September 2023

This amazing publication is now out of print. Westbourne Local History Group is working with the original publishers with the aim of continuing it’s availability, with additions. The aim is to produce a CD package including a complete version of the original, in the same way that the Group has…

We are pleased to announce a public meeting on November 11th in the Meeting Place, North Street, Westbourne PO10 8SP. Doors will open at 2pm. Admission free. It will take the form of “Meet your History Group”. We became aware in our last programme of meetings that many people wanted…

The History Group’s March meeting:- “Westbourne Notables” led by Nigel Peake will take place on March 17 at “The Meeting Place”, North Street, Westbourne. ADMISSION FREE DOORS OPEN 7.00pm, MEETING STARTS 7.15pm

Due to ill heath our January and February meetings are being slipped back by a month or so, i.e. there will be no meeting in January. Thus the meeting:- “WWII in Westbourne”. will take place on February 11th at 2pm As before there will be a mini exhibition based on…

The Group is pleased to announce the availablity of a third CD product – “Property Sales”, being a unique collection of rare sales documents In the early 1900s a number of major sales of land and property occurred. The majority of sale items were as a result of the Stansted…

The February meeting details are now confirmed as Friday 17 February at the Meeting Place.  Doors open 7.oo pm.

Details are firming up ! At the November 4th Meeting (7.30 pm), Group Members will hold demonstrations of Genealogy, DNA and Surname distribution and Newspaper searching tools together with local history tools including Surveys from 1640 on, HER records, Graveyard records and the Search Engine of Chichester Records office. These…

Part of our updated approach has been to create a new contact list so we can keep our friends briefed about our activities. Data Protection rules have caused us to ask all wishing to join to give us express permision to hold contact details. If you would like to be…

It seems a long time ago that we unveiled our aim to re-shape the History Group to be more outgoing and involving. We have been working on it and we can now announce the bones of the plan for our first set of open meetings. Thank you for your patience.…

The very dry summer caused Roger Wilding to hunt for some-one with a photo drone to fly over sites of interest to him in the hope of revealing details of old foundations and similar. He was very lucky to find that the village has a professional photographer with drones (Brian…