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Introduction to Patcham

1930s house prices
Built around the old village The nucleus of modern Patcham is the village of yesteryear; centred around Church Hill and Old ...
Introduction to the area
Your editor for Patcham is Bill Maskell. If you’ve got any queries about this area, or can add any information, ...
Map of Patcham Village
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One of the largest settlements in the Domesday Book
Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990. As a result, some of ...
Patcham Youthless Club
Christ the King Church Youth Club In the 1950s and early 1960s, Patcham had a thriving youth club attached to Christ ...
Tableau by Patcham Junior School
First prize winners The tableau ‘Soldiers of the Queen’ presented by Patcham Junior School, won first prize in the schools’ section ...
The years following the Second World War
A small house in Overhill Drive “I was brought up in Patcham in the years following the Second World War. We ...
Walking my girlfriend home from school
What great memories I have of Patcham! I can remember walking my first girlfriend home from school (Patcham school at ...

"Good morning Windmill!"
1930s development
3,000 residents in 1935
A green haven
A new house in 1932
A place full of music
A windmill in 1620
Beef and dairy herds
Building and restoration
Built in 1885
Built originally in 1558: rebuilt in 1764
Childhood memories
Church and dew pond c1900
Dates from the 12th century
Development initiated in 1931
Development of the old drove road
Did you know? - a famous collection
Did you know? - a famous staircase
Did you know? - World War II
Early engraving
Examples of early flint work
Flower Festival and Church Fete
From mansion to youth hostel
Housed in Patcham Place in 1930s
Looking north, c.1960
Looking west from the public library
Memories of a Patcham Childhood.
Nestling in the Downs
North Brighton c1915
Notes and queries
Once again a village street
Once known as Spring Street
One of the longest in Sussex
One of the oldest farms in the borough
Origins of the cottages, the inn and the fountain
Over elaborate Victorian restoration
Patcham's main village street
Photo tour, present day
Photographic miscellany
Photos from the early 1960s
Postcards from the early twentieth century
Purchased from the Abergavenny estate in June 1928
Remembering broken biscuits and cheese triangles
Restoration after storm damage
Revisiting my memories
Schoolboy memories
Sticks up like a sore thumb
The developer: George Ferguson
The Dovecote
The estate 80 years on
The Princess and Patcham
Tillings bus at the fountain
Undated photograph
View across the main A23
View of the estate and the downs
Introduction to Patcham

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