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- Tide Mills Timeline
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- 1698 Main river mouth near the present ruined village. Whole area
- consisted of shingle and marshland. Duke of Newcastle, of
- Bishopstone Place, had the idea for a Tide Mill.
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- 1761 The Duke secured the passage of a bill through parliament allowing
- three local merchants - John Woods, William Woods, John Challenor -
- permission to erect one or more Tide Mills for the grinding of corn
- or grain.
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- Village and industrial enterprise later leased to William Catt, who
- owned thearea to the east (as far as the Buckle Inn).
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- 1785 A smugglers boat was swept into the mill pond.
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- 1795 Troops stationed at Seaford mutinied. They marched on Tidemills and
- siezed 300 sacks of flour.
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- 1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws. Cheap corn now coming from abroad.
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- 1847 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway reaches Newhaven.
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- 1853 William Catt dies.
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- 1864 Railway line extended to Seaford.
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- 1876 Violent storms. Village flooded.
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- 1883 Windmill blown down by a gale and granary demolished by it.
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- 1884 Railway company built over the creek - barges could no longer get
- in. Creek closed to shipping.
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- 1887 Bottle of spirits washed ashore. The villagers drunk them.
- One died; many were ill and had to have their stomachs pumped.
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- 1901 Mill demolished.
- Tidemills now owned by the railway company.
- Village now housed railway employees and construction workers.
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- 1912-1913 Sea breaks through again.
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- 1914-1918 Many of houses demolished in wartime.
- Sea-plane base built.
- After war part of village taken over by Dale's Racing Stables.
- This moved out in the 1930's.
- The Chailey Heritage Beach Hospital for Crippled Children was
- built. Former railway carriages and and beach sheds appear as
- holiday accomodation.
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- 1938 Present Bishopstone station opened.
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- 1939-1945 Army demolishes much of the remaining village in the
- threat of invasion.
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- 1945 THE END.
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