EAW028828 ENGLAND (1950). The harbour and town, Newhaven, from the south-west, 1950

No1 Hillcrest Road Bn90rp

2ndWW SWS.

2ndWW SWS.

D-Day Embarkation Hard.

C W Collington wet and fried fishmonger trading at 18 South Road, Newhaven.

WWII Type 24 Pillbox S0011640.

WW2 Surface Blast Shelter

WW2 Surface Blast Shelter

WW2 Static Water Supply SWS

Bungalow occupied by the owners of Wheatley's Scrapyard (to the left). Their front gardens were immaculate, and a blaze of colour in the summer.

Watch House (coastguards)

RNLI Lifeboat Station

RAF air-sea rescue launches.

This was a rather oddly placed grocer's shop, only reached by a path and steps from Gibbon Road below, and by a steep path from Hill Crest Road much higher up. The building stood at the western end of where Badgers Close is now.

Ammunition storage buildings, dispersed to avoid a chain of explosions if one building exploded. There are (were) anti-blast banks and walls opposite the entrances.

Disused Colgate & Gray railway line to a jetty

Site being prepared for the construction of RAF Newhaven air-sea rescue base.

Water reservoir for fire-fighting during WWII. This one still has its brick walls.

Colgate & Gray Works, later it became Artex. A railway siding connected to the West Quay branch, and to a jetty where wagons were unloaded onto ships.

Fuel storage tank for ferries, via a pipeline under the river. Later, this arrived by rail tanker on the east side.