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The title of this article may appear misleading, since Eastbourne, like Sussex in general, has had no shortage of chess-playing clergy. Many nineteenth-century clerics-particularly those in rural...

Before leaving Eastbourne, I always stop by for a chat with Lawrence Stevens at his shop in Crown Street. During our conversation in the spring of 2009, Lawrence mentioned he had heard that a piano...

Some twenty years ago I was fortunate to be given a number of copies of old posters dating from the 1830s concerning the East-Bourne Prosecuting Society. These were of particular interest to me as...

I am just back from the Sussex coast, whither I was driven last Thursday by sheer breakdown. I went to Brighton but found the place impossible; a more hideous and vulgar seaside town the mind of...

In 2003, the rights of asylum seekers ‘and other foreigners in England were being much debated as a result of an appeal court case on behalf of several asylum seekers, which caused the then Home...

Edna Lyall was a pseudonym produced from nine of the thirteen letters of her real name, Ada Ellen Bayly. She was born in Brighton in 1857, the youngest of four children, three girls and a boy...

It is 100 years since the famous rescue of his men by Ernest Shackleton in August 1916, but despite his Eastbourne connections there does not appear to be a report of the fact in the local papers.

Sidney Torch was a household name from the 1930s, first as a cinema organist and after the war as a composer, arranger and orchestral conductor, especially as the conductor of BBC radio’s Friday...