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Victoria Road, HORLEY, RH6 7PZ

This long established independent department store has recently gone through a major refurbishment, completed in 2007.

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.

This photo is taken from the Consort Way car park. Overgrown and redundant. About to get a new lease of life!

The Jack Fairman Pub is on the site of a former Kwikfit Tyre Centre. It was opened on 12 February 2007. Jack Fairman (1913-2002) was born in Horley. He was a racing driver who took part in 12 Grand Prix races from 1953 to 1963. The building in Victoria Road Horley was built in 1933 in Art Deco style as a car showroom for the Fairman Family.

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.

1970s office block, which for many years served as headquarters of what became the UK's largest independent airline, Dan-Air, until its takeover by British Airways in 1992. In this photo the building is part demolished, as part of a Horley town centre regeneration project.

According to the date carved high up in the stone tablet this building dates from 1937. Massetts Road is to the left and Victoria Road is to the right. The address of Cubitt & West, the estate agents occupying the prominent corner location, is 101 Victoria Road http://www.cubittandwest.co.uk/branch-directory/branch-details.asp?BranchID=208 .

Shopping parade in Massetts Road at its junction with Victoria Road and High Street.