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Sussex Industrial History: Journal of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, edited by Dr. Brian Austen, published 2000 (issue no. 30, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

Building of the Balcombe Tunnel, 1838-1841, by Pat Millward, published 2000 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 30, article, pp.2-19, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

In 1825 John Rennie, son of a Scottish engineer who had worked on a projected canal from Croydon to Portsmouth, was employed by the Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts and Somerset Railway company to search for a line between London and Brighton as the first section of a circuitous way to Portsmouth, Salisbury and the Bristol coalfields. He was to describe the development of his ideas before the House of Commons enquiry on 14 April 1836, saying that having examined a large area he had selected two possible routes. The first, surveyed for him by Charles Vignoles, was to traverse the North Downs by the Dorking Valley, go south by Horsham, use the Adur Valley to Shoreham and then run along the coast to Brighton. For the second he and Thomas Jago investigated lines south from London which, instead of avoiding the rugged land of the High Weald, would cross it to provide a shorter route but one with massive earthworks. From surveys over a wide area he proposed his Direct Line which, with amendments would eventually be built, but the then Sir John Rennie was to be sidelined in favour of John Urpeth Rastrick. Called Chief Engineers, it was Rastrick who was to build the line while Rennie acted only as consultant.

Eric Gill and the Ditchling Common Workshops, by Peter Longstaff-Tyrrell, published 2000 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 30, article, pp.20-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

Of all the illustrious sons of Sussex this century few could have made a more lasting daily visual impact, worldwide, than Eric Gill. It was in Sussex that Gill embarked on his international career - yet few people outside the world of the arts and publishing may have heard of his full name and controversial lifestyle. This article concentrates on Eric Gill's work on the former workshop premises on Ditchling Common and provides an illustrated record of this site.

Midhurst Whites Brickworks: George Cloke's Account, by Brian Austen (introduction), published 2000 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 30, article, pp.24-28, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

Only a store shed and some points from a light railway now survive from the Midhurst Whites Brickworks which were sited close to the former London & South Western Railway station at Midhurst (SU 877213). The Works were established in 1913 by S. Pearson & Son, Civil Engineers, a firm controlled by the Cowdray family. The Works at Midhurst Common were built on land owned by Lord Cowdray. Sand for brick production was extracted from a site close to the Works. After World War I the business was sold and the new owner also operated a lime works at Cocking, three miles south of Midhurst. In 1926 Benjamin Cloke became the owner and by 1930 was trading as the Midhurst Brick & Lime Co. Ltd. He used the railway to despatch bricks to London. In common with other brickworks, the business suffered from the depression of the early 1930s and unsold stocks of bricks mounted.

Keymer Brick and Tile Works, by Frederick M. Avery, published 2000 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 30, article, pp.29-31, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

Big hole, Big Bertha, green clay, blue lake, primrose heat, beehives, frogs and dinosaurs are all terms that may have been heard by visitors to the Keymer Works. What do these terms mean you may ask? All will be revealed in an attempt to condense the history of the Works, covering more than two and a half centuries.

Keymer No. 1 Brickworks, Burgess Hill, by Martin Ron, published 2000 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 30, article, pp.32-39, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/30] & The Keep [LIB/506528]   Download PDF

This site was surveyed by the writer with the assistance of Peter Holtham in January and February, 2000 prior to its imminent demolition before development for housing.