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Brighton man murdered in France

November 1, 2022October 30, 2022 / suzannethinton / Leave a comment

When John Basil Cartland walked out of his front door and down the steps of his home at 11 Powis Square, Brighton on Monday 12 March 1973, he was not to know that within six days he was to be brutally murdered in France. 

11 Powis Square: Google Capture 2009 ©Google 2022
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John Sebastian Glouton

September 1, 2022August 31, 2022 / suzannethinton / 1 Comment

When John Sebastian Glouton died in at 98 Western Road, Brighton in 1864, he was described as “a very plain and unpretending man, possessing a kind and genial nature.”  He was much more complex than that.  Forget the unfortunate name of Glouton [Glutton].  Monsieur Glouton was a highly intelligent man and reputedly a brilliant teacher.  Alas, he was no businessman.

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Education 1: Thyra Creyke-Clark

June 1, 2022June 23, 2022 / suzannethinton / Leave a comment

When I started work in October 1974 as the part-time French teacher at Davies’s College in Cromwell Road, Hove, all I knew of my predecessor was that she was called Thyra Creke-Clark and had died suddenly the previous July.  According to the Principal of the college she had been “a formidable woman”

Window detail, 47 Cromwell Road, 2006. © S. Hinton
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