Parson Darby’s Hole

My wife and I often visit the parish church of  St Simon and St Jude Church at East Dean. My  son Toby was christened there and my great-grandparents are buried in the churchyard. The well-maintained graveyard also contains the tomb of Parson Jonathan Darby.  If you don’t know about Parson Darby, there is framed account of him inside…

Life at the edge – of the cliffs!

Edmund David Ransom was born in Hampshire in 1894. He was the son of William Ransom, an Irish-born coastguardsman and his wife Elizabeth from the Isle of Wight, herself, the daughter of a coastguardsman.  In 1898, Edmund (known as Eddie), his older brother William and parents moved to live in the Coastguard Cottages at Cuckmere…