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<p>The Wikipedia entry for Peacehaven is worth looking at. Here's a
taster:</p>
<p>"Peacehaven was established in 1916 by entrepreneur Charles
Neville, who had purchased land in the parish of Piddinghoe; he
then set up a company to develop the site (he also eventually
built nearby towns Saltdean and parts of Rottingdean).[4] He
advertised it by setting up a competition in virtually every
newspaper in England to name the development. The Daily Express
later sued Neville over the competition, holding that it was a
scam, since he was offering "free" plots of land in the town as
runner-up prizes but issuing them only on the payment of a
conveyancing fee. The name of the winners who chose the name 'New
Anzac-on-Sea' (to commemorate the ANZAC's involvement in the
Battle of Gallipoli)[5] were Mr West of Ilford Essex and Mr Kemp
of Maidstone Kent. On 12 February 1917 Mr Neville changed the name
to Peacehaven. The Express won the case, but the publicity brought
the scheme to a large audience. The idea was then to sell plots of
land cheaply for people to build on themselves. Initially the town
was New Anzac-on-Sea but less than a year later in 1917 it was
renamed Peacehaven."</p>
<p>So New Anzac-on-sea went the way of New Amsterdam . . .<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jeremy H<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.02.2021 16:22, Stuart N. Clarke
via Vwoolf wrote:<br>
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<div>“Would it much affect us, we ask ourselves, if a sea
monster erected his horrid head off the coast of Sussex and
licked up the entire population of Peacehaven and then sank
to the bottom of the sea?”</div>
<div>(Essays 4, p. 290)</div>
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