Shops And Businesses
A Memory of Haywards Heath.
This is the Broadway as I knew it. Both the Middlesex registered Driving School Morris 1000 and the East Sussex registered Morris 1000 truck MPN556 date this to after 1958. On the right beyond Eastman's the cleaners were WF Measor (haberdashers), JD Neal (who took over the business of F Butcher, jewellers), James Langridge (the Sussex Cricketer) who ran a toy shop, and beyond that was Ballards the grocers. On the left was McMillans butchers but this shop was before that run by WE Kenneth Licoln, farmer and pork butcher of Wivelsfield and a local magistrate from about 1937. His mother ran a butchers shop in Sussex Square. The building at right angles half way up on the right was Dixons the chemists. Some of their stained glass adverts can still be seen on the windows of the clothes shop there today. The blinds beyond are over the shop of Hydes, later Rixons, fishmongers. This was all before the 'Star Roundabout' became a one way system.
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I went to the girls' school Trevelyan which was next door to the Sharrow boys school I have seen mentioned in a comment until I was 11 in 1956. After that I went on the train to the girls' grammar school in Hove, as Haywards Heath grammar school did not exist then!
Seeing the pictures reminds me of my early life in Haywards Heath. I used to take my dog for a walk in 'the rec' and on Muster Green - and sometimes play on the swings, slide, etc in the rec, which were near the entrance from the bottom of Perrymount Road. I liked Victoria Park also as there was a wild area I recall with some steep slopes down to the park itself that one could slide down on the dry, dusty mud - and trees to climb. So many memories - I could go on for ever!!
I was friends with girl twins whose family lived above the Bank opposite the bub where south Road meets The Broadway, and we used to roller skate regularly on a lovely flattish paved area that made there. I remember there being Timothy Whites and Mence Smiths in the Broadway on the opposite side to our shop, as well as a Health shop which sold delicious bread and large chunks of crystalline sugar among many other things - happy days.