Publications
Rottingdean in Old Picture Postcards, by A. S. Payne and Eddie Scott, published January 1986 (80 pp., European Library, ISBN-10: 9028833102 & ISBN-13: 9789028833104)
Hove: A Pictorial History, by Eddie Scott, published 16 September 1995 (128 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850339812 & ISBN-13: 9780850339819) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Hove was a fishing village with few people as recently as 1801. Thirty-four years later Horsfield, in his history of the county, described it as 'a mean and insignificant assemblage of huts'. On a shoreline subject to erosion and plundering French raiders, it lacked a market for its few families. From this unpromising beginning the town developed with broad avenues and tidy streets which possess a certain amount of style. Due to Victorian entrepreneurs and the search for fashionable places, the village swallowed up the surrounding land to become the Borough of Hove.