Little known, but totally useless local facts.

[chaileyjem]

Here's chailey's "length"

 

[Official Old Man]

There are tunnels running under Uckfield high street that connect The Maiden's Head, the Cinque Ports and the church on Church Street. There are also tunnel entrances / exits on the Little Horsted estate that lead all the way into the town centre in one direction and down to Isfield and onto Lewes in the other direction.

Is this in readiness for the Uckfield to Brighton train line?

 

[el punal]

That'll explain my disappointment with the BJ!

A blow dry will never be the same again.

 

[el punal]

Brighton police used to wear white helmets in the summer up to the mid-1960s.

 

[Megazone]

Winston Churchill went to school at the top of the road where I was brought up, Brunswick Road.

I thought it was Montpelier rd right next to York rd where he went to poetry school?

 

[beorhthelm]

Here's chailey's "length"

i was wondering... unless there is some archaic reason to show this is "chailey, its not an acceptable answer, it covers four seperate villiages: North Chailey, Chailey, South Street and South Chailey. i dont see how this can claim to be a single settlement.

 

[chaileyjem]

i was wondering... unless there is some archaic reason to show this is "chailey, its not an acceptable answer, it covers four seperate villiages: North Chailey, Chailey, South Street and South Chailey. i dont see how this can claim to be a single settlement.

I'm claiming it!

 

[beorhthelm]

I'm claiming it!

not sure thats enough to count as fact.

 

[Megazone]

Brighton sea life centre is the oldest aquarium still in use in the world.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

The Jack the Ripper murders were never solved, however on the night before each murder the same man stayed overnight in the Cricketeers pub in The Lanes. The only 5 nights he ever stayed, there was a murder the next day

 

[knocky1]

I thought it was Montpelier rd right next to York rd where he went to poetry school?

Maybe for poetry but there is a blue plaque at the top of Brunswick Road corner with Lansdowne Road.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54145418@N00/3955026427/

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

A Laine (as in North Laine) is divided by Leakways into Paulpieces.........a little known but totally useless local fact.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Lancing can arguably be known as the most populated village in Sussex.

 

[The Rivet]

I never knew that little known fact but it makes sense. Do you know where the line was? I know the route from the Downsman pub and assumed it came up from (West Hove and) Portslade Station.

The branch line from Aldrington Sation ran northwest behind Amhurst Crescent, past what is now PC World and then across Old Shoreham road just west of the fire station. It continued up the north side of the cemetery and through what is now Knoll Park behind Rowan Avenue. It crossed Hangleton Road just east of Stapley Road and went down past the medical center and across West Way to the left of Hangleton Library. It ran northwards behind the houses on the west side of Popular Avenue across Northeast Drve (where the school is now) and on to cross Sherbourne Road and eventually across Hangleton Way to join the 'cut' below the Downsman pub all the way up to the GC. A lot of the platform is still up there but on a private farm.

 

[Megazone]

St Bartholomew’s Church, in the North Laines, is the tallest brick church in Europe and is actually the same dimensions as Noah’s Ark in the book of Genesis.

George Everest, Surveyor-General of India and the man whom the highest mountain in the world was named after is buried in Hove.


Read more: http://www.brightonholidayhomes.co.uk/blog/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-brighton/#ixzz3rZXID2Qf

 

[Questions]

I've only got a 5ft one.

I thought Smudge said the average one was 6 inches.

 

[knocky1]

George Everest, Surveyor-General of India and the man whom the highest mountain in the world was named after is buried in Hove.


Read more: http://www.brightonholidayhomes.co.uk/blog/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-brighton/#ixzz3rZXID2Qf

St Andrew's Church. looking from Church Road it is on the right by the nursery. South East corner. Near the cans of special brew and hypodermic needles.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Here's chailey's "length"

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That suggests that Lord Monk Bretton's old home, Shelley's Folly, is in Chailey. He always thought he lived in Cooksbridge. I think he now lives in Switzerland.

 

[Tory Boy]

The Clock Tower in Preston Park, the main clock in Brighton Station, and the clock at the front of the Palace Pier are......

All in a straight line.

TB

 

[The Spanish]

i had an old boy on the train yesterday telling me that there is a plaque on stamner church that commemorates the vicar of stamner witnessing the execution of oliver cromwell in 1066.