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Reference materials 146 Queen Victoria Street London United Kingdom (UK)Duckworth's Mill @ Old Chester Road Trafford Greater Manchester United Kingdom (UK)Royal Fleet Hotel @ 12 Morice Square // Plymouth // South West England // United Kingdom (UK)123 Moor Green Lane Birmingham West Midlands United Kingdom (UK)
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Jul 11, 1968
Scientologists place 22 businesses out of bound — East Grinstead Observer
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
TWENTY-TWO businesses have been put 'Out of Bounds' to Scientologists by their Saint Hill headquarters at East Grinstead. A letter to the members headed 'Executive Directive,' lists the businesses as 'out of bounds,' and says: 'The shops have indicated that they do not wish Scientology to expand in East Grinstead, and we are, therefore, relieving them of the painful experience of taking our money.' The Press officer at Saint Hill, Mr. H. Dunston, said that the list had come about following ...
Jun 15, 1968
[Report on Scientology] [exact date unknown] — CBC News
Type: TV
Source: CBC News
["Here's an amazing clip from the late 1960's addressing the growing concern around scientology."]
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology 'brainwash' // JP's comment as ex-student is cleared of theft — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Hearing how Scientologists "audited" members who knew or mentioned people "disconnected" from the organisation, chairman of East Grinstead magistrates, Mr Antony Evans said: "It sounds like brainwashing to me." And the defendant and a witness in the case being heard by the court on Tuesday asked for their addresses to be kept secret to avoid persecution by members of the organisation. After a five-hour hearing the magistrates dismissed a case brought against former Scientologist Mr Maurice Johnson of South Shields, by ...
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology is slammed in court as 'evil cult' — East Grinstead Observer
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Debbie Winsor
Source: East Grinstead Observer
A former Scientologist who left the movement 'in disgust,' described it at East Grinstead court on Monday as an 'evil cult.' Maurice William Johnson of South Shields County Durham, told the court that since he resigned from the movement in June 1966, he had been persecuted by the Scientology organization and had received over 100 letters of abuse from Scientologists. A man who wrote one of the letters to Mr. Johnson while he was a member of the Scientology movement himself ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 23, 1968
Why council had to send 500 letters — East Grinstead Observer
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
EAST GRINSTEAD Urban Council Planning Committee heard that well over 500 letters had had to be sent out to say that the inquiry into the appeal by the Church of Scientology, East Grinstead, against the Council's refusal to allow large-scale development at Saint Hill, had been postponed. The inquiry has been postponed by the Ministry because of the indisposition of Mr. Howard Sharp, who is representing the appellants. The new date for the inquiry is July 16. Labour councillor Mrs. C. ...
May 16, 1968
Scientology appeal date postponed — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
DESPITE a protest from East Crinstead Urban Council to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, an appeal concerning the Church of Scientology has been postponed from May 29, and arrangements are being made to try and hold the hearing in July. When the Planning Committee of East Grinstead Urban Council met on Tuesday, Mr. H. C. Jones, clerk, reported that he had made representations opposing the postponement on the grounds that the December 1966 inquiry had been cancelled at short ...
Apr 18, 1968
Scientology appeal may last two days — East Grinstead Observer
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
THE APPEAL BY THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY AGAINST EAST GRINSTEAD URBAN COUNCIL'S REFUSAL TO GRANT PLANNING PERMISSION FOR LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS AT SAINT HILL MAY LAST TWO DAYS. A petition signed by over 460 people objecting to the development, in addition to individual objections, was sent to the Urban Council at the time they discussed the application and notices of the local inquiry have been sent to them. The inquiry, which will be conducted by an Inspector of the ...
Feb 8, 1968
Major Scientology plans opposed — East Grinstead Observer
Jan 1, 1968
The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard (TV) — Granada Television (UK)
More: transcript
Dec 7, 1967
Scientology -- Town's biggest business — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Mar 9, 1967
Scientology attacked in debate — East Grinstead Observer
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
LEGISLATION TO OUTLAW SCIENTOLOGY IN THIS COUNTRY WAS RULED OUT BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH (MR. KENNETH ROBINSON) IN AN ADJOURNMENT DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY. Mr. Robinson said he had no evidence that scientology was strictly and exclusively responsible for mental breakdown or physical deterioration. Nevertheless, he intended to continue to watch the position. Mr. Peter Hordern (M.P. for Horsham) had called for an inquiry into the organisation which he accused of 'exacting money ...
