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Narrowies & Broodies. Today, through the corridors of 14 red brick buildings in Horsham, Sussex, 840 boys swarm from class to class in their historic, monkish robes. Those robes have the same number of buttons (one large, six small) as they always had, and there are the same narrow belts ("narrowies") for the young boys and the same "broadies" for the older ones. When a boy becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back...
...London. He picked up an odd penny here & there by holding horses and unloading baggage from cabs. When Editor Meynell found him, he was a wreck of 29, his health half ruined by exposure and laudanum. Thompson, like Meynell, was a Roman Catholic, and it was to a Sussex priory that Meynell first sent him, hoping at least to save his life...
WINIFRED PHILLIPS Hove, Sussex, England...
GARY OWEN Worthing, Sussex, England...
Shorn Trees. The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor. Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 83, present patriarch of the family, was unmoved. "My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's. They were defending England...