Before lockdown I visited the bell chamber at St Mary’s Church, Eastbourne and was interested to see an unusual marble memorial for Harry Packham Bennett in the form of a large bell. Harry was clearly one of the bell-ringers and, as a former railway policeman, I was interested to see that he had lost his…
Month: November 2021
A Good Soldier and Always a Gentleman
John William DANIELS was born in Loughton Essex in 1885, the son of landscape gardener Edwin Daniels from Ruabon, north Wales and Lydia from Shropshire. The family moved to Eastbourne and John was educated at Holy Trinity School. The 1911 Census shows that John with living with his parents and younger sister Annie at 2,…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 