mid-20th century folding pocket map ‘presented with the compliments of Harold Webber’, a local auctioneer and estate agent of Sedlescombe Road North, also carrying advertisements for W.L. Carter, watch and clock maker of Bohemia Road; Radcliffe House School for Girls, of Sedlescombe Road North; A. & G. Hudson, grocer of Bohemia Road; Stephen Foster & Son, builder and decorator of The Green; Maison Louise, hairdresser of Sedlescombe Road North; Gordon Busbridge, house furnisher of London Road; and Dengates, household removals of Queens Road, Hastings.
The map extends from Hawkhurst, in the north, to the coast, and from Eastbourne and Hailsham in the east, to Rye in the west. The scale is 2 miles to the inch, the cartographer’s initials, H.R.W., in the lower left corner. It measures 265 x 300 mm., the full sheet 405 x 410 mm., folding down to 215 x 85 mm. within printed buff wrapper, published by the Home Publishing Co. (Property Publications, Ltd.) of Croydon.
