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January 2010

It snowed. For a few days, the traffic disappeared and people ventured out of their houses and even started talking to each other. But things soon returned to normal.

2008

The Grapes shut its doors for the last time.

5 October 1837

Queen Victoria passed through Pease Pottage on her way to Brighton, as reported by Henry Burstow in his Reminiscences of Horsham (1911), pp. 40–1:

We trudged on alone, through Roffey, hoping for a friendly waggoner to give us a lift, but none came along. At length we got to Peas Pottage, where we saw a large archway made of evergreens, with “VICTORIA REGINA” worked on it in various coloured dahlias; we were mightily impressed.