That was a brilliant first episode in the Search for Sussex. Well made and presented. I love the idea of going with a one-hundred-year-old book and searching for that pre-digital world where the pace was measured by the gait of a horse.
Fantastic video! As a child I remember going to the Bridge Tavern (Not sure of the name), and playing in the garden in the back, while the adults drank and chatted. There used to be a boat race arounf there, with the boats made out of bathtubs and such. I was lucky enough to visit Bramber a few years ago with my sister, and our daughters (Live in the US now).
My son, it was the Bridge INN, we used to be friends with couple that managed it, Your Grandfather and I used to go there on a Friday night for a pint or two, I also worked behind the bar a few times to help them out. There was a bathtub race annually, never participated in that, I remember the Potters museum as a child and the stuffed animals and birds dressed and put it various scenes, one was the death of poor cock robin .
I remember that bridge & the river going thriugh the fields. I remember an old flint covered building near there. My Nan used to live in Beeding in the 1960s, in a bungalow that I remember for having a very shaky dining room floor that I delighted as a toddler to stomp my little feet on a bit to make everything in the sideboard rattle. Thankyou for showing us.
Thank you, Richard, for a great and well made video. Sussex is one of my favourite counties of Britain. The valley walk from Alfriston to the coast, with a view on the Sven Sisters, was a genuine treat. It's funny that I discover your exploring of Sussex years after you started them. I'll watch all of them now. 👍👋👩🌾
This is a wonderful first episode Richard. Really well done! It never ceases to amaze me the history that you have in the UK... I love that you are going on your search and bringing us along with you so we can all appreciate it. Thank you for sharing...take really good care, stay safe!
Well done Richard! I think this new series will prove quite fascinating to compare your's to Cooke's journey. As well, to compare the differences of these locales from over 100 yrs time. You mentioned that Arthur Cooke's book had pictures, I'd love to see some of those old photos to compare the then w/ the now as you go village to village!
Btw...you know I especially love anything that has to do w/ Bramber Castle (Grandpa Braose's old place!😂 And how & why I originally found you!)!!! I was glad to see more of the village of Bramber in tonight's vid - such a beautiful little village! I hope a local does take you up on showing you around more (after the lockdown is over of course), especially that might be able to delve deeper into the history of the town!
Richard, the view of the windmill almost certainly refers to the old post mill which used to stand above Upper Beeding and would have been clearly visible from Bramber.
Richard, if I may address you informally, I would think "Arthur" would be pleased that you are breathing new life into his book by walking his path through Sussex in this way. Well done! I'm looking forward to your next walk about. Cheers! Stephen
It seems strange thinking of Steyning as being a seaport and waves lapping again the castle walls at Bramber. Compared to pre-2020 lockdown the traffic through both villages was normally much higher than in your lovely film. It’s great that Bramber Castle is still open to the public and that admission is free of charge. There are still some excellent pubs in Bramber that sell delicious Sussex beers, wine and food 😋🏴😋
The Sussex is a very beautiful and romantic region of England very interesting and beautiful with a deep nature soul and some tiny villages with blooming flowers, this is a region that a really want to explore more deeply. And thanks you Bald Explorer for those great videos about this part of England.
I remember the House of Pipes too, used to go there in the 1970’s. I have a vague memory that Potter’s museum of Curiosities was in the same building but not certain. Potter’s always held a morbid fascination for me with stuffed squirrels playing cricket, quite bizarre.
The pipe museum was to the right of the Indian restaurant , it was originally Potters Museum which housed stuffed animals. The building is still here and the garden is full of sculptures. Lovely to see you exploring my home village, there is lots more to see.
Always a pleasure , getting quite hooked to Richard’s mini documentary’s . Dare I say why hasn’t national TV snapped up these programmes ? A perfect little show for a Friday evening on BBC 2 !!
Fascinating snapshot of Bramber & Beeding. I must pay a visit soon! Interestingly, that long straight road through Bramber and over the bridge is one of many places Charles II was nearly captured during the Royal Escape. Boldly riding past a group of soldiers, shortly after they heard the horses suddenly come galloping towards them. Amazingly they stayed calm, carrying on sedately - and the soldiers went thundering past, intent on some other urgent matter. They proceeded over the Downs to Brighton then, always only one step ahead of the searching soldiers, finally escaped across to France.
A great start to the series, and a really good choice of book for the project! I’ve now managed to find a copy myself and look forward to following you and Arthur on your travels. Thank you.
Thanks foe another interesting video Richard, showing an area of the country I confess to knowing little about. Is Arthur Stanley Cooke going to be your George Btadshaw, as you traverse the Sussex countryside in this series of videos?!
