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Contents.
What are the Content* ? —( Love's Labour Lost.) |
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Preface ........................... v
List of Illustrations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xiv |
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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
The Author's origin and antiquity.—How to spell East-Bourne the wrong way.—William the Conqueror cited.—Ancestors.—The South Gloucester Militia in 1806. 1—4
CHAPTER II. A TOPOGRAPHICAL TOUR ROUND THE TOWN, WITH ANECDOTES
Old East-Bourne and Meads.
Willingdon.—A tragic Picnic.— Ratton.—Entertainments there.—Mr. W. B. Thomas.—The Thomas Family.—Great Snow-storm.—A prehistoric Battle. —Skeletons.—The Cemetery.—The Gore.—Motcombe Pond.—Old Postal arrangements.—The old and the new Vicarages.—Compton Place Road.—The Gilbert Family.—Major Willard.—Compton Place.—Lady Fanny Howard.—Mr. R. B. Stone.—Meads.—Mr. Caldecott.—Holywell.—Two Picnics there.—The Countess De Noailles.—Lady Howard De Walden.—Tragedies at Beachy Head. —The Lamb Inn.—East-Bourne Fair.—Water Lane. 5—26
CHAPTER III. A TOPOGRAPHICAL TOUR ROUND THE TOWN, WITH ANECDOTES.
Central East-Bourne.
Grove Road.— Bourne Stream.—Sir J. Leach.—Lord Thurlow.—Stocks Bank.—Town Hall.—The Squirrel.—Rose Cottage.—Elm Cottage.— Major Wilf ord.—Wesleyan Chapel.—Literary Institution.—New Inn. —South Street.— Performing Fleas.—The Brother Blacksmiths.— A Dilapidated House.— Larkfield House.—Mr. Rawdon.—The Terrace.—Old Residents.—Old Footpaths. —Prentice Street.—East-Bourne College.—The Wish.—Devonshire Park.— Cliff Cottage.—Proposed town of " Burlington. "—The first Earl of Burlington.— The Susans Farm.—The Graham Family.—Terminus Road.—Thomas Morris, cricketer.—Oak Cottage and Charles II.—Terminus Road once a cornfield.— Coming of age of the 8th Duke of Devonshire.—Historic houses in Harrington Place. 27—41 |
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