30 captivating pictures showing life across Sussex over 100 years ago, including Eastbourne, Littlehampton. Brighton, Bognor Regis, Lewes and plenty more

This retro gallery brings you plenty of cracking pictures showing a bygone era of a past life around Sussex.

We have plenty of pictures showing beauty spots such as Eastbourne in 1900 and locals enjoying the sun in Brighton over 100 years ago.

There’s also pictures of bathers enjoying a ban on the coast being lifted, a motor race in Bexhill and a picture from the Horsham election of 1904.

We also have racegoers enjoying Goodwood in 1907 and industrialist Andrew Carnegie receiving the Freedom of the Borough of Worthing in 1909.

You can view plenty more retro content from around Sussex, here.

9. Back in the water at Bognor Regis

With the lifting of the coast ban, seaside resorts saw a big turn-out of tourists. The photograph shows bathers at Bognor Regis. Photo: Hulton Archive

10. Bexhill quarter mile motor race

Spectators watch from the roadside as cars gather to race along the sea shore for the Bexhill quarter mile motor race on 21 May 1907 at Bexhill on Sea, Photo: Topical Press Agency

11. Motor Gymkhana at Hastings

Motor Gymkhana at Hastings, June 1907. Photo: Hulton Archive

12. Glorious Goodwood

Captain Hanky and Miss Millicent James at a race meeting in Goodwood, circa 1909. Photo: W. G. Phillips