To coalesce with Lewes Town Council terminology the page name is changed to Lewes Heritage Plaques
You are now able to nominate a heritage plaque directly by filling in the proposal form and returning it back to the Friends of Lewes ( subject to Terms and conditions)
John Stenhouse (formerly Steinhaeuser) was the medical officer in Lewes and founded the sanatorium in 1905. He conducted valuable work in child mortality rates and specifically deaths from tuberculosis. Additionally he served in World War I with the Sussex Yeomanry as a Surgeon-Captain and was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
His plaque has gone up on the house he lived in on St Andrews Lane.
Click on the Lewes Town Council Facebook link below to see the full post
Click on the Lewes Historical Plaques link below to see the full Friends of Lewes website section on Historical Plaques which includes a link to a document containing all of the Plaques in Lewes.
South Street is a long street with a mix of housing and industry. It has a long history, with houses from the 17th century (and possibly earlier), and had a union workhouse, a pest house, shops, pubs, many small cottages, a long-established Rowing Club, and a Bonfire Society.
Industries included timber, boat building, gas, chalk and cement works, and the river provided the transport for these with barges, wharfs and warehouses.
South Street was the site of Britain’s worst avalanche, has suffered from flooding and had terrible traffic problems when, prior to the building of the tunnel, South Street was the main road from Lewes to the east.
Heather Downie and her team have researched the histories of the houses and industries on the street, the lives led by its residents, and shows how all this has changed over time.
Read all about it at Lewes Street Stories: South Street
Postcard showing South Street, supplied by Linda Weller
The pedestrian way that leaves the upper High Street beside the Freemasons Hall and connects to New Road is Pipe Passage – and its history is now explained in an information board, recently put up by the Friends of Lewes.
For most of Queen Victoria’s reign clay pipes were made and fired in a large kiln on the western side. Though only part of the remains of this is now visible, the board explains the manufacturing process through text, illustration and photographs.
Information board put up by the Friends of Lewes
The story behind the names of other streets in Lewes is fascinating too and can be followed in the revised edition of The Street Names of Lewes, published by Friends of Lewes and available from the Tourist information Office.
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