| Description | Nos 1-11. Ceased publication in 2009 (see also: Midhurst Magazine).
No 1 (Spring 2004): North Street 1913; Richard Cobden - A Victorian Internationalist by Michael Townsend; Small Treasures from a Small Canal (former Midhurst Navigation) by Richard Smith; Elizabeth House, Midhurst by Bridget Howard; Silly Sussex by Mary Martin (re: pronunciation of place-names); 'Goings On' in Bygone Heyshott by Ronnie Palmer; Sussex Books; Royal Visit to Cowdray - Queen's visit marked by lavish entertainment 1591;
No 2 (Autumn 2004): Midhurst Map 1895; The Missing People of Domesday (Midhurst and Easebourne are not in the Domesday Book - Why?) by Brian Lawrence; Knockhundred Row, Rumbolds Hill and Duck Lane by Bridget Howard (discussing origin of their names, and includes Sheep Lane, Wool Lane, Temple Cross, Bepton Road and Carron Lane); Owzat! Games are part of our history no less than kings or battles or castles; The Old Game of Quoits by Henry Bond; In the Stocks 1859 (Henry Elldridge); Cowdray Heritage Trust; Conservation (of Midhurst); Country Song; The Royal Train leaves Midhurst 1906 (photo).
No 3 (2005): South Street 1910; History is the distillation of rumour...; Midhurst MP Votes "Yes" - Execution Set for Next Tuesday (Sir Gregory Norton MP's role in execution of Charles I); Not the Market House by Bridget Howard; The Elm Trees of Midhurst by Richard Smith; The Fire Mark by Henry Bond; De Shepherd Psalm (James Richards, preacher, who often delivered sermons in Sussex dialect); Tan Hill or Satan's Hill? (The local name for St Ann's Hill is Tan Hill - Why?); Midhurst in 1947 by Leslie Howell (photos: Duck Lane in 1952 and Rumbolds Hill before WWI).
No 4 (2005): The Wheatsheaf 1898; Why do you live in...; The Rother Navigation; The Happy Traveller (Rev Frank Tatchell); What's Behind the Black Door (Commandery of the Knights of St John); Sheep, Cloth and Midhurst; The Market House; The Old School (opposite The Half Moon); The Midhurst Highwayman.
No 5 (2006): The Public Hall, North Street; What does The Midhurst Society do?; Fire at Cowdray by Bridget Howard; The Midhurst Sundial by Sally Hersh; Friends of Cowdray by Elizabeth Hamilton; Sunday Trading; The Missing Apprentices by Bernard Allan; My Word! by Timothy J McCann (on dictionaries); Tan Hill Revisited by Bridget Howard (re St Ann's Hill); Sussex Sayings (traditions on plants: May and Lilac blossom, Snowdrops, Rosemary, Blue Scabious, English Orchids, Parsley; Onion seed, Blackberries, Ash twigs, Oak sprigs); Easebourne at the Time of Domesday - Why isn't Easebourne in the Domesday Book?; York House, Knockhundred Row (photo); The Sleepers by L Preston; car rally at Goodwood.
No 6 (2006): The Mid-Victorian Square; History Matters!; The Midhurst Town Trust by Tim Rudwick and Bridget Howard; The de Bohuns of Ford; Lost - One Moat! (Coudreye moat); The West End (West Street - Spread Eagle, Crispins, the Butcher's shop, John Stent's house); Farming Then and Now by Aubrey Marks; Benbow Pond; Seventeenth Century Tradesmen's Tokens; Cardinal Manning - Staunch Catholic and Social Reformer by Michael Townsend.
No 7 (2006): Church Street 1909; Heritage; Beyond the Pale - The story of West Street continues on the other side of the town ditch; H G Wells by Lawrence Price; The Ebenezer Chapel (Bepton Road); Midhurst A Century Ago; How Old is Midhurst?; The Building of Coudreye (predecessor to Cowdray); The Bells of Midhurst.
No 8 (2007): June 13, 1906 (Visit of King Edward VII to open sanatorium); The Future of the Past; Midhurst Church, Savaric the Insane and Easebourne Priory; What is Burgage? The word is used in Midhurst but probably not understood; Two Doctors in Midhurst - 300 years apart (William White died in February 1632, John Robinson died in 1895); Building the Sanatorium; Passing the Buck! Why is a stag used as Midhurst's logo?; Midhurst's National School by Anne Dare; The Shakespeare Connection - Midhurst has links to The Bard, but did he come here?
No 9 (2008): April 22, 1865 (first sod of the Midhurst to Chichester railway); Conservation; The Wharf in Midhurst History; The Half Moon School 1934 by A L Gilder; The Book of Orders and Rules - the management of the Tudor household at Cowdray; Who Was Who in 14th Century Midhurst?; Midhurst - Mecca for Polo - Cowdray polo was very different in the 'fifties' by Marie Merritt; Roman Midhurst; Dr Helena Pudney 1903-1999 by Judy Rich; Midhurst in Living Memory - Oral History of Midhurst and surrounding villages by Pat Bryant; Millstones at Bignor - Was the Domesday Book wrong?
No 10 (2008): Midhurst Library; Regeneration; Moving Pictures by Terry Lewis (cinema in North Street); The Gunpowder Plot and Viscount Montague; The Curfew Tolls the Knell of Parting Day - Midhurst's 940-year legacy of night-time security; The Creative Captain Freemantle - The hotelier who remembered "with advantages" what had happened in Midhurst (re: Captain Moses Freemantle, Alfred Freemantle and the Spread Eagle); The Lost Manor of Todham; The Planned Town; The Magic of Cowdray by John Trueman; Suit the Word to the Action! by Brian Lawrence (on sayings).
No 11 (2009): Cowdray 1793; Cowdray Chronicles; The Cursing of Cowdray 1539; The Fourth Wife to Henry VIII 1540 - Sir Anthony Browne's wife, Lady Alys, describes the disaster of Anne of Cleeves; Queen Elizabeth Comes to Cowdray 1591 - A laundrymaid's view of the great event; Star Chamber 1605 - Was the 2nd Viscount involved in the Gunpowder Plot?; What did you do in the war, Grandma? The Civil War damage to Cowdray (1642-1660) was not repaired for nearly 100 years; Tuesday 24 September 1793 - Mrs Chambers, the housekeeper, blames the culprit for the fire he caused; Tragedy at Laufenburg 1793 - 'By fire and by water, thy line shall come to an end'; Mr Smith from Croydon 1874 - the Ruins of Cowdray were a Victorian tourist attraction. |