Publications
Hunston Canal Bridge, by A. H. J. Green, published 2001 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 31, article, pp.24-27, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506529] Download PDF
Abstract:The flat coastal plain of the Selsey Peninsula offered little in the way of natural obstacles to the Engineer of the Hundred of Manhood and Selsey Tramway, the redoubtable Lieutenant-Colonel H.F. Stephens, Indeed the stage was set for a cheap and cheerful railway taking full advantage of the dispensations offered by the 1896 Light Railway Act.
There was, however, one man-made obstacle namely the Chichester Branch of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal which required to be crossed in a manner which did not impede navigation. At the time of construction of the line (1897) the canal traffic was dwindling, having been creamed off by the LB&SCR which reached Chichester in 1846. However ocean-going barges were still sailing into the City's canal basin bringing timber to Covers who were the principal timber merchant in the area. As such there were no immediate plans for closure, so the Colonel was forced to come up with a design for a bridge which would permit the passage of fully-masted vessels. A fixed design would have entailed high approach embankments and considerable cost. As unnecessary expense was not a term in the Colonel's phrase-book he plumped for a movable structure. He would not have had to look far for inspiration for the LB&SCR had two movable railway bridges over navigable rivers in Sussex at Ford and Southerham but these would have been too conventional, not to say far too costly, for the Colonel.
There was, however, one man-made obstacle namely the Chichester Branch of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal which required to be crossed in a manner which did not impede navigation. At the time of construction of the line (1897) the canal traffic was dwindling, having been creamed off by the LB&SCR which reached Chichester in 1846. However ocean-going barges were still sailing into the City's canal basin bringing timber to Covers who were the principal timber merchant in the area. As such there were no immediate plans for closure, so the Colonel was forced to come up with a design for a bridge which would permit the passage of fully-masted vessels. A fixed design would have entailed high approach embankments and considerable cost. As unnecessary expense was not a term in the Colonel's phrase-book he plumped for a movable structure. He would not have had to look far for inspiration for the LB&SCR had two movable railway bridges over navigable rivers in Sussex at Ford and Southerham but these would have been too conventional, not to say far too costly, for the Colonel.
Halsted & Sons of Chichester, Engineers & Ironfounders, by Alan J. Green, published 2005 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 35, article, pp.2-13, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506533] Download PDF
Abstract:Chichester, as with most small nineteenth-century country towns, was home to light industry. In Chichester's case most of this was associated with the output from agriculture - woolstapling, tanning, malting, brewing, slaughtering etc. but there was also much in the way of cottage industry such as clock making. A notable except-ion to this, however, was the business known as Halsted and Sons. Founded in the 1840s, it expanded from being an ironmongers into a full-scale engineering manufactory, sited not only in the heart of the city but in the exclusive residential area known as the Pallants.
St John's Chapel and the New Town, Chichester, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 January 2005 (173 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 1860773257 & ISBN-13: 9781860773259) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15335] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries
The History of Chichester's Canal, by Alan H. J. Green, published March 2005 (Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, ISBN-10: 0951203614 & ISBN-13: 9780951203613) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Chapel of St John the Evangelist, by Alan H. J. Green, published 2006 (pamphlet, Churches Conservation Trust) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15676] & West Sussex Libraries
A Colonel Stephens 'Find', by Alan H. J. Green, published 2007 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 37, article, pp.19-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506535] Download PDF
The Building of Georgian Chichester, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 October 2007 (Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860774563 & ISBN-13: 9781860774560) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The History of Chichester's Canal, by Alan H. J. Green, published 31 July 2009 (3rd extended edition, 100 pp., Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, ISBN-10: 0951203622 & ISBN-13: 9780951203620) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
St Pauls, Chichester, the Church, its Parish and its People. A History, by Alan H. J. Green, published 2010 (St Paul's PCC) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Nineteenth Century Construction of Midhurst North Mill, by Alan H. J. Green, published 2010 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 40, article, pp.19-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506537] Download PDF
The Canal Pumping Station at Ford, by Alan H. J. Green, published 2011 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 41, article, pp.24-32, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/41] & The Keep [LIB/506538] Download PDF
Abstract:The Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation (P&AN) was promoted to complete an inland waterway route from London to Portsmouth and authorised by Act of Parliament on 7 July 1817.1 The project included the construction of a canal from the River Arun at Ford to Chichester Harbour at Birdham, a distance of nearly 12 miles, which, together with a short branch to Chichester, formed its Sussex Line. The Engineer appointed for the project was the great John Rennie, then aged 56.
Cattle, Corn & Crawfish: 900 Years of Chichester's Markets, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 October 2011 (128 pp., Phillimore & Company, ISBN-10: 186077699X & ISBN-13: 9781860776991) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Traces the history of all of Chichester's markets and a number of others, setting them in context and clearly illustrating why Chichester developed as a major regional trading centre - a role that to some extent it still fulfills.
The Railway at Barcombe Mills, by Alan Green, published 2014 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 44, article, pp.35-43, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/44] & The Keep [LIB/507922] Download PDF
The Ship Hotel, Chichester: Built as the House of Admiral Sir George Murray, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 May 2014 (32 pp., University of Chichester, ISBN-10: 190785228X & ISBN-13: 9781907852282) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Ship Hotel, Chichester, built as the house of Admiral Sir George Murray, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 May 2014 (New Chichester papers, no. 6, 32 pp., Chichester Local History Society & printed at University of Chichester, ISBN-10: 190785228X & ISBN-13: 9781907852282) accessible at: Chichester Local History Society & West Sussex Libraries
Culture, Conservation and Change: Chichester in the 1960s, by Alan H. J. Green, published 1 May 2015 (The History Press, ISBN-10: 0750961414 & ISBN-13: 9780750961417) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries