By Lyn Funnell I stepped off the coach on Deal Seafront, and into a different decade.…
Category: History
Redoubt Military Fortress, Eastbourne. By Harry Pope, RIP
Harry Pope realised he could write when he first went to school, and never stopped since.…
Thoughts for Thursday: A Poem Inspired by Some of the Scandals of Our Time
NO JUSTICE Crouched in darkness ‘neath the counter’s friendly face Who could know the turmoil…
Chiddingly Hotpot; an old Sussex Recipe
By Lyn Funnell This is a recipe from an old cookbook, Sussex Recipes, published in 1937.…
Memories from Malta – from an old and former Horsted Keynes resident The diversity of human palates at Easter!
I was reading through FOOD AND DRINK HISTORY Seren on Saturdays – Cheesecake – food…
Seren on Saturdays A short History of the Chocolate Eclair
By Seren Charrington Hollins A good chocolate eclair is nothing short of spectacular and is something…
Memories from Malta from an old and former Horsted Keynes resident The pageant and solemnity of the Easter period – I used to miss it
By Albert Fenech It’s Holy Week and this Sunday is Easter Sunday. There is divergence in…
Seaside Eastbourne and the Wartime Evacuees.
by Harry Pope In the Autumn of 1939 the South coast of England was to be…
Rudyard Kipling’s Sussex Country Home, Bateman’s.
By Lyn Funnell Rudyard Kipling and his family lived in Bateman’s in Burwash, which is owned…
Seren on Saturdays. Cheesecake – food of the Gods
By Seren Charrington Hollins Around the world cheesecake is championed as a delicious and indulgent treat…