•  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, 4: 1946-2024
Detail from the map in the sale particulars of the Littledene estate, 1966
Detail from the map in the sale particulars of the Littledene estate, 1966
No.s 3 and 4 Littledene Cottages, 1966
No.s 3 and 4 Littledene Cottages, 1966
Owner
FromNameUntil
1934Lady Rosabelle Brand1950
1955Cosmo Crawley1966
Occupier
FromNameUntil
1946Dorothy Arbuckle & Beatrice Hamper1946
1950Alfred & Cecilia Westgate1950
1955Huntly & Marjory Watson1955
1960Lena & Raymond Foot1960
1965Lillian & Robert Hewlett1965

The Littledene estate was broken up in 1966 when the Crawley’s sold it in lots at auction. This pair of cottages was Lot 4, shown coloured turquoise on the detail from the map that accompanied the sale particulars.

Number four is now called Cobwebs.



Littledene Cottages, 4: Now

  

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