OUT IN THE FIELD: Latest on Eastbourne Pier sculpture and the Birthday shout out
Following on from the fiasco last week with the road sign in Gildredge Road directing people to the non-existent law courts and police station, news reaches me that a council map available to visitors at the Town Hall is also rather outdated. The Eastbourne Magistrates Court in Old Orchard Road is listed as number three on the map but of course that isn’t there anymore since it closed three years ago. In addition, all the main bus stops are still marked as being in Terminus Road and slap bang in the middle is the Arndale Centre which is of course now to be known as The Beacon. The good news however is that following the photograph which appeared of the aforementioned road sign in last week’s column, an email landed in my inbox this week from our friends at East Sussex County Council. “This is an old road sign which was relocated as part of the Eastbourne Town Centre Improvement Scheme,” read the message adding, “We’re grateful to the Herald for pointing out that the information on the sign is out of date and we will be arranging for it to be replaced.” As grateful, I am sure, as Churchill Homes is for pointing out that Burlington Lodge should have actually been named Allingham Lodge as was originally intended...
Finally, birthday greetings to three very special people this week: Greg Allchorn is blowing out 60 candles on his cake in Florence; Simon Vincent is 50-years-old and celebrating with a party and my lovely Darcie Ennis hits the big 18. Happy birthday!