Moulsecoomb - Bevendean History Project
Wild Park Centenary in 2025
In July 1918 Brighton
Corporation agreed to purchase the Moulsecoomb estate owned by Benjamin
Tillstone Rogers-Tillstone, an area of 424½ acres for
£42,500, although the purchase could not be completed until 2
November 1920 after the end of the WW1. At this time the Downland
was outside the Brighton boundary and therefore part of East Sussex.
A distant view of the Wild Park Monument viewed from the Lewes Road photographed in June 2025.
The Wild Park at Moulsecoomb was formally opened with an inauguration recorded on a commemorative plinth which was removed from the Victoria Gardens. The text on the plinth reads:
“County Borough of Brighton. This park was opened for the use of the public by the Worshipful the Mayor of Brighton, Alderman C. J. Teasdale 30th June 1925. Moulsecoomb Wild Park.”
The plinth has been cleaned recently with a set of steps constructed to reach the plinth.
The Wild Park Monument and steps in June 2025.
The ornamental area of about five acres alongside Lewes Road to the north was laid out in 1955 on the site of Woollard’s nursery.
A view of the Wild Park on the 20 June 1928 during the construction of the Pavilion in the park.
A view of the Wild Park Pavilion after the building work was finished in the 1930s.
More pictures of the Wild Park
Photographs from Clare at the Wild Park Cafe
A distant view of the Wild Park Monument viewed from the Lewes Road photographed in June 2025.
The Wild Park at Moulsecoomb was formally opened with an inauguration recorded on a commemorative plinth which was removed from the Victoria Gardens. The text on the plinth reads:
“County Borough of Brighton. This park was opened for the use of the public by the Worshipful the Mayor of Brighton, Alderman C. J. Teasdale 30th June 1925. Moulsecoomb Wild Park.”
The plinth has been cleaned recently with a set of steps constructed to reach the plinth.
The ornamental area of about five acres alongside Lewes Road to the north was laid out in 1955 on the site of Woollard’s nursery.
A view of the Wild Park on the 20 June 1928 during the construction of the Pavilion in the park.
A view of the Wild Park Pavilion after the building work was finished in the 1930s.
More pictures of the Wild Park
Photographs from Clare at the Wild Park Cafe
