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Reigate from the South. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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Merstham Church. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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View from The Angel, Woodhatch, looking south. c. 1860.
4 oldreigate.com image number 2454
High Trees. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
Comment 1
Jemma Beattie from
Reigate posted this comment on
Wednesday 17 February 2021 16:39:04.
We currently live in this house. Very keen to find out some further history of the property should anyone know of anyone that previously resided here. Thank you
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5 oldreigate.com image number 2729
Leigh Place. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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Dining Hall in Leigh Place. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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Leigh Church before its restoration. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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Fall of cottages into a sand cave at Reigate. May 19 1860. The Illustrated London News.
"On the morning of Wednesday week the inhabitants of Reigate were alarmed by a loud report, which at first was
believed to be the shock of an earthquake, but it was soon ascertained that it arose from a large sand
cave belonging to the premises of the Red Cross Inn having fallen in. Over this cave there were erected
several cottages, and five of these, or at least portions of them, fell in with the cave, and ten others appeared to be hanging
as it were by a mere thread. The escape of persons (twenty-three in number) who resided in the cottages was
marvellous. The bedsteads in four of the cottages were partly hanging over the chasm, and in one of them a poor
woman was lying very ill, her medical attendment having just left her. She was taken out of the front window.
The inhabitants of Reigate have kindly got up a subscription in aid of the poor people who have had their
furniture destroyed by this singular accident."
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Bruce Richardson from
Heswall posted this comment on
Friday 01 February 2013 22:07:00.
I remember hearing that back in Victorian times you could get bed and board in the Red Cross in return for working in the sand mines.
When I was growing up in the 1980's it was a right of passage to go down the caves illicitly. The entrance was behind the advertising hoardings next to Reigate Exhausts, it was sealed up not long after.
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Gate into the park from the Brighton Road. 1860. R.F.D. Palgrave.
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