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    Businesses (361)

    Organisations (1423)

    Persons (225)

    Diaries (119)

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    • NRA 37766 Adams & Remers, solicitors, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 532 Adams & Remers, solicitors: Sussex manorial documents
    • NRA 8607 Adams (solrs): manorial documents
    • NRA 26523 Allfrey family of Salehurst: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 35347 Allfrey family of West Dean and Friston Place: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30074 Ancient Order of Druids: Lewes Coronation Lodge No 552 link to online catalogue
    • NRA 1000 Ashburnham family, Earls of Ashburnham: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 10302 Ashton family, Barons Ashton of Hyde: Vinehall estate papers, Sussex link to online catalogue
    • NRA 14435 Baileys, Shaw & Gillett, solicitors, London: Mayfield and St Leonards deeds
    • NRA 37725 Barclay family of Mayfield: deeds and papers
    • NRA 1211 Battle Abbey: accounts and manorial documents
    • NRA 1003 Battle Abbey and other Sussex deeds
    • NRA 26846 Battle Unitarian Chapel link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26749 Baxendale family of Framfield: deeds and papers
    • NRA 28523 Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood: political and family papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30076 Beard & Co (Lewes) Ltd, brewers, wine and spirit merchants link to online catalogue
    • NRA 2696 Beard family, Rottingdean (Sussex): deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 563 Bedford & Co, solicitors: Sussex manorial documents
    • NRA 37846 Bexhill and Battle Conservative Association
    • NRA 28364 Bexhill Borough
    • NRA 37772 Blaker, Son & Young, solicitors, Lewes: clients papers
    • NRA 26427 Blencowe of The Hook, Chailey: family and estate papers
    • NRA 23345 Bodiam Castle deeds and manorial documents
    • NRA 37769 Brassey family, Earls Brassey: Normanhurst estate papers
    • NRA 14439 CF Bridgman, monumental masons, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26529 Brighton and District Organists Association
    • NRA 37719 Brighton and Hove Band of Hope Union
    • NRA 26528 Brighton and Hove Natural History Society
    • NRA 4136 Brighton Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30072 Central Brighton Traders Association
    • NRA 37834 Brighton Citizens Advice Bureaux link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28260 Brighton: Grimmett's Educational Charity
    • NRA 4900 Brighton Hebrew Congregation link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26536 Brighton, Hove and District Clerical Society
    • NRA 26495 Brighton: Widows and Pilgrims Cottages Trusts
    • NRA 1152 Brisco collection: deeds and papers (Sussex and various counties)
    • NRA 22327 Broadwoodwidger Rural District Council link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37749 Ronald Ernest Brown, county councillor: corresp and papers
    • NRA 40076 Brundett, Whitmore & Randall, solicitors, London: East Sussex clients papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 11233 Walter Budgen, Anglican clergyman and antiquary: collected MSS link to online catalogue
    • NRA 41414 Walter Budgen, Anglican clergyman and antiquary: papers
    • NRA 37721 Burra family of Rye: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 6508 Burt, Brill & Edwards, solicitors, Brighton
    • NRA 37849 A Burtenshaw & Son, auctioneers and estate agents, Hailsham link to online catalogue
    • NRA 32278 DE Burtenshaw Ltd, builders and decorators, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 15615 Burwash Congregational Church link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37657 Bush, Morse & Welling, land agents and chartered surveyors, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 20594 Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire: family and estate papers
    • NRA 41801 Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire: Sussex manorial documents and papers
    • NRA 26531 Church Commissioners: Sussex maps
    • NRA 26860 Clifton Road Congregational Church, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 8 Coles & James, solicitors, Eastbourne: business and clients papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26869 Coney family of Burwash: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26842 Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel, North Street, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26533 Courage & Barclay Ltd: Sussex public house deeds link to online catalogue
    • NRA 5332 Courthope family of Whiligh: estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37770 Cripps, Harries & Hall, solicitors, Tunbridge Wells: clients papers
    • NRA 1149 Curteis family of Windmill Hill: estate papers
    • NRA 12275 Curteis family of Windmill Hill: family and estate papers
    • NRA 37844 Curteis family of Windmill Hill: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 31 Daniel White & Son, grocers, Hailsham link to online catalogue
