Ardingly, The Gardeners Arms c.1955
Photo ref: A207023
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Photo ref: A207023
Photo of Ardingly, The Gardeners Arms c.1955

More about this scene

The pub sells Tamplins beer (a Brighton-based brewery). Its name is rather apt, as the village is just a couple of miles south of Wakehurst, an extensive estate under the care of the National Trust, and also the outpost of the Royal Botanical Gardens, whose headquarters are at Kew. The gardens are a blaze of colour, particularly in spring and autumn, and it is the home of the Millennium Seed Bank Project. Though the pub still exits today (2004), it is now considerably larger than it is in this photograph. The road has also been re-aligned, and the pub is now further away from the road.

A Selection of Memories from Ardingly

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Ardingly

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Anyone on this site ever worked at Ardingly during the above years. If so would you know of a James (Jock) Storey during this time. He is my birth father and I am trying to find out information about him as I was adopted in 1951. Ardingly have no record of him in their archives and I just wondered if anyone on this site knew of him. He married Evelyn Burlong from Lindfield in 1948 and they lived in ...see more
My name is Barbara Tester and I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My beloved (late) husband, Brian Tester, was born on 26th July, 1930 at No. 1 Station Cottages, 1 Station Road, Ardingly. His parents were Bartley William Charles Tester and Gladys Evelyn Tester. His father was a stonemason who carried out a number of pieces of restoration work in Sussex throughout his long ...see more