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About Us « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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Is a fortnightly ezine for the residents of Crowborough providing information on events, clubs and societies in the area and the history of the town. The accompanying website supplements the information providing easy access and regular updates to the information. Designed by Kamac Web Services.
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The Chicken Run Murder « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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The Chicken Run Murder. In December 1924 Crowborough hit the headlines in the national papers when a young lady called Elsie Cameron went missing. Elsie had been to visit her fiance Norman Thorne in Crowborough but she never returned to her home in London. The case became known as the chicken run murder. Norman Thorne was a Sunday school teacher from Kemsal Green, London. In 1917 he had met up with Elsie Cameron, a typist. They became romantically involved. He wrote to Elsie that November:. You have abso...
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The Burnt Oak Crash of 1916 « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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The Burnt Oak Crash of 1916. Thankfully train crashes are few and far between in Crowborough but one such incident occurred on 5th April 1916. The driver, on sighting the gangers blew his whistle and they moved out of the way. One of the gangers was alarmed at the speed of the train and said to one of his colleagues “She’ll be off the road”. The fireman P Savage and 5 passengers were injured but not seriously. John Paige, the driver suffered serious injuries. July 29, 2014 at 7:15 am. I am assuming that ...
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Minnie and the King’s Christmas Speech « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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Minnie and the King’s Christmas Speech. Was born at Warmley House, just outside of Bristol on 12 May 1875. Minnie, the oldest sister of 3, was bought up as a Nonconformist in the Wesleyan tradition. Soon, she was invited to become a missionary worker in India, serving between 1906 and 1912. There she learned to speak Tamil. She returned home by 1913, and took up midwifery training in London. In January 1914 she went back to India, but caught a fever and returned to England in 1915. Her sister Bessie had ...
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Crowborough War Memorial Hospital « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. Front Entrance of Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. We have to go back to 1897 to find the origins of the Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. At a meeting in Buckhurst the North Sussex Diamond Jubilee Nursing Association was founded to provide medical care for the parishes of Crowborough, Hartfield, St Johns, Eridge, Frant, Rotherfield, Withyham and Maresfield. The association later became known as the Crowborough & District Nursing Association. By 1914, the Cottage Hos...
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Places « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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The Biggest Aspidistra in Crowborough. As you travel over the forest, just past King’s Standing you come across a fenced off area now owned by Sussex police. However, behind the barbed wire lies the story of how Britain managed to flood Germany with fake transmissions during World War II. Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. Front Entrance of Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. We have to go back to 1897 to find the origins of the Crowborough War Memorial Hospital. Or submit a story by email.
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Help Build A History of Crowborough « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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Help Build A History of Crowborough. We need your help to build a complete history of Crowborough. Crowborough has a long past and while there have been an assortment of books written about it over the past this is, to our knowledge, the frist community based website. So why not become a part of the history yourself and send us your stories or recollections of people, places and events in Crowborough. Let’s try to build the biggest collection of Crowborough history on the Internet! I was born in Crowboro...
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Events « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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The Burnt Oak Crash of 1916. Thankfully train crashes are few and far between in Crowborough but one such incident occurred on 5th April 1916. The Chicken Run Murder. In December 1924 Crowborough hit the headlines in the national papers when a young lady called Elsie Cameron went missing. Elsie had been to visit her fiance Norman Thorne in Crowborough but she never returned to her home in London. The case became known as the chicken run murder. Or submit a story by email. Designed by Kamac Web Services.
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From Crowborough to Soho « What's on in Crowborough - For all your local events & information visit Your Crowborough
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From Crowborough to Soho. This is the story of a man born and raised in Crowborough who went on to become a leading journalist and politician in the swinging sixties, but he also had a shadier side to him and was well known on the london sex party scene and was also suspected of being a Russian spy. This is the story of Tom Driberg. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg was born on 22nd May 1905. He was the youngest of 3 sons. His father John worked for the Indian Civil Service. During the general strike worked at ...
