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The photo shows the Edinburgh Woollen Mill at 141 Terminus Road, Eastbourne (next to Marks and Spencer) which was once a guest house where Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny, stayed in July 1881. At that time, the house was numbered 43 Terminus Road and it was owned by the widow, Esther Peerless, but since that time some renumbering of the road has taken place. Karl Marx, Jenny and their family often visited Eastbourne to see their friend Friedrich Engels who himself was a frequent visitor to Eastbourne especially during the summers of his later life. As younger men, Marx and Engels had famously co-authored the seminal pamphlet ‘The Communist Manifesto’ which related to class struggle, the battle between capital and labour and how revolution would usher in a new economic order. Despite their shared interest in the “proletariat” or working class both these German émigrés, from Rhenish Prussia, came from educated and privileged backgrounds. While as intellectuals and writers both men shared a consuming interest in radical and revolutionary politics, both men also favoured Eastbourne as a holiday destination which at that time, particularly, was known as a town “built by gentlemen for gentlemen”.