This quirky, yet attractive building in Pool Valley on the south-west corner of the Royal York Hotel was built as the hotel buffet and never had its own address. It has been sadly neglected for years. Glass panes on the weather side of the roof lantern are missing and pigeons, and presumably rain, have been getting in for at least a year. The condition of the upper floor must be dire.
The moulded plaster crest over the front door shows the three lions passant of the Royal Coat of Arms.
Pool Valley is that where the old Southdown buses picked you up and dropped you off?
ReplyDeleteLovely quirky detail; but those refuse bins - have we lost all sense of taste?
That's the place Barry. Still being used as a half-hearted coach station.
ReplyDeleteSouthdown buses arrived and departed at Pool valley from and to various destinations in Sussex. Also National Express coaches. My father was a driver for both.
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