| Description | Vol 1, No 1 (Autumn 1988): Planning Applications; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow (Mr and Mrs John Christmas) by Alec Annand; A Flower for the Autumn; Old Sayings; Eighty Years of Midhurst; The Way it was Then...1895; Town and Around; Of Storms and Woodland; The South Country (Hilaire Belloc); Rich Days.
Vol 1, No 2 (Winter 1988): Letters to the Editor; Planning Applications and Other Business; Winter Lectures; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow; Childhood in Midhurst in the Twenties (Marjorie Bishop) by Alec Annand; Berries in Winter; Town and Around; The Wind Man; The Way it was Then - 1895; The Way it is Now - 1988; A Scarecold for Winter; Birds in the Midhurst Environment; Joining the Midhurst Society; Old Sayings.
Vol 1, No 3 (Spring 1989): Letters to the Editor; Planning Applications and Other Business; Winter Lecture; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow (traders, tokens, quality of service); Country Quiz; Gas, 'Flicks' and Forge (gasworks, Orion Cinema, the forge); A Flower for Spring; Alternative Medicine (four cures or remedies); The Painted Egg (the Easter egg); Accidents Aren't Funny (snippets from insurance claim forms); A Peke for Every Sleeve; The Haunted Lane (verse).
Vol 1, No 4 (Summer 1989): Letters to the Editor; Planning Applications and Other Business; The AGM; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow - A Durable Quality (Magistrates Court; George Spring; Charles Bowyer; Rev Tatchell); The Way it was Then - the 1920s - on the River Rother (house named Hollist) by J F Ainsworth; A Flower for the Summer; Old Sayings on the Farm; Place-Names in History in the Midhurst Area; Tree Quiz; Branch Lines Around Midhurst by Vic Mitchell; The Hills of Sussex by William Francis Bourdillon.
Vol 2, No 1 (Autumn 1989): Letters to the Editor; Planning Applications and Other Business; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow (highways and bridges; St Ann's Hill); A Flower for the Autumn; The Way it was Then - 1939-1945 - Midhurst at War; Country Quiz; Hidden Gardens of Wool Lane; Hard Times in Duck Lane (Phillips family); A Poem by Henry King.
Vol 2, No 2 (Winter 1989): Letters to the Editor; Planning Applications and Other Business; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow (Cowdray); The Midhurst Archives / Sussex Quiz; Tales from the Woods; 'My Town in the Year 2000' - A Competition for Young Writers; The Way it was Then - 1903-1938 - A Midhurst Naturalist (William Atkinson); The Bailey Family; Winter, Woolbeding; Midhurst Petty Sessions - Important to Farmers (from West Sussex Gazette 1915).
Vol 2, No 3 (Spring 1990): Letters; Planning Applications and Other Business; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow - A Way Ahead?; Valentine (on St Valentine's Day); Wine and Cheese Party; On Iping Bridge (verse); The Way it was Then - 1908-1966 - The 4th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment by J F Ainsworth; Country Quiz; Midhurst Volunteer Fire Brigade; Wild Animals in Sussex by E Donald Grant (from Sussex County Magazine 1927); Alternative Medicine (remedy/cure); Quiz Answers; Impressions of Midhurst.
Vol 2, No 4 (Summer 1990): Letters; Planning Applications and Other Business; Mrs Burne's Report (planning matters); Winter Meetings (re: Kim Leslie); The AGM; Midhurst Town Band (photo); A Childhood at North Mill by Phyllis Catt (daughter of John Gwillim); What is a Common? by Gerard Ryan; Country Quiz; The Way it was Then - 1660 (Pepys's Diary); The Battle of Goldrings Warren (1969); The Woods at Night by Doris Ashby; The Midhurst Library by G Deakin; Impressions of Midhurst; Quiz Answers and Cartoon.
Vol 3, No 1 (Autumn 1990): Planning Applications and Other Business; Midhurst Today and Tomorrow - Members Responses to Planning Paper; Mirror-Writing (South Pond); The Way it was Then - The Midhurst Industrial Exhibition 1890; The Way it is Today?; Country Quiz; Months According to Charlemagne / An Admiralty Instruction; The Great Scandal of the Middle Ages (Margaret de Camoys); Arab Cooking in the Thirteenth Century; What is Silence?; The Healing Herbs of Autumn; The Summer Party; The Over Sixties; Impressions of Midhurst.
Vol 3, No 2 (Winter 1990): Letters; Planning Applications and Other Business; The Owl in B Flat; The Way Ahead (Debate on the Future Development of Midhurst 24 Oct 1990); The Rother Navigation (1790 Act to make the river navigable); Twelfth Night Blessings Bunch; When Queen Elizabeth I Came to Cowdray (1591); Country Quiz; The Fair Maids of February; The Common and Bricks by Michael Bunyard (Midhurst Common; Midhurst White Bricks); Winter at Cowdray; Modern Midhurst.
Vol 3, No 3 (Spring 1991): Letters; Planning Applications and Other Business; Chinese Proverb; The Town Trust (includes photos of Town Mace); The Last Man in the Stocks (Henry Eldridge 1859); The Rowan Witches; Country Quiz; The Cowdray Jewel (ceiling of the porch at the entrance to Cowdray House ruins); Knot Gardens; Unexplained Happenings by Penelope George (ghosts, including the Cowdray Ghost); Believe it if you like.
Vol 3, No 4 (Summer 1991): Planning Applications and Other Business; Should the South Downs be a National Park?; The AGM; An Evening with Doris Ashby; A Gift to the Society (slides from Mrs Joyce Moore); A Determined Old Saint; The Great Buck Hall (Cowdray House); Country Quiz; The Lady of the Rhododendrons; Life and Times of Tiddles (the cat); A Chat with Mr Tribe (Charles Tribe); Old Tales.
Vol 4, No 1 (Autumn 1991): Planning Applications; A Letter from A Ladye; Poem by Queen Elizabeth; At the Time of the Armada; Tudor Recipes; Tudor Celebrations; An Elizabethan Quiz; An Elizabethan Pays His Debts (James Napper); An Elizabethan Dynasty (Bettesworth); A Society Based on Freedom; Elizabeth's Christening (extract from speech by Thomas Cranmer); The Musical Quadrille ('horse dances'); How to Become an Elizabethan (Simple Costume Patterns).
Vol 4, No 2 (Winter 1991): Letters; Planning Applications; Debate on the South Downs; Christmas Quiz; Shulbrede Priory; Reflections on the Queen Elizabeth Celebrations (marking the 400th anniversary of her visit to Cowdray in 1591); The Hon Michael Pearson's Speech; The Knighting Ceremony; The Community Play.
Vol 4, No 3 (Spring 1992): Letters; Planning Applications; The Midhurst Swans; Conservation in Architecture (Daryl Fowler); Bird Quiz; The Village Stocks; The North Heath Robbery (Robert and William Drewets, 1799); The Strength of a Nation (Churchill speech 1910); The Easter Flower; The Toll Roads; The Vertues of the Primrose; Dinner for Eight (Samuel Pepys); Late Medieval Rural Life (BL MS 19720).
Vol 4, No 4 (Summer 1992): Planning Applications and Other Business; Winter Lecture by David Rudwick; A Ride with William Cobbett; That Extra Day (29 February); The Tree of Humanity; The Liberty of St John (Midhurst); 40th Anniversary Quiz; The Japan Rose; The Pest House (for smallpox victims etc). |