Portslade Old Village Riding Stables
Memories of the 1960s
By Lorraine Luke
Stables demolished in late 1970s
The first photograph here is of my sister leaving the Riding Stables at Portslade Old Village in the early 1960s. I think the horse was called 'Champ', who lived to a very ripe old age. The stables were run by Mick Ayling, and I think that they were pulled down for development in the late 1970s.
Grazing on the Downs
My sister and I learnt to ride there and then helped out for many years taking the ponies up to the Downs each evening for grazing, and bringing them down in a string each morning. Most of the ponies were ridden up to the Forge at the top of the hill to see the blacksmith as the service wasn't mobile then.
Old Village Riding Stables in the early 1960s
From the private collection of Lorraine Luke
This page was added on 07/05/2010.