Caring 4 Sussex
For everyone who cares about Sussex
Bristol F2B Fighter leading an RAF SE5a courtesy of the Old Warden Airfield in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Even before the RAF was founded in 1918, air bases along the Sussex coast were sending planes and Zeros — ‘blimps’ — up to try and spot German submarines desperately trying to cross the channel. Anti-submarine patrols operated out …
From this vast altar—pile the souls of men Sped up to God in countless multitudes: On this grim cratered ridge they gave their all. John Oxenham (1852-1941) Part of a poem on the dedication stone at the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont Hamel, France. When the 2nd battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment arrived in …
By Robert Hill Austin Macauley Publishers £11.99 We all love dragons, or at least tales of dragons, even if most of the myths surrounding them focus on killing them. But this isn’t true everywhere: in eastern countries, and notably China, where they can be seen on practically every curly roof, dragons are not considered evil …
By Elaine Hankin FeedARead.com Publishing £8.99 Who hasn’t been to places like Arundel Castle, Petworth House or Brighton Pavilion and wondered what the walls would say if they could tell you about the inhabitants’ lives they have witnessed and the visitors who have graced – or darkened – their doors? We tend to fixate on …
It is a quite staggering feat of engineering. Whether you’re for or against wind farms, the 116 steel turbines of the Rampion wind farm 8-12½ miles off the Sussex coast are a remarkable sight from the beach, but they’re astonishing to see up close. Twenty-six square miles of the English Channel are now dotted with …
By Phil Clarkson. Published by Austin Macauley Publishers, £9.99 West Sussex writer Phil Clarkson brings us a children’s book with a message in Bella the Bee – a bright, colourful rhyming story about a bee with a knobbly knee who finds comfort from bullying in dance. It’s told through bright and colourful anthropomorphised insects of all …
By Wendy Hughes. Published by The History Press, £12.99 Open this book at any page and you’ll find something of intrigue, and with that in mind it’s probably fair to say the A to Z of Curious Sussex raises more questions than it answers. Why, for instance, does the village of Yapton never close its doors? …
By Michael Aidin. Published by Syncline Press, £8.99 Only a person of stone would be unmoved at the thousands of graves in any of the war cemeteries around the world, with their perfectly neat, teeth-like tombstones marking the last resting places of the war dead. Michael Aidin’s book, as he says at the end of Memories …
And the winners are… More than 400 food and drink producers gathered at Brighton’s Amex stadium in February in a black-tie ceremony to celebrate the county’s farming and food and drink industries. The winners of the ten Sussex Food and Drink Awards were handed trophies by Danny Pike, of BBC Sussex, and actress Julie Graham. …
In these days of rapidly ageing populations, the emphasis has been on how to find and fund care for those who need it. But West Sussex County Council estimates there’s a whopping 89,000 people in the county who are caring for them as part of their unpaid, daily lives. It’s a tough role – and …
…the rare breeds at Lancing Estates And the peregrine falcons who have made the College their home It’s not a secret that Lancing College sits amid 500 acres of gorgeous chalky Downs countryside, much of it arable farmland owned by Lancing College Estates. It boasts glorious views of the sea to the south, into which …
By Michael Bristow. Published by Sandstone Press Youth rebellion during the 1960s came in many guises. In the United States, beatniks rode freight trains and occupied university campuses; in the UK, mods and rockers battled it out on the south coast’s promenades; and in France, young Parisians were in full revolt. In communist China there was …
