Introduction to Whitehawk

Buildings of interest

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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c) BUILDINGS: St Cuthman's Church was originally erected in Lintott Avenue in 1937, but was destroyed on 16 August 1943 by a German bomb with a church-warden buried alive. The new church was built in 1951-2 {83,311}. The church hall was sold to the community association in 1982 to become the Valley Social Centre. St David's Mission Hall, still standing at the junction of Whitehawk Road and Whitehawk Way, was used before the church opened, and was later used by the Whitehawk and Manor Farm Boys' Club {83}. The Catholic Church of St Louis, King of France, opened on 20 December 1964 in Modern style at Henley Road, but as it was constructed of high-alumina cement it was later declared unsafe and closed in October 1982 to be replaced by a block of flats, Henley Court, in 1985-6 {56,123}.
Whitehawk Library opened in 1934 in a building in front of Whitehawk Primary School in Whitehawk Road, but it was eventually required for classrooms and a temporary library was established at Rugby House, Rugby Place, in August 1969. A new community centre and library, the largest of the town's branches, was opened by Princess Alexandra on 9 November 1973 in Whitehawk Road; the toy 'library' was opened by Dame Flora Robson three weeks later. {123,311}
Stanley Deason School opened in Wilson Avenue in 1976; the community sports hall and squash courts were added in 1984. {123}

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