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Pictures from Sussex Painted by Wilfrid Ball (1906).
Wilfrid Ball was born in 1853 and died in 1917.
Title: Sussex Painted
Published by: Adam & Charles Black
City: London
Date: 1906
Total items: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
“The Rape of Pevensey is of a curious shape. [Sussex is divided into six regions called Rapes] It narrows somewhat towards the middle and bulges out towards the top, or north end. This appears to be the contrary of what one would expect in a Sussex division, the important part of which always lay round the sea cost [to the south], but the cause of the shape thus assumed by the Rape is that in its northern part the iron industry had arisen long [...] government of the area and the collection of taxes from it a subject of ambition for the strongest of the neighbouring lords. [more...] [$]
Parts of Arundel Castle date as far back as A.D. 1068. Since 1138 the castle has for the most part belonged to the same family and their descendents; it has been the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk for the past 850 years or so, and open in the Summer to visitors for the past 200 years. As with most such [...] [more...] [$]
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