Ticehurst
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Ticehurst books (20 available)
Crawley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Villages of Sussex Pocket Album
Paperback
Hailsham Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Ticehurst memories
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Ticehurst
My name is David Effer and we lived in Ticehurst from 1954 to 1968 when we left for Australia. We lived in Springfields and I had 4 brothers and two sisters. My father worked at Ticehurst House as a chef. Mum and dad have passed on now and one sister lives in Sicily.
Contributed by DAVID EFFER
Childhood memories
This view brings back many childhood memories, I was born in the cottage on the right hand edge of the picture, in 1947, growing up on the farm there, and have lived within three miles of the area for the majority of my life.
Contributed by Colin Boylett
Taken from the spot I grew up:
It took me a while to recognise the angle of this photo as from almost exactly the position my parents house was built on! Where the road ahead divides, another road to the left was later added, leading to my father's fruit farm which I grew up working on.
The view in the photo is unhindered by the present housing developments of St Mary's Close and St Mary's Lane, as well as this year's (2007) new development on the old council yard. The piece of land in front of the camera is where Marlpit Gardens now stands.
Contributed by Anne Lynch
Singehurst Pond
Singehurst pond was the place for both girls and boys to go fishing with their bags of dampened bread and makeshift fishing rods. Throughout the season we caught loads and then returned our catch at the end of an outing, sometimes staying out all day. It was an excuse to meet up with friends and other village children with the same idea.
This was memorable, but more so were the occasional winters when the water froze over to several inches thick, and all the village children (and some adults) made their way there to slide on the ice. My friend, Julia, and I did whenever we could. The ice creaked continuously and ominously, but we were ever ...read more here
Contributed by Anne Lynch
Extracts From Ticehurst & East Sussex books
The village of Ticehurst is situated on a gentle slope surrounded by fertile valleys and hills, where hops were once extensively grown. The village was built around a crossroads to the south-east of the church. On the right is the 14th-century Bell Hotel, used as the headquarters of the British Legion from 1921. The war memorial was dedicated in 1923.
An extract from from"Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories".
Ticehurst is an old Roman habitation near the Kent border. Situated on
a hilltop in rolling countryside among hopfields, it has fine views.The
Duke of York Inn is on the left-hand side of the square, and the church
is nearby.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".
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".