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Lushington Road, EASTBOURNE, BN21 4LG

Carroll holidayed in Eastbourne 19 times, and this is the location of his first visit in 1877.

View from the Towner Art Gallery

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, was a regular visitor to Eastbourne. He spent 19 summer holidays in Eastbourne with his first visit being to 7, Lushington Road in 1877. This house, which is now a dental surgery, is shown in the photo. Among his many talents, Carroll was a keen photographer and one of the reasons he liked Eastbourne was because of the high levels of sunshine and good light during the summer. One of his photos of a girl on the beach at Eastbourne, was sold by Bonhoms in 2014 for £ 5,250. (I doubt if the photo would have qualified as a ‘geograph’ as it is a portrait photo taken at short distance and with no distinguishing features on the beach.) The high commercial value of the photo is mainly attributable to the celebrity status of the photographer. Through his annual visits to Eastbourne, Carroll became somewhat integrated into the town. As Charles Dodson, he had grown up in a high Anglican family and he was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England on 22 December 1861. When in Eastbourne, Carroll assisted with the Sunday School at Christ Church on Seaside and one occasion he preached from the pulpit. The church register shows that he rented a pew solely as a place to lay his top hat so that he could be sure that it would not be sat on accidently during the service.

Small back lane running parallel with South Street and linking Gildredge Road with Lushington Road.

This impressive pile on the corner of Terminus Road and Cornfield Road was built in 1931 for the National Provincial Bank, which merged with the Westminster Bank in 1970.

This range of ten houses and shops, odd numbers 101 to 119 South Street, was built circa 1900. Constructed of brick, faced in tile under tile roofs. The prominent, projected gables have some fine scalloped bargeboards. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1353125 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.