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PUBS AND BOBS TOWN PLAQUE #36: TOM PAINE Uniquely featuring on three plaques in the town centre, Tom Paine has been called ‘a rope-maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination’. He came to <strong>Lewes</strong> in 1768 as a Customs and Excise Officer to keep an eye on local smugglers, but he only lived here, at Bull House at Westgate, for less than seven years. In that time he threw himself into the town’s life: he fought for better employment conditions for Customs Officers, married and separated, launched a business that failed, went broke, then sold all that he had and moved out to America early in 1784. He arrived in Philadelphia too unwell to leave the ship: an unpromising start - but his radical republican pamphlets, especially Common Sense (1776), which crystallized sentiment for independence, are now seen as crucial in encouraging separation from Britain and the birth of a new nation. (One plaque is on Bull House, one on the White Hart, where he debated, and this is in the Castle Precincts, near the Maltings.) Marcus Taylor LEWES IN NUMBERS Where do people work and how do they get there? The last Census asked workers resident in <strong>Lewes</strong>, and found that 1 in 4 worked at or from home, or overseas or offshore. 39% work within 10 kilometres of home, which includes <strong>Lewes</strong> and Falmer. A further 23% work between 10-30 km of <strong>Lewes</strong>, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing and Haywards Heath, while 13% travel over 30 km including Crawley, London and beyond. More men than women work from home, although women are more likely to work closer to home overall. 25% travel to work by foot or cycle, around double the local or regional percentage, while a further 20% travel by public transport. 44% travel by private car or van, much lower than the 66% across the county and the region. Sarah Boughton GHOST PUB #41: THE PRINCE OF WALES, MALLING STREET The present Malling Hill road was constructed around 1830, and the Prince of Wales was almost certainly built around the same time. This became the first <strong>Lewes</strong> pub on the route into the town from the north-east, and as such would have experienced a fair amount of trade. For almost the entire period between the 1870s and 1970s, the Prince of Wales was run by just three families: the Eastwoods, the Bournes, and the Lampers. Albert Eastwood took over the pub in 1876, and appears to have been quite a character, hosting events and dinners for many clubs and societies. He had his own ‘spacious marquee’ at the annual Great Sheep Fair in town, where he sold luncheons, wines, spirits and cigars. And in 1892 <strong>Lewes</strong>ians were invited to the Prince of Wales to see a display of Albert’s ‘unusually heavy’ potatoes. Robert Bourne and his wife Frances (a Ringmer girl) took over the pub in 1897, and remained there for 34 years. It was then handed over to Stephen and Edith Lamper, who passed it to their son John in 1960. Both Stephen and John played for the Prince of Wales in the <strong>Lewes</strong> Darts League. Sadly, this lovely old pub closed in the 1990s. It did open again briefly, but did not last long. The building is now home to a firm of solicitors. Mat Homewood 21