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A hallowed history

Saint Michael and All Angels was the first red-bricked church in Brighton

4:17pm Monday 1st December 2008

Brighton has been blessed with fine churches, especially those built during the Victorian era.

Grand scheme of things

An early postcard of The Grand, Brighton

4:26pm Friday 28th November 2008

The Grand was probably the most sensational building Brightonians had seen since the Royal Pavilion.

Tales from Lewes taverns

Crowds gather outside Harveys in Lewes in July 1902 to welcome home soliders who had been fighting in the Boer War

3:32pm Wednesday 19th November 2008

When you walk around the East Sussex county town of Lewes, what catches your eye? The castle, Anne of Cleves House, or is it the number of pubs?

Demolishing the Downs

The building of the Brighton bypass in 1991, which took more than 200 acres of land, nearly all on the Downs

3:54pm Wednesday 12th November 2008

When Brighton and Hove were originally developed, they were close to the sea with houses huddled together to protect against the south-westerly winds.

The old curiosity shop

Inside the old museum at Bramber

3:19pm Monday 3rd November 2008

When I first came to Sussex in the 1960s I was fascinated by the country museums, so tiny compared with the great edifices I knew in London.

Pier perfection

Eastbourne Pier was designed by the same architect as Brighton's West Pier

3:03pm Monday 27th October 2008

Eugenius Birch designed many wonderful structures during his prolific career but the West Pier in Brighton is generally considered to be his masterpiece.

A meeting of minds

Danny House, near Hurstpierpoint

2:55pm Monday 20th October 2008

History was made at a Sussex house when a meeting of the Imperial War Cabinet was held there 90 years ago this month.

Stormy weather

A man walks through The Level in Brighton after the 'hurricane' of October 1987

3:44pm Monday 13th October 2008

Few people in Sussex who experienced the Great Storm of October 1987 will ever forget that amazing night.

Why royalty really noticed Brighton

Marlborough House on the Steine was among the grand homes that pre-dated the interest of the future Regent and King

3:18pm Monday 6th October 2008

A legend has grown up over the years that Brighton was a poor fishing village before the arrival of royalty in the late 18th century.

A century of work in the community

The present church opened five years ago

5:12pm Monday 29th September 2008

Dorset Gardens Methodist Church in Brighton hit the headlines in 1966 during the Labour Party’s annual conference service there.


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