Author: Colin Hicks
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Opening of The Brewery Field – June 2016
Residents will probably know by now that the Field behind the County Record Office in Orchard Street has been taken over by Chichester City Council on a 25-year lease from the County Council for the use and enjoyment of all. It is very unusual these days to be able to organise the birth and activities… Continue reading Opening of The Brewery Field – June 2016
The Old Brewery – Gallery
Westgate’s Trees
The Brewery Field Update – June 2016
Old Maps of Westgate and Chichester 2
Historic Pictures of Westgate and surrounds
Hubert’s Street Party Poem – June 2016
‘ELIZABETH the FIRST’ (and her astonishing – but not surprising – to date, 64-year-long reign.) To thank YOU, TOWN-CRIER, I AM glad. How else could SILENCE we have had? TWO REIGNS we’ve had not quite so LONG. But is our HISTORY grasp so STRONG That if I NAME them, I’ll be SLATED?… Continue reading Hubert’s Street Party Poem – June 2016
Chichester & St Bart’s: Architecture of the City
This text is the fourth in a monthly series of five about the suburb of St Bartholomew’s Without in the wider context of the development of the City of Chichester. It is drawn from an edited extract of a 1935 publication (details below). As such it has kept a centuries-old way of talking about Chichester where… Continue reading Chichester & St Bart’s: Architecture of the City
