Crawley - the past, the present & the future: August 2019

Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Bull and Bush

Address: Dorsten Square, Bewbush

Built / Opened: @1983

Closed: 1989

The Bull and Bush was renamed The Dorsten in 1989 which subsequently closed and was demolished in 2009.

Doctor Samuel Johnson

Address:

Built / Opened: 12th November 1956

Dorsten

Address: Dorsten Square, Bewbush

Built / Opened: 1989

Closed: January 2009. Demolished March 2009

Previously: Bull & Bush (1983 - 1989)

Feb 2007 (John Zebedee - Flickr)

Prior to demolition in 2009 (Jim Valance - Facebook)

Monday, 5 August 2019

Black Dog

Address: Barnfield Rd, Northgate, RH10 8DS

Built / Opened: 26th April 1955

Closed: 2016

Now (2017 - present) Efes BBQ - Turkish Restaurant & Meze Bar

Images Courtesy of www.beerintheevening.com

Image uncredited (scan of a postcard)

Tavern on The Green

Address: Peterhouse Parade, Grattons Drive, Pound Hill, RH10 3BA

Opened: 197?

Photo © Paul Carter 2011

Apple Tree

Address: West Green Drive, West Green, RH11 7DL

Built / Opened: 27th April 1955

Photo © The Apple Tree

The Locomotive

Address: Three Bridges Road (Formerly Three Bridges High Street)

Built / Opened: @1905

Closed: 1977

Now known (since 1977) as The Moonraker

Photo © Ray Young - June 1955

The Locomotive was owned by Southdown & East Grinstead Brewery, latterly sold to Tamplins, which in turn, became part of Watneys.

Beaubush, to the north of St. Leonard's Forest, dates back to the middle ages. A park was recorded at Bewbush as early as 1295. It was granted by Henry VII to Lord de la Warr in 1486, passing on to Lord Berkeley and then Sir Thomas Seymour, who had his lands confiscated by the crown. It was a manor which later became known as the Holmbush Estate. The manor house was first mentioned in the early 14th century, although this no longer remains. A building with some 17th-century elements remains, although it was clad in brick in the 19th century and belonged for most of the twentieth century to the Clifton Brown family. The estate was broken up, and mansions at Holmbush and Buchan Hill were built on the former estate. In 1973, some 300 acres (1.2 km2) were purchased by Crawley Borough Council. During this time, the manor house was converted into flats by Crawley Borough Council and now stands amid modern developments in the neighbourhood. Bewbush Manor House is grade II listed, as is the barn, just over the road, which has been restored and used as a church since 1999.

The borough council began development of the new neighbourhood of Bewbush in 1974, with a leisure centre opening in 1984, and a shopping parade the following year. Additional land was brought into the borough of Crawley from Lower Beeding in 1983 to see the extension of the neighbourhood to reach its capacity population of 9000. Development of the neighbourhood continued into the 1990s and beyond.

Bewbush official recorded population:

2001: 9081
2011: 8865

Broadfield

Information about Broadfield

West Green

Information about West Green

Ifield

Information about Ifield

Gossops Green

Information about Gossops Green

Langley Green

Information about Langley Green

Tilgate

Information about Tilgate

Furnace Green

Information about Furnace Green

Northgate

Information about Northgate

Three Bridges

Information about Three Bridges

Pound Hill

Information about Pound Hill

Sunday, 4 August 2019

Milton Mount School

Address: Grattons Drive, Pound Hill, RH10 3AG.

Opened: 1972 as Milton Mount First and Middle School School

Became Milton Mount Primary School in 2004

Website: https://www.miltonmount.co.uk/

Hazelwick School

Address: Hazelwick School Close, Three Bridges, RH10 1SX

Opened: 1953 as a Secondary Modern School

New buildings were added in 1959, becoming a "Bilateral & Grammar" school 1960-1 and a "comprehensive" by 1964, when further new buildings were added.
Hazelwick was Crawley's first trust school in 2009 and went on to become West Sussex's first Academy school on 1st August 2011.

Website: http://www.hazelwick.org