Catalogue description Letters of William Maclean Homan to successive mayors of Winchelsea

Enclosing notes on medieval Winchelsea, a plan showing the owners of land on Iham Hill in 1285, and lists of mayors; includes references to the sale of second-hand books 'of a trashy nature' at the Town Hall, and the maintenance of the look-out

William Maclean Homan was a Norwegian civil engineer who moved first to Scotland and then to South Africa. The family returned to England in the late 1920s and settled at Winchelsea. Homan became Winchelsea's historian, with a particular interest in the origins of the planned town. His daughter deposited his collection of local documents and working papers at ESRO following his death in 1956; they are listed as AMS 2277-2499 and a synopsis of them, together with a bibliography of his writings, appears on pp 82-86 of the printed list.