Only just seen this! The windmill in question is Upper Beeding Windmill. His illustration on page 20 of the book is entitled 'Beeding from Bramber in 1891' this is interesting as it means the mill may have been standing a tad longer than had been recorded elsewhere. Mill historian Herbert Simmons in his notes on Sussex windmills says: "Upper Beeding MIll is believed to have ceased milling about 1870, she then stood derelict until 1876, with all four sweeps intact, before two of them were removed just prior to when the mill blew down during a gale c1888. An old man living at Small Dole, where he came to live about 1892, says he remembers one of his first jobs there was to help remove most of the timbers to Horton Farm. The mill wreckage had been laying where it fell for about 2 or 3 years. The site was still discernable in the 1930s with a few remnants of millstone and the foundations of millers cottage, along with an old well adjoining".
Another cracking Video Richard. I have been there a few times. Will go back again soon. This is Barry and Faeden by the way we have made a joint channel for our adventures.
You mention the old pipe museum that you couldn't find. I seem to remember that before it featured pipes it was an exhibition of stuffed cats, rabbits, squirrels and the like. The taxidermied creatures were posed in the manner of people living everyday lives: sitting at the dining table, at school, at work, at leisure and so on. Rather creepy really and it fell out of favour to become the pipe museum.
Very much enjoyed this. Surprised and delighted to see you are using Cooke's book; mine seems to be a 1923 edition (MCMXXIII). I bought it for $30 at a book fair here in Ottawa in 1994, and I have never come across another copy.
Must admit i'm surprised "Arthur" didn't mention the railway,as i would have thought he would have traveled there by train?Bramber had a station until the Beeching cuts,as did Steyning.
Dear Bald explorer, You have been, here there and everywhere whilst in lockdown, and yes the Sussex countryside is a wonder too be hold and as I do indeed live here, I have two poignant questions ?
Or put traffic lights on the bridge to deter through traffic. That way residents can come in from both ways and the bus services can function as normal.
Hello. The pipe museum mentioned closed after the owner moved to the west country. The museum had been broken into and a lot of the valuable pipes were taken. This I have been told is what prompted the owners move. Very sad
Sleeping policemen should be installed on that bridge in Upper Beeding to slow the traffic down. The cars I saw in your video are still hurtling across. As for buses and lorries using it...it seems quite mad.
1st please before you babble on do some in-depth research 2nd why are you gallivanting the sussex landscape in lockdown? Exercise is not talking into a selfie stick! But you’re a nice chap no offence
@@KAM-666 something wrong (or outside the guidelines) about filming while you take your daily exercise?... or perhaps you're privileged to know something the cabinet didn't or doesn't? No offence of course...
That was a brilliant first episode in the Search for Sussex. Well made and presented. I love the idea of going with a one-hundred-year-old book and searching for that pre-digital world where the pace was measured by the gait of a horse.
Thanks Philip - I will do my best.
What a superb start to your new mini-series. Well done indeed.
Many thanks!
Lovely to see the overgrown graveyard, and the old houses. A very enjoyable video.
So nice of you
Fantastic video! As a child I remember going to the Bridge Tavern (Not sure of the name), and playing in the garden in the back, while the adults drank and chatted. There used to be a boat race arounf there, with the boats made out of bathtubs and such. I was lucky enough to visit Bramber a few years ago with my sister, and our daughters (Live in the US now).
My son, it was the Bridge INN, we used to be friends with couple that managed it, Your Grandfather and I used to go there on a Friday night for a pint or two, I also worked behind the bar a few times to help them out. There was a
bathtub race annually, never participated in that, I remember the Potters museum as a child and the stuffed animals and birds dressed and put it various scenes, one was the death of poor cock robin .
Thanks Dad. Love to hear about those days.
I remember that bridge & the river going thriugh the fields. I remember an old flint covered building near there. My Nan used to live in Beeding in the 1960s, in a bungalow that I remember for having a very shaky dining room floor that I delighted as a toddler to stomp my little feet on a bit to make everything in the sideboard rattle. Thankyou for showing us.
What lovely memories. Thanks for watching.
Thank you, Richard, for a great and well made video. Sussex is one of my favourite counties of Britain. The valley walk from Alfriston to the coast, with a view on the Sven Sisters, was a genuine treat.
It's funny that I discover your exploring of Sussex years after you started them. I'll watch all of them now. 👍👋👩🌾
Brilliant start to this series Richard, superbly shot and edited. Looking forward to the rest of this series. Bravo that man.
Thanks so much - it a challenge.
This is a wonderful first episode Richard. Really well done! It never ceases to amaze me the history that you have in the UK... I love that you are going on your search and bringing us along with you so we can all appreciate it. Thank you for sharing...take really good care, stay safe!
Glad you enjoyed it
Oh my, a very well produced video and very enjoyable. I look forward to the next one...
Thank you kindly!
