
IGNITING THE SUSSEX BEACONS
OF UNITY
THE HISTORY OF THE
SUSSEX BRANCHES OF A.S.L.E.F.
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
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One of the main reasons for doing these web sites is to try and explain to everybody the history of the footplate grades, the conditions they had to work in and the creation of the A.S.L.E.F. branches within the Brighton & Sussex area. I am therefore very grateful for people sending me personal photos from their personal collection and for allowing me to display them on the web sites. But unfortunately what is missing, are the stories that accompany them. What I want to do is to try and remedy this by starting to record the remaining stories that are still out there, before they too are lost in the midst of time. I have added some information about some of the drivers that I know and the comments that have already have been sent to me. If you too have any stories about your own working life on the footplate, the people that you worked with and the conditions you had to work in please send me and I will post, on the web site. If you are interested in helping me in capturing these stories by any means possible please let me know. |

BRIGHTON & SUSSEX BRANCHES OF A.S.L.E.F. REUNION
(UNITING A.S.L.E.F. MEMBERS PAST AND PRESENT)






GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
ARTHUR BUDDEN (LHM) & RODNEY BURSTOW (HORSHAM)

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
DAVE WEDDLE (TONBRIDGE) & JIM CAMERON

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
PETER HALL & BRIAN HALL

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
BOB DORKINGS & GRAHAM PENN

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
CHRIS HITCHCOK & NIGEL TIPPEN
5th May 2015

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
SIMON WELLER & JIM CAMERON
RECEIVING HIS 50 YEAR MEDALLION

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
SIMON WELLER & EDDIE FORDHAM
RECEIVING HIS 50 YEAR MEDALLION

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
MICK GILLAM (L’HAM), EDDIE FORDHAM & FREDDIE MASKELL (B’TN)
6th May 2014

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
JIM CAMERON

GRAHAM PENN COLLECTION
BOB DORKINGS & RODNEY BURSTOW (HORSHAM)
7th May 2013

RODNEY BURSTOW COLLECTION
Bob Dorkings & Eddie Fordham

RODNEY BURSTOW COLLECTION
Dave Keats (ex-Littlehampton), Bill Locke & Roger White

ANDY DERRETT COLLECTION
Dave Griffiths (ex-Brighton), Bob Dorkings & Andy Derrett (Ipswich)
8th May 2012
Bob Dorking Collection
Steve Gandey (Bton) Dougal (Bton HG. Elg) & Eddie 'Sooty' Fordham (Bton, Bog, W.W)

Mick Hawkins (Brighton) & Steve Sylvester

Scott Hamilton (Brighton) & Kevin Eade
17th May 2011
Left ~ Right: Adrian Wales (B'ton, L'ham & B'ham), Neal Cowdrey (B'ton, N'wood & B'ham),
Steve Blaikie (B'ton 2nd Man), Steve Sylvester (B'tn, Bog & B'ham), Andy Carnell (B'ton, L'ham & B'ham)
Chris Horlock (B'ton & W.W.)

Dougal (Brighton, Hither Green & Easliegh), Bob Dorking & Dave Morgan (Brighton, Wimbledon & Fratton)