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A little help please what is Sussex famous for as a theme for a Jamoree.



Feb 23, 2009
22,840
Brighton factually.....
Can people help please.

I have a work colleague who is taking the West Sussex sea scout explorers to Japan for a world wide jamboree with Scouts etc from all round the world and they have to have a theme. Obviously East Sussex can use 1066 and the Norman invasion however he is struggling to come up with a theme for West Sussex other than Saxons.

Any ideas please ?

Famous things that occurred here or people etc, The internet is not throwing up a lot in all fairness.

Thank you
 


brakespear

Doctor Worm
Feb 24, 2009
12,326
Sleeping on the roof
A swift look suggests Shelley, HG Wells and Lord Alfred Douglas :thumbsup:

Also Suede and The Cure.
 




tinycowboy

Well-known member
Aug 9, 2008
4,002
Canterbury
1066 is the obvious one.
The first television images - Hastings.
Tom Paine.
The Downs/the seaside.
Rudyard Kipling maybe?
The trug (if you're desperate!)
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,521
Fracking.
 






Nibble

New member
Jan 3, 2007
19,238
Romans
Battles with Celts during the Bronze age
Medical pioneers
Red Caps
1066
Drug use
 


skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
1066 is the obvious one.
The first television images - Hastings.
Tom Paine.
The Downs/the seaside.
Rudyard Kipling maybe?
The trug (if you're desperate!)


You probably need to acquaint yourself with the compass a bit more Mr tiny.
 






Couldn't Be Hyypia

We've come a long long way together
NSC Patreon
Nov 12, 2006
15,899
Near Dorchester, Dorset
I'd put Eric Gill forward as the inventor of one of the most significant typefaces in the world (Gill Sans). However, I think he rather liked the company of younger people (along with animals it seems) so may not be right for a Scout jamboree!
 


Bognor Bystander

Looking for a new job
Oct 7, 2010
842
Bognor Regis
King Canute allegedly tried to stop the sea at Bosham and his daughter is buried in Bosham Church ...
 






Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,324
Uffern
King Canute allegedly tried to stop the sea at Bosham and his daughter is buried in Bosham Church ...

That's the obvious one - although the story is that he showed that he couldn't stop the sea.

The other one, I mentioned this the other day, is that Jerusalem (the words at least) was written in Felpham
 


dougdeep

New member
May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
1066 is the obvious one.
The first television images - Hastings.
Tom Paine.
The Downs/the seaside.
Rudyard Kipling maybe?
The trug (if you're desperate!)

All East Sussex.
 




dougdeep

New member
May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
Stoolball? Oh no that was East Sussex too.
 


Danny-Boy

Banned
Apr 21, 2009
5,579
The Coast
I'd put Eric Gill forward as the inventor of one of the most significant typefaces in the world (Gill Sans). However, I think he rather liked the company of younger people (along with animals it seems) so may not be right for a Scout jamboree!

Didn't he kep it in the family though?
 













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