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Darley Road, EASTBOURNE, BN20 7PF

Looking towards Meads village. Taken in 2007 - there is now a new block of flats on the left.

Village type pub in the Meads area of town. In the CAMRA good beer guide.

On Meads Street, Meads, Eastbourne. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4808728

On Meads Street, Meads, Eastbourne. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4808726

The Ship Inn on Meads Street is positioned between the edge of the South Downs National Park and the sea. Although the front of the building lies close to the road, it has a large garden at the back.

This large building in Darley Road was built as a convalescent hospital by the Anglican order of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor and converted into apartments in 2008. Built between 1867 and 1874 there is a central portion of 4 bays with two wings each of 7 bays. Constructed of brown brick with stone dressings under tile roofs. The attached hospital chapel built in 1874 has a fine and unaltered complete High Victorian interior with polychromatic brickwork. There are other views of the buildings at Image, Image and Image Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043617 Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort on the south coast of East Sussex, some 54 miles south of London and about 19 miles east of Brighton. Although there is evidence of settlement from the Stone Age onwards, Eastbourne remained an area of small rural settlements until the railway arrived in 1849. A resort, built "for gentlemen by gentlemen", was planned and the town's growth accelerated from a population of less than 4,000 in 1851 to nearly 35,000 by 1891. Tourism is a large and important part of the economy of the town.

This large building in Darley Road was built as a convalescent hospital by the Anglican order of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor and converted into apartments in 2008. Built between 1867 and 1874 there is a central portion of 4 bays with two wings each of 7 bays. Constructed of brown brick with stone dressings under tile roofs. The attached hospital chapel built in 1874 has a fine and unaltered complete High Victorian interior with polychromatic brickwork. There are other views of the buildings at Image, Image and Image Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043617 Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort on the south coast of East Sussex, some 54 miles south of London and about 19 miles east of Brighton. Although there is evidence of settlement from the Stone Age onwards, Eastbourne remained an area of small rural settlements until the railway arrived in 1849. A resort, built "for gentlemen by gentlemen", was planned and the town's growth accelerated from a population of less than 4,000 in 1851 to nearly 35,000 by 1891. Tourism is a large and important part of the economy of the town.

A parade of shops in the Meads area of town.

The photo shows a southerly view of Milnthorpe Road in Eastbourne as viewed from near its junction with Chesterfield Road. Sir Ernest Shackleton stayed at 14 Minlthorpe Road between 1916 and 1922 (though he was often away in Antarctica), while George Mallory boarded at Glengorse Preparatory School on Chesterfield Road between 1896 and 1900. Although these two famous explorers and adventurers would not have known each other at that time, each went on to achieve world acclaim and near-mythic status. Shackleton, who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, was one of the main figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, while Mallory’s three British expeditions to Mt. Everest are of similar status in the field of human endeavour and achievement. While pursuing the limits of what was possible, both men died young in the places they loved, with Shackleton dying at the age of 47 and Mallory dying a few days short of his 38th birthday.

This large building in Darley Road was built as a convalescent hospital by the Anglican order of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor and converted into apartments in 2008. Built between 1867 and 1874 there is a central portion of 4 bays with two wings each of 7 bays. Constructed of brown brick with stone dressings under tile roofs. The attached hospital chapel built in 1874 has a fine and unaltered complete High Victorian interior with polychromatic brickwork. There are other views of the buildings at Image, Image and Image Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043617 Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort on the south coast of East Sussex, some 54 miles south of London and about 19 miles east of Brighton. Although there is evidence of settlement from the Stone Age onwards, Eastbourne remained an area of small rural settlements until the railway arrived in 1849. A resort, built "for gentlemen by gentlemen", was planned and the town's growth accelerated from a population of less than 4,000 in 1851 to nearly 35,000 by 1891. Tourism is a large and important part of the economy of the town.