Radical History Tours
If you have just alighted the train to begin this walk, then welcome to Eastbourne. This town was…
This Radical History Seafront Trail is taken from the fuller Radical History Tour. Whether you are a…
Places
This is where many left-wing groups in the town hold their street events. It is not the same since…
A few yards into Southfields Road on the left-hand side, beside the street name sign, is a small…
Before World War II, this address was used as the headquarters for the Trade Association and the…
The Dolphin pub, South Street, formerly The Railway Arms. This is where trade unionists and…
In July 1881, a few months before Jenny’s death, Karl Marx and his wife Jenny both stayed at 43…
Eastbourne before the railway. Eastbourne originated as a small fishing community with scattered…
Screen Archive South East is a publicly-funded regional film archive serving the South East of…
Though there is a nice photo display about Friedrich Engels’s time in Eastbourne up in The London…
On the corner of Wilmington square is an “anonymous” pillar box (anonymous because it does not carry…
In the period of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Eastbourne had a “Little Spain” shop in Cornfield…
I am unsure of the exact address, but I am told Sidney and Beatrice Webb either stayed or lived for…
(formerly the Transport and General Workers’ Union Convalescence Hotel and Conference Centre). The…
Why did a crowd of 3,000 working-class Labour supporters gather outside of Eastbourne Town Hall on a…
Before the formation of the seafront, the beach directly east of the pier was the loading point of…
It was a long hot summer in 1929 and there was a late heatwave. The 1920s saw the seaside opening up…
See also:- 1) an article on Engels in Eastbourne website, Brighton University: “The…