As you travel over the forest, just past King’s Standing you come across a fenced off area now owned by Sussex police. However, behind the barbed wire lies the story of how Britain managed to flood Germany with fake transmissions during World War II.
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Your History
The Biggest Aspidistra in Crowborough
March 9th, 2010The Burnt Oak Crash of 1916
February 11th, 2010Thankfully train crashes are few and far between in Crowborough but one such incident occurred on 5th April 1916.
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From Crowborough to Soho
January 9th, 2010
This is the story of a man born and raised in Crowborough who went on to become a leading journalist and politician in the swinging sixties, but he also had a shadier side to him and was well known on the london sex party scene and was also suspected of being a Russian spy. This is the story of Tom Driberg.
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Minnie and the King’s Christmas Speech
December 9th, 2009
Minnie Louise Haskins was born at Warmsley, Gloucestershire, on 12 May 1875. Minnie, the oldest sister of 3, was bought up as a Nonconformist in the Wesleyan tradition.
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Your History
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