Land Settlement Associations

[janwhin]

Just been reading an interesting article in the NDFHS magazine about LSAs. Set up during the depression in the 1930s to give unemployed miners and shipbuilders from the north east the opportunity to begin new lives as market gardeners. One of the settlements was established in a village called Sidlesham near Chichester in West Sussex. This was the largest of the settlements with 120 smallholdings.
Now a heritage trail has been created to explain the origins of the LSA and to share people's memories. The owner of the website and project is seeking information about various families and one of these is a Harry Smith from Amble who moved there with his family in 1937. According to the school registers the family "returned to Newcastle" in August 1941.
The website is http://sidleshamheritagetrail.co.uk/ and the entry for Harry shows daughter Nancy born April 1928, Amble in the school admission register and her leaving in August 1941. Ring any bells?