SearchCurrently displaying: 48 results. Clear the search. You can also search our Questions and Answers.You've searched for:Categories: "Places" xArea: "Hollingbury" x Search term Filter by Categories New contributions (1)Tours (1)Neighbourhood tours (1)Patcham (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest CVA: later Kearney & Trecker I worked at the Kemp Town location of CVA, until the move to the Hollingbury Industrial Estate, from 1949 through ... Centenary year celebrations This month Hollingbury Park Golf Club celebrated their centenary with the Mayor of Brighton and Hove, Councillor Gary Peltzer Dunn, ... Beautiful views from the fort Ten years ago when I moved to Brighton, I saw Hollingbury Hillfort clearly marked on an OS map, and knew that ... Spellbinding and relaxing Surrounding this protected nature area is the Hollingdean Golf Course on one side and Wild Park on the other. The near ... Detailed information from a regular visitor My association with this beautiful and interesting hill top site goes back over 37 years. The site enjoys commanding views ... History of Hollingbury Until the 1930s the area was open Downland with farms, small-holdings and piggeries on the lower western slopes of the ... CVA and the Hollingbury Industrial Estate An account of the development of the factories of CVA (later Kearney & Trecker) on the Hollingbury Industrial Estate, Brighton The ... Photographed, c1960 Welcome to Hollingbury Your editor for Hollingbury, Coldean and Stanmer is Geoffrey Mead. If you’ve got any queries about this area, or can ... Official Opening November 1948 Seeing the recent discussions about Carden School reminded me that I have this press cutting in the collection I ... Class photograph 1951 Click on the photograph to open a large version in a new window Living in Hanover We moved to Brighton in 1944. ... Sharp division of post-war housing The sharp division of pre-war housing from post-war accentuates the contrast between Patcham and its eastern neighbour, Hollingbury. Post-war Hollingbury, with ... Photographs from the 1960s CVA Buying Office The social aspect As Peter Groves has created so many excellent pages of CVA history, concentrating on the manufacturing side of ... Assembly 1966 Mixed memories I went to this school from 1966. I have mixed memories, but overall it was a happy time for ... CVA Drawing Office c.1952 Developed after WWII This photo shows the CVA Drawing Office in Crowhurst Road Hollingbury soon after it opened in 1952. Its ... CVA Kearney & Trecker and the automotive industry Coventry of the South In the post war period Brighton became known as the “Coventry of the South” due to CVA ... Special Purpose Machines - Part I 1950s A rare event Growing up in Hangleton during the late 1950’s and early 60’s, there were very few cars in Amberley ... Special Purpose Machines - Part II, 1960's Vauxhall Viva In 1963, CVA/Kearney & Trecker designed and built a Special Purpose Transfer Machine for Vauxhall, to produce cylinder blocks ... Special Purpose Machines - Part III, 1970s In-line Transfer While the early 1970’s were a difficult times, where the workforce were downsized, the manufacture of huge Special Purpose ... Special Purpose Machines - Part IV 1980s Jaguar, Mini Metro and the Ford Sierra The 1980’s started well, with an order from Jaguar Cars worth £5m. It was ... Special Purpose Machines - Part V, Historic Records Machine Record Log A log of all Special Purpose machines was maintained, this recorded the Serial Number, Technical Reference Number, Customer, ... Special Purpose Machines - Part VI, Men at Work Shared resources In the 1950s there were around 2,000 employees at CVA/Kearney & Trecker. In 1954 the Company decided to split ... Memories of Hollingbury Court School I was a pupil at Hollingbury Court School in Brighton between 1948 and 1953, about a decade before the school ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 1) Schoolboy fascination Many schoolboys of the early 1980’s were well aware and fascinated by the true story of huge aircraft wings ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 2) Airbus/British Aerospace background In September 1967 the British, French and German governments signed an agreement to start the development of the ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 3) 200 Series Max-E-Trace, innovation The standard 200 Series Max-E-Trace high-speed routing machine was already proven technology, installed and in production at ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 4) X – Bed, technical data The X-axis bed was constructed from precision planned cast iron sections bolted together and accurately aligned ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 5) Transport to BA Chester and installation Due to the huge size of the X bed, sections were assembled in the Brighton ... Hollingbury and the Airbus (Part 6) 1988 Upgrade By the mid 1980’s, with air travel even increasing, an extension to the 200 Series was planned. This was ... Hollingbury and keyboard machines Fifty-something bloggers Many fifty-something mybrightonandhove bloggers, will like me remember, cold, dark, wet winter Saturday afternoons, in front of the coal ... A trip down memory lane Started in 1952 I started at Carden Road School in 1952. I was born in 1947, and would have been five ... Class 6 photographed in 1953 Where was my heart-throb? I don’t know where my heart-throb Johnny W. was when the photo below was taken. Perhaps he ... Letter from America 1955 When my Carden School teacher Miss James left for Canada to get married, she sent a letter and post card ... Class photo: c1954/55 Here is an old school photo taken on the bank just below the current medical centre around 1954. Back row (from ... The Changeover to Decimal Currency 150 years of dithering After 150 years of dithering, the final decision to switch to decimal currency was made in a ... Memories of the 1940s My Saturday job When I was a schoolboy in the 1940s I used to work on Saturdays and school holidays for ... Kearney & Trecker Marwin Apprentices 1974/5 Photos from 1974/5 We have previously seen here the Kearney & Trecker Apprentice Training School at Coombe Road during the period ... Growing up in the 1950/60s Click on the thumbnails to open a large version A happy time I was born in 1951, and my family are my ... A Walk Back in Time c1985 Anyone fancy a walk? Let us go back to 1985 and take a walk around Hollingbury Industrial Estate. Remember back then, ... 1957 winning football team This group of likely lads were the 1957 Carden Junior School Football team. Kevin Gillespie is third from the left standing. Do ... Camp beds and long corridors Afternoon naps on the camp bed I went to Carden School in 1952 and remember having sleeps on a little camp ... Views over Hollingbury Industrial Estate 1952-1987 Manufacturing Entity Call me sad if you want, but I find these photographic views over Hollingbury Industrial Estate fascinating; from its ... CVA workers, planning to get the bus home The move from Kemp Town These photos come from the collection of Peter Henry who worked for CVA between 1949 – ... The Demolition of Leytool January 1985 Leytonstone Jig & Tool Company (Leytool) The Leytool factory on the Hollingbury Industrial Estate was constructed in 1949. The company’s origins were ... Demolition of STC/ITT Creed 30 Years Ago These photos show the demolition of STC/ITT Creed in 1986/1987 through to the opening of the Asda Superstore ... Kearney & Trecker 100 Ton press This was the 100 ton press pictured on the assembly line at Hollingbury – it was built to produce bottle tops ... Hollingbury in the snow I remember when Hollingbury was cut off by a snow storm and in the morning the snow outside our flat ...