A few weeks ago, Dr June Goodfield, the President of the Alfriston & Cuckmere Valley Historical Society had an unexpected visitor with an interesting item. John Enever called in with his great-grandfathers watch. His ancestor was a policeman who was so respected by the good people of Alfriston that they presented him with the watch…
Month: October 2016
The Oldest man in Sussex
Isaac Ingall was a grumpy old man but I suppose , given his age he had reason to be; he worked as a servant for no less than 90 years! Isaac was born in Yorkshire in the 1670s. He worked for the Post Office in York in the early 1700s but in 1719 he become…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 