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Seaford is home to a number of private schools and has several golf courses, but the town has none of the sparkle and verve of, say, Eastbourne.

At the west end of Eastbourne the Reverend Mother Harriet Brownlow Brown, an Anglican nun, founded All Saints Hospital in 1867 which opened in 1869.

direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside resort of Eastbourne

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Between the wars Eastbourne continued to expand, and until the 1950s it enjoyed great prosperity.

Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.

Between Seaford and Eastbourne the South Downs reach the sea in spectacular style with chalk cliffs rising sheer over 500 feet from the sea.

A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

Gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Tunbridge Wells over the first half of the 20th century, this section of village shops and businesses along the main highway running between London and Eastbourne

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield.

This view is taken at the north-west end of what is now the recreation ground, and the area beyond the carriage is now the teeming roundabout where the A24 London Road meets the A27 which runs from Eastbourne

Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate.

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.

Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s

Fortunately for the village, it is now by- passed by the busy A22, but until then traffic had to negotiate this very sharp bend, and the London to Eastbourne traffic made the centre of

direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside resort of Eastbourne

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

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

This allowed them to corner the bulk of excursions out of Brighton and Eastbourne, and to gain a substantial foothold in the Isle of Wight and Hastings traffic.

popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach between Eastbourne

Unlike Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, Worthing never aspired to having an opulent purpose built Victorian hotel.

According to the records of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, Darby's Hole was in fact part of a cave system which had formerly been used by the local smugglers.