>To Chris Hammond and others, "Georgian Lewes 1714-1830, The Heyday of a County Town" by Colin Brent, 1993. Published by Colin Brent Books, 9 Southdown Avenue, Lewes , BN7 1EL ISBN 0 9522423 0 3 I have found this to be a most valuable book as it describes the evolution of Lewes as a County Town and has a chapter dealing in some detail with the rather complicated religious history of the various chapels. My copy of the book was purchased at the School Hill Bookshop (books@schoolhill.co.uk) when I visited the town in 1995 to find out more about where my g grandfather and his family had lived in the surrounding area. The other book I mentioned, "Lewes Past" by Helen Poole, 2000, published by Phillimore . ISBN 1 86077 127 0 is also valuable with its coverage up to almost the present day and its valuable photographs. Unfortunately for Chris a quick scan of both books does not bring up an information about the Hammond business although the name is mention of a Nathan Hammond, a baker (apparently a Whig Dissenter) around 1820. Hope this is of interest. Bryan 11480 > >Message: 5 >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:13:25 -0000 >From: "Chris Hammond" <cm.hammond@ntlworld.com> >Subject: [SFHG] Colin Brent in his book Georgian Lewes 1714-1830 >To: <sfhg@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <007f01c86cd1$6b2683b0$45610f56@chris94b7a7dea> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Hi Listers. >Could Brian Pannett (his email dated 11 Feb) let listers know the details of >this book, ie publishers, date etc. >I would be most interested in obtaining or borrowing a copy as the Hammond's >had a business (brazing, ironmongery etc) on the High street at Lewes >certainly from the 1841 census onwards and I am keen to find out about this >in earlier times. >Thanks Chris Hammond SFHG 7451 > >