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High Street, Portslade

Personal view

By Bob Carden, community activist and lifelong resident

There are lots of postcards of this particular bridge; this postcard was very prevalent. They had to take the bridge down just at the outbreak of war. There was a steam tractor that turned over in this road, coming up from the brewery. The cottage is now gone. Some of the flint wall is still there.

A photograph of Portslade Old Village

From a private collection

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

A hint to the bomb shelter where my parents and many others went during the war would be a great add-on piece.

By Andy (29/01/2004)

To reply to Andy's comments, I believe the bomb shelter you're referring to is the one in the school grounds to the right of the picture. I always remember the shelter from my school days there (never got a look inside it though). Unfortunately today I think the shelter is flooded and in very poor condition.

By Simon Clout (23/02/2005)

The shelter was at the north west side of the lower yard...or that's what the teacher always told me ... I was there from 1981 to 1983.

By Ian Wickenden (19/07/2005)

That's exactly where it is/was when I was there in the early 1960s. The bike racks were next to it - at the bottom of the stairs to the upper assembly area.

By Chris Edwards (11/10/2006)

What a challenge this hill was to the little number 9 bus in the 1940s - it didn't always make it. This was the only single-decker BH&D bus (Station to Mile Oak).

By Mike Baumann (14/12/2007)

We lived in old North Road, first after the Brewery Houses, before the orchard was removed for new North Road. I worked at the Power Station and Metal Box.

By Arthur Dalby (26/09/2008)

Hi from New Zealand. I lived in Windlesham Close from 1932-1946. This iron bridge joined the two parts of the old Porstslade House and grounds property. It was the second bridge, the first wooden one was burned down by the sparks from a steam-roller sealing the road in 1885.
The bridge existed well into the war years [1940+]. The Portslade Station-Mile Oak bus was a small single decker, enabling it to get under this bridge. We used to get into Applesham Way via a hole cut into the high flint wall on either side as the first houses began to be built. High Close had been cut in and building begun about 1936.

By Tony Flude (21/11/2008)

I well remember the old bridge joining the two halves of the estate together, also the doorway knocked through the old flint wall at the top of Applesham Way. I also recall all the trees being felled prior to the bungalows being built, the estate agents office at the bottom of Applesham Way, with the well at the back. Is it still there, I wonder? I was in the infants school at Windlesham House prior to the infants school being built at Southern Cross. I can also remember sitting in the Air Raid shelters that were built around the play ground.

By Pete Winstanley. (03/01/2009)