This may well another photo of Bentham Road Sunday School but with boys in a boat. The other photo I submitted is of girls. The two young ladies in the boat are the same two as those sitting together in the front row on the right of the leaders; the one on the right is wearing the same hat and cardigan. The one on the left is my Mother. They both look not to have aged so I think it is still 1921. I do not know if this was at Hassocks.
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This looks like it could be the Chinese Gardens which were at Hurstpierpoint.
That had not occurred to me; I think you could well be right Bob. The Ladies’ Sunday School outing was to Hassocks so this was in the vicinity. By coincidence I understand that my wife’s stepfather’s family ran the Chinese Gardens for a number of years. They were in the licensed trade and her stepfather, George Pearn, eventually took over the Preston Park Hotel. It is a small world.
I see that this photo was put here a long time ago but ‘Victoria Pleasure Gardens’ in Burgess Hill was where everyone went for fun in the early 1900’s -it looks like there. My mother, who lived in Portslade and was born in 1906 used to go there for Sunday school treats etc. There was a boating lake, switchback, shooting gallery and ice skating (in the winter on the frozen lake). There is a website. It is buried under ‘Victoria Industrial estate’ in Burgess Hill.
The other popular sunday school treat venue was Danny Park estate in Hurstpierpoint.
Does anyone know who Bentham Road was named after? There was a Jeremy Bentham but several other famous Bentham.
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