Bexhill Buildings

The first golf club was founded in 1880 and used an existing cottage on the site as a clubhouse, this was extended in 1912. Up until the Second World War, the golf links stretched from the East Parade to Galley Hill with greens on both sides of the railway line. The following description of Bexhill’s […]

In 1885, in the very early days of the building of the new town of Bexhill, a new school was built in Barrack Road to cater for girls and infants of St Peter’s Parish. It incorporated the Wilson Memorial School, which had been accommodated in one of the old wooden houses on the opposite side

Bexhill-on-Sea became known as the “Birthplace of British Motor Racing” because of an event that took place in May, 1902. It was an idea of the 8th Earl that was to secure the town’s place in history – the idea being to bring together, in Bexhill-on-Sea, as many of the latest designs of automobiles manufactured

Brook Lodge, later known as The Grange, was built by Arthur Brook in about 1750, Arthur was the grandfather of the famous ‘Squire’ A. S. Brook. ‘Squire’ Arthur Sawyer Brook later lived in the Manor House but moved back to Brook Lodge when the Manor House began to deteriorate in the late 19th century. The

[ilink url=”https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/map/default.html”]Back to Map[/ilink] Bexhill Museum was opened in 1914. The Reverend J.C. Thompson FGS and Kate Marsden FRGS were instrumental in the setting up of the museum and the Reverend Thompson was Hon Curator until 1924. The museum was housed in the Egerton Park Shelter Hall, built in 1903. This had been a small

  St Andrew’s church, in Wickham Avenue, was founded as a mission church of St Barnabas, in 1900, and, from 1931, was the church of the conventional district of West Bexhill which, in 1934, became the parish of St. Augustine when the church of that name was consecrated. The Church closed in 2011 but the

A swimming bath or pool of some kind occupied this site from the time the park was laid out in 1888 up until its final demolition in 1986. The original swimming bath was created by lining an old salting depression with concrete and bringing in sea water through an iron pipe. Over the years the

The Convalescent Home opened in 1881, before the development of the resort which would become Bexhill-on-Sea, began. When it was first built, on the southern slopes of old Bexhill, the Home looked out over marsh and fields to the sea until the new town of Bexhill began to grow a few years later, in 1883.

As the new town of Bexhill grew, a new church was needed so, first, in June 1891, the Parish of St Barnabas was created from the old St Peter’s Parish. In 1888, the, then, incumbent of St. Peter’s, Canon Clarke, donated £6,000 toward the building of a a new church, between the railway and the