Eastbourne
From LGBT Archive
Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex.
LGBT history
Ted Tinling was born in Eastbourne in 1910.
An Austrian countess named Sataray 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].
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.[2]
Eastbourne Rainbow is a group for the over-50s.[3]
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)
- ↑ http://bourneout.org.uk/
- ↑ http://www.eastbournerainbow.co.uk/
