Origins of the material
This site originates in the work I did during 2015-2017 as the first Secretary of the newly revived Westgate Residents Association. That site has now been mothballed by the current committee (2024) and so I have transferred all the historical research I did on the street to this new platform, in order to preserve the data and continue to make it available to interested parties.
At the same time, Dr Richard Brownfield – a neighbour and who was chair when I was secretary – has done some prodigious additional research, which is to be made available as a book in PDF format via the West Sussex Record Office some time in 2025/6.
I myself will be updating many of the entries here, though it may be the more exhaustive work by Dr Brownfield can be integrated with this site at some future date. For the moment this is more a digestible snapshot of where we were in the mid 2010s before Covid struck.
The site is basic but makes all the historic data researched available in just a few clicks. Do contact me if you wish or leave a comment at the foot of any entry. Any proposals for additions, corrections or omissions to the data are very welcome.
Colin Hicks, archivist – May 2025
Well done Colin. I like it.
Hi Colin
Most interested to read some of your history on Westgate.
I would be keen to meet up sometime as I lived in and was brought up in Westgate from the 1940s and with many other local children attended St Barts for several years and eventually became organist there. I have just a few old photos of the Westgate Fields and River Lavant that might interest you.
Kind regards
Tony Keating