2007 News & Members Articles

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•  Pyromania! - By Claire Goodey
  Too much of my youth was spent playing with smoky fires at the bottom of the garden and this fascination has never left me.  My Big Chief I Spy Annual for 1956 told me the different ways I could light fires.   I don’t remember trying them out until much later when I was a young mum clearing flints from our garden on the North Downs.   I was striking two flints against each other – the sparks flying haphazardly everywhere but on my carefully prepared tinder - watched by my 4 year old daughter.  “What are you doing Mummy?”  “Trying to make fire”, I replied.  With all the wisdom of the very young she advised, “It’s much easier if you use a match”.
  - MARCH 2007 [Click the title above for more...]

•  Chapel site at Ewe Down - By Bruce Milton & Peter Bidmead
  A small team of volunteers have been excavating a small site believed to be a chapel, which lies along the banks of the Cuckmere River just north of Exceat Bridge, east of Seaford.
  - MARCH 2007 [Click the title above for more...]

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