Dates for your diary: These all take place at Hapstead Hall, High St, Ardingly, starting at 19:45. Refreshments are provided and non-members are welcome (except Research Evening) for a fee of £5 on the door.
It was with great sadness we said farewell to Roy at a service of Thanksgiving on Monday 7th 2025. Many of his friends and family packed St Peter’s for the occasion. The Tribute was given by Lynn Wilson and Rev’d John Crutchley gave the address. Poems were read by Mike and July Ward (“If” by Rudyard Kipling) and by Megan […]
Of historical interest this year will be “The Rising Down” by Alexandra Harris who will be talking about her book on Sat 5 Oct 2024, 2:30PM – 3:30PM Upstairs at the Hayloft. West Sussex was the childhood home of cultural historian Alexandra Harris, but when she returned, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. She began to […]
Evening Talk Can Art Change the World? A talk by Valerie Woodgate starting at 7pm on Wednesday 11th September in the Victory Hall, Balcombe. Exhibition St. Mary’s Church, London Road, Balcombe, (where the late Queen Elizabeth II was a bridesmaid when she was 6 years old) is open for an exhibition on Saturday 14th September, 10am-4pm. Coffee morning and afternoon […]
An updated version of the catalogue is now available for download. We are indebted to Joy Broughton for her more than two decades editing the Newsletter and compiling the catalogue.
On Village Day, 20th July 2024, the History Society will be putting on an exhibition in the Reading Room at Hapstead Hall, looking back at the beginnings of the Society and the turn of the Millennium. Exhibits will include people, places and events around 1999, including the Millennium Photo Album.
Please note the revised date of the September meeting: February 20th – Matthew Homewood – ‘Life as a Genealogist’March 19th – AGM followed by an illustrated talk on “Street Lane, Church Lane, and West Hill”April 16th – James Dickinson – ‘King Henry III and the Battle of Lewes’September 24th – Mike Turner – “Gardens: A Very British Passion. Gravetye Manor […]