Edited Phipps interview; Leaving Newmarket Farm 1938
Channel: David Cuthbertson
Date: 2015-06-10

Edit of footage from an interview of the Phipps family 'children', Lucy, Desmond (Bob), and Sylvia, made in 2011 for the "Woodingdean Then & Now" project dvd: "Memories of Yesteryear: Some long time residents of Woodingdean recall their memories of the village in bygone days".

The Phipps' tell of their being sent to the workhouse in 1938 when their father lost his job and the family lost their tied accommodation. The home they had known for 4 years was the beautifully situated remote downland Newmarket Farm. My mother's family moved there just after the start of WW2 till they were forced to leave by the army in 1942, who used the cottage and the rest of the Balsdean downs, east of Woodingdean, as a military training area. By the end of the war both Newmarket Farm and the Balsdean Farm, for which both families had worked, had been completely destroyed. The Newmarket Farm site is now in the north-west corner of Castle Hill National Nature Reserve. In 2013 I was given permission to excavate the cottage site. A draft copy of the book I am writing of the cottage's rich history, and posts on the progress of the dig may be found on my blog http://southdownhill.wordpress.com

The complete unedited video is:
https://youtu.be/5_-i0Vo3fIk