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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



There are, however, nowadays not wanting signs, 

 quite apart from the condition of the brick and tile 

 and drainpipe-making industry, on which the two 

 mushroom towns have come into being, that the 

 unlovely places are in a bad way. Shops closed and 

 vainly offered " to let " tell a story of artificial 

 expansion and consequent depression : the inevitable 

 Nemesis of discounting the future. 



JACOB'S POST. 



I will show you what the site of these uninviting 

 modern places was like, a hundred years ago. It is 

 not far, geographically, from the sorry streets of Burgess 

 Hill to the wild, wide commons of Wivelsfield and 

 Ditchling ; but such a change is wrought in two 

 miles and a half as would be considered impossible 

 by any who have not made the excursion into those 



