Eastbourne’s Fatal Train Crash – 1958
Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. The British Pathé website hosts the very best of pioneering video journalism. Here is some footage of Eastbourne’s fatal […]
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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 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,