[Vwoolf] Peacehaven

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

The Wikipedia entry for Peacehaven is worth looking at. Here's a taster:

"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."

So New Anzac-on-sea went the way of New Amsterdam . . .

Jeremy H

On 05.02.2021 16:22, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> “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?”
> (Essays 4, p. 290)

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