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| | Eastbourne History |
 | | Visitors to Eastbourne would hardly suspect that beneath their feet lie the remains of a more ancient Eastbourne, trod by the Romans, exploited by the Celts and farmed by Bronze Age man more than 5,000 years ago. |
 | | Modern Eastbourne owes much of its development to the fact that not only had the area retained much of its open countryside - unlike its neighbour, Brighton, or to a lesser degree, Hastings - but that there were two major landowning families, namely the Gilberts and the Cavendishes. |
 | | At first many children from London were sent into Eastbourne to escape the bombing, but when France fell in 1940 the threat of invasion caused these children to be moved to Wales and the Midlands, and many Eastbourne children and their mothers went with them (including Pauline Mowbray and her Mum). |
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