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Preston, East Sussex

Preston maps

Historic maps of Preston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Preston maps

Preston map

Historic map of Preston

East Sussex map

Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex

Preston map

Historic Map of any Preston postcode

Preston maps
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Preston photos

We have no photos of Preston, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Patcham, Hove, Brighton, Portslade-By-Sea, Portslade, Falmer, Pyecombe, Woodingdean, Southwick, Mile Oak, Poynings, Ovingdean, Clayton, Fulking, Shoreham-By-Sea, Keymer, Rottingdean, Hassocks, Ditchling, Kingston Near Lewes, Plumpton

Preston books

Displaying 3 of 14 books about Preston and the local area.   View all Preston books

Sussex County Memories
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Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
Paperback
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East Grinstead Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Preston books
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Memories of Preston

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East Sussex memories

how has Patcham changed?

I was born in Wilmington Way Patcham in 1938. I remember it to be high up on the South Downs.
Has anyone posted up to date pictures of Patcham on the net, please.  I left in about 1942, and would like to know what it looks like now.

Shared on 15 April 2007 by Diana Smallbone.

Yards from home!

I grew up in Hove in the 1950s in Connaught Terrace, a small, seemingly insignificant road of terraced houses just around the corner from this church. The structure behind the church spire in this photo is a gas holder. The streets where I and my friends played are directly behind it. My mother used to take my baby sister and I... [more]

Shared on 05 August 2009

Wrestling and the fire.

My earliest memories of the old Hove Town Hall are of a massively impressive red brick building opposite which was a 'Gamleys' toy shop to which I'd be taken by my mother whenever we had enough money!
There used to be professional wrestling bouts held there (the Town Hall, not the toy shop!) and I can recall being taken to see... [more]

Shared on 05 August 2009

St, Johns choir

Things are a little hazy, but, I think the year is about right, providing that this is the church on the Church Road before the gardens going towards Brighton. I used to sing in the choir under the direction of the Organist and Choir master Mr. Clifford Roberts, who also tried to teach me to play piano from reading music, but... [more]

Shared on 06 January 2009 by John Tester.

Day out shopping.

As a child during the 1970s I used to live in Burgess Hill (10 miles away) with my parents and younger brother David. I remember being very small and my mother taking us to Brighton on the stagecoach bus with our next door neighbours. Both women loved to shop and us four children had to go along for the ride.
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Shared on 09 March 2008 by Angela Green.

growing up in World War II

I was born to Jewish parents whom had a ladies clothes shop in Kensington Gardens (The Lanes) my Father died in 1941, My Mother now a very young widow decided she wanted us all to live above the shop because of bombs etc, it had 2 rooms upstairs which we used as bedrooms, a small... [more]

Shared on 22 September 2007 by Anita Lewis.

Teacher Training College

The building in the corner was Brighton Teacher Training College. The building at right angles in the distance was a hotel.

My mother Florence Starkey was studying in the Teacher Training College top floor and looked out of the window across the angle into the side window of the curved bay hotel window to see a woman hovering strangely in... [more]

Shared on 28 July 2007 by Wolstan Dixie.

Crescent Road

We moved to Brighton in 1959 and my parents Pat and Jim Webb bought a house here after spending their honeymoon here (lived in Dulwich).   I remember when there were very few cars parked in the road and we could always play safely out on the street.  Nowadays cars are parked top to tail in both directions!   We lived at no... [more]

Shared on 26 July 2007 by Anne Webb.

Extracts From Preston & East Sussex books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Preston, inspired by Frith photos.

Haywards Heath - A History & Celebration

In Victoria Park there are now facilities for BMX bikers, roller-bladers and skateboarders, complementing the existing children's paddling pool and tennis courts as well as the occasional fixture on a Sunday morning. Golf enthusiasts can become members of the Haywards Heath golf club and use their 18-hole golf course situated just off Portsmouth Lane on the borders with Lindfield, whilst cricketers can still enjoy the recreation ground next to the centrally located... [more]

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Haywards Heath - A History & Celebration

TODAY IT IS still possible to see some vestiges of buildings that were known to those who lived through the English Civil War almost 400 years ago; one example is Pennies, a half-timbered house thought to have been built in 1606 and mentioned on a map of 1638, and currently incorporated within Dinnages garage in Sussex/ Wivelsfield Road. Another is the Sergison Arms/Dolphin pub that was mentioned in 1599, as well as... [more]

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Haywards Heath - A History & Celebration

The aftermath of the recession left businesses striving to become more efficient. It was not just the service industries and manufacturing industries that had to transform themselves, but the local agricultural scene also needed to change. The main casualty in Haywards Heath was the closure of the livestock market, which had at one point in its existence been the twelfth largest livestock market in the country. Times certainly had changed.... [more]

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