Hewitt's History Files

Dave was just eight when his father, Stephen, who was born in 1909, died from cancer in 1952.

But Stephen lives on through a fascinating collection of West Sussex photographs that he and Dave's mum, Nellie (1905-1989), took.

"My father was an optical instrument maker and a lens grinder," recalls Dave. "He rented a place in Chichester and he had his own lathe where he used to grind lenses and he would make his own camera. He studied it all."

For full story see West Sussex Gazette October 22