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On an appropriately blustery stormy day, I recently attended a small memorial service commemorating the anniversary of what has come to be known as the Eyemouth Disaster of 1881. Tragically that day cost the lives of over 180 fishermen from the many small fishing ports along the North Sea coastline, not only Eyemouth. The port of Newhaven suffered along with those others and their service was attended by many of the descendants of the 17 local men who lost their lives that day. During the service it was mentioned that while other ports had memorials to those lost lives, Newhaven had none. The Newhaven Heritage Society has launched an appeal for funds to help remedy this omission and create a memorial in the village. If anyone would like to contribute to this appeal, please follow the link: www.jumblebee.co.uk/newhavenheritagecentre.

Hoping someone can recognise the location of the war memorial. The soldier is my father-in-law - picture taken at a WW1 memorial (I think) during WW2.

Sorry for causing problems. I took your advice and re-scanned the picture. Hope this is OK now. Many thanks for the work already done.

Regards

Liz

Hoping someone will kindly restore this picture. My Dad is the guy with the curly hair in the front row. Not sure where the picture was taken - he played for a few teams in and around Edinburgh in the 1930s/40s.