Well done Richard! I think this new series will prove quite fascinating to compare your's to Cooke's journey. As well, to compare the differences of these locales from over 100 yrs time. You mentioned that Arthur Cooke's book had pictures, I'd love to see some of those old photos to compare the then w/ the now as you go village to village!
Btw...you know I especially love anything that has to do w/ Bramber Castle (Grandpa Braose's old place!😂 And how & why I originally found you!)!!! I was glad to see more of the village of Bramber in tonight's vid - such a beautiful little village! I hope a local does take you up on showing you around more (after the lockdown is over of course), especially that might be able to delve deeper into the history of the town!
I meant to cut in the sketches, but I was in a mad rush because of other commitments yesterday.
What a great start to your new project. I look forward to the next instalment.
Richard, the view of the windmill almost certainly refers to the old post mill which used to stand above Upper Beeding and would have been clearly visible from Bramber.
Oh how interesting.
Richard, if I may address you informally, I would think "Arthur" would be pleased that you are breathing new life into his book by walking his path through Sussex in this way. Well done! I'm looking forward to your next walk about. Cheers! Stephen
Thanks, Stephen. I do hope he enjoys my travels and isn't too aghast at the changes he is likely to find.
Thank you for this video Richard. I am looking forward to seeing this series.
I hope I can keep on top of it. :)
Great start to the new series Richard, I’m really going to enjoy the journey. 👍👍👍👍👍
Glad to hear it
It seems strange thinking of Steyning as being a seaport and waves lapping again the castle walls at Bramber. Compared to pre-2020 lockdown the traffic through both villages was normally much higher than in your lovely film. It’s great that Bramber Castle is still open to the public and that admission is free of charge. There are still some excellent pubs in Bramber that sell delicious Sussex beers, wine and food 😋🏴😋
It was exceptionally quiet yesterday when filming there.
Happy memories of my partner at the time, great grandson's christening at that church. Lovely time.
Your vids are so relaxing Richard :)
You should be a famous presenter!
He IS a famous presenter...for some of us!
I completely agree!!!
Too kind. :)
The Sussex is a very beautiful and romantic region of England very interesting and beautiful with a deep nature soul and some tiny villages with blooming flowers, this is a region that a really want to explore more deeply.
And thanks you Bald Explorer for those great videos about this part of England.
Thank you very much. I am enjoying it go far.
Brilliant Richard. Never knew that about the things you mentioned here. Thank you
Really enjoyed that Richard, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice to see my village in the video! I live in Beeding such a beautiful place to live
A lovely place to live.
I remember the House of Pipes too, used to go there in the 1970’s. I have a vague memory that Potter’s museum of Curiosities was in the same building but not certain. Potter’s always held a morbid fascination for me with stuffed squirrels playing cricket, quite bizarre.
I remember Potters too I was only telling my husband about it the other day!!!! Who killed cock robin?
I found the place fascinating in its day.
I also used to like going to the Booth Museum of Natural History on Dyke Road, Brighton. It’s still going, I think.
Bravo Bald Explorer.....my new favorite.
Glad you enjoyed it.
The pipe museum was to the right of the Indian restaurant , it was originally Potters Museum which housed stuffed animals. The building is still here and the garden is full of sculptures. Lovely to see you exploring my home village, there is lots more to see.
I did see the sculptures - fascinating.
I love Bramber and its surroundings, beautiful filming. And of course that was one of the first Bald Explorer meetups.
Always a pleasure , getting quite hooked to Richard’s mini documentary’s . Dare I say why hasn’t national TV snapped up these programmes ? A perfect little show for a Friday evening on BBC 2 !!
Thank you.
Glorious video, Richard. Very pretty villages and loved your highly informative commentary.
I wouldn't say 'highly informative my self', I manage to bluff my way through. :)
@@RichardVobes well I learnt a lot :-)
Fascinating snapshot of Bramber & Beeding. I must pay a visit soon!
Interestingly, that long straight road through Bramber and over the bridge is one of many places Charles II was nearly captured during the Royal Escape. Boldly riding past a group of soldiers, shortly after they heard the horses suddenly come galloping towards them. Amazingly they stayed calm, carrying on sedately - and the soldiers went thundering past, intent on some other urgent matter.
They proceeded over the Downs to Brighton then, always only one step ahead of the searching soldiers, finally escaped across to France.
Great job again Richard. I love it when you go to all the places I have been. You are" Lucky" to have that old book.
Thanks 👍 The book will be tatty by the time I finish. :)
A great start to the series, and a really good choice of book for the project! I’ve now managed to find a copy myself and look forward to following you and Arthur on your travels. Thank you.
Wonderful! It will be fun if people also follow. Will make the comments an even more joy to read!
Thanks Richard- I am going to enjoy this little series of jaunts.
Glad to hear it! Thanks very much.
