Eastbourne
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Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex.
LGBT history
Ted Tinling was born in Eastbourne in 1910.
An Austrian countess named Sataray, the daughter of an Hungarian nobleman, who dressed like a man and kept a number of dachshunds, lived in 6 South Cliff Avenue, Eastbourne in the 1910s and was suspected of being a lesbian [1]. The Countess later lived with a lady friend at 9 Arundel Road [2].
There was an Eastbourne CHE group in the 1970s.
Dr John Bodkin Adams practiced as a GP in Eastbourne, and is thought to have murdered many of his patients.
Bourne Out is a local LGBT forum.[3]
Eastbourne Rainbow is a group for the over-50s.[4]
References
- ↑ pp 33-34 Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (Persephone Books: London) (2016). After the Countess reported a burglar in her porch, a tragic murder of a police inspector, who attended the scene, occurred at the Countess's address in 1912 (Eastbourne Chronicle 12 October 1912)
- ↑ Eastbourne Chronicle 1 March 1930 carries a report on the life of the Countess
- ↑ http://bourneout.org.uk/
- ↑ http://www.eastbournerainbow.co.uk/
