John Goodridge's daughter, Edith married Percy King in the Summer of 1899 and they set up their family home in Lewes. This was likely to have been the event that brought about the Goodridge family starting to farm at Ham Lane on the edge of the town.
The Brighton Municipal Abattoir had opened at Hollingdean Road in 1894, just off the Lewes Road.
John and his son regularly travelled to Lewes by train to manage the animals. His daughter, Edith was also involved as she sometimes reminded her brother that more feed or hay was needed in her postcard messages to him.
The farm live and dead stock was sold by auction in February 1916 a few weeks after John's son had volunteered to join the Army and five months after his brother Harry died. The main reason for giving up the farm was a lack of men due to the war.
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