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  • I was born in Falmer, and my father was the best smith in all Sussex, and because he had no other child he made me his bellows-boy, and in time, as you know, taught me his trade.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • I was born in Falmer, and my father was the best smith in all Sussex, and because he had no other child he made me his bellows-boy, and in time, as you know, taught me his trade.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • It would be fitting if the first game at Falmer next year was against Donny.

    Has a butcher, baker or candlestick maker ever become a football manager? John Ashdown 2010

  • John Smith's BookshopUniversity of Sussex, The Library, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QL, 01273 678333From the university that brought you Ian McEwan comes a bookshop brimming with the latest releases, as well as everything on its reading list.

    Independent bookshops in south-east England 2011

  • But this week he became loved by a new generation of people living in and around Brighton, when he granted them a new stadium for Brighton & Hove Albion in Falmer, on the outskirts of the city.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Kerron Cross 2005

  • Billy told me Falmer was a pussycat compared to John.

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • Harriers, so long hunted by Mr. Hugh Gorringe of Kingston-by-Sea, a very smart pack lately covering the ground between the Adur and Falmer, and now adding the Brookside Harriers 'country to their own domain, the two packs having been amalgamated.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • I was born in Falmer, and my father was the best smith in all Sussex, and because he had no other child he made me his bellows-boy, and in time, as you know, taught me his trade.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • Brighton to Falmer, and had sat down in view of the station where he proposed to catch a train back to Brighton, and had seen the prisoner stop his motor-car close to the corner where the body had been found, and behave in a manner inexplicable except on the theory that he knew where the body lay.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • On his right lay the hollow where he had thrown the useless halves of his stick, on his left was the corner of the Falmer Park railings.

    The Blotting Book 1903

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