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18:59, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:King Offa Way (Created page with "Category:Streets")
18:57, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1913 (Created page with "Category:1910s")
18:55, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Malet Memorial Hall, 1 King Offa Way (Created page with "Built in 1912 in an Edwardian Tudor Revival style with castellated octagonal turret - formerly a worship hall on the first floor with the Malet Memorial Hall on the ground floor used for meetings. <blockquote style="background-color: #eee; border-radius:10px;"> The building was commissioned by Lady Ermyntrude Malet as a memorial to her husband, Sir Edward Malet, 4th Baronet (1837-1908). He was a high-ranking British diplomat who retired with his wife to Wrestwood on Has...")
18:31, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:London Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
18:31, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page St. John's Centre, London Road (Created page with "Built by P. Jenkins in 1897 as St John’s Congregational Church, Bexhill’s second place of worship, designed by the accomplished architect Henry Ward (see St. Stephen's) in the Free Perpendicular style. The finely crafted façade on London Road has a polygonal tower (which has sadly lost its slender original spire) and polygonal turret at each corner framing the tall arched east window. The entrance is flanked by buttresses with a...")
18:14, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Common.css (Created page with "CSS placed here will be applied to all skins: .action-view.page-Main_Page #firstHeading { display: none; }")
17:35, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1924 (Created page with "Category:1920s")
17:35, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Garage, 21 Station Road (Created page with "This is a rare example of a surviving 1920s motor car garage premises. Caffyn’s was a large car sales and repair company founded in Eastbourne in the 19th Century. Built in 1924 and designed by Wall Callow and Callow<ref>Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, Saturday March 31 1923, Page 8</ref>, the art deco style façade on Station Road reflected the very latest architectural trend when it was erected. It has a stepped pediment above a giant arch and a concave frontage at ground...")
16:54, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1935 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
16:54, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Cooden Beach Railway Station, Cooden Sea Road (Created page with "Built by the Southern Railway, one of the big four railway companies created in 1923 which operated all of the rail services to Bexhill until the nationalisation of the railways and the creation of British Railways in 1948. This station is typical of the Southern Railway’s 1930s architecture - a plain interwar Modern style red-brick building with hipped roof. The station had opened as Cooden Golf Halt in 1905, renamed Cooden Halt by 1922, and Cooden Beach in 1935 afte...")
16:49, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:South Cliff (Created page with "Category:Streets")
16:49, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1960s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
16:49, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1964 (Created page with "Category:1960s")
16:49, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Pages Gap (Created page with "Built on land forming part of the former Pages Estate. Although the gap was formally laid out in 1923 it wasn't tarmacked until 1959. A new trackway was commissioned by Stars Organisation for Spastics (located at Colwall Court) and built by the Royal Engineers 36 Field Squadron, opened July 1964. It was opened by comedian Harry Secombe and the Countess of Westmoreland. The Home closed in 1980. Category:All Category:1964 Category:South Cliff Category:Coll...")
16:42, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1923 (Created page with "Category:1920s")
16:42, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Birkdale (Created page with "Category:Streets")
16:42, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Birkdale Hall, Birkdale (Created page with "Former chapel built in 1923 in what were the grounds of Collington Rise Preparatory School (now flats). Used as a children’s nursery from 1990 to 2020 then converted into a residential property. Attractive brick elevations – gable to façade with dual pitch tiled roof behind, gabled entrance porch, three narrow arched windows to front, four on the side elevation, hipped roof at western end. Category:All Category:Residential Category:Birkdale Category:...")
16:40, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Collington Lane West (Created page with "Category:Streets")
16:40, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1902 (Created page with "Category:1900s")
16:39, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Lake House, 68 Collington Lane West (Created page with "Built in 1902 for the Lake House school, a boys preparatory school, renamed Beechmont in 1929, the school like so many was evacuated during World War II never to return. It is a substantial and imposing Edwardian property with Arts and Crafts architectural influences – gables, dormers, tile-hung and half-timbered upper floor elevations, an octagonal turret, very full-height large stained glass window to the hall and stone-mullioned bay windows. Category:1902 Ca...")
16:27, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Residential (Created page with "Category:Local List")
16:26, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Collington Rise (Created page with "Category:Streets")
16:26, 9 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Collington House, 3 Collington Rise (Created page with "Built in 1912 as St Celine School founded by Miss Salters Byrne, it was taken over by Collington Rise Preparatory School for boys in 1923 who occupied it until 1940 when the school was evacuated to Cornwall, never to return. After the war the Co-Operative Youth took on the building as a holiday guest house. It was also the base during this time for the Sussex Association of Boys’ Clubs. In 1962 it was taken over by the Workers Travel Association, an offshoot of the Wo...")
