From the "Bexhill Observer", dated 14th October 1933
BUSES ON MARSH ROAD
New Service Sanctioned
A new and direct motor bus service between Hastings, Bexhill, and Eastbourne, over the new Pevensey Marsh road, was sanctioned by the Traffic Commissioners at Hastings on Wednesday.
It was stated that it was proposed to run six single journeys in each direction daily, three to be maintained by the Maidstone and three by the Southdown Company. The purpose was to create a more direct route between Hastings, Bexhill, and Eastbourne, and to provide better facilities for services between Barnhorn-lane and Pevensey, which two points were at present unserved by a service along the new road.
Mr A. D. MacKenzie, traffic manager of the Southdown Company, said complaints had been received in the past that the journey to Eastbourne was by such a roundabout route. A shilling would be saved on the return fares, if the application were granted. It was not proposed to put the new service, if permitted, into operation before the Thursday before Easter, 1934, so that the surface of the new road should be properly set. A daily service all the year round was asked for and it was hoped as a result to discontinue some of the local services next year.
Mr Percy Idle, opposing the application on behalf of Messers Timpson, maintained that the proposal would interfere with excursion and tourist traffic. He asked if it would not be possible to co-ordinate some of the existing services from Hastings to Bexhill and Little Common with a new service from there to Eastbourne.
Mr MacKenzie said he did not think the new service would damage the excursion traffic, as tourists desired a different class of vehicle from the ordinary service omnibus.
The Chairman said the Commissioners considered the application a reasonable one and it would be granted on the terms asked for.
From "The Times", dated October 18th., 1933
CROSSING PEVENSEY MARSHES
A PICTURESQUE ROUTE BY OMNIBUS
FROM A CORRESPONDENT
The Traffic Commissioners for the South–Eastern Area have just sanctioned the experimental running of motor–-omnibuses on the new road across Pevensey Levels, which was described in articles in "The Times" of November 5 and 30 last year. The construction of this road, which was opened to traffic early this summer, forms part of the large programme of road improvement and reconstruction of the East Sussex County Council, and was carried out under the control of the Council′s County Surveyor. Starting at the east end of Pevensey High Street, it gives a greatly improved route across the marshes in lieu of an old, narrow, winding lane, and provides for traffic of all kinds a route between Eastbourne and Hastings via Pevensey some eight or nine miles shorter than that generally used hitherto.
Omnibuses between the two resorts have had in the past to follow roads skirting the various inlets of the marshes, by way of Hailsham, Gardner Street, and Ninfield to Sidley Green and Bexhill. This route is some 25 miles long and complaints have long been made of the round- about- journey. The new service will be undertaken by the Maidstone and Southdown Companies working in conjunction, and will provide six journeys daily in each direction at intervals of two hours. The omnibuses will pass through no villages in their crossing of the marshes, but the old Lamb Inn, on the eastern edge of the marshes, will provide Hooe, an upland village of scattered hamlets, with a stopping-place.
The service should be appreciated by visitors to Eastbourne, Bexhill, and Hastings as providing a new and picturesque crossing of the marshes. Apart from beautiful views of the marshes (whose reed–fringed drains and water–courses are the haunts of herons), with the always wonderful atmospheric effects and sky prospects, there are views of a considerable stretch of the South Downs, of the grey ruins of Pevensey Castle and Herstmonceux; peeps of the church towers and spires of Westham, Pevensey, Hailsham, Herstmonceux, Wartling, and Hooe; and a great marine and coast prospect from the higher ground at the eastern end of the new road.
From the "Times" newspaper, dated October 18th. 1933
CROSSING PEVENSEY MARSHES
FROM A CORRESPONDENT
The Traffic Commissioners for the South-Eastern Area have just sanctioned the experimental running of rnotor-omnibuses on the new road across Pevensey Levels which was described in articles in The Times of November 5 and 30 last year. The construction of this road, which was opened to traffic early this summer, forms part of the large programme of road improvement and reconstruction of the East Coast County Council, and was carried out under the control of the council's county surveyor. Starting at the east end of Pevensey High Street it gives a greatly improved route across the marshes in lieu of an old, narrow, winding lane, and provides for traffic of all kinds a route between Eastbourne and Hastings via Pevensey some eight or nine miles shorter than that generally used hitherto. Omnibuses between the two resorts have had in the past to follow roads skirting the various inlets of the marshes, by way of Hailsham, Gardner Street, and Ninfield to Sidley Green and Bexhill. This route is some 25 miles long and complaints have long been made of the round-about- journey. The new service will be undertaken by the Maidstone and Southdown Companies working in conjunction, and will provide six journeys daily in each direction at intervals of two hours. The omnibuses will pass through no villages in their crossing of the marshes, but the old Lamb Inn, on the eastern edge of the marshes, will provide Hooe, an upland village of scattered hamlets, with a stopping-place. The service should be appreciated by visitors to Eastbourne, Bexhill, and Hastings as providing a new and picturesque crossing of the marshes. Apart from beautiful views of the marshes (whose reed-fringed drains and water-courses are the haunts of herons), with the always wonderful atmospheric effects and sky prospects, there are views of a considerable stretch of the South Downs, of the grey ruins of Pevensey Castle and Herstmonceux; peeps of the church towers and spires of Westham, Pevensey, Hailsham, Herstmonceux, Warding, and Hooe; and a great marine and coast prospect from the higher ground at the eastern end of the new road.
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