PETROMOBILIA COLLECTION COMES UP

Chaz Nicholls, as he is known is a south Londoner, but along with some of his family became evacuees in the Second World War Two ended up at Horam, East Sussex in a thatched cottage. In fact, there were five brothers and two sisters who became embedded in East Sussex. His eldest brother John (84) farms at Dalington and for the last 50 years has created driveways, groundworks, and roads in the area, which is carried on by his son and family. Other brothers Alec and Ted live in the Heathfield area, but Chaz’s younger brother Phil (72) lives today on the Isle of Wight.

First love

Chaz says it was a happy childhood, but there was no money in farming so became a bricklayer, handyman, and then a very skilled welder in the process when working for a company at Hamden Park, Eastbourne.