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Vicarage Cottages, Bersted Street, Bognor Regis, Sussex, West Sussex Gazette, 9 May 1963, Ref- 150k
"These neatly thatched cottages, once all one farmhouse, stand close to South Bersted church. One is marked with the initials FB & date 1726. Since then almost everything around them has changed. When they were built, Sir Richard Hotham, who is buried in South Bersted church, was 4 years old and his ambitious plans for developing Bognor as a fashionable resort were far in the future. Bognor then was a mere fishing village while the more prosperous agricultural pursuits were carried out further inland. These cottages built of yellow Ragstone and cobbles, with brick dressings, stand as witness of a time when the social and economic life of the district was entirely different from what it is to-day.
Mr. John Broughton was the artist."
July 2014
Jeremy Chandler, of Canberra, Australia, sent us the newspaper extract, dated 1963, shown above. His interest in the cottages stems from his research into his "family tree associated with the Boniface line of family who originated from South Bersted. In fact they are associated with this very building"
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