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Lancing and Sompting from Early Postcards, by Pip Barker, published 1979 (Nostalgia Publications)

Newhaven in old picture postcards, by Peter S. Bailey, published 1983 (76 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028824766 & ISBN-13: 9789028824768) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Hove in Old Picture Postcards, by Judy Middleton, published 1983 (140 illus., Netherlands: Zaltbommel) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508065]

Cuckfield in Old Picture Postcards, by Maisie Wright, published November 1984 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028829407 & ISBN-13: 9789028829404) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14893][Lib 9158] & West Sussex Libraries

Rottingdean in Old Picture Postcards, by Ernest Ryman, published 1 May 1985 (28 pp., Brighton: Dyke Publications, ISBN-10: 0950975621 & ISBN-13: 9780950975627)

Rottingdean in Old Picture Postcards, by A. S. Payne and Eddie Scott, published January 1986 (80 pp., European Library, ISBN-10: 9028833102 & ISBN-13: 9789028833104)

Historic Hurstpierpoint in Picture Postcards, by David Robinson, published 9 October 1986 (72 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951176609 & ISBN-13: 9780951176603) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

East Sussex Railways in Old Postcards, by Kevin Robertson, published 1987 (48 pp., Meresborough Books, ISBN-10: 0948193220 & ISBN-13: 9780948193224) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Burgess Hill in Old Picture Postcards, by Frederic M. Avery, published 1988

Newhaven in old picture postcards: V.1, by Peter S. Bailey, published 1 October 1989 (new edition, 80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028827455 & ISBN-13: 9789028827455) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Newhaven in old picture postcards: V.3, by Peter S. Bailey, published 1 October 1989 (new edition, 80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028834710 & ISBN-13: 9789028834712) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Newhaven in old picture postcards: V.4, by Peter S. Bailey, published 1 October 1989 (new edition, 80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028846999 & ISBN-13: 9789028846999) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Newhaven in old picture postcards: V.5, by Peter S. Bailey, published 1 November 1989 (new edition, 80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028848401 & ISBN-13: 9789028848405) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A.H.C. Corder: Postcard Publisher of Brighton - a preliminary list of postcards, by John Robards, published 1990 (published by the author)

Devils Dyke in Old Picture Postcards, by Ernest Ryman, published 6 March 1990 (32 pp., Brighton: Dyke Publications, ISBN-10: 095097563X & ISBN-13: 9780950975634) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Horsham in Old Picture Postcards, volume 1, by Tony Wales, published 1 September 1991 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028834745 & ISBN-13: 9789028834743) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Brighton and Hove: Volume 1 - A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards, by Judy Middleton, published 22 November 1991 (112 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1870708997 & ISBN-13: 9781870708999) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Lewes in Old Picture Postcards, by Bob Cairns, published December 1991 (80 pp., European Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 902884709X & ISBN-13: 9789028847095) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Horsham in Old Picture Postcards, volume 2, by Tony Wales, published February 1992 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028853227 & ISBN-13: 9789028853225) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Crowborough in Old Picture Postcard, by Malcolm Payne, published 1 April 1992 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028853510 & ISBN-13: 9789028853515) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Chichester in Old Picture Postcards, by Kenneth Green, published 1 June 1992 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028853839 & ISBN-13: 9789028853836) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11866][Lib 12892] & West Sussex Libraries

A.H.C. Corder: Postcard Publisher of Brighton - a revised list of postcards, by John Robards, published 1993 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502570]

Littlehampton in Old Picture Postcards, by Tony Wales, published May 1993 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028855599 & ISBN-13: 9789028855595) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath in Old Picture Postcards, by Nickola Smith, published November 1993 (88 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028856900 & ISBN-13: 9789028856905) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502811] & West Sussex Libraries

Burgess Hill in Old Picture Postcards, by Frederic M. Avery, published 1994 (new edition, 80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028846298 & ISBN-13: 9789028846296) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Sussex cricket postcards: (1901-1947), by Bob Jones and Nicholas Sharp, published 1994 (59 pp., Hainault: County Print Services, ISBN-10: 1899266003 & ISBN-13: 9781899266005) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Centenary of the picture postcard, 1894-1994 : the Hastings view, edited by David Padgham, published 1994 (12 pp., Hastings & East Sussex Philatelic Society) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

W. Brooker of Eastbourne: Postcard Publisher 1904-1924, by John Robards, published 1994 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502660]

Rusper in the Past: as seen in old postcards, by Margaret White and Derek White, published 1999 (pamphlet, published by the authors) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14319] & West Sussex Libraries

Postcards - More than just Seaside Humour, by A. V. Barwick, published June 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 6, article, pp.208-209) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508821] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A.H.C. Corder of Brighton, by John Robards, published January 2000 in Picture Postcard Monthly (no. 249, article, pp.18-20)

