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Crawley, Tillgate Mansion 1907
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Tilgate Mansion was situated about a mile south of the town on the edge of Tilgate Forest, part of the woodlands that comprise St Leonards, Tilgate and Worth Forests; they run in a swathe from Horsham towards East Grinstead on the thin, agriculturally near-useless soils of the Weald. The mansion was built in the 1860s for a London banker. It is a curious amalgam of French Second Empire elements with Jacobethan, all in the local sandstone. The mansion was demolished in the early 1960s.

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Liveihg In Tillgate
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
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Famous Crawley People
PETER BUTTERWORTH; He was married to Janet Brown, the comedianne; They moved later to a large property in Old Ifield village, near to where there was a Doctor Barnados home;
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The Old Coach House
I used to live in the Coach House (now park offices) of Tilgate Mansion, when I was a very little boy. I went to school at Desmond Anderson. The Coach House and courtyard made up four dwellings. The groundsman lived in one, his name was Francis, with his wife and little boy - they later moved to Holmbury St Mary in Surrey. In those days, the lake was almost surrounded by rhododendrons. Mr Francis used to take ...see more
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Evacuees
As a small boy, my father-in-law Derek Munson was evacuated with his siblings to Crawley. They stayed at a farm house (which was later owned by Peter Butterworth - any further info on this would be much appreciated) but used to go to Tillgate Mansion for their baths once a week. He was very sad to hear that it had been demolished.
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