This a modern view of Ringmer Road where it bisects Barcombe Road and joins the main road into/from Brighton proper. However, looking at it, little seems to have changed in the road's appearance. In the 1930s there were aged elm trees and beech trees probably a hundred years old or more, all the way along the wide grass section between Barcombe Road and the main road. We used to collect the beech nuts which were quite nutritious, a jam jar full at a time. Round about 1935 one of the tree loppers, who almost annually kept the trees in shape, fell out of one of them and died.