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Bridge Street, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9PH

Once the A259 until the southern and northern ring roads were built. Remained open to traffic unlike High Street though only as a service road for the local shops. Taken from the junction of Chapel Street.

Green containing three war memorials. The earliest is that on the right, the Newhaven Transport Memorial in memory of the 99 officers and men who died in the First World War serving the Merchant Navy out of Newhaven Port. It was designed by town surveyor, C T Hooper, and unveiled in August 1920. It was originally sited at the junction of Dacre Road and Meeching Road, but was twice moved, first in the 1970s to Riverside and then in the 1990s to its present position. The one in the centre, Newhaven Town Memorial, was unveiled on 2 October 1921 in memory of the 120 townspeople who had died in the First World War. Designed also by C T Hooper it was originally sited at the junction of Chapel Street, South Road and Fort Road, but was moved here in 2005. In 2007 the names of 90 casualties of the Second World War were added. On the far left is the Royal Canadian Engineers Memorial, unveiled on 17 August 1977 in memory of the 27 members of the Corps of the Royal Canadian Engineers who died taking part on the Dieppe Raid on 19th August 1942, with Newhaven being chosen as the site of the memorial because it was the major training base for the raid. In the foreground is a memorial plaque celebrating 100 years of the Newhaven branch of the Royal British Legion on 21 June 2021.

Taken from South Way looking towards a small green at the junction of that road and Bridge Street. The memorial is dedicated to the many Canadians who set out from Newhaven in 1942 for the ill-fated raid on Dieppe from which few returned.

Small garden of remembrance located at the junction of Bridge Street and South Way. There are three memorials here from left to right; The Royal Canadian Engineers memorial, Newhaven Town memorial and Newhaven Transport Memorial. The Canadian memorial was privately financed by a group of Canadian engineers to remember 27 of their comrades who embarked on the ill fated Dieppe raid in August 1942 and never returned. It was erected in 1977 and has since come to be seen as a representation of all Canadian soldiers who served at Dieppe and elsewhere. The Newhaven Town War memorial was originally located at the junction of Fort Road, Chapel Street and South road and moved to this location in 2005. Originally remembering those lost in the First World War it had 90 names added from those who never returned during the Second in 2007. The last memorial on the right is the Newhaven Transport Memorial remembering those who served the ships that supplied the British Army across the Channel during the First World War of whom 99 lost their lives. The memorial was erected in 1920 at the junction of Meeching Road and Dacre Road then moved to Riverside during the 1970s during the development of South Way. When the West Quay was partially redeveloped in the 1990s it was moved here.

Replaced by the newer one to the north during the 1970s. Hard to believe this carried both the main A259 and a small railway the latter working a line that lead to shingle banks near the breakwater until the early 1960s. The buildings to the right are former railway engine sheds now used as warehousing. The black thing on the pile in the river is a sculpture of a bird. The housing in the background is Denton. This view looks east.

Running between South Way and High Street it was laid out in the 1860s as part of the enterprise by the LBSCR to build Newhaven into a working port. The street was built as part of the plan to provide a new crossing over the River Ouse to replace the old bridge whose land opposite was being turned into an island by a straightening of the river. For many years this was the A259 until traffic congestion induced the local council to build a series of ring roads and new bridge crossing that opened in 1974. Since then street has become an access road for the remaining local shops and Denton Island if approaching from the east.

Looking towards Newhaven Swing Bridge. The current bridge opened in 1974 replacing an older bridge slightly to the south. It carries the A259 over the River Ouse.

As seen from Denton Island.