Storrington & Sullington,West Sussex,UK

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RECENT HISTORY

1939 WWII
Rydon School built
Evacuees arrived from London
Thakeham Tiles works closed - site used by Canadian troops as a transport division
Greyfriars, Fryern, Parham, Sandgate and other large houses were occupied by troops, mainly Canadian.
Barns Farm established as an army camp
The Downs were declared a restricted area - used for troop training and artillery practice
Marley Tiles works used to make prefabricated buildings for the army and parts of Mulberry Harbour for D-Day landings
Storrington Air Training Corps started by Mr Waller
Mrs Waller started School Canteen
1944 Evening services held again in Cootham Chapel
1946 Marley Tiles re-opened making aluminium buildings, kitchen furniture, garages, greenhouses and concrete products
Thakeham Tiles re-opened making building blocks, decorative garden walling, paving slabs &c
1950 Police car chase of stolen army truck over the Downs using police car radio for the first time
1952. G.P.O. purchased The Dawes from Charles Mant for new Post Office
Under the Pastoral Reorganisation Measure, Rev George Mackenzie instituted as Rector of Sullington and Storrington
Parham House opened to the public for the first time
1953 The Abbey was sold to Dominican nuns and became St Joseph's boarding and day school
1954 Executive from Linfields visited Malta to recruit workers for the mushroom nurseries at Thakeham.
Maltese workers housed in Fryern Hall
Bus station built behind the Colonnade
1958 New telephone exchange built on School Hill
1960s Fryern Hall demolished
1965 New Storrington County Primary School opened in Spierbridge
1967 First service held in the new Trinity Methodist Church, Thakeham Road
1968 Last blacksmith in Storrington closed down - Crowhurst in West Street
1970 Storrington converted to natural gas. Pressure reducing station built in Greyfriars Lane
Old corrugated iron chapel in High Street demolished
Bus station demolished
Old Mill Square and Old Mill Drive built on Gatley's Field
The Byne watermill demolished
1972 BBC Gardeners' Question Time came to Storrington invited by Storrington Horticultural and Handicrafts Society
The County Library moved from the Village Hall to a new purpose-built library in North Street
Last big Flower Show under canvas on the recreation ground held by the Storrington Horticultural and Handicraft Society
1975 Seeboard received a European Architectural Heritage Year Award for ridding High Street and Church Street of overhead electricity mains and installing them underground
1978 Extension to the library built
1986 Electronic organ replaced the pipe organ in the Parish Church

1995 Twinning Association formed with Villerest in France

2003 Storrington & Sullington combine into one Parish.