I was thrilled to find one of the Verdun oaks in Scaynes Hill, just a few miles from where I live. Now I want to find out more about Scayne's Hill during WWI.
1915 Trade Directory
Kelly's Directory of Sussex, 1915 (pages 523/4] available from Leicester University special collections says:
SCAYNES HILL is about 2 miles south east [of Lindfield] The mission church of St Augustine is an unconsecrated edifice of brick, and has a tower with spire containing a clock and one bell : there are sittings for 220 persons; service here is held by the vicar of Lindfield. There is also a Baptist chapel. Walstead and Enfield commons are in this parish.
Public Elementary School - Scaynes Hill (mixed), built for 100 children; Mrs. Lavinia S. Button, mistress.
Browne Duncan David, The Neale, Scaynes Hill
Button Mrs, St. Augustine's House, Scaynes Hill
Clarke Septimus, Inces, Scaynes Hill
Gibbons Sills Clifford, Scaynes Hill
Harrison Robert Thomas, 2 Clifton Villas, Scaynes Hill
Margesson Misses, Scaynes Hill House, Scaynes Hill
Commercial
Awcock William, Sloop Inn, Scaynes Hill
Burtenshaw Alfred George, wheelwright, Scaynes Hill
Cox George H, builder, Ham Lane
Cox Jessse, farmer, Hamlyns, Scaynes Hill
Dann David, farmer, Hammonds Farm, Scaynes Hill
Jensen A. W. Orchid Grower, Scaynes Hill
Kember Edwin, Butter Box, Scaynes Hill
Knight Stephen, beer retailer, Snowdrop Inn
Lindfield Ada (Miss) dressmaker, Scaynes Hill
Luckens Joseph John, shopkeeper and sub-postmaster, Scaynes Hill
Mann Robert, farmer, Awbrooke Farm, Scaynes Hill
Marsh Henry, Farmer, Scaynes Hill
Matthews Charles, Anchor Inn [Now the Inn on the Green] Scaynes Hill
Merrick Sydney Herbert, farmer, Scaynes Hill
Nunns Alfred Earnest, insur. agt, Hill View, Scaynes Hill
Taylor William J, Market Gardener, Scaynes Hill
Tingley William, Boot maker, Scaynes Hill
Washer Thomas, farmer, Freshfield Place
The roll of honour website lists those on the war memorial.
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