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Sussex Industrial History: Journal of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, edited by Dr. Brian Austen, published 2003 (issue no. 33, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

H A Waller & Sons of Whitecross Street, Brighton: A Brief History of a Family Firm, by John Redfern, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

In a world of corporate business, far-flung enterprise, bids, take-overs and mergers, it is hard to recall the era of private enterprise, personal drive, application, self-denial and sheer hard work of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brighton, like many towns of similar capacity, well-versed already in the world of leisure and entertainment, expanding in many directions with an excellent connection to the capital, offered opportunity to verve and talent. Henry Waller had both.

Wind Powered Electrical Generator at High Salvington, by Roger Ashton, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.6-9, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

High Salvington Windmill at TQ 123067 ceased working full time on 15 September 1897 but produced small amounts of animal feed until 1905/6. The mill had been purchased by Colonel T.F. Wisden on 20 January 1887 and when he died, on 22 October 1904, his will ensured that the mill was to be kept in working order. It was inherited by Frederick Wisden who sold it, together with 20 acres of surrounding land, for £350, on 15 October 1906, to Alfred Charles Jackson who was to become a local councillor and later an Alderman. By the summer of 1907 the concrete and brick roundhouse had been constructed and was serving teas.
To this community in 1914 came Frank Redgrave Cripps "who was born in Liverpool Gardens in Worthing, left the town when he embarked on a career as an electrical engineer, and worked for an electrical traction company that installed the tramway systems in Liverpool, Dublin and other towns". By 1922 he was supplying many of the residents with electricity for lighting from a small generating plant powered by an American style windmill.

C.V.A./Kearney & Trecker, by Peter Groves, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.10-22, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

The Hove based Machine Tool Company, known for much of the twentieth Century as CVA, was founded at the end of World War I. Its headquarters for over 50 years was in Portland Road, Hove, near the bottom of what is now Olive Road, on the site currently occupied by Seeboard Energy. Commercial activities operated from this vicinity prior to 1918.

Cocking Lime Works, by Ron Martin, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.23-31, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

This survey was stimulated by the article by George Cloke published in Sussex Industrial History 30 (2000) on the history of the Midhurst Whites Brickworks. Cocking was the source of lime which was one of the constituent materials for the manufacture of sand lime bricks.

Nutley Windmill - A Dendrochronological Investigation, by M. C. Bridge, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.32-35, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

James Longley & Co. and the Building of Christ's Hospital, West Horsham, by Peter Longley, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.36-39, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

The architect for the project was Sir Aston Webb, then at the height of his career, and the contracts for erecting the buildings were placed with the local firm of James Longley & Co. of Crawley. Longley's entered into two contracts, the first in April 1896 for the foundation work at a cost of £25000, their tender being the lowest. A second contract followed in 1898 to erect six boarding houses, classrooms, dining and school hall, chapel and married masters' houses. A preparatory school and an additional boarding house followed. Charles Longley, the son of James Longley, and active in the management of the Company, recalled in his Recollections privately published in 1923, the involvement of the Company in the Christ's Hospital contracts.