    • NRA 15331 Danny Park: Dacre, Campion, Courthope and Goring family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37733 Darby family of Markly, Warbleton: estate papers
    • NRA 26535 Davey & Son Ltd, plumbers and decorators, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 977 Davidson family of Muirhouse: Hickstead Place estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 4431 Dawson & Hart, solicitors, Uckfield
    • NRA 14431 Henry de Bourbel, Comte de Montpincon: Fletching deeds, business and family papers
    • NRA 26845 Dicker Chapel, Chiddingly link to online catalogue
    • NRA 21871 Dodson family, Barons Monk Bretton : family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 4837 Duke family of Steyning: family, estate and misc papers
    • NRA 41412 Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin, genealogist and local historian: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 12929 Mrs EHW Dunkin: Sussex deeds
    • NRA 695 Dunn family of Stone House, Warbleton and Roberts family of Boarzell, Ticehurst: family and estate link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26428 Dyke family of Frant: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26532 East Dean Cricket Club link to online catalogue
    • NRA 43018 East Sussex Area Health Authority link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26848 East Sussex Baptist churches link to online catalogue
    • NRA 43019 East Sussex Family Health Services Authority link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37752 East Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26880 East Sussex Methodist chapels link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26881 East Sussex Methodist circuits link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26959 East Sussex registers of duties on land values link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37712 East Sussex River Board link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26960 East Sussex motor vehicle licensing records link to online catalogue
    • NRA 7797 East Sussex Record Office: misc accessions
    • NRA 26965 East Sussex insurance committees link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37848 Eastbourne Association of Voluntary Services
    • NRA 37579 Eastbourne Blue Beret Club link to online catalogue
    • NRA 4711 Eastbourne Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26962 Eastbourne Petty Sessional Division link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28469 Eastbourne Pier & Co Ltd link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26847 Eastgate Baptist Church, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37730 John Coker Egerton, rector of Burwash: diaries and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26526 John Coker Egerton, rector of Burwash: diaries
    • NRA 3653 J Ellman, Glynde: farming account books
    • NRA 12276 Fitzhugh, Woolley & Co (solrs): Sussex deeds
    • NRA 26851 Forest Row Baptist Church link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37577 Forest Row Village Hall Management Committee
    • NRA 17704 Frewen family of Brickwell: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37767 Fuller & Askew, architects and surveyors, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 12126 Fuller family of Rose Hill: family and estate papers
    • NRA 5298 Fuller-Acland-Hood family, Barons St Audries: Sussex and Kent deeds link to online catalogue
    • NRA 9421 Gage family, Viscounts Gage: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 4160 Gilbert family of Eastbourne: estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 10615 Glynde Place estate (various counties) link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37841 Grace Eyre Foundation, Hove link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37649 Grantham family of Barcombe: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 12928 Grantham family of Chailey: deeds
    • NRA 26217 Grebell and Lamb families of Rye: deeds and papers
    • NRA 5227 Griffith, Smith, Wade & Riley, solicitors, Brighton
    • NRA 26530 Groombridge and District Horticultural Society
    • NRA 40074 Groombridge Methodist Church
    • NRA 26964 Guardianship Society link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37847 Harmer family of Hamsey and Kenward family of East Chiltington: family and business papers
    • NRA 39983 Hasties, solicitors, London: Sussex clients papers
    • NRA 5876 Hastings Borough
    • NRA 5297 Heathfield Independent Chapel, Sussex
    • NRA 37750 Hellingly Hospital League of Friends
    • NRA 673 Henty & Constable (brewers), Chichester, Sussex: deeds
    • NRA 39088 William Herbert, librarian and antiquary: notebooks rel to Hastings and Hastings Rape
    • NRA 26864 Herstmonceux Congregational Chapel link to online catalogue
    • NRA 44727 Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Viscount Brentford: personal papers
    • NRA 12927 WH Hills: Sussex deeds
    • NRA 10279 JD Holman collection: Chalvington with Claverham and Bowley manorial documents, deeds and papers
