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Crest Way
Built in the 1990s on the site of the former Foredown Hospital which had been opened in 1883 to treat infectious diseases. The hospital continued in use until the 1980s and was demolished in 1989 leaving only the former water tower, added in 1909, as a reminder.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Dec 2010
0.01 miles
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Foredown Road
Little more than a byway here, the road has its origins as an access route to the Downs from old village at Portslade. Today it continues beyond the A27 as a bridleway that heads north to Fulking Hill.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Dec 2010
0.02 miles
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Foredown Tower
Former Water Tower built in 1909, currently disused, most recently used as a countrysuide centre and camera obscura http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1020
Image: © Paul Gillett
Taken: 9 Mar 2012
0.06 miles
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Foredown Tower
Former Water Tower built in 1909, currently disused, most recently used as a countryside centre and camera obscura http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1020
Image: © Paul Gillett
Taken: 9 Mar 2012
0.06 miles
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Public footpath, North Portslade
This footpath is relatively new and seems to have been part of the housing development of the nineteen eighties. It certainly did not exist in the seventies when the contributor was told to walk back the way he came by an irate farmer when crossing a ploughed field in the same position as the footpath. It would have saved me a hundred metres.
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 21 Jun 2013
0.06 miles
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Foredown Tower
This Water Tower was built in 1909. It is no longer in use as such but has been restored and is now a Countryside Centre. It houses a camera obscura which is open weekends and bank holidays.
Image: © Janine Forbes
Taken: 15 Jul 2005
0.07 miles
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Foredown Tower
Former water tower built in 1909 for a sanatorium which once lay to the right where the houses are. The hospital was demolished in 1989 but left the tower which reopened in 1991 as a countryside centre which also contained a camera obscura projecting images from the tower into a cupola below. The centre was closed by the council due to lack of funds in 2008 and various schemes to reopen it have so failed and thus currently remains closed to the public.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Dec 2010
0.08 miles
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Foredown Tower, Portslade
The water tower was built in 1909, but was already unused by the 1970's. It is now a bird watching centre and observatory. It was to suffer closure some years back, but now seems financially secure. A camera bscura was installed in 2011.
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 26 Dec 2010
0.10 miles
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Downland north of Portslade
view from near Foredown Tower
Image: © Paul Gillett
Taken: 9 Mar 2012
0.10 miles
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Fox Way
A road built in the 1990s to link the new Hangleton Link Road, the A293, to the suburb of Mile Oak. Not the best road to go down after 8-10 inches of snow fell overnight though it didn't stop one idiot BMW driver bombing up it at 40 miles an hour whilst talking on his phone.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 2 Dec 2010
0.11 miles