Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road c.1950
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Photo of Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road c.1950

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The parked car is outside the Perrymount cinema, with Commercial Square beyond. Bradley & Vaughan are the estate agents based in the half-tiled building on the right edge of the photograph. This is a typical example of the local style of architecture dating from the 1870s. Notice the pattern formed within the tile-hung elevation - it is particularly attractive, and is complemented by the diamond- paned windows. It was the lodge of St Clair, a large house that became a girls' school established by a Miss Stevens in about 1935.

Memories of Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road c1950

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Haywards Heath, Perrymount Road c.1950

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I used to play in the old Clair Meadow and remember the drinks machine which sold pink milk in a wax carton by the tree at the footpath entrance to 'the rec' on Perrymount Road which is still there...I spent many a happy afternoon there and remember well the lovely old green and cream buses going in and out of the old bus station, which to me at age 9 epitomised Haywards Heath as we had ...see more
As a child I went to the ABC minors every Saturday morning, it cost six old pence to get in. I think the last film that was shown at the cinema was in 1971, it was called Shaft and starred Richard Roundtree. I was one of the few there.