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Mary Taylor Author & Editor

Mary Taylor, only daughter of an old Rustington family, was born in 1930 and has lived in the village all of her life. Educated in Littlehampton, then at Brighton Technical College and at Portsmouth Polytechnic, she married Beverley B. Taylor in 1951 at Rustington parish church. Mary served on the Parish Council through the '80s, during which time she was appointed official historian of Rustington. She and her husband founded The Rustington Heritage Association in 1983 of which, after six years in the chair, she is now life president. Her other publications include four volumes of the series This was Rustington.