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Life in the village
I was lucky enough to grow up in Litlington and also worked in the village shop/post office for Jack Keeble. I can trace my mothers family(Reed) back to the early 1800's they were from nearby Alfriston, so I have a very strong connection with Cuckmere valley. I had a very happy childhood, firstly in Lullington 1961 to 1966 and then Litlington 1966 to 1980. Village life, it takes some beating.
A memory of Litlington contributed by Colin Parsons
The horse shoe bite
The small sandy beach at Newhaven was known as the horse shoe bite. It was completely covered at high tide, but as the water receded, it exposed fine golden sand, ideal for making castles and getting in your sandwiches. A row of barnacle-peppered rocks along the breakwater wall also got revealed with the falling tide, where a myriad of crabs hid amongst the clinging seaweed and a wonderland of rockpools formed, waiting to be explored.
In the distance on the left of the photo you can just see the beginning of the breakwater, it's on the right of the harbour as you look at the sea. It was a good walk to the end, where generally in good weather there'd ...read more here
A memory of Newhaven contributed by Kathy Farmer
Mackerel Fishing
Many's the time we wandered along the edge of the harbour and up and down the landing stages, studying the leathery faced fishermen's busy hands as they worked on the nets, or repaired lobster pots. We'd peep around, what seemed huge metal doors and gates clad in rusting wire mesh, to get a glimpse of the boat yards beyond, and if we'd enough in our pocket for a cup of tea, we stop at the cafe that looked across the harbour, and out towards the bridge on the left. The owners always had time for us, and if they had any stale bread and cake, they'd let us have it to feed the swans that swam among the boats just a ...read more here
A memory of Newhaven contributed by Kathy Farmer
Bowles caravan site
I believe this is the caravan site that was, and may still be, situated on Mr and Mrs Bowles farm. (Not sure of the spelling of Bowles.) My mum and the five of us children spent many happy holidays here. The van that we stayed in was called 'Hartings' and was on the track that led to the farm. It had no mains connected to it. I don't know how we all squeezed in, but I do remember a double bed that folded out of the wall. The high spot of the day was the visit to the little camp shop, where if we were lucky mum would give us a few pence for an ...read more here
A memory of Newhaven contributed by Kathy Farmer
Extracts From Seaford & East Sussex books
The railway originally
ended at Terminus Place
(which is hardly surprising),
and housing was laid out
along the old lane onto
the common: this became
Western Road, with Summer
Heath Road a turning off in
the distance of this view. All
the houses on the right, apart
from the one in the middle
distance with two hipped-
roofed bay windows, have
since been demolished. The
1960s library, together with
modern housing estates, have
replaced them. The survivor
is now a Citizens Advice
Bureau and a working men’s
club. The recreation ground
is on the left.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another
small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green. All four buildings in this
view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the
telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about 1900. Behind the
photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with
new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This interior view of the
church shows the 15th-
century nave arcades and
chancel arch; the ghost
of the original roof line
can be seen high above
the chancel arch. The
medieval roof survives, but
it was lifted in 1889 when
the Victorian clerestory
was added. The Victorian
improving biblical text
over the chancel arch has
been replaced by the more
familiar ‘Jesus said: I am the
way, the truth and the life’.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads
towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble. Above
are the round quatrefoil windows of the clerestory added in 1889, which must have made the
interior much lighter. On the left are the backs of buildings that front the High Street, while the yews
and hollies in this view survive today.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Another view, similar to H6031
(above), shows the brick-paved
path and the holly bushes.
At the left is a silver birch,
which also survives today.
The fine 15th-century tower
with its Victorian pinnacles
is built in local Wealden
sandstone; its walls are the
least renewed or refaced part
of the church, whose three
Victorian restorations in 1870,
1878 and 1889 transformed the
appearance of the medieval
church’s nave and chancel
– indeed, the chancel was
entirely rebuilt.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".