Rudyard Kipling's house, Rottingdean 

   Rudyard Kipling- content  

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 

Anne of Cleves house in Lewes

Anne of Cleves: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources

 

 

 

 

The Devil's Dyke, South Downs. 

This deep channel in the hillside was said to have been dug by the Devil, who was trying to let the sea in and drown the local people.  Apparently he was angered as too many pagans had turned to Christianity.  He was hurrying to dig as far as the sea before daybreak but an old woman woke and saw what he was doing, so lit a candle and shrouded it in such a way that the Devil thought the sun was rising.  She also persuaded her cockerel to crow.  The Devil was convinced and abandoned his task. He is said to be buried along with his wife in two mounds on the hill, which is unusual because the Devil's wife rarely appears in British legend!

 

Chichester Cathedral - commissioned by William the Conqueror and dedicated in 1108.  Home to St. Richard of Chichester, sometimes described as the most English of saints.  Saint Richard de la Wyche, Friend of the Homeless, Bishop of Chichester, Sussex, England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beachy Head Lighthouse, near Eastbourne.

 

 

 

Fishbourne Roman Palace 

   

 

   Model, Jordan aka Katie Price born in Brighton    Katie Price Biography

 

Leo Sayer - singer - born in Shoreham

 

 

  Percy Bysshe Shelley  born in Horsham   

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Biography and Works

 

Richard Cobden, parliamentary reformer, 

born in Heyshott  Richard Cobden

 

Jack Cade, possibly born in Ireland but raised in Sussex, led a peasants' rebellion.  Cade Street, near Heathfield is a monument to him.   Cade Street Sussex - (Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion) - an English Village (UK)