Sussex Life Magazine - July 2020

In this issue

Phun City
Fifty years ago hippies descended on Worthing for a free music festival – two months before the first Glastonbury. Duncan Hall speaks to the organisers.

Sunday stroll
Climb Levin Down to soak up farreaching views of village and valley.

Gourmet life
Curry Leaf Café is taking Indian street food to homes all over Sussex with its new delivery service, plus local sugar-free tonic water and lots of food news..

LABOUR of LOVE

Lewes artist Keith A Pettit’s latest landmark project draws on the history and landscape of East Sussex

3 mins

10 years on...

After months of constrained freedom, we have never valued our outdoor spaces more. As we celebrate ten years of Britain’s youngest National Park, what impact has the designation made?

6 mins

The day the hippies came to Worthing

Local paper condemnation and a threatened council injunction couldn’t stop Worthing’s first underground rock festival

9 mins

Lavender's blue

Although sadly it won’t be staging its usual open week this year, Lordington Lavender near Chichester is welcoming a host of other visitors attracted by the flowers – from hares who shelter among the stems to red-listed bird species

6 mins

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

While we won’t get to enjoy Festival performances this year, Chichester Festival Theatre remains at the heart of our cultural community. Here we look back over some highlights of its 58-year history

2 mins

WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS

Brighton’s music scene attracts audiences from all over the country. Now the city’s small venues and promoters are fighting to survive

9 mins

ROUND OUR WAY Uckfield

Uckfield Exploring the attractive Wealden market town built around the River Uck

3 mins

Look to the skies

Faye Bridgwater credits a Facebook group for helping inspire an award-winning drawing of one of Brighton’s natural phenomena

3 mins

LIFE'S RICH TAPESTRY

For textile artist Polly Meynell and her theatre director husband, moving into their Barnham home was the culmination of a life’s dream

5 mins

My favourite Sussex

Novelist Karen Swan lives on the edge of Ashdown Forest. She is a Sunday Times best-selling author who has sold over a million books

2 mins

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Sussex Life Magazine Description:

Sussex Life is the magazine for enjoying life in Sussex. If you love the county and want somewhere to go, something to do, or just a good read, then this is the title for you. We have regular food and drink pages, items for your diary, interviews with local characters, articles about our towns and villages and much, much more. Every month there is something different to enjoy, all with a special Sussex flavour. Love Sussex? You’ll love Sussex Life.