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What is Sussex famous for?
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Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
The iron that defeated the Frogs .... and the Sussex Oak that built the fleet.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Beachy Head - suicide capital of England
Paskman
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Katie Price?....................................................................I'll get my coat
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Piltdown Man/Skull.
Being the place where Helen Worth(Gail Tilsley's) mother was killed by a hit and run driver.
Being the place where Helen Worth(Gail Tilsley's) mother was killed by a hit and run driver.
Hatterlovesbrighton
something clever
In terms of British History, the The Battle of Hastings is pretty big. Arguably the most important historical event to happen in the UK outside of London.
Is the corect answer. Except that the South Downs National Park now extends to Liss in Hampshire.
I went to the last meeting of the South Downs Campaign this week, there is more of the park in Hampshire now than in East Sussex, yet all the iconic images they used to pres for it were of Lewes, Beachy Head, Seven Sisters and of all places Ditchling.
They have deliberately cut off the northern border in East Sussex to south of the A27, so that it wouldn't fall in the park, a bit like Falmer......
Katie Price?....................................................................I'll get my coat
No with loyalty like that you'l be the next after Reid's had enough.
Gazwag
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TV was invented by John Logie Baird in Hastings
The first british motor race was held in Bexhill
De La Warr Pavillion used by German bombers to line up their attack on London (infamous rather than famous maybe)
The first british motor race was held in Bexhill
De La Warr Pavillion used by German bombers to line up their attack on London (infamous rather than famous maybe)
REDLAND
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Playing On The Grit
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- Apr 2, 2008
- 340
Hilaire Belloc always had a good word to say about Sussex...
WHEN I am living in the Midlands
That are sodden and unkind,
I light my lamp in the evening:
My work is left behind;
And the great hills of the South Country
Come back into my mind.
The great hills of the South Country
They stand along the sea;
And it's there walking in the high woods
That I could wish to be,
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Walking along with me.
The men that live in North England
I saw them for a day:
Their hearts are set upon the waste fells,
Their skies are fast and grey;
From their castle-walls a man may see
The mountains far away.
The men that live in West England
They see the Severn strong,
A-rolling on rough water brown
Light aspen leaves along.
They have the secret of the Rocks,
And the oldest kind of song.
But the men that live in the South Country
Are the kindest and most wise,
They get their laughter from the loud surf,
And the faith in their happy eyes
Comes surely from our Sister the Spring
When over the sea she flies;
The violets suddenly bloom at her feet,
She blesses us with surprise.
I never get between the pines
But I smell the Sussex air;
Nor I never come on a belt of sand
But my home is there.
And along the sky the line of the Downs
So noble and so bare.
A lost thing could I never find,
Nor a broken thing mend:
And I fear I shall be all alone
When I get towards the end.
Who will there be to comfort me
Or who will be my friend?
I will gather and carefully make my friends
Of the men of the Sussex Weald;
They watch the stars from silent folds,
They stiffly plough the field.
By them and the God of the South Country
My poor soul shall be healed.
If I ever become a rich man,
Or if ever I grow to be old,
I will build a house with deep thatch
To shelter me from the cold,
And there shall the Sussex songs be sung
And the story of Sussex told.
I will hold my house in the high wood
Within a walk of the sea,
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Shall sit and drink with me.
WHEN I am living in the Midlands
That are sodden and unkind,
I light my lamp in the evening:
My work is left behind;
And the great hills of the South Country
Come back into my mind.
The great hills of the South Country
They stand along the sea;
And it's there walking in the high woods
That I could wish to be,
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Walking along with me.
The men that live in North England
I saw them for a day:
Their hearts are set upon the waste fells,
Their skies are fast and grey;
From their castle-walls a man may see
The mountains far away.
The men that live in West England
They see the Severn strong,
A-rolling on rough water brown
Light aspen leaves along.
They have the secret of the Rocks,
And the oldest kind of song.
But the men that live in the South Country
Are the kindest and most wise,
They get their laughter from the loud surf,
And the faith in their happy eyes
Comes surely from our Sister the Spring
When over the sea she flies;
The violets suddenly bloom at her feet,
She blesses us with surprise.
I never get between the pines
But I smell the Sussex air;
Nor I never come on a belt of sand
But my home is there.
And along the sky the line of the Downs
So noble and so bare.
A lost thing could I never find,
Nor a broken thing mend:
And I fear I shall be all alone
When I get towards the end.
Who will there be to comfort me
Or who will be my friend?
I will gather and carefully make my friends
Of the men of the Sussex Weald;
They watch the stars from silent folds,
They stiffly plough the field.
By them and the God of the South Country
My poor soul shall be healed.
If I ever become a rich man,
Or if ever I grow to be old,
I will build a house with deep thatch
To shelter me from the cold,
And there shall the Sussex songs be sung
And the story of Sussex told.
I will hold my house in the high wood
Within a walk of the sea,
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Shall sit and drink with me.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,514
So why is there a Sussex, an Essex, a Wessex (if unofficial these days) but no, er, Nossex?
Or Nussex.
Or Nussex.
So why is there a Sussex, an Essex, a Wessex (if unofficial these days) but no, er, Nossex?
Or Nussex.
Don't forget Middlesex (RIP)
mona
The Glory Game
The home of cricket.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,514
I know the name is to do with Saxons, and that they were mainly located in the south of England, (while the top half of the country was being raped & pillaged by axe-swinging Norsemen) but presumably there were some to the north of this particular area just like there were south, east, west and, um, middle Saxons.
I await the wisdom of NSC.
I await the wisdom of NSC.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,514
Birds with no feet.
(no, not the one who married McCartney)
(no, not the one who married McCartney)