"Sussex County Memories" is one of 7 titles in the new County Memories series from The Francis Frith Collection. This wonderful paperback showcases Sussex's unique story with fine historical photographs, maps, traditional recipes, heritage and industry, archaeology, fascinating local facts and folklore.

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"Sussex County Memories" is bursting with information snippets and local facts about Sussex. Learn about Ancient Sussex,  Sussex and the Devil,  Sussex Windmills,  Goodwood Racecourse,  the Battle of Hastings,  the River Ouse Railway Viaduct,  the iron industry of the Weald,  to name just a few! Read on for a few of the fascinating "Did you know...?" facts from the book.

• The Making of an Archive
• Sussex County Map
• Sussex - An Introduction
• The Downs
• Ancient Sussex
• Weald and Forest
• Rivers, Ancient Ports and Castles
• Sussex and the Devil
• County and Market Towns
• Sussex Food and Recipes
• Along the Coast
• Sussex Windmills
• Voucher for a Free Mounted Print

• ISBN: 1-84589-311-5
• Compiled by Julia Skinner
• Printed to order and Despatched in 3-5 days
• Add your own inscription! - tell me more...
• 144 pages, Paperback

• The area around Robertsbridge is noted for the production of high quality cricket bats, made from the wood of locally-grown willow trees.
• Watchbell Street in Rye is named after the watch bell which once hung there and was rung to warn inhabitants of approaching French raids. Until the Second World War, Watchbell Street was haunted by the sound of hurrying footsteps. The steps were never heard again until after an Elizabethan house was bombed during the war. A workman found a string of beads on the site of the house, which turned out to be rare black pearls, possibly lost by one of Elizabeth I's ladies when the Queen visited Rye in 1573.
• The spire and tower of Chichester's cathedral collapsed in 1861. There was an old rhyme whose prophecy was fulfilled by the tower falling: "If Chichester tower do fall, in England there's no King at all." There was indeed no King, for Queen Victoria was on the throne at the time.
• Hailsham is known as "string town", because for hundreds of years its main industry was rope making. Another Hailsham industry was the manufacture of the traditional Sussex trug basket, now made only in and around Herstmonceux.
• At Chanctonbury Ring, it is said that the Devil will meet you if you walk seven times anti-clockwise around the Ring at certain times of the year; he will offer you a bowl of porridge, and if you accept it he will offer you your dearest wish, but take your soul in return. The Devil was also said to have been responsible for creating the Ring, as it was one of the spadefuls of earth he threw away when he constructed the Devil's Dyke near Brighton – but that's another story!

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