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At your leisure

2:20pm Saturday 13th March 2010

When the Hove Marina swimming baths were built on an old seafront gravel pit in 1939, they were considered to be the height of modernity.

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Dennis Hobden became a Labour legend following the general election of 1964, when he became the first Labour MP in Sussex and won Brighton Kemp Town by the slender margin of seven votes after seven recounts.

Political battleground

10:40am Saturday 27th February 2010

I went to a wedding reception at Pelham House in Lewes and found myself in familiar surroundings. For more than 70 years, up to 2004, it was the main meeting place of East Sussex County Council, hosting hundreds of meetings.

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Glitter and be gay

3:40pm Saturday 20th February 2010

Oscar Wilde is associated with Worthing through one of his main characters in The Importance Of Being Earnest, who he named after the resort. But he also had connections with Brighton, as author Janet Cameron shows in her new book LGBT Brighton And Hove.

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The advocate

6:00am Saturday 13th February 2010

George Bell was one of the most notable Bishops of Chichester and probably missed becoming Archbishop of Canterbury because of his strong views.

Wheels on the bus

6:00am Saturday 6th February 2010

One of Britain’s most successful bus companies is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. But there was a time when it seemed the Brighton and Hove buses would never reach this milestone.

Talented trickster

4:00pm Saturday 30th January 2010

Horatio Bottomley, one of Britain’s most notorious swindlers, was born 150 years ago in 1860. Orphaned as a child, he rose from obscurity to become one of the richest and most successful businessmen of his age.

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A prime location

6:00am Saturday 23rd January 2010

Horsham regularly comes near the top when surveys are undertaken of desirable places in which to live. So it comes as something of a surprise to hear the opinions of Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner in their Buildings Of England series.

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Taking the plunge

6:50am Saturday 16th January 2010

For more that 20 years the old pier at Bognor Regis proved there could be life after death. In 1979, when the pier was little more than a wreck, it was used for the Birdman Rally which continued until 2007.