Eastbourne’s mayor Mary Pooley officially opened the new Community Gym based at the Sovereign Centre swimming pool complex today.
It’s aimed at both people undergoing rehabilitation (having been referred by a doctor) and children; offering easy-to-use equipment for those over the age of eight.
For more info call 01323 738822
We like living on the marina to enjoy all of the good things ‘Mother Nature’ has to offer.
Here are 4 ways to help her by reducing your own Carbon Footprint by thinking about the things you do that involve producing the harmful carbon dioxide through burning fossil fuels.
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Eastbourne’s leading PADI scuba diving club, Planet Divers, were celebrating yesterday at the Annual Achievers Awards, run by the Eastbourne Herald newspaper.
The club’s efforts over the past four years were rewarded by winning the newly created ‘Environment’ award for helping to clear up one of their dive sites, in and around North Harbour of Sovereign Marina.
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Claire Pooley, Planet Divers’ Project Aware Team Leader with the award photo: Kiernan Pooley |
Read on for more photos of the event, and also last year’s clean-up…
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Eastbourne, in common with many expanding towns across the UK, has a number of housing developments.
The bulk of these developments are in the marina area and developers compete with one another to sell the merits of their individual schemes.
There are a number of property sub-sectors within Sovereign Harbour including:
Over the coming months I will be posting information about each of these identifying which areas of the marina are most suitable for each sub-sector and the pros and cons of each.
So please either bookmark this blog or sign-up for the rss feed (see the ’syndicate’ options to the right) to ensure you don’t miss my local insights.
Further to the recent review of the Eastbourne Fun Run (Tired Hands Support Tired Feet), I can exclusively reveal some video footage of Elvis, running past the SHRA event at Marj’s to support the runners.
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SHRA Ctte Members met at Marj’s on the South Harbour Promenade to Support the energetic Fun Runners, during Eastbourne’s annual Half Marathon yesterday.
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SHRA Committee Members, WAGS, and Neighbours Help Motivate the Fun Runners… |
Congratulations to all of the fun runners who took part and raised much needed funds for charity.
Read on to reveal the full story, including photo exclusive of a rare Antipodean sighting…
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Meeting a group of new people is always a slightly nervous occasion and Wed 21st Feb was no exception for me.
It is said that “you only get out of something what you are prepared to put in”, so I put on some warm clothes and gritted my teeth, as I braved the cold train journey from Eastbourne to the big city lights of London, and specifically the Holland Club within the campus of Imperial College, near to the South Kensington tube station on the District and Circle line.
It’s here, on the first Wednesday of every month, that some of the World’s best underwater photographers meet to share ideas, anecdotes, and socialise in a well-suited subterranean meeting room…
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Wow!
This has been way too long coming, but at least I’ve achieved one of my New Year’s resolutions (to get a Blog up and running) – but I won’t say which year ;-)
I’ve always loved Eastbourne, Natural History, and have been scuba diving for over six years so it made sense trying to bring all that together in my Blog.
For the last seven years, I’ve lived in Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour development in the South Harbour, near to the locks and looking out over the English Channel. This area is still too much of a building site for my liking, but the amount of wildlife, especially birds, has grown in both volume and variety.
The same is true of life in the marina itself. I belong to Planet Divers scuba club which has used the North Marina as a regular dive site for a number of years, and whilst the visibility in there is often poor, the marine life, from crabs, eels, fish, and jellyfish, has flourished.
I hope you enjoy the posts and thoughts here, please feel free to comment, and to contact me if you have photos or stories of interest…
Wishing you health, wealth and happiness in everything you do,
Jon
The following article first appeared in Issue 11 of Waterlines (April 2006) and describes the route that Harbour resident Ray Battersby has taken to chase Southern Water to refund the charges they are making for a service they aren’t providing – rainwater drainage.
Read on to discover what he recommends you do to get your money back.
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This post isn’t intended to put you off buying a property in Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour developments, but as the saying goes ignorance is no excuse and I always think it’s better to have all the facts up front, rather than a nasty surprise later.
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