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Aug
Sister Meally – Ward Sister on Ward III – Queen Victoria Hospital – 2nd World War
Read MoreArchibald McIndoe, a pioneering plastic surgeon of the Second World War operated on hundreds of burnt airmen and Sister Mary Meally helped run Ward III,
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Nov
Dr. Russell Davies – Anaesthetist for Archibald McIndoe – Founder Member of Guinea Pig Club
Read MoreRussell Davies (Third from Left) with all the founding members of the Guinea Pig Club July 1941 During WW2 he was a vital member of
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Aug
Sam Gallop’s 100th Birthday
Read MoreSam Gallop, Chairman of the Guinea Pig Club will be celebrating his 100th birthday on Thursday August 11th 2022. Following his aircraft accident in 1943,
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Nov
Matron Hall – Ran Queen Victoria Hospital for McIndoe – WW2
Read MoreArchibald McIndoe, the pioneering Plastic Surgeon of the Second World War ran a tight ship at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. As well
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Jun
Nursing at Queen Victoria Hosptial
Read MoreThis Spring, we have been joined by Masters Student Isabel Pace, who has been researching stories about the Guinea Pig Club as part of her
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Apr
Prince Philip and the Guinea Pig Club
Read MoreSecretary of the Guinea Pig Club, and Museum Trustee, Bob Marchant has helped write an article about the role Prince Philip played for the Guinea
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Apr
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON MEETING HRH PRINCE PHILIP (by Bob Marchant)
Read MorePERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON MEETING HRH PRINCE PHILIP Together with the rest of the country, and the world, it was with great sadness to hear the news
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Apr
Tribute to HRH PRINCE PHILLIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH 1921 -2021
Read MoreHRH PRINCE PHILLIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH 1921 -2021 As Secretary of the Guinea Pig Club, it is with great sadness on hearing the news of
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Jan
Tributes to the Guinea Pig Club
Read MoreTributes to the Guinea Pig Club As part of the Guinea Pig Club’s 80th Anniversary in 2021, Bob Marchant, the Secretary of the Club, looks
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Apr
McIndoe after the Second World War
Read MoreArchibald McIndoe after the Second World War With the end of the Second World War in 1945, Archibald McIndoe showed no interest in slowing down
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Jun
EAST GRINSTEAD MARKET
Read MoreEAST GRINSTEAD MARKET, HIGH STREET AND CANTELUPE ROAD In 1247, a Royal charter was granted to the Lord of the Manor, for the
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20
Jun
THE WOODBURY HOTEL
Read MoreTHE WOODBURY HOTEL I have such fond memories of The Woodbury Hotel. My parents owned it during the nineteen
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May
A History of East Grinstead Target Shooting Club
Read MoreKatie Kettle has written as blog about the history of EG Target Shooting Club which is published on their website. She gives us a permission
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06
Mar
NAUGHTY DR BEECHING, WHO AXED OUR RAILWAY
Read MoreNAUGHTY DR BEECHING, WHO AXED OUR RAILWAY “Oh, Dr Beeching, what have you done? There once were lots of trains to catch, but
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Jan
The Hucknall Estate, Excerpt From an Article by David Gould
Read MoreThe Hucknall Estate, a small corner of East Grinstead, tucked away behind the railway station, was an investment of coal merchant William Best, who transported
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07
Dec
The Union Workhouse in East Grinstead
Read MoreWorkhouses, in existence since the sixteenth century, were designed to accommodate able bodied paupers, who were expected to work at menial (and usually pointless) tasks,
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Sep
THE EAST GRINSTEAD SUFFRAGISTS
Read MoreMuriel, Countess de la Warr Lady Indina Sackville In a May 1911 survey,
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Jul
Ye Dorset Arms at East Grinstead
Read MoreWhat’s in a name? Previously The Newe Inn, The Ounce, and The Cat, The Dorset Arms has been an inn for over 500 years. There
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May
EAST GRINSTEAD HIGH STREET
Read MoreImage 1. East Grinstead was founded in medieval times. The broad High Street was designed as a market place, lined on either side by long
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Oct
The Forgotten Story of Benjamin Rycroft
Read MoreWhilst many people are familiar with the work of Archibald McIndoe within the field of plastic surgery, few people are aware of part that East
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Sep
MY HOUSE, IN THE MIDDLE OF MY STREET ….
Read MoreMuseum volunteer and local resident Loral Bennett uses the Museum archives to look at the history of 85 West Street At one time, West Street
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Jun
“….in what was formerly a dusty lumber-room of the Church Tower…”
Read MoreA volunteer bought these lovely ‘East Grinstead and its Parish Church’ booklets to my attention. The oldest of these seen on the left, is dated 1934
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Feb
The ‘Radio Centre’
Read MoreThe area and the road, King Street, that you see on the photograph was first developed in 1934 by William Christopher of the ‘Letheby &
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Jan
Margaret Birley shares her experiences of collecting Indian musical instruments
Read MoreOn Sunday 18th December, the museum’s last open day for 2016, East Grinstead Museum was delighted to be joined by Keeper of Musical Instruments, Margaret
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