Bevendean History Project
Bevendean Farm Photographs
The
following photographs come from the Brighton and Hove Newspaper
archives held by the Brighton and East Sussex Records Offices at the
Keep in Falmer.Most of these photographs were printed under the title ‘Beauty within our Borders’ and they present a typical Sussex landscape.
The calm beauty of the Downs in January sunlight; Bevendean Farm and the rolling uplands looking across to Falmer and the Lewes Road.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-06-0037. The photograph date is 27 January 1934
Rural Sussex within the Borough Boundary – The picturesque entrance to a Downland farm at Bevendean – Presenting a typical Sussex landscape.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-07_0058. The photograph is dated 10 March 1934
Another photograph of the farm at Lower Bevendean taken on 10 March 1934, but not published in the paper.
Keep reference: BH-A-54-07_0010.
The next two photographs are Harvesting at Bevendean.
The photographs show Mr Frank Allcorn driving a team of 3 horses who are pulling a binding machine which cuts the corn and ties it into sheaves which are then stood up to dry.
Harvesting within the Borough of Brighton at Bevendean.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-02_0048 – The photograph date is 13 August 1936.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-02_0050 – This photograph is also dated 13 August 1936.
Cattle at Bevendean Farm photographed in 1936.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-02_0063
A Downland Study - Bevendean Farm viewed from the south east with Frank Allcorn behind a seed drill sowing seeds with one horse to pull the machine.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-08_0066 – This photograph is dated 2 December 1939.
Another Downland Study with Bevendean Farm in the valley, looking north towards Falmer.
Keep Reference: BH-A-54-08_0066 – This photographed is also dated 2 December 1939.
Lower Bevendean Farm House in June 1953 viewed from Taunton Road.
Keep Reference: BH/A/54/32_0020c
A Bevendean Farm Barn in August 1953 which were converted to the Barn Church. Keep Reference: BH/A/54/31_0068b
Bevendean Farm Barn in August 1953 some of which were converted to the Barn Church. Keep Reference: BH/A/54/31_0068c
The farm barns on the Farm Green at Bevendean in September 1960.
Keep Reference: BH/A/54/37_0115c
