In My Family Tree. Bexhill-on Sea, Sussex. The German architect Erich Mendolsohn designed the town s showpiece, the De la Warr Pavilion, built in 1935. It houses a terrace bar, ballroom, theatre and concert hall at which international artists appear. Bexhill has a gently shelving beach of shingle, which give way to firm sand at low tide.
Bathing is safe.
Just east of the town, at Little Galley Hill, a submerged forest can be seen at low tide. This was part of the land bridge that linked Britain to the continent 10,000 years ago. The village is a small, quiet community of stone and brick cottages in the High Weald. Its landscape is dominated by the eccentric buildings and constructions of a local Member of Parliament known as Mad Jack Fuller, who died in 1834 and is buried beneath a pyramid which he had built in the churchyard in 1810. Legend asserts that Fuller sits inside the 60 pyramid, wearing a top hat and holding a bottle of claret.