Work has started on the partial demolition of County Buildings in Crawley - but record of site's history is preserved

Work has started on the partial demolition of County Buildings in Crawley – but not before a record of the site’s history and a set of lights were preserved for future generations to see.
By The Newsroom
Published 30th Mar 2021, 10:20 BST
Updated 30th Mar 2021, 10:22 BST
Illuminating the past, with the set of lights from County Buildings: from left, Marie Ovenden, West Sussex County Council Crawley Growth Programme Delivery Manager, Toby Ramsden, Faithful & Gould Managing Building Surveyor, Holly Parsons, Curator Crawley Museum, and James Patterson, DDS Ltd Site Manager.Illuminating the past, with the set of lights from County Buildings: from left, Marie Ovenden, West Sussex County Council Crawley Growth Programme Delivery Manager, Toby Ramsden, Faithful & Gould Managing Building Surveyor, Holly Parsons, Curator Crawley Museum, and James Patterson, DDS Ltd Site Manager.
Illuminating the past, with the set of lights from County Buildings: from left, Marie Ovenden, West Sussex County Council Crawley Growth Programme Delivery Manager, Toby Ramsden, Faithful & Gould Managing Building Surveyor, Holly Parsons, Curator Crawley Museum, and James Patterson, DDS Ltd Site Manager.

The record of the building’s past, plus current photographs, have been shared with Crawley Museum. The heritage pack is available for residents to view at: https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/media/15435/historic_building_record.pdfLast month, the County Council asked its Project Management company to commission Archaeology South-East to carry out an Historic Building Record of the former children’s library, attached to the main library, at Northgate Avenue, Crawley.

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