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There are more than 130 listed buildings in the town and borough of Eastbourne, a seaside resort on the coast of East Sussex in England. Eastbourne, whose estimated population in 2011 was 99,400, [1] grew from a collection of farming hamlets into a fashionable holiday destination in the mid-19th century; close attention was paid to urban planning and architecture, and the main landowners the ...
Sussex Academic Press, founded in 1994, is a publishing company based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom. [1] It initially specialised in Middle East studies. [2]The house published books on issues of contemporary relevance and debate in Middle East topics, [3] Theology & Religion, [3] History (especially Portuguese, Spanish and Huguenot history), [1] and Literary Criticism, [3] as ...
Eastbourne Local History Society was founded in 1970. It is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation in whose objective is the pursuit and encouragement of an active interest in the study of the history of Eastbourne and its immediate environs and the dissemination of the outcome of such studies. [47] [48]
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The Gazette was the town's first newspaper. Later, the paper was edited and created by Beckett Newspapers, based in Eastbourne, and printed by Johnston Press at their headquarters in Hilsea, Portsmouth. Aleister Crowley once edited a chess column for the paper. From September 2015 until its closure it relaunched itself briefly as a free broadsheet.
A large crowd and a military parade were present for the proclamation of the accession of King George V which was read out at the town hall on 6 May 1910. [11]In the early 20th century the town hall had its own courtroom and police station and, after the 17-year-old Irene Munro had been murdered by two men, Jack Field and William Gray, on 19 August 1920, it was to the town hall mortuary that ...
Sir Reginald Hall. On the 24 May, the Eastbourne Unionist Association chose 55-year-old Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker' Hall as their candidate to defend the seat. He had been the Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) from 1914 to 1919 and the MP for Liverpool West Derby from 1919 to 1923 when he was defeated by the Liberal candidate. [5]
Willingdon and Jevington is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. [3] The two villages lie one mile (1.6 km) south of Polegate.Willingdon is part of the built-up area which is Eastbourne, and lies on the main A22 road, whilst Jevington is on a minor road leading to Friston.