Mar 6, 1967
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
Feb 25, 1967
'Scientology' not to be banned — The Times (UK)
Feb 25, 1967
Commons to debate 'scientology' — The Times (UK)
Feb 20, 1967
Demand for ban on cult [exact date unknown] — Daily Mail (UK)
Jan 26, 1967
Scientologists lose claim for return of private documents — East Grinstead Observer
Aug 22, 1966
Minister is asked to investigate... The case of the processed woman — Daily Mail (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
THE MINISTER of Health has been asked to order an inquiry into Scientology, the pseudo-psychological cult, following the mental breakdown of a woman "student." The woman, who has a ten-year history of mental illness, is now compulsorily detained in hospital under a 28-day order. Her psychiatric background was known to the "highly qualified" Scientologist who recruited her to the cult and gave her forms of psychological "processing." Scientology practitioners and their "qualifications" have no official medical or academic recognition. Among the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 14, 1966
U.S. financier is refused residence permit -- told to leave by next monday — Bulawayo Chronicle
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Bulawayo Chronicle
MR. L. RON HUBBARD, the American financier recently involved in the purchase of the Bumi Hills Hotel and in a number of other big business deals in Rhodesia, has been refused permission to stay in the country and has until next Monday to leave. Mr. Hubbard, founder of the controversial Scientology movement, has been told by the Ministry of Immigration that his temporary alien's residence permit will not be renewed, according to a spokesman for Mr. Hubbard. ''The spokesman said the ...
May 22, 1966
Millionaire in Bumi Hills hotel deal [article incomplete] — Sunday Mail Reporter (Rhodesia)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Sunday Mail Reporter (Rhodesia)
AMERICAN millionaire financier L. Ron Hubbard, the man who [?] the controversial scientology movement, has moved into Rodhesia, has settled in a luxurious house in Salisbury and last week he [?] through his first business deal in this country. With two local business men, Mr. Aubrey Davies, a garage owner, and Mr. John Plagis, a property owner, he bought the Bumi Hills Hotel at Kariba by private treaty. A week earlier the highest bid for the hotel at an auction sale ...
Mar 20, 1966
One man Britain can do without / He is sending out spies to smear anybody who dares attack his strange cult — The People
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Derek Ive
Source: The People
HE IS SENDING OUT SPIES TO SMEAR ANYBODY WHO DARES ATTACK HIS STRANGE CULT [Photos / Caption: Mr. Hubbard . . . from him, dangerous words.] [Photos / Caption: Mr. Sharpe . . . from him, angry words.] BEHIND the elegant walls of a country mansion in Sussex, a nasty enterprise is being directed by the head of a strange American cult. It is an evil plan which will offend every fair-minded citizen in this country. The man is Lafayette Ron ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 8, 1966
Personal // Public Notice [L. Ron Hubbard publicly relinquishes the title of "Doctor"] — The Times (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Times (UK)
PUBLIC NOTICE — I, L. RON HUBBARD, of Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, having reviewed the damage being done in our society with nuclear physics and psychiatry by persons calling themselves "Doctor", do hereby resign in protest my university degree as a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), anticipating an early public outcry against anyone called "Doctor"; and although not in anyway connected with bombs or "psychiatric treatment" or treatment of the sick, and interested only and always in philosophy and the ...
Feb 14, 1966
Attention the Minister of Health: This man is bogus — Daily Mail (UK)
More: link
Feb 7, 1966
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
Mar 21, 1964
Have You Ever Been A Boo-Hoo? — Saturday Evening Post
More: saturdayeveningpost.com (2.5 MB), link, scientology-lies.com
Type: Press
Author(s): James Phelan
Source: Saturday Evening Post
Saint Hill Manor is a traditional old English mansion that stands behind a high gateway on a quiet Sussex road some 30 miles south of London. Its size and age—it was built in 1728—give it an impressive but faintly brooding air. Before 1959 it was owned by the Maharaja of Jaipur, and before that by Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle. But it is a safe bet that in all its 236 years Saint Hill Manor has never seen anybody quite like its ...
Jul 1, 1962
Asks Dr. Hubbard — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
WEALTHY Dr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, the "Father of Scientology" is applying to East Grinstead Urban Council for permission to build a 75-room administration centre on grounds remote from his manor house home at Saint Hill. The move follows a confidential request from the council urging him to apply for planning permission to regularise use of the manor for office and research work. At present it is only scheduled for private residential use. In the meantime, some traders in the town have ...
Apr 8, 1960
Scientist seeks your help in his research — Garden News
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Type: Press
Source: Garden News
GARDEN NEWS readers are, by now, familiar with the research work of Dr. Ron L. Hubbard at East Grinstead In Sussex. A number of the useful results he has achieved have been published in this paper—only last week we announced his claims when testing different types of soil. Now, Dr. Hubbard has asked Garden News readers to join in his experiments with him and to play their part in furthering scientific horticultural knowledge. He would like to hear from any reader ...
Apr 8, 1960
They mustn't be too warm in bed
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Type: Press
I HEAR that Dr. Ron Hubbard has conducted an experiment at East Grinstead, Sussex, which shows that plants differ in their reaction to the temperature of the soil in which they are growing, despite the benefits of undersoll heated watering he described in G.N. Feb. 26. In one bed heated water, supplied from the bottom, produced a soil temperature of 85 degrees F. In this was sown a telegraph cucumber, sweet corn, water melon, and tomato plants. In a second bed ...
Mar 25, 1960
Have you lived before? Yes say these four — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Mar 25, 1960
I was a male, born of space parents... — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Dec 18, 1959
Dr Hubbard seen by TV millions — Garden News
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