Recently most of the mystery photos we have published have been Brighton locations, so these lovely shots of Woodingdean will hopefully come as a pleasant change.
The photographs are from the extensive online Photograph Collection of the Royal Pavilion and Museums website. If you have a couple of days to get lost online – give it a visit – it is very addictive.
So our questions are: where in Woodingdean were these buildings situated, and approximately what date would this be?
If you can help please do leave a message below. And please give as many details as possible – we would like to take a contemporary photograph of the location.
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I believe this is probably near enough upon the same site that the Post Office still stands upon, 544, Falmer Road, close to the intersection with Warren Road / Warren Way. The OS map of 1930 shows it to be located thereabouts and directories show an adjacent cafe and grocery stores. I would hazard a guess that this was probably the early 1930’s. Regards, Andy
It looks like it’s in the same position as it used to be; below the crossroads, but I can’t be sure.
I believe it was on the Falmer Road, on the east side just below the junction with Warren Road at the Downs Hotel.
I think that the pictures shown are indeed on Falmer Road below the position of the post office at the moment, and where the garage stands was a tea room – I think it was called Joy’s cafe
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