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  • Seeing as Polegate starts on the edge of Eastbourne - it helps the local LibDim PPC no end.

    Letter To The Express Newmania 2008

  • Over here in Eastbourne the local press have had the habit of referring to Baker as 'Polegate MP Norman etc .

    Letter To The Express Newmania 2008

  • ‘Mr. and Mrs. Polegate Thom,’ and one with ‘Mr. Polegate Thom’ thereon; she sniffed them, but they smelled severe.

    In Chancery 2004

  • Johannesburg in the boom of '97, and came to this country in 1901, settling on a small estate between Polegate and Eastbourne.

    The Man Who Knew Edgar Wallace 1903

  • He has been hanging round my place for a month, and lives at a cottage near Polegate.

    The Man Who Knew Edgar Wallace 1903

  • In the silver basket were new cards, two with 'Mr. and Mr.. Polegate Thom,' and one with 'Mr. Polegate Thom' thereon; she sniffed them, but they smelled severe.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Our favourite walks were away in the country through Willingdon to Polegate, over Beachy Head, returning through East Dean to Litlington and its famed tea-garden, or across

    The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895

  • HOW, trembling lest we should be discovered, we left Eastbourne by train two hours later -- Kouaga joining the train at Polegate so as to avoid notice -- how the Grand Vizier of Mo purchased our travelling necessities in London; how we travelled to Liverpool by the night mail, and how we embarked upon the steamer _Gambia_, it is unnecessary to relate in detail.

    The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895

  • He was a very agreeable, gentlemanly man, with such manners as you don't see in Littlington -- no, nor in Polegate neither, -- and very changed from the boy with the red cheeks as used to come past our house on his way to school when he was very little.

    In Homespun 1891

  • Keith Lane, 61, from Polegate, whose wife Maggie died at the cliff in 2004, said the Beachy Head Christmas Jumper ale was "in bad taste".

    BBC News - Home 2011

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