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The view in this photo is taken from the tree-top walkway above the stage area of the Italian Gardens in Eastbourne. The Italian Gardens were originally a chalk pit occupying a triangular piece of land owned by Jeremiah Smith. The quarry was known as the Gore chalk pit, with the word gore meaning an irregularly shaped piece of land, usually in the shape of a triangle. By 1900, the chalk pit was no longer being worked, and by 1902, the Duke of Devonshire conveyed this and other land at the western end of the seafront to the Borough. The area was converted into a garden, and then in 1945 it was redesigned and landscaped as a garden in the Italianate style.