Photo Gallery

GARDEN WOOD BEFORE OUR ESTATE WAS BUILT

PHOTO COURTESY OF HISTORIC ENGLAND, TAKEN APRIL 1947. Showing top right the East Grinstead low station, the East Grinstead to Three Bridges line at the top of the page and the East Grinstead to Lewes line left to right diagonal. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF HISTORIC ENGLAND,TAKEN MAY 1959. Top right East Grinstead high and low stations, the St Margarets Loop, the east to west Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells line ( NOW WORTH WAY ) and north to south the Lewes to London line ( NOW BLUEBELL RAILWAY ). You can now see the Imberhorne Estate which was completed mid 1950's.

PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS, TAKEN APRIL 2023. Showing completed Gardenwood Estate with Imberhorne Estate at the top now joined together with new bridge from Imberhorne extending Gardenwood Road under the viaduct and joining Brooklands Way. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF HISTORIC ENGLAND AERO FILMS, TAKEN IN 1954 showing in great detail both the higher and lower stations and the undeveloped areas of Imberhorne and Garden Wood.  Where the copse of trees are, this is the top of Kipling Way, some of the Oak trees can still be seen today, these were left by the builders as part of the landscaping the estate. The Upper station was closed in 1967 and now forms the car park and the beginning of Worth Way.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SIMON TAYLOR TAKEN MAY 2023 shows comparison of photo taken above by Aero films in 1954 of area at top of Kipling Way and Shelley Road. You can still see the tree lines which are now the Worth Way and St Margarets Loop, also the only one lower level station which is left, the higher level station is now the current station car park

BUILDING BEGINS OF THE GARDENWOOD ESTATE 1968

                                                    View of Gardenwood through the viaduct before building began

                                                                   Starting building houses in Shelley Road and Kipling Way

                          View of the viaduct from the junction of Shelley Road and Kipling Way

                                                                         HEAVY SNOW FALLS IN 2010

                                                  Snow at the top of Kipling Way

                                            Snow brings down tree branches at bottom of Kipling Way

                                                                          FLOODS NOVEMBER 2022

              Gardenwood Road flood November 2022, BMW car thought he could get through !!