Westgate is now a desirable place to live but this has not always been the case. When it first started to form as a suburb outside the West Gate on the road to Fishbourne, St Bartholomew’s was a poor industrial area. The Fishbourne road developed into the main road along the coast to the west,… Continue reading The Westgate Residents’ Association
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Matters that impact on residents’ lives
A successful day for Centurion Way
A very successful exhibition was held on Saturday 27th January 2018 in the Scouts Hut by the newly formed Friends of Centurion Way. The exhibition coincided with the launch of a written dossier detailing all the community issues that need to be considered in relation to any proposed diversion of the path’s southern end. The… Continue reading A successful day for Centurion Way
The Future of Centurion Way
The Committee are keen for interested residents to attend the “Friends of Centurion Way” Exhibition which is taking place this Saturday 27th January 2018 from 11.00 am – 3 pm at The Scout Hut on Sherborne Road, Chichester PO19 3AA. The Friends will be displaying material from their dossier of research about the path including information… Continue reading The Future of Centurion Way
The Brewery Field: Community Open Day 2017
After 105 years absence, it was an emotional moment to see a brewery dray enter the Brewery Field this Sunday as two magnificent shire horses, Pride and Griffin, were driven in by John Medhurst, their driver for the past 28 years. The Fullers Horse and Dray was the star attraction of the annual Community Open… Continue reading The Brewery Field: Community Open Day 2017
Hubert’s Street Party Poem – July 2017
From May-Hem in Westminster to July Calm in Westgate Imagine my horror, one fine-seeming day, The 4th one in Feb., as the shorteners say, The Saturday when Jones’s England beat France – It continued old wars, fought with Sword and with Lance. Imagine, I say, in ‘The Apple and Crate’ (sic!), Brian Raincock’s… Continue reading Hubert’s Street Party Poem – July 2017
Within One Mile of Westgate (updated)
New to Westgate? Here is a list of places of interest within one mile of Westgate, kindly supplied by Lois and the late Brian Cope at no 64. Go exploring! NORTH-WEST QUADRANT Baptist Church, Sherborne Road Betting shop, Parklands Bishop Luffa School (secondary), Westgate railway end Brewery Field, behind the Record Office: nearest for dog-walkers Butcher,… Continue reading Within One Mile of Westgate (updated)
More on the Westgate Cycle Path
Retired traffic consultant Paul Wreyford has been a key expert assisting the four RAs concerned with the impacts of the Whitehouse Farm development. He has over forty years of detailed highway and transport design and construction experience, and assessing developers highway designs has been a major part of this. Following the approval of the outline… Continue reading More on the Westgate Cycle Path
Electoral Boundary Changes for May 2017
Please find below a screen shot of the recommended changes to our electoral boundary by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), an independent body set up by Parliament, in respect of the county and district electoral divisions for our area.Here is a precis of their recommendations. You will find more detailed information at: https://www.lgbce.org.uk/…/south-east/west-sussex/chichester.… Continue reading Electoral Boundary Changes for May 2017
The Westgate Planters – a History
From early times, Westgate was on the main road from Portsmouth to Chichester. There had been a suburb of Westgate outside the city gate since the Middle Ages, with a mixture of terraced houses and some larger ones dominated by the brewery and the tannery. With increasing traffic, the Chichester bypass to the south was… Continue reading The Westgate Planters – a History
Suburb of St Bartholomew’s: C19th population
This text is the last in our series about the Suburb of St Bartholomew, through which Westgate runs. It consists of edited data selected from the 19th century censuses for the historic suburb of St Bartholomew (1801 to 1891) The 19th century population of the St Bartholomew’s Civil Parish was the same in 1891 as it was in… Continue reading Suburb of St Bartholomew’s: C19th population