Crawley, The Fair, Upper Square 1905
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Although a market is still held in the High Street, there are no cattle fairs any more. This picture evokes a different world and a very different Crawley from today's seething New Town of more than 60,000 people.

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A Selection of Memories from Crawley

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 Crawley

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I lived in Tillgate from 1945 to about 1954. Dad was Sir Malcolm Campbell's care taker on the estate, until he died, we have grate memory's growing up there, by the way our name is Morris, there was fore of us at this time, Dennis ,Bill, Pat, and myself, Mum & Dad, we lived in the old laundry cottage on the side of the lake, I remember the mansion very well, I went in side it when the Canadians used it as the ...see more
I remember them filming Z-Cars along Queensway.
First place to buy Ben Sherman Shirts and Levi's the in place late sixty's early 70's
I lived in New Street, and my boyhood friends were Richard Freakes, John Denman, Michael and Graham Goring, Jeff and Billy Kowatch and Alfie Manzoli. Amongst many others, we used to play in the woods opposite Alfie's house and up on the hawth and where there was a huge bomb crater we used to ride our bikes. I was a paper boy for Dacks newsagent then later for Stones when the Daks retired. ...see more