Publications
Ifield Mill: Its Owners and Occupiers, by Patricia Bracher, published December 1976 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 7, article, pp.222-227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Estate Buildings at Brook House, by Pat Bracher, Ron Martin and W. R. Beswick, published 1993 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 23, article, pp.32-37, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:Brook House is a substantial mansion largely built during the last quarter of the nineteenth century by the Clarke family. The following articles outline the history of the family and the business that they operated. This is followed by detailed surveys of two notable estate buildings, a game larder and a gas house. To conclude there is a description of an acetylene gas producing plant formerly at Horam Church Hall which would have been similar to the one at Brook House which has not survived.
Bevendean Isolation Hospital, Brighton, by Hugh Fermer with a postscript by Pat Bracher, published 1998 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 28, article, pp.19-26, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527] Download PDF
Abstract:The story of Bevendean Hospital, originally called the Brighton Sanatorium, began early in 1881. A letter from the Workhouse Master at Elm Grove dated early in 1881, informed the Sanitary Committee of Brighton Corporation that there was a depressing need for more accommodation for smallpox victims. There were, he said, only five places now available at Elm Grove. This was repeated in a further letter to the Committee in May 1881. On 31 May 1881 the Sanitary Committee resolved that 'The Surveyor do forthwith erect a temporary building to be used as a sanatorium on part of the land acquired by the council as a site for such an establishment.' This resolution went on to say that wards were to be fitted up for not less than forty patients and requested the Medical Officer of Health to report on the staff that he required.
The site referred to in the Sanitary Committee resolution was on the Downs at the back of the town. It was ten acres in extent and 326 feet above sea level and it sloped towards the west and south in the direction of the sea. It was acquired by the Corporation in 1881 for £5,000 subject to restrictions preventing the Corporation from erecting buildings for the infectious sick except on a limited portion of the site.
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The hospital closed on 24 April 1989. The ten acre site was to be sold and the proceeds spent on the new hospital at Hove and a new ward at the Royal Sussex Hospital. The last part of the hospital to close was Willow Ward, the day ward for psycho-geriatrics which was to remain open until a new home for it was found in September 1990. The site was bought by Croudace Housing who planned to build 128 houses and demolition began in April 1993. Nothing is now left of the hospital except the high flint wall which marks the boundary of the housing estate.
The site referred to in the Sanitary Committee resolution was on the Downs at the back of the town. It was ten acres in extent and 326 feet above sea level and it sloped towards the west and south in the direction of the sea. It was acquired by the Corporation in 1881 for £5,000 subject to restrictions preventing the Corporation from erecting buildings for the infectious sick except on a limited portion of the site.
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The hospital closed on 24 April 1989. The ten acre site was to be sold and the proceeds spent on the new hospital at Hove and a new ward at the Royal Sussex Hospital. The last part of the hospital to close was Willow Ward, the day ward for psycho-geriatrics which was to remain open until a new home for it was found in September 1990. The site was bought by Croudace Housing who planned to build 128 houses and demolition began in April 1993. Nothing is now left of the hospital except the high flint wall which marks the boundary of the housing estate.
Henry Turner, Brickmaker Master 1804-1872, by Pat Bracher, published 2002 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 32, article, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506530] Download PDF
Abstract:Valuations for The Broyle Brickyard, Ringmer and Pound Land Brickyard, Laughton