Founder of R. A. Larkin & Bros. Ltd. When R. (Reg) A. Larkin first came to Bexhill in the early post-first world war period, he started sub-contracting in Knebworth Road. Conditions on the site were shocking and there was no organisation. He knew that during bad weather men were unemployed for many months at a […]
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Eddie was born in Aden in 1962. His association with Bexhill came through his father, grandparents, great grandparents, etc., who all lived in Sidley. He visited Sidley as a baby in 1962 and lived there for a year in 1963/64 until moving to Bangor, Northern Ireland. He spent about six months in Sidley in 1965
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Mayor of Bexhill 1918 – 1919. George Herbert Gray was for some 30 years, from the 1890s, the Agent for the De La Warr Estate and as such was much involved in the creation of Bexhill-on-Sea. He was responsible for laying out Dorset, Magdalen and Manor roads. He was the architect for St. George’s Presbyterian
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Christabel Goodwin was the youngest daughter of the artist Albert Goodwin (1845-1932) and his second wife, Alice. Albert Goodwin was born at Maidstone in Kent in 1845, one of a large family consisting of nine brothers and sisters. He studied under the guiding hands of Pre-Raphaelite artists Arthur Hughes and Ford Maddox Brown. His work
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Manager of the Kursaal. Born James Mackey in Dublin 18th June 1861, he adopted the surname of his grandfather Professor J.W. Glover, a composer and editor of Moore’s ‘Irish Melodies’. As a boy soprano he assisted his grandfather in his lectures on ‘Ancient Irish Music’ and also became deputy organist at Dublin Cathedral. His grandfather
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Leader of the Little Common Smugglers. Thomas Gillham moved to Little Common from Marden in Kent in the second half of the 18th century and married Elizabeth Smith in 1768 at St. Peter’s Church. Later generations of the Gillhams were builders by day and smugglers by night. George Gillham was leader of the Little Common
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Max Faulkner. born 1916. British Golfer. Max Faulkner was born in Bexhill on the 29th July 1916. His father, also a golfer, taught his son the game at the old Bexhill Golf Course which extended from De La Warr Road to the East Parade to Galley Hill and had been built on the De La
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August Neven Du Mont (born August Ludwig Mathaeus Neven du Mont) was a German painter, a Master of Foxhounds for East Sussex and an aristocrat. While he was very famous, successful, and popular during his lifetime, he went to being an, almost, unknown after his early death in 1909. He was the son of the
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Founder of the Beehive School. The Beehive School was founded by Miss Mariana Alice Browning, sister of Oscar Browning, a Cambridge don and a master at Eton. She started the school in Windsor in 1876 with eight boarding girls. It has been said that it was founded to accommodate the sisters of boys attending Eton.
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Arthur Sawyer Brook, ‘Squire’. 1811 – 1890. Land-Owning Farmer. “Arch-Tory, and sometime king of Bexhill”. The Brook family moved to Bexhill from West Hoathly in the 1750s. Arthur Sawyer Brook’s grandfather built Brook House, now renamed ‘The Grange’, located in the Old Town at the top of Sea Road. By 1755 he was farming some
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