Engels Ashes Scattered off Beachy Head today……130 years ago
27th August 1895, on a very stormy day, four set off in a boat carrying the urn containing Friedrich Engels’ ashes. The four included Eleanor Marx, youngest daughter of Karl […]
MICK JONES, THE ‘MURAL’ AND THE VIEW HOTEL
Mick Jones was one of the Workers Cooperative artists who painted the International Workers Mural that used to be displayed along the balcony overlooking the reception and restaurant area at
4, Cavendish Place – The Engel Plaque 1976
Though there is a nice photo display about Friedrich Engels’s time in Eastbourne up in The London and County pub in Eastbourne, (opposite the Station) perhaps the most notable effort
Wilmington Square
On the corner of Wilmington square is an “anonymous” pillar box (anonymous because it does not carry the VR cipher). You are told this in the local History leaflets but
The “Little Spain” shop in Cornfield Road
In the period of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Eastbourne had a “Little Spain” shop in Cornfield Road which operated for two weeks to raise funds for Spanish refugees. It
The View Hotel
(formerly the Transport and General Workers’ Union Convalescence Hotel and Conference Centre). The View Hotel is distinctive in design, the concept of a British architect. News was put about that
The Town Hall, November 1913
Why did a crowd of 3,000 working-class Labour supporters gather outside of Eastbourne Town Hall on a cold November evening, eagerly awaiting the results of the 1913 municipal elections? Well,
Boats on the Beach – Engels’ ashes and Eleanor Marx
Before the formation of the seafront, the beach directly east of the pier was the loading point of the early coal barges. A little further along is where the fishermen