Thanks to a generous benefactor, a couple of years ago Seaford Museum commissioned an old ship’s figurehead to be restored. Richard Hunter of Yorkshire, a renowned authority on figureheads, expertly restored and repainted an old figurehead (nicknamed Phoebe) to its former glory. Whilst in Seaford, Richard asked me to help trace another local figurehead, that of…
Month: December 2016
How Christmas Dinner was invented in Sussex!
Christmas is a time for celebration and what better way to celebrate than with food!? We all look forward to a succulent turkey with all the trimmings for lunch, although as a youngster I usually had too much chocolate and sweets throughout the morning to appreciate my mums cooking. In the past Christmas was a…
The Sussex Doctor who discovered Dyslexia
About 7,000 miles away from Seaford in the centre of the Argentinean city of Buenos Aires is a clinic specialising in helping children with dyslexia. Amazingly, the W. Pringle Morgan Institute is named after a Sussex doctor. Morgan is one of the unsung heroes of our county and, apart from a brass plaque in the…
The Bow Street Runners and the Sussex Shipwreck
The origins of our Police are interesting. Although most people have heard of the Bow Street Runners, they were not like the police of today and surprisingly they operated not only in London, but across the country, often in Sussex. The Middlesex Justices Act 1792 saw the creation of seven offices in the capital, each…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 