Eastbourne features [37]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 3 May 2022

This functional bus shelter, on the corner of Whitley Road and Seaside, was built in the 1900s. It has oblong, on a brick plinth with weatherboarded walls, all under a hipped tile roof. The Eastbourne motor bus service, inaugurated in April 1903, was probably the world's first, and certainly Britain's first municipally run motor bus service. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1392212 Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort on the south coast of East Sussex, some 54 miles south of London and about 19 miles east of Brighton. Although there is evidence of settlement from the Stone Age onwards, Eastbourne remained an area of small rural settlements until the railway arrived in 1849. A resort, built "for gentlemen by gentlemen", was planned and the town's growth accelerated from a population of less than 4,000 in 1851 to nearly 35,000 by 1891. Tourism is a large and important part of the economy of the town.

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