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Sussex Photography Exploring forgotten history, hidden oddities, and timeless landscapes — mostly on foot. Photography, videography, and storytelling from East Sussex and beyond.

Exploring the forgotten corners of East Sussex.
🎥 Reels of hidden history, oddities & ancient landmarks
📷 Moody UK landscapes & countryside walks
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07/09/2026

Friday evening on the South Downs, after the sun had finally dropped below the horizon, the sky kept getting better.

Looking south towards the Channel, the remaining cloud caught the last light and the colours deepened into intense reds and oranges across the western sky.

This was taken during a slow pan while walking back after sunset — one of those evenings where the best colour arrived just when you thought the show was over.

Friday evening on the South Downs, the day had been mostly dull and overcast, but while walking back towards the car I c...
06/09/2026

Friday evening on the South Downs, the day had been mostly dull and overcast, but while walking back towards the car I could see the weather beginning to change.

A high-pressure front was pushing in from the west, gradually clearing the cloud, and just before sunset the sun finally dropped beneath the remaining bank of cloud.

For a few minutes the whole western sky exploded into colour above Newhaven, with the last light catching the Downs in the foreground.

One of those evenings where it would have been very easy to head home too early.

05/09/2026

Percy Burton — the Hurricane pilot who appears to have rammed a German aircraft over Hailsham.

Flying Officer Percy Burton was just 23 years old when he was killed during the Battle of Britain.

On 27 September 1940, he pursued a German Messerschmitt one-ten for nearly forty miles across Sussex, often at very low level. Near Hailsham, his guns stopped firing.

Eyewitnesses believed Burton then deliberately rammed the German aircraft, bringing it down but fatally damaging his own Hurricane.

He crashed into an oak tree nearby.

More than 85 years later, that same tree still stands, with a memorial preserving the story of what happened here.

📍 Full story, photographs and map locations for all four Battle of Britain memorials featured in the film:
https://suxxesphoto.com/battle-of-britain-memorials-east-sussex/

Four young RAF pilots. Four small memorials hidden across the peaceful East Sussex landscape.Percy Burton — HailshamAged...
05/09/2026

Four young RAF pilots. Four small memorials hidden across the peaceful East Sussex landscape.

Percy Burton — Hailsham
Aged 23. After pursuing a German Messerschmitt at very low level, Burton appears to have deliberately rammed it when his guns stopped firing. His Hurricane crashed into an oak tree that still stands beside his memorial today.

James Meaker — Brightling
Aged 21. Meaker bailed out after his Hurricane was hit, but his parachute failed to open. His tiny roadside memorial beside the B2096 is incredibly easy to drive past without ever noticing it.

Reginald Rimmer — Burwash
Also just 21. Rimmer was shot down over the High Weald on the same day as Burton and Meaker. His granite memorial now overlooks the quiet countryside where his final flight ended.

Peter Guerin Crofts — Dallington
Aged 22. Crofts was shot down the following afternoon. A small roadside cross marks where he fell — the original cross was placed there by his mother.

Today these places could hardly feel further removed from war, yet each memorial connects the modern High Weald with the Battle of Britain fought above it.

📍 Full stories, photographs and map locations for all four memorials:
https://suxxesphoto.com/battle-of-britain-memorials-east-sussex/

03/09/2026

James Meaker — one of the easiest Battle of Britain memorials in East Sussex to miss.

Pilot Officer James Reginald Bryan Meaker was just 21 years old when he was killed on 27 September 1940.

Flying a Hurricane with 249 Squadron RAF, Meaker was hit while attacking a German bomber over Sussex. He managed to bale out, but his parachute failed to open.

Today, a tiny memorial beside the B2096 near Giffords Farm, Brightling marks where he fell.

The marker was not placed there until 1990, when aviation enthusiast Graham Alderson decided the site should not be forgotten.

