Images of Pease Pottage

The first batch of these photographs was mostly taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and includes a few images of the damage caused by the great storm of October 1987. There is also a selection of images of Pease Pottage in the big freeze of January 2010, as well as images of the construction of the monster housing estate on the site of the car boot sale, which began in 2019.

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  • bluebells along Grouse Road
  • Horsham Road in winter
  • James King pub in winter
  • veteran car
  • pond
  • Parish Lane
  • golf driving range
  • Barn Close
  • Horsham Road
  • playground
  • the Grapes pub
  • church
  • morris dancers
  • building site
  • Black Swan Close
  • Old Brighton Road north
  • Old Brighton Road south
  • Peas Pottage sign
  • buildings opposite Hemsleys
  • Hemsleys in business
  • DF warehouse
  • PML cold store
  • abandoned depot
  • service station being built
  • service station skeleton
  • motorway
  • motorway
  • A23
  • hurricane damage
  • hurricane damage
  • storm damage
  • storm damage
  • Jet garage
  • Jet garage, deserted
  • deserted Jet garage
  • houses being built
  • houses
  • Hemsleys, burnt out
  • houses being built
  • Hemsleys houses
  • Grouse Road in winter
  • the world's shortest cycle lane in Pease Pottage
  • Pease Pottage Community Centre, 2019

Pease Pottage, Wednesday 6 January 2010

Woodgate Housing Estate, 2019 Onwards

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Slide Show Software

Merci à Christophe Beyl for his Slimbox software: https://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2/. Thanks also to Stef Dawson for his Textpattern plugin, smd_slimbox.

Other Photographs of Pease Pottage

  • The Francis Frith website contains 10 photographs taken in the 1950s: nine of Woodhurst and one of Tilgate Forest Row.
  • Your Local Web contains some more recent pictures of the village.
  • Handcross Over the Years, a book by the late Roger Ray, includes many old photographs of Pease Pottage and the surrounding villages. The book was published in 1991, presumably by the author since no publisher is mentioned. Its ISBN is 0 9518697 0 1.
  • Barry Ray, son of Roger, has established the Slaugham Archives website, which contains a large number of photographs of Pease Pottage over the last century or more. Well worth a visit!