Middle Street

Middle Street

Laid out in the 1860s and consisting of a number of terraced houses, warehouses/workshops, a Police Station, Fire Station and Drill Hall into the 1950s, this now, largely lost road was absorbed by the Priory Meadow shopping centre.

In 1863, the local builder John Howell constructed a saw mill in the road; this being the scene of a horrific accident in which one of Howell's employees had a leg amputated by the machinery. Most of the road was cleared in the late 1970s, leaving a car park and waste ground for two decades until the construction of the aforementioned shopping centre in 1996.

Images & Features

N.B. The 'features' tab, whilst returning buildings and business premises in this road is not operating correctly, therefore a 'Dev.Use' tab is in place to explore alternative ways of retrieving this data.

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  Middle Street 17 July 1947

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  Middle Street flooding 1949

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  Town Centre 1966

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  Middle Street Drill Hall c1970

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  50-55 Middle Street - c1980

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  55-50 Middle Street c1980

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  41-53 Middle Street - Jack Hodd

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  Hastings St Leonards - 1980s Footage Middle Street YouTube

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  Hastings St Leonards - 1980s Footage Corner Cafe YouTube

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  Hastings St Leonards - 1980s Footage Devonshire Road YouTube(2)

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  MiddleStreet c1996

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  Cricket Ground c1996

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  Central Cricket Ground circa 1996

	Street number ⠉	FromYear ⠉	FromRef ⠉	ToYear ⠉	ToRef ⠉
Volunteer Inn	55	1870		1948

Occupier	Number	From	To
Middle Street Drill Hall	55	1861	1895
Middle Street Drill Hall	55	1895	c1980