Publications
The Village Letter Box, by Bill Stephenson, published March 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 5, article, pp.175-176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The story behind the petition by John Letcher Lane "For a Letter Box, or Pillar (as is most suitable) to be fixed at or on the most central, convenient, dry, clean, and proper site in Old Fishbourne near Chichester" and two years later in 1907 the postal authorities finally gave in.