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Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...
...Sussex, England...
Once upon a Victorian time the Sheffield Park Branch Railway chuffed for 17 miles through the Sussex countryside, wandering through woodland, farms and bright fields of flowers, bearing children to school, farmers to market and housewives to the shops of Lewes and East Grinstead...
...most of the people of Sussex, the decision was no hardship. It was no hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she usually rode about in her own motorcar, wealthy Miss Bessemer had an odd affection for the Bluebell and Primrose. "We oughtn't," she told her neighbors, "to look at it as a wee strip of line, but as part of a whole principle." In England there is always an appropriate...
Seven years ago Lady Garbett bought a 160-acre farm in the green and gently rolling county of Sussex. For years she had had no settled home while her colo nial officer husband, Sir Colin Garbett, was busy with reclamation and irrigation projects in India and the Middle East. Now, separated from him and tired of wandering, she wanted to settle down in the Elizabethan manor house with her daughter Susan, and run the farm...