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From: "Pauline Mowbray" <>
Subject: RE: [Eastbourne] Tower Street - Thanks for your help
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:56:50 +1000
In-Reply-To: <006501c2942c$a0521140$e1135b0c@computer>


Hi Martin
You have just taken me on a trip down memory Lane Thankyou.

I'm going to print this out so my cousin Louise & I can do your tour
next year. <g>
BFN Pauline

Thanks to everybody that helped track down the location of Tower Street.
In figuring out where Tower Street was caused me to dig up memories of
places that I hadn't thought about for many years. It also showed me
how much some parts of Eastbourne had changed. Finally, it showed me
that using Street addresses and census information from years gone by
can potentially be misleading

As Heather and Pauline did, I went "door-to-door" in the 1881 census.
It was very interesting to see the street names and match them with my
memories of the area (mainly from late 60s to late 70s). My mother and
uncle grew up in Firle Road, just around the corner from Tower Street.
Some of the names were familiar (although not identical) and some were
not. It was actually very interesting to see how the area has changed.
Tower Street seemed to run into (or be very close to) Tower Place (which
is also long gone). As Pauline mentioned coming across the Victoria Inn
and Ocean Wave pretty much nailed the exact location (the Victoria Inn
is now the Victoria Hotel and both pubs now have Latimer Road as their
address). Thankfully pubs seem to be a pretty permanent fixture. After
Tower Place came Warrior Square (the Cash family that were in Tower
Street in 1896 were at Warrior Square in the 1881 census. Wandering
past Church Cottages and Sea Cottages you come to the Redoubt and
ultimately to Seaside (The Kings Arms). From the Kings Arms (just
across from Seaside Recreation ground) you can travel back along Seaside
Road via what was most likely a parade of shops (and still is) and yet
another pub (the 3 Compasses - possibly now the Black Horse)

Going the other way down Tower Street you come to the Compolite Arms
(long
gone) and some familiar names - Hanover Place (nor Hanover Road?),
Cambridge Place and Cambridge Terrace (now Cambridge Road?). After this
you come to the Barracks (which has been the TA center in recent years).
Manns Row and finally Addingham Road (the latter being a familiar name).

It is clear that the area underwent much change. Many street names have
changed and it would appear that many old cottages or houses were
demolished and rebuilt in the early years of the last century (that
would fit with the style of architecture that exists presently in the
area). Neither my mother or uncle can remember Tower Street and so I
assume that it disappeared (or was renamed) by the mid 1930s. My mother
also told me that it was said that if you stood on the top floor of the
Seaside library (corner of Firle Road and Seaside road) you could see 20
pubs. Having "traveled" around that area of the 1881 census I can see
that that statement had a ring or truth to it.

>From my travels I also learned that not only do street names change,
>but so
do house numbers on a given street - sometimes quite dramatically. For
example. the Kings Arms is listed as being at 113 Seaside in the 1881
Census but now is at 222 Seaside. Also, the parade of shops next to it
have odd numbers, although now that side of the street has even numbers.

Regards

Mark


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