junction of Charles Road and Dane Road. He also owned land at Spittalsman's Down (now Bohemia), Bexhill, Pevensey, and Hurstmonceaux. He had a brother Arthur Deudney, who was the first proprietor of the Marine Hotel, Pelham Place, and a partner in Deudney and Hurst's Brewery, White Rock. Alderman Robert Deudney was also Agent for the Eversfield Estates, which duties he discharged till 1863. It is said of him that he took a great interest in St. Mary Magdalen Church, and in selecting a site, records of the Diocese of Chichester were searched, when it was discovered that a Church called St. Margaret's once stood in the neighbourhood, and the present site was decided upon. Brett states that Alderman Deudney, while overlooking the levelling of the Cliff behind Eversfield Place, discovered some remains of the former Church of St. Margaret, and this fact has been copied into many of the later guide books. I have seen an old print of the ruins above-mentioned, called " Deudney's Chapel."
This house stood at the top of the beautiful Gensing Valley, opposite Tower Road Schools, and gave the name to the present Tower Hotel, and Tower Road West. The new London Road from Gingerbread Green to Hawkhurst, was made through the instrumentality of the late Alderman Stephen Putland, Mayor, in 1865.
