Life

As one gets older , one starts to reflect on many things in ones life. I am finding that i am not really understood , older people have so much to offer younger gerations , but so much more nowerdays we are being more sidelined so much more. What i am talking about is within familys , of course there are good familys , its loverly to see familys out together , Son's , Daughters , Parents , and Grandparents. Alas i have not experianced this side of life , despite having grown up children, Grandchildren , and have now fully excepted this side of life wont happen to me. I have Grandchildren whom i have never met , dont know how old , girls or boys , or where they live. What i would like to know is how one is expected to come to terms with this as one approaches their final years. What legacy will there be , what will be said to Grandchildren when they ask about their Grandparents, who were they , why did we not know them. I rest my case.

D.Day 6^th June 1944.

From June 5^th to August 21^st 2014, Normandy will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy with due splendor and emotion. This year’s anniversary will be a time of national and international contemplation and communion.
Traditionally, annual commemorations of the Landings of June 6^th 1944 have always been major events for Basse-Normandie, all the more so on the occasions of quinquennial and decennial anniversaries, where the international aspect is especially prominent.
And because this will likely be the last decennial anniversary to take place in the presence of actors in and witnesses to those momentous events, it will be a particularly special occasion; welcoming a still large number of the remaining men and women who act as guardians of this “living memory” – probably for the last time and in celebration of a great anniversary – will indeed be cause for heartfelt emotion.
The anniversary will also provide a fitting opportunity for transmission of memory and the sharing of those fundamental values for which so many young men were willing to make the supreme sacrifice: peace, freedom, brotherhood and the dignity of humankind.

Within this area where we all live were stationed thousands of Canadian and American troops, huge training grounds were set up, one of the largest being at Slonk Hill.

Together with thousands of British troops they left theses shores to fight and defeat fascism, and liberate the people of Europe and beyond. Many were slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy,but persistence won the day and the beachheads were secured, but with great loss of lives on both sides.

Take time to reflect on the 11^th November this year, the many sacrifices that were made, its easy to forget.

Look at the photos of all the young men and women that gave there lives for freedom, in two great WARS.

We Forget Not.

Old Family Photos

I am looking for any old family photos taken in the period 1912/1920, for my WW1 project, photos of all types, all can be returned, or send me copys.

Thanks in advance.Rodney

Its been Bad.

Hi, what a bad summer, too much rain, over the south-east many digs on archaeological sites were washed out, visits and walks cancelled, Worthing Archaeological is staring a dig at Walberton this weekend  for a week, on a interesting ailed villa site, so be interesting to see what turns up.

Well worth a visit Bexley Archaeological Group .http://www.bag.org.uk  a good web site.Nice layout.


Independent Historical Research Group  Community archaeology in the High Weald  http://www.sussexarch.org.uk/ihrg/about.html

Bardown Project April 2006 – April 2010

Bardown was a four year project centred upon a known major Romano-British iron production site set near Stonegate in the High Weald of East Sussex. The site itself had been archaeologically examined in the 1960’s with the identification of a number of smaller satellite sites in the area. The aim of the project was to attempt to identify any infrastructure that linked the sites and to examine the method of removal of the finished product from the valley in which the site was situated. The investigation was carried out in close contact with the community, by locating and recording the many pits in the area, by identifying other possible unrecorded working areas and by field work in the identification of interconnecting tracks. The results of investigation on the site itself challenged previously held views as to the importance of the site and its layout and evidenced two previously unrecorded satellite sites and a major network running West to East over a distance of three miles terminating at the River Rother floodplain. This opened new questions as to continued passage of the iron East .with tentative evidence of water borne exit through the then flooded Rother valley. Further study was carried out involving liaison with the original archaeologist responsible for the 1960’s excavations with the recovery and consequent professional examination of a substantial amount of pottery, the result being in extending the life of the working site and in the uncovering of evidence that the site was larger and more important than previously envisaged. There is still outstanding work in relation to the Bardown complex in seeking the settlement that is thought to exist in the immediate area of the site and in further examination of the far East of the site where the identified exit routes reach the Rother floodplain under Burgh Hill, Etchingham. Geo Phys has located a hitherto unrecorded enclosure on the route of the exit route near Etchingham and an exploratory dig on this enclosure is planned in 2010. Further interest is being expressed in the discovery of two circular enclosures by HAARG in November 2009 also located alongside the exit route.

Posting here local history updates, archaeological interesting snippets, will try to cover the Worthing area.August 2012.

Battle for the Skys 1940

Well worth a watch,http://thefew.info/Jason.html

My latest Northern Line station signs, 12ft long each one.

1960s, Will put the early maps up, dating from 1928.