Photographs of Peacehaven taken by Frank H. Parks. © "The Parks Family"
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The Estate Company's Office on the corner of Piddinghoe Avenue. Later this became the Rosemary Tea Rooms, then the Rosemary Nursery which had a garden shop attached to the left-hand side of this building.
Looking down Piddinghoe Avenue
Some of Peacehaven's first houses in Seaview Avenue — looking NW.

The black house in the background may be an ex-army hut.
No.35, Mayfield Avenue was one, although now well concealed. There was also another one in Piddinghoe Avenue with colourful gardens, replaced by a row of houses in the 1960s.

A house under construction. Frank H. Parks in the white apron
Materials for these houses may have come from a large army
camp at Seaford. The pile of leftovers might seem to confirm this.

Note the crude support for "scaffolding".

Transport for the workers.
A "Crossley" car near the Aquarium in Brighton.
"Scaffolding" in use.
The workers.

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