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Secret Sussex Episodes

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    The King’s ring lives in Worthing

    Andrew Hearn's garage in Worthing is a treasure trove of Elvis memorabilia.

  2. When Mrs Sandilands went to court

    The village art project that forced Nancy to take on a bishop, MPs and bohemian artists.

  3. The truth about the Royal Pavilion tunnels

    A shortcut to the stables or a secret tunnel for a King to visit his mistress?

  4. The tragic tale of Pom Pom Whiting

    The goalkeeper, his wife and their unborn baby.

  5. The secret work of the Newhaven ferry

    How a passenger ferry service to Dieppe became a wartime hospital ship.

  6. The secret button to an island paradise

    Behind the barbed wire lies a beautiful walk around the only island off the Sussex coast.

  7. The pub, the ghost and the grave

    This pub garden has the most unusual feature.

  8. The pub where the WI began

    How a national institution was born at the Fox Inn pub at Singleton.

  9. The postcard that took 100 years to arrive

    How an emotional farewell message sent in 1916 from Newhaven shocked an entire family.

  10. The Peacehaven scandal

    The controversial national newspaper competition that gave Peacehaven its name.

  11. The night The Beatles came to Brighton

    1964 and too young to see The Beatles when they came to town.

  12. The man who played guitar with Bowie

    A revealing glimpse into the backstage world at the greatest rock concert on Earth.

  13. The hapless Sidlesham Snail

    The railway that went from Chichester to Selsey and back in one day – if you were lucky.

  14. The ghostly abandoned school in the woods

    The harder you look, the less likely you are to find it.

  15. Surprising Selsey

    The unlikely misfits who put the town on the map.

  16. Step inside the Ferring Pillbox

    It's dark and cramped, but it's out of the wind.

  17. Spirits in the aisles in Crawley

    Spooky goings on at a supermarket built on a graveyard.

  18. Smugglers, witches, priests and ghosts

    A secret tunnel, witches marks and ghostly goings on at The Six Bells in Billingshurst.

  19. Selsey's Mulberry legacy

    The underwater D-Day trail off the Sussex coast.

  20. Portslade Cookery School

    The school in Portslade where 14,000 men learnt how to cook before going to war in 1916.

  21. It's pretty - but what's it for?

    Revealing the past of a small round brick building next to a burger van on the A27.

  22. It happened on a rainy night

    The tragic tale of a young couple married for just four hours.

  23. Goring's Sistine Chapel

    The stunning reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in a little-known Goring church.

  24. Gasbags Ahoy!

    The 142 acres of land that was transformed into Polegate Airship Station.

  25. Finding England’s smallest church

    The tiny hidden church in the South Downs that you can only reach by foot.

  26. Britain’s deadliest avalanche

    The tragic tale of lives swept away by a crushing snow fall in Lewes.

  27. Brighton’s lost live music venues

    Punk music fanatic Chris Marshall takes a tour of Brighton’s lost live music venues.

  28. Brighton’s Daddy Long Legs

    The railway line that once travelled through the sea.

  29. Brighton's Grand Old Duke of York's

    Step backstage at one of the oldest cinemas in the world.

  30. Behind closed doors at Batemans

    The anguish, despair and haunting at Rudyard Kipling's house in Burwash.

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