I worked on the footplate at Newhaven until 1962. There appeared to be a "Resident" driver for the Terriers; a Mr Smith.
The picture of the E4 - that looks remarkably like me as the Fireman. I always wore my hat like that, high at the front and well down at the sides. Thank you for sharing these pictures with us. It has certainly brought back some fond memories for me.

The pictures of 32678 (once named "Knowle") were taken by Dick Riley on the last day of the breakwater Branch - 10 August 1963. The person visible on the footplate in both photos is the shunter, Bob Cobden. Maurice Smith was the driver.
The E4 appears to be reversing out of Town station into the up side sidings (note that the shunt signal dummy is "off" authorising the move southwards).

How many terriers were 'stabled' at Newhaven as there appears to be three different locomotives in these photos (not including the E4)?

Rob - Newhaven became a sub shed of Brighton in early BR days, from when only one Terrier was based in the town shed. Until 1956 this was usually 32636 (Fenchurch) but thereafter Brighton sent any of its Terriers to Newhaven, subshedded for a couple of weeks at a time. In Southern Railway days, Newhaven had 2 Terriers, 2636 (Fenchurch) being joined by 2647 (Cheapside) in 1936. 2647 moved to Hayling Island in April 1951 but broke a crank axle and was scrapped, still in pre-war Southern livery, in October 1951.

Maybe my mind is playing tricks but on a trip on the train to Seaford with my mum in the early 70's she pointed out a small steam engine on a siding at Seaford by the goods yard. I remember this because it was the only steam loco I had seen at that time before being taken to the Bluebell. Any idea what it was and why it was there.?

In 1949 when I left school I started work as a cleaner at Newhaven loco shed, where I joined my mother's brothers, Uncles Ted & Jack Hillman who were both drivers, (the latter being my guardian from 1939). My first day's work was cleaning the boiler (red hot) of Atlantic Class loco "Beachy Head" and I just hope I live long enough to see it in steam again on the Bluebell Rly. On another occasion I remember cleaning an E4 class loco still in its wartime black, and sideways on in the shed light, saw on the the tank side some brown paintwork with the words 'Birch Grove' which did'nt mean a lot to me at the time. That loco is now preserved on the Bluebell Railway.

Having been passed as a cleaner, my first day acting as a fireman was on an E4 class loco and having booked on at 4.45am we travelled "light engine" (not hauling any trucks or carriages) to Lewes where we coupled-up to a full load and travelled back to Newhaven then on to Seaford.

The best turn of all was with a Terrier, and having booked on at 6.45 am, we would attach a dozen trucks or so and haul them over the swing bridge and down the breakwater where they were detached. Then it was back to the shed put the loco away and be home in doors at 1.30pm. The permanent driver at the time was Bogie Simmons.

A good book published by Middelton Press is entitled "Haywards Heath to Seaford" and contains some good photos of the area.

I wish I had owned a camera at the time because one summer weekend in the early 1950's while working nights and acting as shed fireman, in the height of the the summer traffic the shed was full with locos of several classes, Brighton Atlantics, Terriers, Moguls, E4s, a C2 Vulcan and a Schools Class. There was even a West Country class loco for boat train traffic, however using those West Country locos was short lived because they came off the rails on the sharp curve into the shed.