•  1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island•  1947: Sound Barrier broken•  1948: NHS founded•  1950: Korean War starts•  1951: Suez "Crisis"•  1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned•  1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile•  1955: ITV starts broadcasting•  1955: Glynde Place opened to the public•  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
Littledene Cottages, 1: 1946-2024
No.s 1 & 2 Littledene Cottages, 2009, in the process of being combined into one dwelling.
No.s 1 & 2 Littledene Cottages, 2009, in the process of being combined into one dwelling.
Owner
FromNameUntil
1934Lady Rosabelle Brand1950
1955Cosmo Crawley1966
1970Nick Rea?
Occupier
FromNameUntil
1946Jane A Baker and Isabella Weaver1950
1960Albert (Bert) Martin and Stella Martin1960
1965John and Elsie E Buchan1965
1970Nick Rea?

George Weaver, a carter on Littledene Farm, his wife Isabelle and their family lived here, probably at number 1, according to the 1901 census. Their son Private George Weaver of the 1st Royal Sussex Yeomanry died of dysentery on board a hospital ship, 28 October 1915, while serving in the Great War. He was twenty years old.

This was one of a pair of cottages that were not included in the sale of the Littledene estate in 1966 because the retired nanny of the vendor (Cosmo Crawley) lived in No. 2, nextdoor.

Number one was purchased by Nick Rea in 1970 and his wife Elizabeth purchased number 2 after the death of the nanny in 1974. The two cottages were merged into one by Nick Rea in the summer of 2009.

Other pages for this property:  

Littledene Cottages, 1: Now

  

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