Secret Sussex Episodes Episode guide
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The King’s ring lives in Worthing
Andrew Hearn's garage in Worthing is a treasure trove of Elvis memorabilia.
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When Mrs Sandilands went to court
The village art project that forced Nancy to take on a bishop, MPs and bohemian artists.
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What happened to Uncle Percy?
Roy and his grandson Tom follow a trail to discover the truth about their missing uncle.
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The truth about the Royal Pavilion tunnels
A shortcut to the stables or a secret tunnel for a King to visit his mistress?
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The tragic tale of Pom Pom Whiting
The goalkeeper, his wife and their unborn baby.
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The secret work of the Newhaven ferry
How a passenger ferry service to Dieppe became a wartime hospital ship.
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The secret button to an island paradise
Behind the barbed wire lies a beautiful walk around the only island off the Sussex coast.
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The pub, the ghost and the grave
This pub garden has the most unusual feature.
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The pub where the WI began
How a national institution was born at the Fox Inn pub at Singleton.
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The postcard that took 100 years to arrive
How an emotional farewell message sent in 1916 from Newhaven shocked an entire family.
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The Peacehaven scandal
The controversial national newspaper competition that gave Peacehaven its name.
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The night The Beatles came to Brighton
1964 and too young to see The Beatles when they came to town.
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The man who played guitar with Bowie
A revealing glimpse into the backstage world at the greatest rock concert on Earth.
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The hapless Sidlesham Snail
The railway that went from Chichester to Selsey and back in one day – if you were lucky.
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The ghostly abandoned school in the woods
The harder you look, the less likely you are to find it.
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Surprising Selsey
The unlikely misfits who put the town on the map.
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Step inside the Ferring Pillbox
It's dark and cramped, but it's out of the wind.
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Spirits in the aisles in Crawley
Spooky goings on at a supermarket built on a graveyard.
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Smugglers, witches, priests and ghosts
A secret tunnel, witches marks and ghostly goings on at The Six Bells in Billingshurst.
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Selsey's Mulberry legacy
The underwater D-Day trail off the Sussex coast.
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Portslade Cookery School
The school in Portslade where 14,000 men learnt how to cook before going to war in 1916.
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It's pretty - but what's it for?
Revealing the past of a small round brick building next to a burger van on the A27.
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It happened on a rainy night
The tragic tale of a young couple married for just four hours.
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Inside Worthing's hidden basement
Ancient maps, priceless books and a ghostly guardian.
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Goring's Sistine Chapel
The stunning reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in a little-known Goring church.
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Gasbags Ahoy!
The 142 acres of land that was transformed into Polegate Airship Station.
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Finding England’s smallest church
The tiny hidden church in the South Downs that you can only reach by foot.
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Britain’s deadliest avalanche
The tragic tale of lives swept away by a crushing snow fall in Lewes.
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Brighton’s lost live music venues
Punk music fanatic Chris Marshall takes a tour of Brighton’s lost live music venues.
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Brighton’s Daddy Long Legs
The railway line that once travelled through the sea.