mention of building operations in the Valley is Meadow Cottages and Blucher Place, in Powell's Guide of 1819. Soon after this, Meadow Road, from Albert Road to the Bedford Hotel, now Nos. 10 to 35, Queen's Road, were built. The only plan of the Valley the author has been able to obtain is here shown, and is part of the Sayer-Milward Estate, which was sold by auction, the purchasers' names being given in the margin. In 1823 Queen's Road, from the Post Office to the Theatre was called Meadow Cottages. The site of the Gas Works and Waterworks Road was the property of the Countess Waldegrave from her first husband, Mr. Edward Milward, junior, from whom she inherited it. On the site of the Gas Works was Water Mill House, also shown in the Collier Plan. This old Water Mill was worked by the Priory Stream, for what purpose is not related. It was removed to build the Gas Works which were opened in 1830. The Gas Company had Offices at 45, High Street, in 1852, when Mr. Will Ginner was Clerk. St. Andrew's Church, in Queen's Road was consecrated November 30th, 1870, the late Rev. George Hodges, the father of the late Canon Alfred Hodges and Archdeacon George Hodges, of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, was the first Vicar. The Church was built by the Misses Sayer, descendants of the Milward family, who resided for many years at Parade House, George Street, now occupied by Dr. W. Daunt. At the bottom of Queen's Road was once a railway viaduct, or tunnel, generally known as the St. Andrew's Archway, which was removed in 1898, mainly through the exertions of the late Alderman Tuppenney, who initiated the movement in the Council, which resulted in the final determination to replace the "hideous hole" by the erection of the noble iron viaduct now spanning Queen's Road. Alderman Tuppenney was elected Mayor that year, a fitting reward for his achievement.
The Blacklands district beyond the Archway has become a populous and popular residential one, the laying out and building of which is within the recollection of the present older inhabitants; Blacklands Farm, where Elphinstone Road is, named after Sir Howard Elphinstone, the owner of the land ; St. Helen's Road, once part of the farm, will be remembered by the first house built there by the late Alderman Thomas Ross, one of the historians of Hastings, and called Ross's Folly. He was thought mad to retire to this spot, but lived to see it peopled, and was, with the late Mr. H. M. Baker, one of the first Churchwardens of Blacklands Church, where Canon Alfred Hodges laboured for over 30 years. " Old Wyatt," as the owner was known amongst residents, whose large white house stood in Mount Pleasant Road, was a conspicuous landmark 40 years ago. He was the owner of considerable land in the immediate neighbourhood. Mr. H. E. Wyatt was formerly a London Brewer. He got into trouble for trying to stop up public footpaths, and did net love the Public Authorities over much for stepping in to prevent him.
When the old Rock Fair ceased to be held at White Rock, he found -
