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High Street, HORLEY, RH6 7BE

Horley's branch of the NatWest Bank in the pedestrianised section of High Street.

Situated in High Street (see Image for wider view), the mosaic was commissioned by Horley Town Council to commemorate the Millennium, being unveiled on 2 December 2000. It was designed and made by the Mosaic Workshop in Holloway Road, London, and paid for by local builders' merchants, Mitchells of Horley, who were celebrating their centenary that year. It depicts Gatwick Airport on the left of the mosaic and with Horley itself covering much of the right hand side, bisected by the diagonal line of the London to Brighton railway.

Originally Station Road, when the original 1841 Horley Station was situated on it, before it was moved to its present site on Victoria Road in 1905. This section of High Street, between Victoria Road and Albert Road, is pedestrianised. On the right, below the second lamppost, is the mosaic in Image

Now called The Stapley Building, this former site of the Horley Bookshop has been sympathetically refurbished using modern materials. Nice work.

The High Street is to the left and Victoria Road to the right in this image. The High Street was once called Station Road, but the name had to be changed when the railway moved the station some 300 metres southwards in 1905. From this location one now needs to follow Victoria Road to get to the station. The attractive corner building with its Dutch gables is Number 2 High Street. As a sign of the times it currently houses a branch of the Cheque Centre, although the photographer thinks that it was formerly occupied by a branch of the estate agents Gascoigne Pees.

Idiosynchratic display of architectural styles, with empty retail units.

Originally a pair of houses, it is first recorded as a pub in 1882. Only the right hand side was used as such, with the left hand side being first a shop and later a cafe. It was not until 1988 that the pub was extended into the whole building. Originally known as the Foresters Arms, the Arms suffix has since been dropped. Locally listed.

On the corner of Victoria Road and Massetts Road.

Originally a pair of houses, it is first recorded as a pub in 1882. Only the right hand side was used as such, with the left hand side being first a shop and later a cafe. It was not until 1988 that the pub was extended into the whole building. Originally known as the Foresters Arms, the Arms suffix has since been dropped. Locally listed.