Publications
Looking Back: Memories of Lovely Mayfield, An Old Sussex Village, by Fred Lester, published 1950 (115 pp., Mayfield: Henry Thomas, The Mayfield Press) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503460] & East Sussex Libraries
Review by George D. Johnston in Sussex Notes and Queries, May 1951:The author (who was 79 on the 11th November, 1950) was born and has lived all his life in Mayfield and this book (to use his own words) "is by no means a History of Mayfield, but just a collection of boyhood memories". It is a rich storehouse of memories, so often, alas, never preserved, of persons who lived in Mayfield and their manner of life and customs, some records of the author's own knowledge of their houses and some interesting accounts of local events, such as the railway accident of 1897 and the thunderstorm of one Whit-eve about 1895. The book is one which should be read by all persons interested in the parish or in our Victorian ancestors' mode of life
Looking Back: Memories of Lovely Mayfield, An Old Sussex Village, by Fred Lester, published 1953 (2nd edition, 217 pp., Mayfield: Henry Thomas, The Mayfield Press) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Dialect - "Tott", by Fred Lester, published November 1953 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 15 & 16, note, p.324) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library