Beddingham Gardens, 1-12

• 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned

• 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile

• 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public

• 1955: ITV starts broadcasting

• 1957: 1st dog in space

• 1958: Gatwick Airport opened

• 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened

• 1961: 1st man in space

• 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated

• 1965: Post Office Tower opened

• 1966: England win World Cup

• 1967: 1st heart transplant

• 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated

• 1969: 1st men on the moon

• 1970: North Sea Oil discovered

• 1971: Decimal coins introduced

• 1972: "Bloody Sunday", 13 killed in Derry

• 1974: US President Nixon resigned

• 1976: Harold Wilson resigned as PM

• 1978: 1st "Test Tube" baby born

• 1979: Margaret Thatcher elected, UK's 1st woman PM

• 1981: Prince Charles married Lady Di

• 1982: Falklands War

• 1984: Miners' Strike starts

• 1985: Live Aid concert

• 1987: Hurricane lashes South Coast

• 1987: "Black Monday" Stock Market crash

This row of council houses were built in 1953 and the first occupants appear on the electoral register of 1955, qualifying date, 10th October 1954. The original tenants of the houses were as follows:

1. Leonard and Sylvia Irene Humphrey

2. Margaret and Thomas Edwin Moorey

3. Mabel Joyce and Walter Frank Victor Small

4. Desmond Frederick and Ethel May Goldsmith

5. Edith and William Jacobs

6. Dennis Frederick and Margaret Nina Green

7. Reginald Arthur and Ruth Mary Miller

8. Douglas John, Nancy Lilian and William Douglas

9. Charles Robert and Dorothy Agnes Kendrew

10. Clifford and Marjorie Edith Best

11. Eleanor Elizabeth and William Henry Morgan

12. Abina Theresa and Frederick Edmund Baldock

Beddingham Gardens, 1-12: Now