    • NRA 37302 Holmes, Campbell & Co, solicitors, Arundel and Littlehampton: Denton estate
    • NRA 1234 Holmes, Campbell & Co, solicitors, Arundel and Littlehampton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 24566 Holroyd family, Earls of Sheffield: family and estate papers
    • NRA 26493 John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield: corresp link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26243 Hoper and Constable families of Sussex: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 42686 Percy Frederick Horton, painter: personal and family papers
    • NRA 37578 Hospital of St John the Baptist, Westham
    • NRA 27082 Hove Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 1001 Howlett & Clarke (solrs), Brighton
    • NRA 14434 Iford: Snashall family deeds
    • NRA 11937 Rev Henry Manning Ingram: E Sussex MS collection
    • NRA 40623 Sir Bryant Godman Irvine MP: corresp and papers
    • NRA 26859 Jarvis Brook Congregational Church link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26844 Jireh Chapel, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 11938 Kearley family, Viscounts Devonport: Peasmarsh Place deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37574 Thomas Legg & Son, woolstaplers, Rye link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37570 Lewes Bowling Green Society link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37751 Lewes Camera Club link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37747 Lewes Central Girls School link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37718 Lewes Mechanics Institution
    • NRA 26961 Lewes Petty Sessions link to online catalogue
    • NRA 915 Lewis, Holman & Lawrence (solrs), Lewes, Sussex
    • NRA 26862 London Missionary Society: Hastings and St Leonards and East Sussex auxiliaries link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26856 London Road Congregational Chapel, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37575 Derek Edward Gerard Lord, journalist: diaries and memoirs
    • NRA 37679 Maryon-Wilson family, baronets, of Eastbourne: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26534 Mayfield Chapel Benefit Society
    • NRA 26868 Mayfield Congregational Church link to online catalogue
    • NRA 198 JP Mead: Sussex deeds
    • NRA 37716 WR Merricks, hop farmer, Icklesham link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37656 Micklethwait family of Iridge Place: estate papers
    • NRA 43020 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37775 Monday Literary Club, Lewes
    • NRA 37569 Morris and Wille families of Lewes: family and estate papers
    • NRA 26855 Mount House Baptist Chapel, Piltdown link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30073 National Federation of Business and Professional Womens Clubs: Eastbourne branch
    • NRA 27329 National Health Service: Brighton District link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28365 National Health Service: Worthing District link to online catalogue
    • NRA 27328 National Health Service: Cuckfield and Crawley District link to online catalogue
    • NRA 27205 National Health Service: Eastbourne District link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28658 National Health Service: Hastings District link to online catalogue
    • NRA 11856 Nevill family, Marquesses of Abergavenny: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26966 Newhaven and Rye shipping registers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37764 Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd
    • NRA 40075 RE Nightingale, chartered surveyors, auctioneers and estate agents, Mayfield link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37850 Norman Edward Stanley Norris, antiquary: MS collection
    • NRA 37755 Northiam Village Hall Trust link to online catalogue
    • NRA 38472 Norton and Owens families of Rye: estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37678 Albert Oakley Ltd, agricultural and motor engineers, iron and brass founders link to online catalogue
    • NRA 5176 Old Meeting House, Ditchling link to online catalogue
    • NRA 14430 Otehall estate papers
    • NRA 26634 Ouse Navigation
    • NRA 4085 Pearless & de Rougemont, solicitors, East Grinstead
    • NRA 6751 Pelham family, Earls of Chichester: estate papers
    • NRA 10264 Pelham family, Earls of Chichester: family and estate papers
    • NRA 5956 Pelham family, Earls of Chichester: Stanmer Park household accounts
    • NRA 1153 Pelham family, Earls of Chichester: Sussex deeds
    • NRA 37774 Pelham Permanent Building Society, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37763 Perring & Co, solicitors, Hastings
    • NRA 5243 Pevensey and Hastings levels: commissioners of sewers
    • NRA 6181 Pevensey Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26866 Pevensey Road Congregational Church, Eastbourne link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37768 Pickard family of Glynde: family and business papers
    • NRA 6462 Plumley family of Pevensey: deeds & papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37758 Polhill family of Howbury: estate papers
