The Estate - Bevendean History Project
The Bevendean Estate during World War 2
1939 Registration for England
The 1939
Register was taken on 29 September 1939. The information was used to
produce identity cards and, once rationing was introduced in January
1940, to issue ration books. Information in the Register was also used
to administer conscription and the direction of labour, and to monitor
and control the movement of the population caused by military
mobilisation and mass evacuation.
Who was living at Lower Bevendean Farm in 1939?
Photographs of Bevendean from local newspapers.
Sowing seeds at Lower Bevendean Farm in November 1939.
The farm house is just visible among the trees in the centre. Norman Allcorn commented that the stack-yard to the west of the farm-yard can be seen in the background.
Juggs Lane to Lewes is visible as it climbs the Downs out of the valley on the left of the picture.
Hogtough Bottom can be seen in the middle distance.
Photograph from the Brighton and Hove Herald on 2 December 1939.The farm house is just visible among the trees in the centre. Norman Allcorn commented that the stack-yard to the west of the farm-yard can be seen in the background.
Juggs Lane to Lewes is visible as it climbs the Downs out of the valley on the left of the picture.
Hogtough Bottom can be seen in the middle distance.
Harvesting corn at Bevendean in August 1940.
Three horses are needed to pull the corn binder, which cut the corn and bundled it into sheaves which were stood up to dry in the field before being carted away to store in corn ricks. Norman Allcorn thinks that it is possible that the man driving the horses pulling the binder is his grandfather Frank John Allcorn as he usually wore that type of hat.
Norman also commented on the fact that horses are being used rather than a tractor.
Three horses are needed to pull the corn binder, which cut the corn and bundled it into sheaves which were stood up to dry in the field before being carted away to store in corn ricks. Norman Allcorn thinks that it is possible that the man driving the horses pulling the binder is his grandfather Frank John Allcorn as he usually wore that type of hat.
Norman also commented on the fact that horses are being used rather than a tractor.
Photograph from the Brighton and Hove Herald on 31 August 1940.
The calm beauty of the Downs in January sunlight: Bevendean Farm and the
rolling uplands looking across towards Falmer and the Lewes Road.
Photograph from the Brighton and Hove Herald on 25 January 1941.
Photograph from the Brighton and Hove Herald on 25 January 1941.
Who was living at Upper Bevendean Farm in 1939?
Who was living at the Brown Loaf Farms in 1939?
There are no records for 1939 for either Heath Hill Farm or Cambridgeshire Farm (Hill Cottage as is was also known). There are however a number of records which are closed because the people listed are still alive.
