The Hunns Mere Way by Peter Mercer

Subtitle... The Untold Story of Woodingdean ISBN/Cat.No... 978 185770 3627 Size... 240 x180mm Binding... Paperback Status... In stock Publication Date... December 2010 Pages... 180 Price... £11.99 + £2.00 p&p TOTAL £13.99 Summary This is the final chapter of the story of Woodingdean. With nearly 200 photographs, maps and pictures – many of which have never been seen before. This book describes the untold history and the stories of the village. It tells the curious history of the Wick Valley, of Percy Harveys’s Downs Estate and why Harold Price and Eustace Gibson joined the parish council to get Rottingdean its name. It also includes the story of the Selbach’s, owners of much of the village land and Balsdean, along with their plans and aspirations to build a sanatorium and medical staff accommodation, of their long fight and arbitratration with the Corporation, their despair and final misery. Other chapters describe how Rottingdean became a parish, the pictorial history of the cross roads, Balsdean in pictures and some of the stories of the early settlers. It also tells of a link between the Volks Railway and the orphanage at Warren Farm School and provides the name of every well digger engaged in sinking the well. This book has everything for the historian and picture lover and will be available from all good bookshops including Waterstones, WHS and British Bookshops also direct from SB Publications 01323 893498 price £11.99 This is the third and final book by Peter Mercer on the village of Woodingdean. He now lives in Seaford and this is his first book for SB Publications. S. B. Publications