We have tried to make this website as friendly as possible. It is a great privilege to be custodians of these streets and residents are known for their care and consideration.
Whether on a PC, tablet or mobile, the top or bottom menu is probably self-explanatory. For example, if you are looking for information on a particular property, follow the Buildings theme. More interested in who has lived here? Then choose People from the top or bottom menu, for historical information about former residents where known (living residents are generally not catalogued for privacy reasons).
If you want to know more about the context in which the people and the buildings are situated, then Neighbourhood will tell you more about the trees, the roads, the rivers and what else surrounds us. Plus more data about the historic origins of the individual streets that make up this part of Chichester, including more on the City itself, our industrial past, the railway, lost items and things or people that remain hidden from history – unless you know where to look!
For all its history, this neighbourhood remains dynamic and Today will give you a taste of what has been happening on the street during the last decade.
Want to go further?
You can dig deeper and further refine your search by clicking on items in the tag cloud at the bottom of every page. This is organised into four families so you can search by period, place, resident and historic theme. (The bigger the font in the tag cloud, the more data there is under that rubrick.)
If you know what you’re looking for, you will find the Lucky Dip search box on every page. This is pretty competent at finding more. Just type in the detail you’re interested in and something relevant should pop up. This also allows you to look for a “wilder” example, like “Portsmouth” say: type that name in, and you’ll get some 27 items, even though this is not actually a site about Portsmouth!
If you’re just browsing and don’t mind losing your way, at the bottom of each post you will find the words previous and next. This can be exciting! Clicking on one of these will take you back or forwards to the next post in date order, which may be about a completely different subject – though always relevant of course!
If you lose your way, we are gradually introducing a breadcrumb at the top of every entry. This line (there’s one at the top of this page) will show you where you have got to in the site: click on that to work your way back to where you started.
Failing that – when you’ve had enough of all this random surfing – just click on the website name at the top of the page to get back to the home page.
Finally, each entry has a comment box at the bottom, where you are welcome to interact and add any information you think is relevant to that post. This action will pick up your email address, but we won’t do anything with it. You’re very welcome to contact us humans in this way – or via the contact or the contribute pages – but we will never do the opposite uninvited: that is, contact you unasked.
Enjoy! – and do give us feedback if you wish.
Thank you.
Colin Hicks & Richard Brownfield 2025