstan, the devil, Mayfield etc I would greatly appreciate you sending them to me. |
| Claire | 23.07.02 | Any information on the Manor House
and or Tithe Barn, Moulsecoomb Place, Lewes Road that now belong to the Uni of Brighton? |
| Sharon | 15.07.02 | Does anyone have any information on the Hastings School of Art? Does it still exist? Any help would be appreciated - thanks |
| Peter Austen | 03.07.02 | Wants to know if the Pelham Buckle exists? And if so, where is it to be seen! |
| Jill | 03.07.02 | Has anyone got information on the Wiseman family in Brighton from the 1800's. |
| Andy | 21.05.02 | Can anyone confirm the rumour that a nuclear shelter exists under the American Express building in Edward Street? REPLY: Answer to Andy's question about a nuclear shelter under the American Express building? I have not seen it but a friend of whom i am not in contact with anymore did speak of it on several occations. she worked in the building. she once saw a memo refering to a part of the building called the void! after investigation and asking the right people she was told its quite a distance under the building and for goverment officials - Wayne |
| Chris Rodgers | 22.05.02 | Would like to know the
meaning of the Steine, as in the 'Old Steine', and where the name originated from? |
| Leona Waghorne | 13.04.02 | Any information on "Adelaide House,Grand Parade,St Leonard's, in 1837 it was the residence of dowager Queen Adelaide. REPLY: I saw a query on your site from Leona Waghorne about Adelaide House, Grand Parade, St Leonards. My wifes great aunt and uncle currently own the property so I may be able to find out the information that Leona is after. She can email me directly on this address if she wishes. - Simon Wright |
| Louise Gillespie | 11.04.02 | Do you know of 'The Old School House' Portslade R.S.D. And what did the RSD stand for? |
| Mark Gardiner | 30.03.02 | Is looking for info on
a company based in this area called 'FRYCO Portslade Sussex' - used
to supply lemonade or beer. REPLY: Hello, I saw an enquiry about FRYCO (or R Fry & Co) who were based in Brighton. I have information about this old company, as well as many other old Sussex companies (Like Shelveys) on my web site. Please can you forward this info to Mark Gardiner. http://aquabluemusic.users.btopenworld.com/ginger/index.html Many thanks - David |
| Heather Allen | 26.03.02 | What were the boards called that photographers used to take pictures of folk such as the fat lady or Iron man, where they stuck your head through the back? Does anyone have any pictures of these? |
| Andy | 25.03.02 | Does anyone know the location of the air-raid shelters in the Portslade area? |
| Barry Barnes | 11.03.02 | People born and raised in Arundel have a group nickname - Is anyone aware of this name? Please let us know. REPLY: I've
always been led to understand it to be Mullets. No idea why,- sorry. |
| Laura Pople | 09.03.02 | Ghosts of Seaford - Any information! |
| Kieran Jordan | 07.03.02 | Info wanted on the Chichester Entrenchments - Anyone? |
| John Buckingham | 18.02.02 | Does anyone have, or know where a picture of the Brighton poisoner, Christiana Edmunds may be obtained |
| Donald Kurtz | 24.02.02 | Sculptor: John Edward Carew - Donald is after pictures of his work and of Carew himself - Any offers? |
| John B | 27.11.01 | Why is the old Hollywood actor - Oscar Holmolka - buried in Fairwarp churchyard? |
| Sue Reid | 18.11.01 | Any info on a sergeant James Mills - named on 'The Story of Hove' pages. |
| Jenny Wilson | 28.08.01 | On some old maps of Brighton, there is reference to a place called 'Scabes Castle', situated off Bear road towards the east of the cemetary - Any clues? The map is the Ordance Survey of 1880. REPLY: In reply to Jenny Wilson. It was a big house with lodge and a cottage which a relative of mine lived in. In 1895 the castle and land were taken over by Brighton and Preston cemetry. The cemetry is quite hilly and the castle was where the chapel was built. Pauline |
| Carolyn Reynolds | 09.01.01 | Info required on a 'Ledru Rollin Reynolds' - an adventurer with many aliases & convicted fraudster in the 1880's |
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