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View of the Mile Oak Estate in 1937-38

Cockroost Hill is in the top left corner, New England Farm surrounded by trees - centre rear, and the line of pine trees to the rear of Stanley Avenue. Both New England Farm and the pine trees disappeared long ago but are still a memory to many of the children who grew up in Mile Oak.

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MILE OAK

REVISITED

In the early 20th Century Mile Oak, north of Portslade in Sussex (now East Sussex) comprised little more than a farm, waterworks and The Paddocks racing stables (later to become a Tea Gardens and Pleasure Resort). It was not until the early 1920’s that buses finally came to Mile Oak.

This site covers many aspects of the area in the 1930’s, 1940’s and early 1950’s.