Steyning, High Street 1914
Steyning, Church Street c1955
Steyning, the White Horse Inn c1965
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Steyning, West Sussex
Steyning maps
Historic maps of Steyning and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Steyning maps
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Steyning books
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Worthing Town and City Memories
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Villages of Sussex Pocket Album
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Haywards Heath Living Memories
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Memories of Steyning
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My memory of Steyning is staying at my aunt Ada's in Priory Field, walking the back lane from her house and going to a big church, and also going to the auction mart and smelling all the animals. I still relish those days.
Shared on 12 April 2008
West Sussex memories
I attended The Convent of the Blessed Sacrament between the years of 1963 to 1965 (inclusive). I was a dreadufully wild child from Colonial Africa and rejoiced in the name of Carol Anne Bult. The Reverend Mother of "The Towers" at the time was Rev Mother Marie Helen (Sister Mary Bruno was the headmistress). "The Fat Lady Sings" is a manuscript in the process of editing and publication, hence the title of this short "memory" I am now placing on the site. I am amazed and also a little distressed that this is the first memory about "The Towers" that has been posted.
If anyone remembers me, I would be absolutely delighted to hear from them! The picture has not changed significantly since I attended the school, but the interior classroom shots and the main hallway are obviously prior to 1965.
Shared on 10 September 2008
My maternal grandparents, Ernest and Dorothy Bond had the Kings Head in 1955 and through to 1958
My mother was married from here at Christ the King in Steyning. I was born in 1958 and my parents then lived at a little cottage in the High Street called 'The Dilly'
Quite a few years have passed! and I have now moved back into Upper Beeding but I find it quite un-nerving that the High Street seems to look almost unchanged!
Shared on 16 April 2008
Memories of a little boy in Upper Beeding 1952-1954
As I get older I remember some of my early childhood in the UK. I was asked by my Grandson about my early life so am writing it down in a form of a book.
My first memories are of going to the Downs with the farmer from behind where I lived, with him and his cattle and getting into trouble by my mother when I got home covered in mud. Another memory is of climbing on an Air Raid Shelter that was situated in Underhill Road. I know of this because a brick fell off and cut open my head.
Also I sat with the boy from next door and watched the cattle be killed and disposed of during a Foot and Mouth outbreak. Then there was my first year at School before the family moved to Western Australia. The block of houses we lived in were called Brookway and from what I have been able to discover they were in Pound Lane near Smugglers Lane.
I do remember some more good times but they have to wait for another day.
Shared on 12 February 2008
Extracts From Steyning & West Sussex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Steyning, inspired by Frith photos.
West Sussex Photographic Memories
Steyning was a prosperous little town before the Roman Occupation. Legend suggests that St Cuthman helped to establish Steyning in the 8th century. Until about the middle of the 14th century, the town was also a port of some note, but by then the sea had begun to recede, leaving the harbour inaccessible to shipping and the river little more than a stream.
This is an extract from West Sussex Photographic Memories.
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West Sussex Photographic Memories
The centre of Steyning includes rows of picturesque gabled houses and period buildings. When the harbour closed to shipping, Steyning concentrated its efforts on becoming a market town, holding a market twice a week and a fair twice a year. The church is of note, with a late-Norman font and a 16th-century tower.
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Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories
Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street. The building on the far right (now Numbers 1-5 Church Street) was originally a medieval Wealden timber-framed building, and is regarded as one of Steyning's treasures.
This is an extract from Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories.
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