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Middleton-On-Sea, West Sussex
Middleton-On-Sea photos
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Middleton-On-Sea maps
Historic maps of Middleton-On-Sea and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Middleton-On-Sea maps
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Middleton-On-Sea books
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Sussex County Memories
Paperback
£15
Sussex Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
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Living on Elmer Road, Middleton-On-Sea, 1962 - 1974
I lived there as a young child from about the ages of 2-14 years old (1960-early 1970s). As a young child Elmer Road seemed to be at the end of the world. The main road heading east hit a dead-end and went nowhere. For years our world seemed, to me at least, to be the stoney beach, the... [more]
Shared on 03 November 2009
West Sussex memories
Our family moved from Bognor to Yapton in 1951 just before my 10th birthday. I was only 13 and attending Chichester High School for Girls when I started working weekends at Hobbs Farm, Bilsham Corner. It was a pedigree Jersey dairy farm and we used to bottle gold top milk with cream that came half-way down the glass pint. The milk... [more]
Shared on 19 March 2008
i have very fond memories of visiting my grand parents in yapton, who lived opposite the church in the cottages.my grandfather Roy, i believe was the villiage carpenter and my nan alice was helper in the church, and also worked at the dentist along the lane.grandad also rang the bells on occasions. There were some good times i remember as... [more]
Shared on 06 December 2007
My family moved to Yapton, from Folkestone Kent, because my husband had a job there. It was a difficult time but I was expecting a baby and I had a 3 year old son so it was also an exciting time for us.
Over the years we grew to love the area we lived in, the children went to school nearby... [more]
Shared on 06 February 2007
I think it was about 1959 when a new Vicar arrived in the village of Yapton he was the Rev. Nelson. I was 12 at the time, His wife who we only knew as Mrs Nelson decided to start a church choir. So with a few of my cousins and girls I went to school with off we went to see... [more]
Shared on 23 May 2008
My parents and my grandparents had their holidays on this caravan site from about 1961 to about 1967. I remember my grandfather taking me to the shop on the site to buy sweets. The owner had a green Ford V8 Pilot which we rode in to town once. I also remember the site next door which was bigger and the stream... [more]
Shared on 21 January 2010
I can remember as a small boy having a holiday in Bognor and staying in an old railway carriage.
Peter Wilson.
Shared on 19 September 2009
My parents George and Phyllis Stroud ran the Hotham Club in Waterloo Square - now the HQ of the RAFA Bognor branch. After National Service I worked first for Lec Refrigeration as a welder and then as a porter at the War Memorial Hospital. I had a flat over the hydrotherapy pool and was also in charge of the mortuary. When... [more]
Shared on 16 April 2009
Extracts From Middleton-On-Sea & West Sussex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Middleton-On-Sea, inspired by Frith photos.
Worthing Town and City Memories
The buildings on the corner of High Street and The Broadway were named Warwick Mansions. This commemorated the fact that in 1901, they were erected on the site of old Warwick House, which had been demolished a few years earlier. The trees and flint wall in the photograph marked the southern boundary of the Warwick estate. These were retained as a feature when part of the... [more]
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Worthing Town and City Memories
During the 1920s and 30s, Worthing continued to rapidly expand. By 1937 the town was being promoted as both a summer and winter resort, and hotels now occupied much of the sea front and the area behind it. The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised... [more]
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Worthing Town and City Memories
The Corporation's policy of providing a sufficient number of public parks and recreation grounds for both residents and visitors was actively pursued during this period of expansion. In excess of fifteen additional areas for outdoor recreation were provided and by 1938 there were seven separate recreation grounds (amounting to fifty acres) and ten public parks recorded in the borough. Several of these combine... [more]
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