Author: Blaker, Nathaniel Paine
Title: Sussex In Bygone Days - Reminiscences of Nathaniel Paine Blaker
Description: Combridges, Hove, 1919, 2nd edition. Cloth, VG. xvi+199pp, b/w frontis, 3 b/w plates, base of the rear board slightly marked, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Originally published in 1906 for private circulation, this 1919 edition was mostly re-written & expanded. Nathaniel Paine Blaker [1835 - 1920 ], surgeon who was asked to write of his long medical career. This book was the product. Blaker wrote to his friend & said 'Though medical matters are, of course, what you are most interested in, I trust you will pardon my endeavour to give a sketch of a Sussex village as in childhood I recollect it, before railways, better roads and easier means of communication had done away with the primitive habits and customs of the rural population as I first knew them'. Life in & around Fulking occupies the first 138 pages of the book, with medical matters relagated to the last 60 pages.

Keywords: sussex, victorian history