Henfield, Golden Square c1955 (ref. H313002) | Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham
and Brighton. St Peter's 13th-century church was rebuilt in
1870. Brickmaking was quite a large local industry. A
common on the Brighton Road has a fine cricket pitch and
reed beds. There are two old coaching inns in the High
Street: the 14th-century George and the White Hart. In
the picture an old-style touring caravan hitched up to its
towing car waits at the roadside.
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Alfriston, Market Square c1955 (ref. A33017) | A Saxon settlement beside the River Cuckmere,Alfriston was a centre
for smuggling. We can see old shops in the photograph—
S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher.The ancient market cross
has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.The scene
is similar today, and well conserved, but all the shops are now engaged
in tourist-related trading.
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Blackboys, the Post Office c1960 (ref. B566034) | Blackboys is a small iron industry village. Its name is believed to have come
from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the
woods. The village also had a well-known post-type windmill, which was
sited by the main road.The 14th-century Blackboys Inn has been recently
restored after fire damage.
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Bodiam, the Village c1955 (ref. B128015) | Bodiam is located on the River Rother and was once a
port that shipped iron ingots and cannon, which were
made in the area. Bodiam Castle was constructed in
1388, the last castle to be built in England for coastal
defence. In the picture we can see the 14th-century Castle
Inn on the right and Bodiam Stores on the left.The scene
is similar today, but the shop is now a tearoom.
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Burwash, the Village 1889 (ref. B291501) | Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its
church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873. Seacox is a French
chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family,
who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number
of cottages for estate staff. Sir Edward Goschen was British
Ambassador in Berlin in 1914 when the war began. Seacox
Park has a magnificent collection of trees and shrubs.
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Chailey Green, Village Green c1965 (ref. C437004) | A scattered village on a hilltop in the centre of Sussex.
Friendly societies began here at the Five Bells Inn in
1782.The Heritage is a specialised health care institution
for disabled children with buildings in several locations
around the area. High Common was famous for potteries,
and bricks are still made in the area. North Common has
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Colemans Hatch, Hatch Inn 1927 (ref. 79599) | A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row.
Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and
features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia. Nearby
Hollyhill is a large house with a Jacobean façade built in 1885. In the
picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared
for work. On the roofline a builder stands on a scaffolding platform
repairing a chimneystack.
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East Blatchington, the Village 1891 (ref. 28388) | We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has
a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is
buried here. In 1794 a very large barracks was built just north of the
village; it was used to house militia during the Napoleonic Wars. After
the First World War, the barracks were closed and demolished. The
village is now a part of Seaford; it is surrounded by recent housing
estates, although the scene is still recognisable.
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East Dean, Old Forge 1921 (ref. 71405) | We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. Here we see a
workplace with an open-air view; the craftsmen are taking a breather.
Apparatus for wheelwrighting is nearby, and there is an iron cone for
forging circular iron rings and a flat circular area for laying out wheels.
The yoke hung on the front wall was used for draught animals, most
probably oxen.A tall white flagpole stands in the garden.
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East Hoathly, South Street c1950 (ref. E177006) | This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a
Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas
Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an
important diary spanning eleven years of his life.The Pelham fam-
ily were influential local landowners, and their emblem was the
Pelham Buckle; cast iron milestones in the area have the Pelham
Buckle carved on them.The village is noted for trug manufacture at
a local steamed wood works.
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Falmer, the Village c1955 (ref. F170001) | We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near
the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early
dewpond. Dewponds were depressions in the chalk ground,
lined with puddled clay; they were used to collect rainfall
for watering farm livestock.The village is now cut in two
by a very busy dual carriageway, and is the location of the
University of Sussex campus.The scene is similar today, but
most properties are now used by the university.
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Five Ashes, The Five Ashes c1960 (ref. F172002) | The village is named after five ash trees on the green.Twits Gill was
once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the
Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s. He assembled
a vast collection of rock plants from all over the world.At the time of the
picture, the Five Ashes public house was offering customers ales from
Tamplins, Brighton Brewery.
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Fletching, the Street c1950 (ref. F138005) | Simon de Montfort's army lay
here the night before the Battle of
Lewes in 1264. The area was
made notorious by the 'Piltdown
Man' fake archaeological discov-
eries in the 1910s. The nearby
Sheffield Park estate built the
modern mock half-timbered
houses seen at the far end of the
street. Sheffield Park Gardens
were magnificently landscaped by
Capability Brown and are open
to visitors.They also contain the
National Pinetum collection of
pine trees.The southern terminus
station of the Bluebell Railway
to East Grinstead is nearby.
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Flimwell, the Village 1903 (ref. 49363) | Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its
church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873. Seacox is a French
chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family,
who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number
of cottages for estate staff. Sir Edward Goschen was British
Ambassador in Berlin in 1914 when the war began. Seacox
Park has a magnificent collection of trees and shrubs.
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Forest Row, the Village 1909 (ref. 61439) | A large village on the northern
edge of the Ashdown Forest,
Forest Row was a popular place
in the 14th century when the
King and his Lords used it as a
base for hunting. Brambletye was
the first mansion in the area; it
was built in 1631 and destroyed
by 1680.
new Brambletye was built nearby
in 1919. The main road leads
down past Holy Trinity church,
which was built in 1836. The
scene is similar today but the road
is very busy with motor traffic.
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Glynde, the Square c1955 (ref. G202010) | Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera
house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne. In this view of
the village the old building on the left is timber-framed with
a false façade. It has been rendered, tile-hung and weather-
boarded, and substantial porches have been added.
Horizontally sliding lights are fitted in some of the windows.
On the right-hand side of the winding village street stand
flint-walled houses with brick dressings.
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Halland, Cross Roads c1965 (ref. H327014) | We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland
Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace
Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family. The
Blacksmith's Arms is made out of extended and altered buildings,
with a house at the core.The village store has been added to the front
and side of what was once a large house.
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Hartfield, 1906 (ref. 56691) | We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown
Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of
St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village. The
Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard
with an upper floor extending above. Bolebrooke was a 16th-
century brick mansion, once the home of the Dalyngrigge and
Sackville families; only fragments survive.
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Horam, the Post Office c1955 (ref. H329009) | The 'Cuckoo Trail' for cyclists, walkers and the disabled connects
Horam to Heathfield and Polegate via the route of an old railway. Old
industries in the area were iron ore mining and brickmaking, which is
expected to be revived soon. Horeham Manor is noted for making
Merrydown vintage cider.The village sign is in the left foreground of
the picture. Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route
from Uckfield to Eastbourne.
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Litlington, the Village c1960 (ref. L480010) | This leafy flint village is situated in the Cuckmere valley
near Alfriston. Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic
long barrows in Sussex. In the picture the Stores has a
sign offering 'Morning coffee and light refreshments,Teas'.
There is still a very good tea garden here.
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