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3 unusual facts about Fairlight, East Sussex


Formica cunicularia

:In the New Forest it occurs in earth-mounds, at Seaton under stones, in the Landslip, Isle of Wight, in the side of the cliff, and at Fairlight I found it in the side of the cliff and in earth-mounds in the undercliff - one of the nests being traced by tracking a worker which was carrying home a fly in its jaws.

Geoffrey Turner

He won the George Medal for recovering a mine from a German plane which had been shot down at Fairlight, near Hastings in Sussex.

Lamb Theatre

Two of his close friends were Holman Hunt the artist and Dickens who would join Egg at his summer retreat, Hunt coming over from his home in Fairlight and Dickens down from London.


Acme Records

Acme Records, an independent record label based in Hastings, East Sussex, England, was formed in 1994 by Gary Ramon (the frontman of Sun Dial).

Alistair Hepburn

Hepburn studied as a chartered surveyor and valuer at Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology in East Sussex before joining the Royal Artillery during World War II.

Ambleton Delight

Filmed exclusively in East Sussex, UK it is directed by Brighton and Hove based Daniel Parkes, based on a script by Japanese writer Itsuka Yamasaki and Ben Rohde, produced by Sinéad Ferguson and starring veteran Coronation Street actor Brian Capron.

Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff

They retired to a farm in Ringmer, East Sussex, where she kept pigs and he kept cows and sheep, and grew barley.

Bouverie Place Shopping Centre

Folkestone bus station is adjent to the shopping centre and is served by local buses to other major towns in East Kent and East Sussex.

Coat of arms of Sussex

The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex.

Death of Gertrude Hullett

Gertrude "Bobby" Hullett (1906 – 23 July 1956), a resident of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, was a patient of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams, who was charged with her murder but never tried for it.

Elviss

They were also championed by the magazine itself, which included an appearance at the Kerrang! Weekender in 2002 at Camber Sands, East Sussex.

Fairlight, New South Wales

Though swells up to 2 metres were recorded following Hurricane Larry, it is not a surfing beach, as the shore is rocky and the break unpredictable.

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband, former British chess champion James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.

Firle Place

Firle Place is a Manor house in Firle, East Sussex, United Kingdom and is the family seat of Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage, whose family the Viscounts Gage have owned the land at Firle since acquiring it from the Levett family in the 15th century.

Franciszek Gruszka

In the spring of 1975 a World War II aviation archeology group found the remnants of an airplane and its pilot in marshes between Preston Village and Stodmarsh, East Sussex.

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

Glamorgan cattle

In 1979 Major 'Teddy' Savage of Sedlescombe, near Hastings in East Sussex, decided to sell his cattle herd which he claimed included Glamorgan cattle, Pembroke cattle and Gloucester cattle.

Greenwich Light Vessel Automatic

Greenwich Light Vessel Automatic is the name of a lightvessel in the English Channel, off the coast of East Sussex.

Heather Stewart-Whyte

Born in East Sussex, England, Stewart-Whyte found success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, garnering several runway shows for Versace, Armani, Saint-Laurent and Lagerfeld.

Henry Augustus Ellis

He died after a long illness at Crowborough, East Sussex, on 3 October 1939 and was survived by his second wife.

High Sheriff of Sussex

At various times the High Sheriff of Surrey was also High Sheriff of Sussex (1229–1231, 1232–1240, 1242–1567, 1571–1635), The office of High Sheriff of Sussex ceased with local government re-organisation in 1974, when the county was split for local government purposes into East Sussex (see High Sheriff of East Sussex) and West Sussex (see High Sheriff of West Sussex).

History of local government in England

In County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Shropshire, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, one or two major towns/cities were established as unitary authorities, with the rest of the county remaining two tier.

John Ernle

Ernle was descended from John Ernle the Elder, Esquire, of Fosbury and Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire, (born 1461/2), the ancestor of the Wiltshire branch of the family, and from John Ernle, Esq., of Sidlesham, Sussex (died 1465), whose wife Margaret was a daughter of Nicholas Morley, Esq., of Glynde Place, Sussex.

Lewes Arms controversy

The Lewes Arms controversy involved a dispute between the Greene King Brewery and the regulars of the Lewes Arms pub in Lewes, East Sussex, England from 2006 to April 2007, when the brewery withdrew from sale a local beer.

Lullington, East Sussex

Lullington is a hamlet 9⅓ miles southeast of Lewes, East Sussex, England.

Margaret Tuke

She was educated at home until she was 15 and then two years at St John's School in Withdean, now part of Brighton, East Sussex.

Martin Carver

He was educated at Ladycross School, a Catholic preparatory school in Seaford, East Sussex, and then Wellington College, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Milly-la-Forêt

Milly-la-Forêt is twinned with the German town of Morsbach, situated in the valley of the Sieg to the east of Cologne and with Forest Row in East Sussex, England.

Philip Fotheringham-Parker

Philip Fotheringham-Parker (22 September 1907 in Beckenham, Kent – 15 October 1981 in Beckley, East Sussex) was a racing driver from England.

Pimania

The sundial was eventually won in 1985 by Sue Cooper and Lizi Newman, who correctly worked out that it could only be found on July 22 (because Pi is sometimes rounded to 22/7) at the chalk horse at Hindover Hill near Litlington, East Sussex.

RAF Beachy Head

RAF Station Beachy Head was a Royal Air Force (RAF) radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East Sussex, England.

Rivers of Kent

It is included here since for part of its journey near Bodiam it forms the boundary between Kent and East Sussex.

Science Projects Limited

One site which had been of interest for a long time was Herstmonceux, in East Sussex, the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Seahaven FM

Seahaven FM is a Community Radio Station which was set up in early 2008 to provide "Genuinely Local Radio" to the communities in the area in East Sussex known as Seahaven.

Separate We Come, Separate We Go

Filming took place at sparsely populated areas of Kent and East Sussex, including Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Lydd, Camber Sands, Rye Harbour, Winchelsea Beach and Dymchurch.

Sir Home Gordon, 12th Baronet

Sir Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon, 12th Baronet Gordon of Embo, Sutherland (30 September 1871 – 9 September 1956 at Rottingdean, East Sussex) was a journalist and author who was best known for his writing on cricket.

Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

An electronic version on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the soundtrack of the 1982 film "Liquid Sky".

Spa Valley Railway

En route it crosses the Kent and East Sussex border, a distance of 5 miles (8 km), along the former Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line / Cuckoo Line.

Split the Difference

While Gomez's first three albums had been self-produced, the band entered its new recording studio in Portslade in East Sussex with Tchad Blake as producer.

Stefan Booth

Booth appeared in pantomime at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, East Sussex from 12 December 2008 to 11 January 2009 in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring as the Prince, alongside one of the finalists from the BBC I'd Do Anything series, Niamh Perry.

The Blue Cross

On 26 January 2010, Blue Cross announced the proposed closure of the two animal adoption centres (Felixstowe and Northiam, East Sussex), both of which had been in existence for over 50 years.

The Popguns

Originally from Brighton, East Sussex, they formed in 1986 by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists Simon Pickles and Greg Dixon plus bassist Pat Walkington and were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer for The Wedding Present in 1988.

The Train Now Standing

The outdoor scenes for The Train Now Standing were filmed at the then disused Bodiam railway station in East Sussex.

Woodingdean

Woodingdean is an eastern suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, separated from the main part of the city by downland and the Brighton Racecourse.


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