Marbles Match and Easter Bonnet Parade, Abbey Green, Battle, Sussex

April 3 2015

Easter comes early this year and to the east of the Kent / Sussex border they celebrate a game that is 3,000 years old.

The game of marbles was played over 3000 years ago in Egypt. Clay marbles having been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians. The game is still alive and kicking in a number of Sussex towns. Continue reading Marbles Match and Easter Bonnet Parade, Abbey Green, Battle, Sussex

Jimper’s Book Selling Like Hot Cakes

 

They are used to selling ‘hot cakes’ at Jempson’s Superstore, in fact 71,000 hot cross buns have been cooked and sold in the weeks up to Easter, but Jimper’s book “Jimper’s Journal” from his diaries of the fifties and sixties was going almost as fast. Continue reading Jimper’s Book Selling Like Hot Cakes