On Good Friday, at noon, a time portal will open on the beach in Bognor Regis. This means you can step back in time and experience Bognor as it was in the Victorian era. Imagine stepping back in time The ‘Bognor Regis Time Portal’ is a brand new, innovative cultural heritage experience that uses augmented […]
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In the summer of 1932, a curious advertisement appeared in the pages of the British press. ‘A Moonlight Walk!’ it announced, ‘over the South Downs to witness sunrise from Chanctonbury Ring’. The author of the notice was S. P. B. Mais ‘of Wireless fame’. Little remembered now, he was a leading public figure of his
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Alfriston’s red lion is hard to miss, prominently present as it is outside the Star Inn on the High Street, as well as proudly depicted on the village sign on the Tye (village green). Some refer to the large wood statue as a dragon, understandably so as the depiction is heavily stylised. Upon my first
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Saddlescombe Farm In 1934, Maude Robinson published a series of articles in the Sussex County Magazine about her childhood on the South Downs history at Saddlescombe Farm. She subsequently went on to write her memoirs The Quiet Valley: Memories of a South Down Farm in the 1860s. Her father was Martin Robinson who became a
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We’ve all seen social media posts about life in the 1970s as compared to now. Chopper bikes, Marathon bars (that’s Snickers to you younger readers), flares, and long hair. But what was rural Sussex life like back then? Dining at its finest As a child of the 70s living near Warninglid, there were two culinary
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An old Sussex shepherd No reed, or pipe, or flute for him To play sweet music on the hill, Nor shepherd’s smock in idle whim, The old poetic part to fill. Just ragged clothes of sombre brown, That were all stained with Sussex soil, Wore that old shepherd on the down, So busy there
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In days gone by, mocking persons used to refer to the denizens of our county as “Silly Sussex”. This was quite unjustified, as the word was actually “selig”, a Saxon word meaning “holy”. And to prove the point, Sussex has produced a goodly number of saints, some of them quite muscular in their applied Christianity.
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To the memory of all Indian soldiers who gave their lives for their King-Emperor in the Great War If you’ve never heard of the Chattri Memorial, you can be forgiven for being more than a little surprised when you stumble upon it as you round the crest of one of the many waves of the
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You can discover the Wey & Arun Junction Canal by foot or by boat and by doing so, you’re taking a long leisurely step back in time. A new way to travel There was a time, when the UK was crisscrossed by a network of busy working canals and their towpaths. And Sussex was no
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As you travel south to visit Arundel, the busy Sussex countryside starts to give way to something different. The grandeur and sweeping views of the South Downs seem to herald in a time gone by, while water meadows and walled parklands speak of a different way of living. The town Today, Arundel is presided over
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