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Sussex Industrial History: Journal of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, edited by Dr. Brian Austen, published 1994 (issue no. 24, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Colin Pullinger and his Perpetual Mouse Trap, by David Drummond, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.2-9, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:We do not know who invented and first made early perpetual traps. In fact it was not until the nineteenth century that there emerged the first identifiable inventor and maker of a commercially successful perpetual mousetrap. His name was Colin Pullinger. Colin was a native of Selsey and remains the most famous son of this isolated village on the most southerly point of the coast of West Sussex.
Ice Houses in Sussex, by Ron Martin, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.10-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:This article concerns the domestic ice houses in East and West Sussex, as distinct from the commercial ones which were described in the article by the author in Sussex Industrial History, Issue 14.
Mills of Forest Row: additional notes, by M. J. Leppard, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.23-24, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:A number of East Grinstead parish records in the West Sussex County Record Office and some published material permit some additions and a few corrections to Mr. Tighe's article 'The Mills of Forest Row' in Sussex Industrial History No. 23 (1993).
Lewes Banking House, by Alan F. Hill, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.25-29, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:The Lewes Old Bank enjoyed the longest independent life of any of the early private banks in Sussex, having commenced trading on 1 July 1789 and finally merging with 18 other private banks to form Barclays Bank Ltd. in 1896.
Lumley Mill, by Tony Yoward, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.30-36, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:Lumley mill was on the Sussex bank of the River Ems near Emsworth, but all that remains is the miller's house of 1802, the partly silted up mill pond and the foundations of the mill and associated buildings, an iron launder, the pit wheel and some of the gear wheels
Estate Industry at the Hyde, Handcross, by Ron Martin, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.37-39, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:- CIRCULAR SAW BENCH (TQ 260304): As a result of road widening works to the A23, the saw mill on the Hyde estate at Handcross has been demolished. The building was a standard steel framed corrugated sheet steel building with a curved roof erected in the 1930s. It contained a circular saw of a similar date manufactured by Messrs. Dening Sc Co. Ltd. of Chard and this has now been dismantled and will be re-erected at the Amberley Chalk Pits Museum.
- CREOSOTE TREATMENT PLANT AT THE HYDE, HANDCROSS (TQ 260303): The creosote treatment plant on the Hyde Estate has also been demolished due to the A23 roadworks. The plant was used for treating timber for use on the estate and was erected in the 1930s.
Bread Oven at Slindon Old Bakery, by Ron Martin, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.39-40, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:The original ovens at the Slindon Old Bakery were replaced in the 1930s by what was then modern technology in the form of a two deck hot air peel oven. Prior to that many of the small country bakeries were equipped with side flue ovens such as the one at Ore Hastings, described in the Society's Newsletter No.77.