    • NRA 12274 Portman family, Viscounts Portman: Sussex estate papers
    • NRA 12247 Possingworth estate papers
    • NRA 41534 Queen Square Congregational Church, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26841 Queens Road Presbyterian Church, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37582 Raper & Co, solicitors, Chichester: East Sussex deeds
    • NRA 5244 Raper & Fovargue, solicitors, Battle
    • NRA 37729 Rice family of Brighton: corresp and papers
    • NRA 6766 Rickman family of Ringmer: deeds
    • NRA 6764 Rider, Heaton, Meredith & Mills, solicitors, London: Sussex deeds and papers
    • NRA 37773 Robertsbridge Hundred
    • NRA 26242 H Robinson, Iford: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37771 Rother Levels Commissioners of Sewers
    • NRA 37845 Royal East Sussex Hospital, Hastings link to online catalogue
    • NRA 14436 Rugg, Stenning and Springett families of Northiam: Kent and Sussex deeds
    • NRA 3022 Rye Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 18214 Rye Harbour records
    • NRA 14454 Sackville family, Earls De La Warr: family and estate papers
    • NRA 14438 Sampson family of Ninfield: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28259 Sayer and Collier families of Hastings: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26849 Seaford Baptist Church link to online catalogue
    • NRA 3025 Seaford Borough link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37836 Seeboard plc, electricity supply company, Hove: records of predecessor bodies link to online catalogue
    • NRA 43206 Sheffield manor, Fletching
    • NRA 37652 Sheffield Park estate
    • NRA 11232 Shelley family, baronets, of Michelgrove, Sussex: Maresfield Park estate papers
    • NRA 5228 Sheppard & Son, solicitors, Battle: clients papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 12930 Shiffner family, baronets, of Coombe Place: deeds and misc papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 9204 Shiffner family, baronets, of Coombe Place: family and estate papers
    • NRA 40640 Society of Sussex Downsmen
    • NRA 37840 Southdown Building Society, Lewes: records of predecessor societies link to online catalogue
    • NRA 32277 Southdown Motor Services Ltd, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26525 Southdown Sheep Society
    • NRA 42683 Southern Philharmonic Association
    • NRA 37708 Southern Water Authority: records of East Sussex predecessor bodies link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37724 Sprotts Charity, Ditchling
    • NRA 37756 Staplecross Cricket Club
    • NRA 3442 Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Society of Friends link to online catalogue
    • NRA 10702 Sussex Archaeological Society: misc accessions
    • NRA 41416 Sussex Archaeological Society: MS collections
    • NRA 26863 Sussex Congregational Union and Missionary Society link to online catalogue
    • NRA 6461 Sussex County Cricket Club
    • NRA 37837 Sussex County Playing Fields Association link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26527 Sussex Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
    • NRA 1294 Sussex manorial documents, deeds and papers
    • NRA 29495 Sussex parishes
    • NRA 32894 Sussex Police Authority
    • NRA 27425 Sussex Sea Fisheries District: Local Fisheries Committee link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26963 Sussex Territorial and Auxiliary Forces link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26857 Tabernacle Congregational Church, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28436 Tamplins Brewery Ltd, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 30075 Arthur Tester Ltd, builders, St Leonards link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37732 Thomas family of Ratton: corresp and papers incl those of D'Oyly family
    • NRA 1240 Ticehurst, Sussex: Steelands deeds and maps
    • NRA 41535 Union Congregational Church, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 40637 Union of Post Office Workers: Brighton and Hove district branch
    • NRA 26865 Union Street Congregational Church, Brighton link to online catalogue
    • NRA 26867 Upperton Road Congregational Church, Eastbourne link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37583 Vidler & Co, auctioneers, estate agents and valuers, Rye link to online catalogue
    • NRA 14437 Wakehurst Place deeds and papers
    • NRA 26854 Wellington Square Baptist Chapel, Hastings link to online catalogue
    • NRA 27424 William Wells & Co Ltd, builders and contractors, Plumpton
    • NRA 12246 West Sussex deeds
    • NRA 5177 Westgate Unitarian Chapel, Lewes link to online catalogue
    • NRA 9264 Winchelsea Corporation link to online catalogue
    • NRA 40621 James Woodhams & Son, auctioneers, valuers and estate agents, Battle
    • NRA 1094 Worthing local history collection
    • NRA 26241 Wynne, Baxter, Hillman & Carter, solicitors, Lewes: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 4865 Young, Coles & Langdon, solicitors, Hastings

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