• 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts | • 1847: British Museum founded | • 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto | • 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park | • 1854: Start of Crimean War | • 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published | • 1861: American Civil War begins | • 1865: Salvation Army founded | • 1869: Suez Canal opened | • 1871: Trades Unions legalised | • 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections | • 1873: Dr Livingstone dies | • 1876: Bell invents telephone | • 1878: Electric light bulb invented | • 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation | • 1884: Speaker Brand retires | • 1884: Fabian Society founded | • 1885: Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club founded | • 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee |
COMPRISING 11 fine shaped draught horses, three three years old colts 'quiet good workers', a light active black gelding, broken to single harness, a valuable weight carrying grey cob six years old, about 15 hands high, broken to harness, a handsome bay pony about 13½ hands high, broken to harness and quiet to ride, two pairs of seven years old first class Hereford working oxen, and four pairs three years old ditto, all forward in flesh, 12 short horn three years old fatting heifers and six two years old Devon steers forward in flesh, five young mixed bred Alderney and Devon cows in calf, 60 ewes of various ages, 60 ewe lambs, 10 ram lambs of the much admired and well known Beddingham flock, a quantity of Spanish and Dorking fowls, four horse power thrashing machine, agricultural machinery, waggons, carts, harness, ploughs, scarifiers, the usual assortment of minor implements of husbandry, a very neat light double bodied phaeton, a silver plated light chaise harness, iron garden roller, brewing and dairy utensils and effects. Luncheon will be provided at ten o'clock. Sale to commence immediately after.
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