Tag: West Sussex Gazette

West Sussex Gazette: Friday 14th November 1935

This story was told by Major J. R. Pinsent at the mayoral banquet at Winchester: A somewhat deaf old Alderman expressed surprise at meeting the Town Clerk of his borough in the street. “I thought you were going away,” he said. “Going away?” asked the Town Clerk, “I’ve heard nothing about it “. “The committee decided that you should go away — not been up to the mark — wanted an overhaul,” the Alderman explained: “I voted for it.” And then the Town Clerk saw daylight. “It wasn’t me they were talking about in committee,” he said — “it was the town clock!”

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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957

West Sussex Gazette: Thursday 22nd September 1932

Dorking: Painting a Place Red:  “It outrageous that young visitors to Seaview should go about actually painting the place red,” said the presiding Magistrate at Ryde on Tuesday, when Stephen Mackenzie, a Cambridge undergraduate of Dorking, and Roger Pinsent, a public schoolboy, of Somerset, were charged with doing wilful damage. lt was alleged that late at night they painted statues of lions on the lodge gate of a large house at Seaview with blue and red paint and daubed a Post Office pillar box with white paint. Through their parents, the defendants apologised. They were each fined 50s and 50s damage.

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GRO0754 Devonport: Roger Philip Pinsent: 1916 – 1997