Sanditon History

Catch our forthcoming book, Prominent Families of Sanditon: Leading Citizens from Sandy Village to New Sanditon (expected publication 2015)!

(That is our next project, by the way! Working through Sanditon's founding families one by one.)

Perhaps later we'll return to it. We're sure we'll dig up many interesting facts on our investigation into the Parker family tree.

In fact, we are running out of facts interesting enough to put in our daily AM Fun Facts...

AM fun fact: You may have been suffering under the delusion that Sanditon's history is very interesting. It's really not that extraordinary.

Miss Blake's dress and petticoats are toast, but other than some burns on her legs and torso, she survives unharmed.

Fortunately, her father, brother, and three closest neighbors manage to run her down to the beach and toss her into the ocean.

OTD 1864: While preparing breakfast, Miss Emilia Blake lets her hem get too near the fire and her entire dress goes ablaze.

OTD 1929: Sanditon financier Alistair Denham Jr. writes in an editorial, "The stock market appears to have reached a permanent plateau."

AM fun fact: The crime rate in Sanditon has gone down 87% since Louisa Denham started phoning in tips in 1979.

OTD 2002: Due to a printing error, congresswoman Ella-Jane Howard's campaign signs show up hot pink. (Remember that, guys? Good times.)

(Hey, three months ago is long enough to be history!)

Branded as a "life-revealing application", Domino both revealed too much and set in motion some very interesting changes in Sanditon...

AM fun fact: In summer 2013, Sanditon participated in a communication tool called "Domino", leading to much oversharing of personal details.

If lovers simply had a harder time finding a dark corner, or if it had to do with busybody Miss Howard and her spotlight, we can only guess.

AM fun fact: The introduction of electric lighting to Sanditon decreased the number of births less than nine months after marriage by 85%.

(That was the entirety of the letter.)

On August 9, 1862, he wrote to his brother: "August. Hot. Not yet time for harvest. Calliope in a bad way. Margaret sends her love."

And now, on to selected quotes from the letters of Thaddeus Blake!

The Blakes built and subsequently lived in the house that would later become Sanditon House Bed & Breakfast.