And Lord Lucan.
Perhaps Newhaven should have a statue of Charles Dickens who apparently once wrote in his diary of a walk to the town from Seaford and a failure to buy fish because it was early closing. I think his words were something like: 'It was an awful place. I shall never return.'
And to think: as he left Seaford, he probably had such great expectations.
The thought of him expecting Newhaven to be good on the strength of the wonders of Seaford made me laugh before I even noticed your book title reference.
A Tale of Two Sh*theaps?
Actually, if the local council don't seize the moment and put "It was an awful place. I shall never return" in mirror writing on the back of the Welcome To Newhaven signs, then they're missing a trick.
Never mind international relations or some nobody local councillor's wrath.
Ho Chi Minh worked on the bloody Newhaven Dieppe ferry! Why is this not more widely known? It's like discovering Fidel Castro once had a part time job on the Palace Pier ghost train. This is by far the greatest fact I've learned in many, many weeks.