Thanks foe another interesting video Richard, showing an area of the country I confess to knowing little about. Is Arthur Stanley Cooke going to be your George Btadshaw, as you traverse the Sussex countryside in this series of videos?!
Yes indeed.
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
Nice video, it's nice to look back and read from a 100 years ago perspective. Nice one 👍
Really well filmed, Richard. I’ve never been to Bramber - I will have to do something about that!
Great video Richard, thanks.
You must come back to the church when it's open Richard, loud love to see inside.
Yes, I do need to do that!
Only just seen this! The windmill in question is Upper Beeding Windmill. His illustration on page 20 of the book is entitled 'Beeding from Bramber in 1891' this is interesting as it means the mill may have been standing a tad longer than had been recorded elsewhere. Mill historian Herbert Simmons in his notes on Sussex windmills says: "Upper Beeding MIll is believed to have ceased milling about 1870, she then stood derelict until 1876, with all four sweeps intact, before two of them were removed just prior to when the mill blew down during a gale c1888. An old man living at Small Dole, where he came to live about 1892, says he remembers one of his first jobs there was to help remove most of the timbers to Horton Farm. The mill wreckage had been laying where it fell for about 2 or 3 years.
The site was still discernable in the 1930s with a few remnants of millstone and the foundations of millers cottage, along with an old well adjoining".
11000 subs ,well done Richie
Thank you very much
Beautiful vert beautiful.
Another cracking Video Richard. I have been there a few times. Will go back again soon.
This is Barry and Faeden by the way we have made a joint channel for our adventures.
Thanks Barry and Faeden!
You mention the old pipe museum that you couldn't find. I seem to remember that before it featured pipes it was an exhibition of stuffed cats, rabbits, squirrels and the like. The taxidermied creatures were posed in the manner of people living everyday lives: sitting at the dining table, at school, at work, at leisure and so on. Rather creepy really and it fell out of favour to become the pipe museum.
Wonderful!
Very much enjoyed this. Surprised and delighted to see you are using Cooke's book; mine seems to be a 1923 edition (MCMXXIII). I bought it for $30 at a book fair here in Ottawa in 1994, and I have never come across another copy.
I have two copies as it happens. :)
@@RichardVobes You could read in stereo!
Nice video Richard. I know I am a day late but having trouble keeping up.
Must admit i'm surprised "Arthur" didn't mention the railway,as i would have thought he would have traveled there by train?Bramber had a station until the Beeching cuts,as did Steyning.
I think in the introduction I saw mention that one could access the 'walks' by rail. I need to double check that.
My Great Uncle John Brown was junior porter there in 1916 age 14.....
Hi Richard like walk tral very interested nice read from book long way say church be open in July I hurd be good ther nice village
It is Very Good Place I will settle down here in peace.
The pipe museum you mentioned closed down quite some time ago. It had been burgled and the owner sold up not long after.
A shame
Great video. I think future episodes of these videos will be plagued by more and more cars now. I think the House of Pipes closed un the 80s.
Golly - I must have been young when I visited the pip museum. :)
Dear Bald explorer,
You have been, here there and everywhere whilst in lockdown, and yes the Sussex countryside is a wonder too be hold and as I do indeed live here, I have two poignant questions ?
What are you questions, pray?
Hey WSCC time you made Bramber high street one way and increased pavement width and installed a cycle track!
Or put traffic lights on the bridge to deter through traffic. That way residents can come in from both ways and the bus services can function as normal.
Like a walking version of Bradshaw's guide :-)
Ha - yes, could be!
Here from Chatabix!
Hello. The pipe museum mentioned closed after the owner moved to the west country. The museum had been broken into and a lot of the valuable pipes were taken. This I have been told is what prompted the owners move. Very sad
Yes, very sad.
You should go around Amberley castle
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This video makes me wish that time travel was possible.....but maybe in a way it is possible 🤔
Surely that wasn't Concorde passing over the houses at 6:47 :)
Did it sound loud?
William 1st Baron de Braose is my 20th Grt Grandfather. 😁
Sleeping policemen should be installed on that bridge in Upper Beeding to slow the traffic down. The cars I saw in your video are still hurtling across. As for buses and lorries using it...it seems quite mad.
🙂
1st please before you babble on do some in-depth research 2nd why are you gallivanting the sussex landscape in lockdown? Exercise is not talking into a selfie stick! But you’re a nice chap no offence
Living up to your name i see. Vobes is a national treasure.
Restrictions have been lifted
John Bennett ok since Wednesday ( yesterday) however look at the Umpteen vlogs previous!
sxemontague1 piddle, treasure! Where did you dig that up from? My point is quite simple “ don’t flaunt your travels to the masses during lockdown”
@@KAM-666 something wrong (or outside the guidelines) about filming while you take your daily exercise?... or perhaps you're privileged to know something the cabinet didn't or doesn't? No offence of course...