East Grinstead

It says “East Grinstead Official Guide” on the following website. I am not sure how official it is but it has a great section on the history of East Grinstead.
Here is an excerpt:
“By the mid-C16 the parish of East Grinstead (modern East Grinstead, Ashurst Wood and Forest Row) contained about 1,000 people, of […]

Many people want to find details for the East Grinstead Cinema so here is the phone number and address:
Atrium Building
King Street
East Grinstead
West Sussex
RH19 3DJ
01342 321666

I have been reading up on the history of Sussex and the early kings.Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject of Aelle:
Ælle was the first king of the South Saxons from 477 to perhaps as late as 514, and was the first king recorded by Bede to have held imperium over […]

You can see an East Grinstead Roll of Honour page on this website created by John Harrison.

In 1910 there were 207 branches of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in Britain. Membership of the NUWSS had grown from 13,429 in 1909 to 21,571 in 1910. However, it was not until July 1911 that Muriel, Countess de la Warr, Marie Corbett and Lilla Durham decided to […]

My sister and I had been staying with our grandparents in Bexhill in August 1939 and had, with our Aunt, visited a friend of hers who had a notice in her window saying, “Don’t worry! It may never happen.”
I was nine years old a few days after the war began. We lived […]

East Grinstead, Sussex
A quiet small market town, not noted especially for anything of great importance, many interesting buildings, places of worship and a very good hospital.
I had been married for just a month when war was declared and very soon East Grinstead, like many other small towns and villages, became a hive […]

My childhood memories:-
I was about 9 years old, when, in East Grinstead, a Bomb was dropped on the Cinema, and the film that was being shown was “Random Harvest”. A carnage ensued.I sat with Granny, watching the bodies being taken to the mortuary and the little church next to the cemetery.
We used […]

The Fieseler Fi 103/FZG-76 (Vergeltungswaffe-1, V-1), known as the Flying bomb, Buzz bomb or Doodlebug, was the first guided missile used in war and the forerunner of today’s cruise missile.
The name Vergeltungswaffe, meaning “reprisal weapon”, was coined by German propaganda minister Goebbels to signify reprisal against the Allies for the bombing […]