Chiddingly and East Hoathly: A Portrait of Two East Sussex Parishes from Old Postcards, by Liz Clerehugh and Jane Seabrook, published 1 July 2000 (iii + 108 pp., CTR Publishing, ISBN-10: 0952451646 & ISBN-13: 9780952451648) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502612] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Eastbourne in Old Picture Postcards, by Tony Wales, published 1 November 2000 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028826416 & ISBN-13: 9789028826410) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Burgess Hill in Old Picture Postcards: volume 2, by Frederic M. Avery, published 2001 (Europese Bibliotheek B.V, ISBN-10: 9028835628 & ISBN-13: 9789028835627) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Rustington in Old Picture Postcards, by Mary Taylor, published 1 August 2001 (80 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028866531 & ISBN-13: 9789028866539) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Angmering in Old Picture Postcards, by Leslie Baker, published 2002 (80 pp., European Library, ISBN-10: 902883723X & ISBN-13: 9789028837232) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Jevington, Wannock and Willingdon: A Portrait in Old Postcards and Photographs, by Rosalind Hodge, published 10 October 2003 (112 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702840 & ISBN-13: 9781857702842) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502954] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Around Brighton & Hove, from the Judges Postcard Archive Collection, by Dave Randle, published 2007 (128 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing, ISBN-10: 075094000X & ISBN-13: 9780750940009) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sweet nothings: suggestive Brighton postcard inscriptions, by Annabella Pollen, published 2009 in Photography and culture (2(1), article, pp.77-88)

Christ's Hospital Heritage. Vol. 1: Postcards , by Clifford Jones, published 2010 (Christ's Hospital Heritage Series, no. 1, 48 pp. + 150 illustrations, Christ's Hospital Museum) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

This has 150 illustrations, and features rare cards of Christ's Hospital London, pictures of events at Hertford before the site was closed in 1985, and many cards of Crist's Hospital at Horsham. It amounts to a light touch history of many aspects of Christ's Hospital in the 20th century.

Worthing: The Postcard Collection, by Antony Edmonds, published 28 March 2013 (96 pp., Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1445616408 & ISBN-13: 9781445616407) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

During the reign of Edward VII (1901 - 1910) Worthing was a thriving resort in its architectural prime, its seafront graced by numerous elegant and charming buildings. The first decade of the twentieth century was also the period when the sending of picture postcards became almost a national obsession. Today these postcards provide us with a unique and fascinating record of the buildings, the traffic and the people of a long-vanished England. This photographic record is of especial value in the case of Worthing, since so many of the town's historic buildings have been demolished over the past seventy-five years. Reproduced in this book are over 160 postcards of Worthing that show the town in its Edwardian glory. Nearly 60 are in colour. All are richly atmospheric, and many - such as those of the Tunbridge Wells photographer Harold Camburn and the French form of Levy Sons & Co. - are of a high artistic standard. The collection takes us first to Broadwater and Tarring, and then along Worthing parade and through the streets of the town. The long section of cards of the promenade is of particular interest, the views being arranged in a tight geographical sequence, bringing the Edwardian seafront back to life building by building. Old maps of Worthing are included to assist the reader.

Unlike many recent illustrated publications on local towns, this title has a coherent theme, Edwardian Worthing. Not just "the Charm of Edwardian Worthing", as the review in the Worthing Herald (11th April 2013) was headlined, though that will doubtless help to sell the book, but illustrations of Worthing at its most graceful architectural period, so many of the buildings of which have been demolished in the past 75 years.
Using over 160 postcards (60 in full colour - with some interesting examples of different methods of tinting, in the days before widespread colour photography), the centre of the book is a photographic record of the Edwardian promenade, building by building, from what is now Dolphin Court (the former illfated attempt to build a Metropole Hotel at West Worthing in the 1890s - commonly known as Worthing's White Elephant) to the Esplanade (best known as the location where Oscar Wilde stayed while writing The Importance of Being Earnest - hence the character Ernest Worthing). Most of the postcards are contemporary; a few more recent ones have been included to complete the sequence as they illustrate Edwardian buildings. All the terrace names are included (not always easy to identify now), and details of what does and does not survive.
The other areas illustrated concentrate where visitors are most likely to frequent, such as the beach, town centre, Homefield Park (the People's Park); and the first section of the book covers the outlying areas (e.g. Tarring (including the fig gardens) and Broadwater.
The publishers for most of the postcards illustrated are identified, two of which (the French firm Levy Sons & Co., and the Tunbridge Wells photographer Harold Camburn) contribute one third of the postcards used.
He also has the wisdom to include a map (1896) so that readers can identify the locations of many of the pictures - the source of this is not actually acknowledged to Ordnance Survey (2nd edition 1898, surveyed 1896).
This title will be attractive to visitors and residents, those interested in Edwardian architecture and also postcard collectors, as he is clearly knowledgeable on the history of postcards.

Lewes: the Postcard Collection, by Bob Cairns, published 15 August 2015 (128 pp., Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1445641283 & ISBN-13: 9781445641287) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, started out as a bridging point and market town. Steeped in history, the town was an important Saxon burgh by 900, boasting two licensed mints. Its importance was reinforced when William de Warenne, a key ally of William the Conqueror, built his castles here. First a temporary building on Brack Mount, known as Bray Castle, and second the impressive stone and flint building erected nearby, so giving Lewes, perhaps uniquely, two mottes and one castle. Lewes Castle still dominates and is well worth a visit.
Intercepted by the River Ouse, there are a number of gorgeous countryside walks to take advantage of in this charming ancient town. The Postcard Collection beautifully illustrates the culture and character of Lewes, taking us on a journey through its historical past.

Edwardian Postcards as a Family History Resource, by Roger Sutton, published December 2016 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 4, article, pp.151-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/509472]