Records of title and administration of estates in Sussex, Kent, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Norfolk. Includes material relating to the development of Tunbridge Wells 19th - 20th centuries. The list which follows is based on Ernest Gaisford's arrangement, and uses the same references.
15th-20th cent
The donor's father was William Ewyas Walley, born 21 July 1910 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire. He married Linda Margaret Benyon in Chester Cathedral on 5 September 1938 and died at Eastbourne on 13 May 1995. He was appointed, from a field of 35 applicants, as secretary and manager of the Heathfield and District Water Company in September 1949, having previously been employed at Nuneaton. The family lived at the manager's house, 'Kildare' in Burwash, under a service tenancy. As a result of the Eastbourne Water Order 1959, the company was wound up on 1 November 1959 and amalgamated with the Eastbourne Waterworks Company, for which Walley acted as Deputy and finally as Chief Engineer; he left Kildare in 1960 and moved to 59 Selwyn Road, Eastbourne, which he subsequenrtly purchased from the Company.
[1953]
Robert Charles Goff was born in Switzerland on 28 July 1837, the son of George Goff and Elizabeth Holmes who were both from Ireland. He obtained a commission in in the 50th Queen's Own Regiment in 1855 and was posted to the Crimea where he served throughout the Crimean War. He was then posted to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] before joining the 15th Foot Regiment and finally the Coldstream Guards where was promoted Colonel in March 1878. Later that year he retired and married Beatrice Testaferatta-Abela of Malta. The couple had one son but both RCG's wife and son died young and he married again in January 1899 to Clarrisa Catherine, daughter of Baron de Hochepied-Larpent. Goff had homes at 1 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London and at 15 Adelaide Crescent, Hove. He moved to Florence in about 1900 but decided to move from there to Switzerland at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Goff learnt to etch in the 1870s from a fellow officer and produced views of London, Brighton, Hampshire, Rome, Florence, Venice, Switzerland, Cairo, the Nile and Japan. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1887 and was also a member of the Brighton Arts Club. The membership list for the club gives his address as 15 Adelaide Crescent, Hove. He died on 1 July 1922 (see The Times 3 July 1922, page 16).
[c1890]-1912
A sound art project by Class Divide and young artists in Whitehawk, commissioned by Brighton Festival in collaboration with Lighthouse. Exhibition held at the Lighthouse Project Space, 4-19 May 2024. A Class Divide production, directed by Simon James, commissioned by Brighton Festival and produced in partnership with Lighthouse. Artists (young people from Whitehawk): Amelia, Amy, Gracie-May, Harry, Izzy, Leonie, Leuan, Sophia, Tassia. Project partners - Archaeology South East (UCL) and Brighton & Hove Museums. Graphic design and gallery design by Emily Macaulay. Video content by Curtis James. The project's promotional text reads: "A socially engaged sound art project and exhibition from the young people of Whitehawk and East Brighton, and artist Simon James, who was born and raised in Whitehawk. Explored through the deep time history of the Neolithic in East Brighton and the contemporary soundscape of Whitehawk, the Neolithic Cannibals exhibition mixes archaeology, psycho-geography, sound art, and activism to transport audiences to a place where imaginative and fantastical sounds will invite deep listening to an area that can often be considered hidden and unheard. Through a series of workshops the young people of Whitehawk have listened to and sounded the contemporary environment of East Brighton using the Whitehawk Hill Neolithic Camp, discovered in 1929 through a geophysical listening technique known as Bosing, as a symbolic focal point and inspiration for their sonic explorations. The Neolithic Cannibals exhibition at Lighthouse will recreate the Neolithic Camp - a place of communion, celebration and ritual, as a compassionate listening space inviting audiences to discover Whitehawk's richness, joy, playfulness and hope, empowering local voices through rarely explored sonic expressions. Audiences will leave with a deeper appreciation for empathetic listening, and consider the power of collective effort and the part we all play in addressing complex and current social issues."
2024
[c1760]
early 19th cent
Map was used in trial of Samuel Thorncraft, Mar 1832, and is inscribed 'Bushes where the prisoners are supposed to have run to after having set fire to the barn &c.'
[1831-1832]
1986-1992
AEH was born in the early 1880s, and married Clara Brown in 1916. He died in 1945 in Wadhurst (in the home, Waganui, which he built himself) The donor is the AEH's grand-daughter, by his son Arthur Ewing Harris (1916-1990).
c1910-1930s