I recently watched on YouTube ‘The flirtatious Regency balls of Pride and Prejudice: having a ball’, an amusing attempt to recreate Mr Bingley’s private ball at Netherfield in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Balls provided a rare way for young people to flirt, chat, and touch each other without close supervision while dancing. It made […]
Monthly Archives: May 2026
The former Anchor pub is almost hidden up an alley from East Ascent, and is now numbered 5a East Ascent. As with the other buildings on the road, it is almost certainly a James Burton designed house. Access is either from an alley leading up from East Ascent or from its continuation, going forward from […]
Much on begging and efforts to stamp it out in this post. Also a letter of complaint about the high cost of bathing machines. 1 April 1851, Sussex Advertiser: John Mooney, late of the 36th Regiment, was brought up for begging. Constable Barnes deposed that on the previous day he found prisoner in the back […]