Eastbourne
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Eastbourne Town Walk Guide
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Eastbourne Photographic Memories
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- 48 photos on Eastbourne appear in 7 Frith books - View photos of Eastbourne
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Eastbourne memories
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Eastbourne flower gardens
My Grandad was foreman of the Carpet Gardens on Eastbourne seafront. He took over from his elder brother who had taken over from their father. They had, as a family, looked after the Carpet Gardens for over a century.
The family name was Cottington. Grampy always told us that when digging over the flower beds they uncovered Roman mosaics. As a tribute to them they copied the design in the flowers.
Just a simple family memory from long ago.
Contributed by yana askaroff
Our first home together.
In September 2007 my partner Alan and I moved into a first floor flat on Tideswell Road directly opposite the church. The fact that the lounge windows overlook the church was the clincher for me when I was viewing the flat for rental. I love the fact that we are not overlooked by other properties which is very unusual for a town centre property. The church itself is a very attractive building and a great piece of architecture. The gardens are smart and well maintained, although small boys sometimes get told off for playing football on the grass. There are now some trees on the pavement around the church which were really pretty when we moved in, dark green and covered ...read more here
Contributed by angela green
Proposal
This is where Alan asked me to marry him on a beautiful moonlit evening in January. The weather was mild and the moonlight was shining on the sea making it all silvery. There weren't many people around, just the odd jogger and dog walker as it was a Monday night.
I guessed what was happening as he was so nervous, but due to some advice from my friend Simone I kept quiet for once. He took my hands in his and gave a lovely speech about the year we have spent together and then got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife.. and of course I said yes. The mischievous side of me was dying ...read more here
Contributed by angela green
East Sussex memories
Our first home together.
In September 2007 my partner Alan and I moved into a first floor flat on Tideswell Road directly opposite the church. The fact that the lounge windows overlook the church was the clincher for me when I was viewing the flat for rental. I love the fact that we are not overlooked by other properties which is very unusual for a town centre property. The church itself is a very attractive building and a great piece of architecture. The gardens are smart and well maintained, although small boys sometimes get told off for playing football on the grass. There are now some trees on the pavement around the church which were really pretty when we moved in, dark green and covered ...read more here
A memory of Eastbourne contributed by angela green
Extracts From Eastbourne & East Sussex books
Lobbying by the Duke of Devonshire and others secured borough status for Eastbourne in 1883 with George Wallis,
the Duke’s agent, becoming the first mayor. The Town Hall was built following an architectural competition to
designs by a Birmingham architect, W Tadman Foulkes. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Edward Cavendish,
the Duke’s son, in 1884. It is in an ornate Renaissance style and better in the flesh than it looks in this photograph;
it is still very fresh and hard-edged.
An extract from from"Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories".
Booming expansion led the Duke of Devonshire and the townspeople to lobby for borough status, finally granted
by royal charter in June 1883. A design competition for a suitably grand town hall was won by W Tadman Foulkes,
a Birmingham architect, and the foundation stone was laid in 1884 by Lord Edward Cavendish, the Duke’s son.
An extract from from"Eastbourne Photographic Memories".
The first master plan drawn up by Henry Currey, the Duke of Devonshire’s surveyor, covered the stucco seaside
terrace and squares. After 1870 Currey produced his second master plan for the areas around the hamlet of Meads,
this time for tree-lined streets of villas and houses in grounds that led to this western development being nicknamed
‘The Belgravia of Eastbourne’. Meads Road, of course, had old trees already: a villa is seen on the right, and on the
left carriages shelter from the sun alongside the flint wall fronting Saffrons Park, now a sports ground.
Francis Frith’s Sussex A Century Ago
An extract from from"Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories".
It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and
the house on the right survive. The wall on the left fronts Saffrons Park, now a sports club, with its entrance gates
dated 1914. Note the characteristic brick pavements of the fashionable ‘Belgravia of Eastbourne’.
An extract from from"Eastbourne Photographic Memories".
Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and
terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and built in 1882. She
commissioned Alfred Strong, who did her proud with this basilican church complete with an 83ft high detached
campanile and semi-circular apse.
Seaside and Coastal Sussex: From Bosham to Rye
An extract from from"Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories".