LHS team

At Smithbrook there is a very pretty cluster of cottages round a pond – a lively sight in the autumn when the bulrushes are brown and velvety. Just above this, half-way up the hill is a Squatter’s Cottage on a typical squatter’s site – near a spring and trees, with a hedge behind the cottage […]

AGMs on their own are hardly appealing, so this year we promised that the “official business” would be dealt with in a proper but brief fashion, and that the major part of the evening would be devoted to something far more appealing (the ‘Plus’!). This worked very well. The Plus included: Interesting stories Tony Brooks

My grandfather (Arthur Norman Cork) married Evelyn Spooner in December 1912 in Lodsworth church. She was the daughter of Henry and Ellen Spooner of Snapelands farm, her siblings included Ellen, Harry, Frederick O, and John Edward, all born during the 1880s. They went on to have one child (my father) who was born in 1913

A chance encounter between Ian Buckingham and two cyclists last summer led to one of them, Cherie Corley née Smith, recording her remarkably detailed memories of life in Smithbrook between 1954 and 1967. As promised I attach my childhood memories of life pre “Kozy Cott”. I have been surprised firstly at how clearly I remember

I have just retired to Fittleworth and am interested in my family roots. My great grandfather married his wife Martha Stevens who was born in 1846 in Lodsworth. She was the daughter of William Stevens and Jane Carver. They married in Tillington but lived the rest of their lives in Leggatt Hill, William being a

I am researching my father’s family. My grandfather was Robin Haines and my grandmother was Adele Irene Haines. My father, Eric Haines, died 11 years ago and his mother Irene (apparently that is what they called her) died when he was 18 years old and that was 6 years before I was born, so I

I have been preparing a family tree for my brother-in-law,  Mr O Carver. His father Harry Carver had a piece printed in Outlook showing who lived where in Lodsworth in 1912. He loaned me a photo of a wedding. I can put a name to some of the people but it would be nice if

Firstly, I would like to say how much I enjoyed Mr Kingshott’s wartime memories posted on your site. Secondly, I wonder if someone might be able to ask him if he remembers a fete held at Hurlands Farm during WWII which was interrupted by an air raid. I am writing up the history of RNAS

Deryck Hamon recently purchased 40 photographs of the Lodsworth area taken by Donald Ashley Birkinshaw. We are grateful to him for making these available to Lodsworth Heritage Society and we will be adding some of them to this website. The photographs come from an extensive archive of over 15,000 images, taken between 1938 and 1956

I visited Lodsworth recently and while in the shop near the Hollist Arms learned about your heritage society. My grandfather (father’s father) lived in the large, square Georgian house opposite to the lane leading down to the church and members of both my father’s and mother’s families (Naldrett and Latham) are buried in the churchyard,