Old Images of Steyning, West Sussex

 Glimpse history through old images of Steyning, West Sussex, England.

Domestic Science 1953

14 year old Pat Willard was one of the pupils of the County Secondary School being trained in the home economics kitchen and flat. Their equipment included coal ranges, electrical stoves, parafin stoves, and gas cookers.

Headmaster Edwin Crawford comes in to allow the narrator yet more excrutiating observations about the role of the 'future housewives'.

School Flat (1953) - British Pathé on YouTube

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Rex Hays 1959

Rex Hays was a well known professional modelmaker, with examples of his work exhibited in British and US museums during his lifetime and commissions from famous car racers and royalty.

He was also an author, historian, and broadcaster.

This item, filmed in his home, shows the 1/20th scale model cars he had made for Beauleiu car museum.

Precision Models (1959) - British Pathé on YouTube