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Maps
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Memories
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Where I Was Born
I was born at my grandmother's house in Chavey Down Road. Her name was Mary-Ann Bye. I only knew her, as my grandfather had died many years before. My mum, Edith Ellen Bye was one of five children and we lived in ...Read more
A memory of Chavey Down in 1948 by
Easebourne St. Easebourne, W Sussex
We lived in Wisteria Cottage - my married name was Bowers then - which adjoined The White Horse Inn, which you can just see on the left towards the end of the picture. There seems to be another building in ...Read more
A memory of Easebourne in 1997 by
Wannock Willingdon
We moved from Eastbourne to Wannock Lane, Willingdon in 1963 as my mother felt it would be a nice place for us to grow up at the foot of the Downs. It certainly was, Willingdon School fulfilled us academically & ...Read more
A memory of Willingdon in 1963 by
Reveries Of Blindley Heath In 20's, 30's And Later
I spent my first five years 1924-1929 in Blindley Heath, possibly the nicest years of my life. I may have gone to the school there. I clearly remember Gibb's store when I spent six glorious ...Read more
A memory of Blindley Heath in 1920 by
Willingdon Childhood
I was born and raised in Willingdon and lived two doors away from the previous correspondent Ian Friend. I also attended the school referred to as Willingdon Church Hall before a new school was built in Rapsons(?) Road, ...Read more
A memory of Willingdon by
Mother's Memory
Thinking that my mother always lived in and around Kidderminster, I was surprised to discover her mother had died in West Sussex. I did some research and found Mum and her siblings attended Tillington school. The school register ...Read more
A memory of Tillington in 1920 by
Childhood Memories
I started staying with my Aunt Reeves and Uncle Sam at about 2 years old. I remember we use to go for long walks across the hills which was the golf course, or we would meander through Cowdry Park. Aunt use to take me to ...Read more
A memory of Easebourne by
When My Children Were Young
We lived in Eastbourne at this time and would always come out to Pevensey Bay on summer days and spend time on the beach. It was so peacefull and there was very little traffic. There were many privately owned ...Read more
A memory of Pevensey Bay in 1964 by
Wartime Ven House
About 1940, at 9 years old, my private school, Willingdon College, was evacuated from Eastbourne to Ven House. It was a most magnificent building, built in the 1700s and pretty unsuitable for a boys' school. I remember fine ...Read more
A memory of Milborne Port in 1940 by
Our Shop
My mum and dad owned the Greengrocers opposite what is now Sainsburys; in fact my sister and I were both born above the shop. Then my dad had a shop in Bellingham and we moved to Purley; in 1971 we all moved to Eastbourne where dad ...Read more
A memory of West Wickham in 1961 by
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Seaford is home to a number of private schools and has several golf courses, but the town has none of the sparkle and verve of, say, Eastbourne.
Seaford is home to a number of private schools and has several golf courses, but the town has none of the sparkle and verve of, say, Eastbourne.
The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.
Between the wars Eastbourne continued to expand, and until the 1950s it enjoyed great prosperity.
Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.
Gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Tunbridge Wells over the first half of the 20th century, this section of village shops and businesses along the main highway running between London and Eastbourne
direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside resort of Eastbourne
We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield.
Between Seaford and Eastbourne the South Downs reach the sea in spectacular style with chalk cliffs rising sheer over 500 feet from the sea.
Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.
The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.
A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long
This view is taken at the north-west end of what is now the recreation ground, and the area beyond the carriage is now the teeming roundabout where the A24 London Road meets the A27 which runs from Eastbourne
We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.
Lobbying by the Duke of Devonshire and others secured borough status for Eastbourne in 1883 with George Wallis, the Duke's agent, becoming the first mayor.
Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s
Fortunately for the village, it is now by- passed by the busy A22, but until then traffic had to negotiate this very sharp bend, and the London to Eastbourne traffic made the centre of
direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside resort of Eastbourne
second master plan for the areas around the hamlet of Meads, this time for tree-lined streets of villas and houses in grounds that led to this western development being nicknamed 'The Belgravia of Eastbourne
Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.
This allowed them to corner the bulk of excursions out of Brighton and Eastbourne, and to gain a substantial foothold in the Isle of Wight and Hastings traffic.
popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach between Eastbourne
Unlike Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, Worthing never aspired to having an opulent purpose built Victorian hotel.
According to the records of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, Darby's Hole was in fact part of a cave system which had formerly been used by the local smugglers.
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