New Widened Access Road (1)

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 18 Dec 2010

Originally a farm track that allowed access under the railway the lane was only as wide as the small bridge ahead. The track became an access point for the newly opened Stanmer County Secondary School (Later Falmer High School) which lay beyond the railway in the 1950s and remained so until this year when it was widened for a number of new developments; the rebuilding of the new Falmer Academy, the provision of a new car park for use by the school and the new football stadium, and the imminent construction of The Keep, a new records office for Brighton and East Sussex to replace the current cramped building in Lewes. The latter will be situated in what is now Wollards Field which lies to the west out of shot. Beyond the hedge on the left are the local offices for Southern Water built on the site of the former Falmer Pumping Station. See Image for a view from the railway end.

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