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Fabulous. I wrote about Tidemills a couple of weeks ago (http://chertsey130.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-lost-village-and-rediscovered-town.html) and have enjoyed (re)discovering it and properly appreciating it after having lived on the doorstep for twenty five years, but it's even better to get the dg take on it - and shamefully, I have never been round the front of Bishopstone station.
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The second link in here and here doesn’t work.
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Excellent. Who knew? Not me anyrate. Thanks. Have previously taken the train to Seaford for the Seven Sisters walk to Eastbourne, but it never occurred to me to alight at Bishopstone. Genius. A Saxon church too? Fantastic. Shame about the state of the station.
Oh look, there's an improbably straight Grand Avenue too laid out for the development you described that never happened. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102209 |
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What a fantastic building! Thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks for revealing an area I knew nothing about.
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The transmitter tower you can see on the hill above Newhaven in your "single track line" photo, was the last of the UK 405 line system TV transmitters to open, in 1969 with BBC1 and in 1970 with ITV,- even though the 625 line system had started in 1964!
It was also the first 405 line transmitter to close down in 1982. It was also interesting to see the off shore wind turbines on the horizon in the same photo. |
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Connoisseurs of transmitter towers should be aware, before clicking through to view, that the relevant section of the image is only 9 pixels wide and 42 pixels deep.
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I love to wander around Tidemills. Worth noting its an excellent birdwatching spot - in fact you should have seen some birdwatchers there if you visited in the last few days as there has been a wryneck nearby.
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Those "microlights" would be paragliders - I'm often among them in a moderate southerly wind, and on a good day can fly all the way to Brighton and back. Many interesting bits of coast near here. Tidemills seems well worth a visit
dg writes: Updated, thanks. |
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only on here would one see the phrase:
"Connoisseurs of transmitter towers" subscription for this blog worth every cent/penny |
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Looking at the photo of the closed station, it appears to have been reconstructed by the Southern Railway, the LB&SCR wouldn't have used concrete (obvious in the disused platform on the right, along with the light stands) in 1864.
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I used that station a year or two ago and thought it looked rather Charles Holden. I had no idea it was actually modelled on his stations.
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My sister lived just down the road from the station. I didn't know the story behind it. Many thanks.
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James Scott Robb's work includes the Waterloo Victory Arch and Ramsgate (early work), and the more modernist Surbiton, Wimbledon, Richmond, Woking signal box, Southampton and the distinguished set of stations with their concrete canopies on the Chessington branch. His work sort of mirrors Holden's, with the earlier ones in white stone or concrete, and the later ones in brick.
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Google maps appears to have invented another Bishopstone station - at Hill Rise on the A259 and nowhere near the railway !
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