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Tillgate Mansion 1907 Ref: 57795
Tillgate Mansion 1907
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This is the first time I have ever seen such a wonderful photo of Tilgate Mansion, other than bits of it in the backgound of faded family snaps. It means a lot to me because my father, Peter, spent part of his youth living there sometime in the late 1950s with his family (Tayman of the Crawley area) and when he was courting my mother, Elizabeth Robinson, they spent many happy hours walking around the estate and lake.

Dad regaled me with many tales of ghosts and I can see why! It is such a shame they tore this place down, it was magnificent - all I have ever seen were some steps when I visited the site and some old photo's long since lost...

Dad used to play by the lake and took me there when I was a little girl.
Thank you so much for posting this picture...Blessed be. Pixi in Australia.

Written by Zaryn Hammersley. To send Zaryn Hammersley a private message, click here.

A memory of Crawley in West Sussex shared on Tuesday, 29th July 2008.

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RE: RE: Tilgate Mansion Crawley West Sussex

Did your father have a sister called Jill? If so, I went to school with her until 1956.

Comment from Eileen Cook on Wednesday, 26th May 2010.

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