The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. During the First World War, the port of Newhaven was key to supplying the British Army in France and Belgium. Before the outbreak of the First World War, Newhaven was a key point in travel between Britain and Europe. Newhaven was the departure […]

The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. The creation and name of the south coast town of Peacehaven are heavily connected in the events of the First World War. The town was originally conceived as a ‘Garden City by the Sea,’ by its founder the businessman and entrepreneur, Charles Neville. […]

The following information is for teachers to utilise in planning classroom activities. Cooden Camp was a military training camp established in Bexhill at the start of the war. The camp was situated near Cooden Beach Golf Club on what had been farmland between Cooden Sea Road to the east, and Cooden Wood, to the west. […]