My grandmother, Bessie loved Christmas and I am lucky that I not only have her diaries but paintings, drawings and photographs too. She lived at 8, Annington Road, Eastbourne with her disabled husband Alex, who had lost a leg during the Great War. Christmas was often spent with Alex’s brother Reg and his wife Alice,…
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Flush-Brush-Flush
Amongst the archives of the Eastbourne Society, is large full length portrait of a smiling, alert, dark-suited woman with her hands crossed on her lap. She looks like a lawyer but this is Rannie, a long-serving Eastbourne headmistress. Elise Orange Randall was born on the island of Guernsey in 1884. She was the daughter of…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 