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…
Tag: life
Bessie’s Christmas
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,…
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 