Lewes - click image below to return to album
The Bear Hotel on the banks of the River Ouse at Lewes, Sussex, c.1890s, Ref- 555 - Burned down October 1918. - click image below to return
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Lewes - click image below to return to album
The Bear Hotel on the banks of the River Ouse at Lewes, Sussex, Ref- 562 - Burning down October 1918. - click image below to return
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Lewes - see image below to return to album
A fireman battles the blaze which destroyed the Bear Hotel Oct 1918, Ref- 560 - see image below to return
Postcard kindly contributed by Deb Kellie, originally owned by her step grandfather.
 
she writes...
I am scanning through some old photographs from my step grandfather - Wilfred Ewen Bond.
Amongst them is a photo of The Bear Hotel on the day of it burning down..
He described it as being taken opposite Mrs Wilmhurst.
I thought you may like it
Bear Hotel, Lewes - click below to return to album
fireman battles the blaze, Bear Hotel, Lewes Oct 1918 Sussex, Ref- dk20 - click below to return
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Bear Hotel, Lewes - click to return to album
Rear of postcard, c.1918, Ref- dk20bc - click to return
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Rear of a Postcard showing the Bear Hotel, Lewes, Sussex on fire
Postcard published by A.M.Bliss & Co., Lewes & Seaford
 
contributed :- Deb Kellie
 
Posted
5 October 1918
from
East Grinstead by Wilf [ Wilfred Ewen Bond ]
To
Mrs E.Johnston [ Edie ]
29 Reynolds Buildings, Millbank, Westminster, London SW1
 
ref- dk20bc
 
message
 
This photo is taken opposite Mrs Wilmhurst
The Bear Hotel
 
Dear Edie
Received photos safe today and was very pleased to get them.
I will send money next week. How are you all keeping. Tell Mother to send jacket as soon as possible.
Yours etc ..Wilfred
 
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