It is a difficult memorial to visit — right beside a fast road, with nowhere safe to stop immediately nearby — and incredibly easy to drive straight past without ever knowing what happened there.

📍 Full story, photographs and the mapped locations of all four memorials:
https://suxxesphoto.com/battle-of-britain-memorials-east-sussex/

We’ve just reached 1,000 subscribers on the Sussex Photography YouTube channel!A big thank you to everyone who has watch...
03/09/2026

We’ve just reached 1,000 subscribers on the Sussex Photography YouTube channel!

A big thank you to everyone who has watched, subscribed, commented and shared the films. The recent Battle of Britain film gave the channel a huge push and finally got us across that first major milestone.

The next target is the big one: 4,000 public watch hours so the channel can qualify for full monetisation.

There are nearly 29,000 of you following this page, so if even a small proportion of you popped over and watched a few minutes of one of the longer films, it would make a genuine difference.

I put a lot of time into researching these Sussex stories, finding and photographing the locations, filming them and putting the finished films together — so if you’ve enjoyed the content here over the years, a few minutes of your time over on the channel would be a great way to help it grow.

👉 https://www.youtube.com/

Thank you — and there are plenty more Sussex films to come.

Reginald Rimmer — another young Battle of Britain pilot remembered in the quiet High Weald landscape.Flight Lieutenant R...
03/09/2026

Reginald Rimmer — another young Battle of Britain pilot remembered in the quiet High Weald landscape.

Flight Lieutenant Reginald Frank Rimmer was just 21 years old when he was killed on 27 September 1940.

Flying a Hurricane with 229 Squadron RAF, Rimmer was shot down during the fighting over East Sussex and crashed near Franchise Manor, Burwash.

Today the surrounding fields, woods and lanes could hardly feel further removed from an aerial battlefield. His granite memorial quietly marks the area where his final flight ended.

The present memorial was commissioned with the involvement of Rimmer’s family and the Battle of Britain Memorial Society after an earlier memorial had deteriorated — another example of how these stories survive because people make the effort to preserve them.

📍 I’ve mapped Rimmer’s memorial along with the other three Battle of Britain sites featured in my film:

https://suxxesphoto.com/battle-of-britain-memorials-east-sussex/

02/09/2026

A morning walk up Silver Hill, just outside Robertsbridge, led me to somewhere I wasn’t expecting — the abandoned Hodson’s Mill.

Beside the old mill is its former mill pond and surviving watercourse. After the recent heavy rain, water was once again running through the old brickwork, creating this small hidden cascade.

The whole site has been derelict for years, but plans are now progressing to regenerate the brownfield land, with the historic mill itself intended to be retained and converted.

One of those places I’d walked close to before without really knowing what was hidden there — and a reminder that even an ordinary morning walk can uncover a bit of forgotten local history.

A morning walk up Silver Hill in the High Weald, scouting out an area I haven’t explored properly before.From the top, t...
02/09/2026

A morning walk up Silver Hill in the High Weald, scouting out an area I haven’t explored properly before.

From the top, the view opens back across the countryside towards Robertsbridge, with huge late-summer cloudscapes rolling overhead and the fields still carrying the dry, faded tones of the season.

Not every walk is about coming home with a portfolio shot. Sometimes it’s simply about exploring, finding viewpoints and making a note of places worth returning to when the light and conditions come together.

01/09/2026

Peter Guerin Crofts was just 22 years old when he was killed over the High Weald during the Battle of Britain.

He had originally flown bombers before volunteering for Fighter Command. On 28 September 1940, his Hurricane was shot down over East Sussex. Crofts managed to leave the aircraft, but he did not survive.

He came down near Dallington, where a small roadside cross still marks the place today.

The original cross was placed there by his mother.

More than eighty years later, it remains a quiet reminder that this peaceful Sussex landscape was once part of the battlefield.

📍 Full story, photographs and map location:
https://suxxesphoto.com/battle-of-britain-memorials-east-sussex/

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