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Bevendean

Joyce Cobbett, Bevendean resident

Photograph taken by Zoë Woods

View of Sussex Downs from Bevendean

Photograph taken by Zoë Woods.

View of the sea from Bevendean

Photograph taken by Zoë Woods

The newest nicest estate

By Joyce Cobbett

I came over from Whitehawk in 1952. I was in a prefab in Whitehawk and my husband worked nearer here. You could swap your houses in those days. Somebody wanted my prefab, [some other] people wanted a 3 bedroom house and I wanted to come over here so we did a three way swap.

When we came out here it was the newest, nicest estate in Brighton. This estate was more or less built when I came over; it was quite an established estate. I like it because you have got the country. You are surrounded by the Downs and you have only got to go over the top and you have the sea. Before I did my hip in I used to walk to the sea. This is a lovely estate, it's a beautiful estate. I mean I wouldn't want to move for anything.

Interviewed for the website by Zoë Woods for the Lesser-Heard Voices Project, 2003.

20th June, 2003

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I grew up in Lower Bevendean from 1954 until I got married in 1971. I remember going to Bevendean School with James Cobbett and my mum belonged to the Young Wives Group and used to clean the church known as The Old Barn Church. My sister Shirley Smith was christened there by Father Chapman.

By Christine Smith (18/11/2007)