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The Eccentric Miller of Highdown Hill, by Merle Rafferty, published September 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 3, article, p.118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of John Olliver of Goring (1707-1793), son of Clement and Margaret Olliver, and married to Anne Tidey of Ferring in 1734. He was known to walk up Highdown Hill to survey the wonderful view and meditate upon the scriptures.

The Miller of Highdown, by Sally White, published October 1998 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 11 Number 1, article, pp.11-13, Autumn 1998) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]

The strange tale of John Oliver (1709-1793) of Highdown near Worthing: miller, poet, inventor - and maker of eccentric arrangements for his own funeral!

A Military Coup!, by Sharon Paskins, published December 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 4, article, pp.160-163) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508854]

Several years ago a (non blood) relative of mine was having a clear out and, knowing my interest in family history, gave me a cardboard box "with some old family photos in". The box had been in the loft for years, and far from containing a few photos, it was full of family documents, memorabilia and photos dating back to the 1850s. I scanned all the carte de visits, family letters, wills, original birth marriage and death certificates and apprenticeship papers onto my PC and packed the box away in a safe place and forgot about it. With the WW1 centenary approaching, the box came to mind as a source of possible photographs so I dug it out and retrieved a pile of history that I had so carelessly dismissed all those years previously.
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From a Sussex perspective there were two entries in the autograph book that caught my eye; one from Norman BOURNE from the Royal Sussex Regiment and the other from R.T. OLIVER whose entry includes reference to St Leonards on Sea.