15:40, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Template:Infobox (Created page with "{{{title}}} {{{content}}}")
03:08, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Public Buildings (Created page with "Category:Local List")
03:05, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Cantelupe Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
03:04, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page 24-28 Cantelupe Road (Created page with "Old Magistrates Court and Old Police Station at Cantelupe Road were opened on the 10th January 1903. The new police-station and the courthouse were built as a single unit in an aristocratic, private residential part of the town, which, as one can imagine, originally raised objections from those in the neighbourhood. The building’s main block was of dark red brick, relieved here and there with white stones. It consisted of the Sessions House with Superintendent’s dw...")
02:56, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1860s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
02:56, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1865 (Created page with "Category:1860s")
02:56, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:All Saints Lane (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:55, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page All Saints Church of England Primary School, All Saints Lane (Created page with "Opened as a National School in 1865 and enlarged in 1910. Red brick with steeply pitched tiled roof, picturesque bargeboards – described by Antram in Buildings of England as 'Tudor cottage orné style'. Category:All Category:All Saints Lane Category:1865 Category:Schools Category:Old Town & Worsham Ward")
02:53, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Barrack Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:53, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1885 (Created page with "Category:1880s")
02:52, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Chantry Community Primary School, Barrack Road (Created page with "In 1885, in the very early days of the building of the new town of Bexhill, a new school was built in Barrack Road to cater for girls and infants of St Peter’s Parish. The school was enlarged in 1895 and moved to the new St Peter’s and St Paul’s School on Buckhurst Road opened in 1956. It then became Chantry Infant School. The attractive late Victorian schoolhouse has a steeply pitched slate roof and simple yellow brick elevations with red brick dressings. Ca...")
02:19, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Egerton Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:19, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill Museum, Egerton Road (Created page with "Bexhill Museum was opened in 1914. The Reverend J.C. Thompson FGS and Kate Marsden FRGS were instrumental in the setting up of the museum and the Reverend Thompson was Hon Curator until 1924. The museum was housed in the Egerton Park Shelter Hall, built in 1903 by George Ball. This had been a small entertainments pavilion for the use of visitors to the park. The Bexhill Corporation owned the building and leased it to the museum as well as proving a small grant. The mu...")
02:15, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Holliers Hill (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:14, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill (Created page with "This cottage hospital was opened in 1933 by Princess Helena Victoria in the presence of the Borough Mayor, the Earl de la Warr. The hospital was designed by the accomplished architectural practice and hospital building design specialists Adams, Holden & Pearson in an elegant now Georgian style. It has an H-plan – the ends of the wings were originally open balconies for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. Category:All Category...")
02:10, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1931 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
02:09, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Devonshire Square (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:09, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill-on-Sea Delivery Office, Devonshire Square (Created page with "Bexhill Delivery and Post Office was built in 1931 by Richard John Barwick and is a good example of the larger inter-war post offices built by the Office of Works in what came be known as "Post-Office Georgian". The architect of this building was David Nicholas Dyke, who designed a significant number of similar buildings, his Hastings Post Office (1930) on Cambridge Road is on an even monumental scale. Category:All Category:Devonshire Square Category:1931 ...")
02:05, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Western Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
02:05, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1893 (Created page with "Category:1890s")
02:04, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill Library, Western Road (Created page with "Designed by Architect W. C. Richardson of Leeds and built by Padgham and Hutchinson of St. Leonards in 1893. The library is an important town centre heritage landmark. Built of warm red brick with Gothic styling, fine brickwork detailing including a continuous frieze with trefoil-headed arches repeated in the tympanum of the 1st floor window under the gable on the Western Road façade. Opened as a mixed infants school in 1893, a girls school opened on the upper floor of...")
01:59, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1934 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
01:59, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Devonshire Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
01:58, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Boots, 14-16 Devonshire Road (Created page with "A striking streamlined Moderne design of 1934 by Percy Bartlett (1895-1933) who was appointed the company architect in 1927 - the chamfered corners are particularly good as are the striped horizontal bands framing the small upper floor windows and pilotis in front of the shopfront. His extension to Boots of 1929 in Kingston-upon-Thames is Grade II listed. Category:All Category:Devonshire Road Category:1934 Category:Shops Category:Central Ward")
01:54, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1897 (Created page with "Category:1890s")
01:54, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Sackville House, 5-11 St. Leonards Road (Created page with "A splendid late Victorian building graces the western end of St Leonards Road – Sackville House was built in 1897. The canted upper floor bays, decorative plaster frieze and deeply overhanging eaves supported on carved console brackets stand above broad flattened arch shopfronts with borders of egg-and-dart mouldings. Category:All Category:St. Leonards Road Category:1897 Category:Shops Category:Sackville Ward")
01:51, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1912 (Created page with "Category:1910s")