There was a large audience at the Union Church Hall on Wednesday, when the Rev. C. E. Darwent delivered an exceptionally interesting and attractive lecture on Sussex to members of the Union Church Literary and Social Guild.
Mr. Darwent said he made no apologies for showing another 100 coloured slides of Sussex. It was a very large county, seventy-six miles long east to west: even Texas vas only 750 miles long. There was no limit to the beauties and interest of that old country. No man could see everything in it of interest if he lived' a hundred years: it wi beauty and history all compact woods and downs and churches, ancient ports and lovely _villages were steeped in the stirring history of 8,000 years since the Romans and Saxons landed at the seaport of Andei which hed become Pevensey when the Conqueror landed there. He said he had spent most. of his holiday of two months in Sussex. The slides to be shown were all of places omitted in his lecture of 1912 on Sussex. The only exception was Bognor, his headquarters. The lecturer then showed a variety of pictures of those " yellow, yellow sands"—children wading, old boatmen, bandsman of the Queen's Bay and 1th Hussars, ibenerant cands-traders and musicians and gypsies. Then followed village scenes, a cottage garden at Bersted, one full of grandiflora, another with jessmine and double sweet peas: and at Aldwick a lavender garden, the flowers in full bloom: at Felpham a flock of Southdowns in the saltings by the sea: and at Burpham, a flock on the downs and the shepherd with his. bob-tailed Sussex sheep-dog.
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