James Gray: The Spinney. A small group of houses built in the early 1970s and having some association with Tongdean Farm which was formerly here. jgc _26_026
2018: See jgc_17_ 132 for text. (Photographer: Hugh Robinson)
James Gray: The breakthrough prior to the laying out of the small cul-de-sac known as The Spinney. Date – 21 January 1968. The low bungalow was one of the last links with Tongdean Farm, broken up in 1936. Look back for two pages and you will see this as a low farm building behind the same brick wall. jgc_17_132
2018: The low bungalow is April Cottage, No 9 The Spinney. The bay window has been added, the chimney stacks and the walls along Dyke Road Avenue have gone. The bungalow beyond No 9 has been replaced. The large house to the right survives as 55 Dyke Road Avenue. (Photographer: Helen Glass)
James Gray: Two more photographs of the farm buildings during the demolition in 1936. This view [right] is from the south and shows the rear of the large barns and the farm cottages. jgc_17_127
James Gray: This photograph [left] was taken from Dyke Road Avenue. The low building behind the high wall was converted to a private dwelling and is now 53A Dyke Road Avenue. jgc_17_128
2019: In the 1936 photo it is quite difficult to make out the low dark gable end of the building which is just visible behind the wall, as it is largely obscured by the lower branches of the tree. This building was completely separate from the large barn looming over it in the background and which had already lost most of its roof. In February 2019, that same low building is now known as April Cottage, 9 The Spinney, Hove. Its neighbour, the former barn to the right, is Lattenbells, 55 Dyke Road Avenue. The view is looking from Dyke Road Avenue. (Photographer: Alan Hobden)