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[Sussex] What should Sussaxons be proud of?



DNB_Seagull

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Apr 27, 2014
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I started 'What should English people be proud of?' earlier today and a few things in there including 'stoolball' are from Sussex. So thought Sussex deserves a 2nd thread. :clap2:

It's a very affluent cultural place with a reputation for tolerance would be my starting point tbh. Lewes bonfire! Then there's our regional football team BHAFC of course!
 








Eeyore

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Wouldn't Lewes Bonfire be regarded as a symbol of intolerance by some ?
 






Screaming J

Screaming J

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Jul 13, 2004
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I'm sure I read somewhere that it was the last part of England to convert to Christianity from ye olde pagan beliefs. Shame we couldn't have held out for longer!
 




vegster

vegster

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We don't like Frenchies.
 




Sussaxon

Sussaxon

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Banoffee Pie, The invention of Television, the birthplace of British motor racing and statistically the sunniest county in the UK. :D

PS... 1 Week till Sussex Day- 16th June!!! Get those martlets flying!!!!!!
 


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Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Sussaxon said:
The invention of Television
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Where does this come from? Television had many inventors but only one of them (a minor one) was British, John Logie Baird. He was from Helensburgh in Scotland and demonstrated his version of a television in London.

Are you thinking of cinema? William Friese-Green worked in Brighton - although his claim to be inventor of cinematography is almost as spurious as Baird's claim to be TV's progenitor
 


JetsetJimbo

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Screaming J said:
I'm sure I read somewhere that it was the last part of England to convert to Christianity from ye olde pagan beliefs. Shame we couldn't have held out for longer!
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I'm fairly sure that was actually the Isle of Wight, though you may be right if you're talking about mainland England.
 




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That we were once an independent kingdom with our own monarchy, army and (I presume) currency.

I guess the king had a capital "city", anyone know where it was?
 












Wellesley

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Bulldog said:
That we were once an independent kingdom with our own monarchy, army and (I presume) currency.

I guess the king had a capital "city", anyone know where it was?
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Whitehawk.
 


WATFORD zero

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Stoolball, Trugs and Twittens

And if the Inuit think they have a lot of words for Snow, here are some sussex words for Mud

Clodgy - muddy and wet, like a field path after heavy rain
Gawm - especially sticky, foul-smelling mud
Gubber - black mud of rotting organic matter
Ike - a mess or area of mud
Pug - a kind of loam, particularly the sticky yellow Wealden clay
Slab - the thickest mud
Sleech - mud or river sediment used for manure
Slob - thick mud
Slough - a muddy hole
Slub - thick mud
Slurry - diluted mud, saturated with so much water that it cannot drain
Smeery - wet and sticky surface mud
Stoach - to trample ground, like cattle; also the silty mud at Rye harbour
Stodge - thick puddingy mud
Stug - watery mud
Swank - a bog
 
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Sweeney Todd

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Beaches that have the largest grains of sand in the world…
 


Baldseagull

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I think we have more piers than any other County, but have to put East and West back together for that.
 


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