Haywards Heath history — Haywards Heath Life — Haywards Heath Life is a free monthly community magazine serving Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas.

The 19th century building had a very different beginning to the one we see today. Find out more about the 1859 Brighton Lunatic Asylum here.
Click here to go back to the first days of the telephone in Haywards Heath and explore the history of communication in the town when the only service provider was the General Post Office.
Haywards Heath is not noted for cutting edge architecture but hidden away on its southern outskirts is an unusual early example of the ‘International Modern’ style: eight houses designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton architectural practice, completed in 1936. Click here to read all about it.
The story at the end of part 1 finished at the point where the manual exchange in Boltro Road had reached maximum capacity and Haywards Heath had effectively run out of telephone numbers. Connections had reached 2,930 and 220 customers were waiting in the queue for a line. Click here for more.

Charles Tucker for sharing this amazing image of South Road in Haywards Heath, thought to be taken around 1940s. See all here.
From the spring-fed pond on the southern corner of the Ardingly Road / Hanlye Lane mini roundabout, a small stream runs downhill behind the houses in Horsefield Green, one of many tributaries that feed the River Ouse. Click here to read all about it.