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Hogg House 1785 by Samuel H. Grimm
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Buxted St Margarets in 1777 by Samuel H. Grimm
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Buxted Place, by Samuel H. Grimm - 1798
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Buxted St Margarets in 1793 by Samuel H. Grimm
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Buxted Place, West Front by Samuel H. Grimm - 1785
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Mr Moyle's garage courtesy of Janet Lockyer
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Outside the White Hart in Edwardian times originally courtesy of Janet Lockyear
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The Buxted Stores now The Olives originally courtesy of Janet Lockyear.
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North Lodge Buxted Park
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Milking at Great Totease Farm before World War One, by courtesy of R. M. Cyster., a great-nephew of Edmund Taylor, ten
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Buxted Forge from Norman Edwards' collection.
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Butcher's Farm 1913 (once known as Curd's Farm. now Old Farm House) from Norman Edwards' collection.
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Haymaking, 1924
Haymaking, 1924, (haymakers working at Tanyard Farm for William Wilmshdirst, the tall figure George Pratt of Bailey Pits, with George Turner on his left, and George's son, Waiter, holding Jolly's bridle. The man on top of the load is thought to be William Durrant of Tanyard Cottages.) from Norman Edwards' collection.
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* all the above photographs were reproduced from an excellent
local history of Buxted, called 'A short History of Buxted' by Rosemary
Alexander a local author and journalist, and with the kind permission of the
Author. You are highly commended to buy it |
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Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1733-1794), artist, was born in Switzerland studied
in Berne and Paris before moving to Covert Garden. London in 1768. Besides
his work as a commercial engraver and watercolour painter he is but known
for same 2,500 commissioned watercolours of antiquities, historic buildings
and landscapes in the British Library (MSS 1553748). Throughout the 1780s he
toured Sussex, sketching churches, monuments castles, abbeys and houses of
the gentry.
William Burrell (1732-96), antiquary. was born in Leadenhall Street,
London, educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. He became
Chancellor of Worcester and Rochester Dioceses, M.P. for Haselemere and a
Commissioner of Excise. From 1780 he employed Samuel Grimm to make drawings,
of all the notable annuities and important houses in Sussex, which he
bequeathed to the British Museum in his will.
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