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Hello,

 

My name is Jon Rounce and I live in Worthing, West Sussex, about 12 miles East of where John Foulger lived in Middleton-on-Sea.

 

I have been an admirer and collector of Johns work for several years, and his pictures hanging on the walls at home always bring me great pleasure.

 

When I began looking for more information on Johns life I became frustrated at the lack of information available.

 

I couldn't find many of his pictures on the Internet and the few articles that did exist often conflicted with each other, sometimes regarding simple things such as his birth and death dates etc.

 

I thought that John deserved better, and living only a half hour drive from Middleton I decided I'd find out about him myself.

 

I researched the dates quoted through the public records and obtained copies of his birth and death certificates. I contacted the local newspapers and visited the local shops and pub.

I delivered several hundred leaflets around Middleton asking for information on John and subsequently had interviews with a few people in the village who remembered him.

 

Not many did.

 

Some let me take photos of Foulgers pictures they owned.

Some gave me tea and cake.

 

Not everyone in Middleton was a fan of his. One homeowner was rude and slammed the door in my face when i told him the leaflet I was delivering was about John.

 

When everything was collated together it seemed that putting it all on a website was the obvious next step.

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