THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — www.findonvillage.com created by Valerie Martin, contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.
BRIDES OF FINDON
OS reference TQ 116 084
Copyright Valerie Martin 2006
In May 2006, John Pelling showed me a photograph of the author of the book entitled Fragments of Findon. He was Hugh Richard Penfold Wyatt J.P.
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Hugh Richard Penfold Wyatt was born in 1861 in Hampshire and died aged 78 at his Cissbury Estate in Nepcote in 1938 at the age of 78.
During his life in Findon he also lived at Holmbush in the High Street c. 1855 and later at Cissbury and re-built each wing of the house. In 1905 he was made High Sheriff of Sussex.
 Here is the Findon landowner, Hugh Richard Penfold Wyatt outside St. John the Baptist Church with his daughter, Joan on 20th July 1927. |
Let's have a look at the guests outside the church....
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I then had a sudden idea. Were you married at St. John's the Baptist Church in Findon... or do you know someone who was? If so, send me a photograph of your wedding at the church along with the date.....and a photograph of yourself today.
Let us see how many years we can go back........ will Joan Wyatt's wedding be the earliest I can conjure up.
Search out those photographs for me.... and start scanning. Don't worry if you're now divorced...... don't despair...you can cut the other half out and just send yourself.
The only stipulation I make is that the wedding photograph MUST have St. John's the Baptist Church somewhere in the background.
Please click here to send your Wedding Day.
E-mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com
I will put the Brides of Findon I have discovered in chronological order of their wedding dates...
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c. 1931 — Chrissy and Arthur Pelling's wedding at Findon Church. (Janet Pelling tells me that two brothers married two sisters, Chrissy and Arthur and Violet and Harry). |
 Violet and Harry Pelling outside St. John the Baptist Church on 4th April 1933. |
Here's a snowy Findon wedding ....what a lovely surprise to receive this one below. Thank you for another glamorous bride, Gladys.
| 8th March 2007 Dear Valerie, Brides of Findon I am sending you copies of photographs of my wedding 29th March 1952.
No photographer, guests just brought their cameras. The bridesmaid on the right of the picture is my cousin, now Jennifer Wakeford, married at Findon Church 15 years later. I think you may be hearing from her. Her father, George Mitchell, gave me away as you can see in the lychgate photo.
I had a truly white wedding as Findon was covered in snow that day. To keep warm, I wore two vests under my dress borrowed from my aunt who was married in 1934... so a wedding on a shoe string. The reception was held in the Old School House. As always, Gladys Lambourne. Gladys Lambourne, Findon Village, West
Sussex.
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If anyone would like to read more of Gladys' reminiscences of
Findon, please click on
Gladys Lambourne and Rose Cottage and following the links through, there's
lots to read.
| 31st March 2007 Findon Brides
June 14th 1958 - the wedding of Miss Patricia Diana Franks to Mr Roger Moulds. So it will be 50 next year. The smallest bridesmaid in the picture is my baby sister
who has just become a grandmother. Roger Moulds, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales.
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15th September 1962 under the lych gate.
Pam Stepney, Findon Village, West Sussex.
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I would die for that lovely dress, Pam. I will not let on how much it cost.
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Janet and John Pelling's wedding on 4th June 1966 at St John the Baptist Church conducted by the Reverend Brett who used to lodge at Granchester in Nepfield Close. |
 Janet and John Pelling's wedding. |
| 24th June 2006 hi valerie,
Find attached photo taken of us in Findon
church 40yrs to the day we got married,The flowers that i am holding were
given to us by the Church on the 4th June 2006.
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Another super dress....
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What a lovely setting....
| 28th May 2006 Here’s a photo of my wedding to Rita Potten on 8 June 1968 at St John the Baptist. The wedding was performed by Donald Brett.
It was rather an overcast day and had been raining in the morning.
Within a couple of years, colour photos had completely
taken over from black and white.
Neil Rogers-Davis, Angmering Village, West
Sussex. |
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23rd March 2007 Dear Valerie, Here is a picture of Ian and Helen Wedding at St John the Baptist Findon on the 26th March 2005. On Monday will be their 2nd Wedding Anniversary". Janet Pelling, Lower Salvington, West Sussex.
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Continue if you would like to read about an Eerie Experience at the Church.
THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — www.findonvillage.com is a continually growing record created by Valerie Martin exclusively for documenting life in Findon.
Dear Valerie, The
attached photo is of my wedding taken almost 40years ago on
30th September 1967.
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