Felbridge, c.1965
Photo ref: F15011
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Photo ref: F15011
Photo of Felbridge, c.1965

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Little change to the Star but its car park has been extended, and a new restaurant has appeared - since demolished and replaced by an even bigger eatery. The garage's tea shop has been gutted and altered to a car showroom. There is a great increase in street furniture such as lamp posts, flagpoles and traffic islands, whose black and white paintwork is a hangover from wartime blackout conditions.

An extract from East Grinstead Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Felbridge

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My Creasey family ancestors, farmed here in the 1700's and early 1800's. There is a possibility that Edward Creasey acquired Gibbshaven through a family connection of his wife Amelia Stone, with Thomas and John Stone who occupied the property until Edward took over in 1827. Edward and Amelia's first child was my Great-Great-Grandad Thomas Edward Creasey. In 1839, during the ...see more
In the nineteenth century my Creasey family were tenant farmers at Gibbshaven Farm near Felbridge. Many of the family lived their entire lives in the area and the church was where they were baptised, married and buried. It is a beautiful area and many of the family pursued interests in farming, nursery gardening and coach making. My great great uncle Ernest Creasey ran a ...see more