The Bald Explorer Goes to Lewes in East Sussex

Richard Vobes is the Bald Explorer. He travels England with his Eriba Puck seeking out the history, customs and traditions of the country.
Lewes is the quaint county town that was once the hub of East Sussex. It was the site of the battle of Lewes and a place where Protestant Martyrs were burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary.
Follow the exploits of this enthusiastic explorer as he uncovers the interesting stories of these picturesque locations in merry England.

[@Stefano1475]

Unbelievably amazing quality, you produce these KZbin videos that someone can easily confuse to be a network production. Your talent is second to none Richard. Great work 👍

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

Hello Richard. Its nearly 10 years later and I am enjoying your current videos . This one pops out and I'm enjoying it just as much. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.

[@tallpojjy]

This video is excellent, so interesting and delivered with huge enthusiasm. I have watched it several times, and the others in the series. Great work Richard!

[@RichardVobes]

Wow, thank you!

[@StuartDavies]

Excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed this. I used to live in Lewes, so it brought back a few memories.

[@Cerceify]

Well, just watched your story of Lewes again and enjoyed it even more. Much busier than when I visited on a cloudy summer weekday 30 years ago. I did get back to Hayward's Heath several years ago where my husband's family are buried.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks for watching it a second time.

[@adrianburn7178]

Very interesting and informative video. I was in Lewes for Guy Fawkes night in 1979 with some American friends. They were left quite bemused by the whole spectacle!

[@missmaryhdream6560]

Just one more episode before bed, I love watching these adorable videos. What a gem, of a find. Just the thing for after work, winding down, great. Thanks 🌸fascinating facts, intriguing.

[@MrsCheshiregal]

I have just discovered your explorations Richard. Absolutely fascinating. I am looking forward to seeing them all. Thank you so much.

[@juneprince-iles8390]

Hi Richard, I'm writing this during the November 2020 England "lockdown" but am compelled to say a big THANK YOU for such an entertaining & informative Lewes Video. It's my favourite go-to town for some RnR.... A very professional film, very well done. So nice to see some of your earlier "exploring" alongside the present .

[@RichardVobes]

Wow, thank you!

[@mistymoor7114]

So, this popped up in my feed, made 11 years ago ! Well was very interesting and I must say, Richard, very well presented and produced, you could definitely make a good tv presenter.

[@spooksixsix]

I love this town, worked here years ago. brilliant place to spend time.

[@Jane_and_Meg]

Hi Richard, I saw a shortened version of this on your other channel so great to see this full length version! I agree your programmes are so well presented and this one is no exception, engaging and interesting at the same time! I loved how you hamed it up at the end when you went for a swim very funny! Thank you I learnt a lot about Lewes today! 👍🙂

[@anitabunting7277]

I so enjoyed your video! My ancestors come from Lewes and I’ve always wondered about this town. Thank you very much!

[@MrNas42]

Taking a family trip to Lewes in a couple of days, so thought I'd swot up with one of your guides. Glad I did. Excellent!

[@LocationMr]

Our latest Bald Explorer day out was to Lewes. With thanks to Richard again for inspiring us to go there.

[@RichardVobes]

LocationMr thanks very much. glad you had a lovely time.

[@timboharty7325]

Richard , you really are becoming a national treasure , hopefully when we’re through the current situation , you can continue the exploring

[@kittykitty471]

Wonderful! A lovely tribute to this marvellous historic town which I've visited many times over a few decades.

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you - sorry to to reply earlier. The comment was stuck a review bin. No idea why, but I have just spotted it. Anyway, thanks again and I appreciate your watching the video.

[@jamesfarley7535]

Love the video, Richard. the quality is fantastic! having just moved to Lewes it has given me a great insight into the town.

[@janeausten4483]

What a wonderful video, a very interesting town with so much fascinating history. I hate to admit it but I was very pleasantly surprised that it was so professional. You certainly have a talent for making films👍🏻🇦🇺🦘

[@HenrysAdventures]

Brilliant video Richard! This is my favourite video of yours so far! Lewes is a town I've always wanted to visit. There's a similar martyrs memorial in Amersham Buckinghamshire.

[@jotruby7707]

Great history of Lewes, Richard. But the best bit was watching you dive into the swimming pool in your red & white costume.!

[@RichardVobes]

Hahahaha - I was heavier then - made a bigger splash!

[@tracysmith-yv5lt]

seems my you tube likes things from 10 years ago a good video will watch the other ones 2024

[@lindsayives4915]

Wow fab video and love it's history but news of the founding of American independence is fabulous unknow news to me before this video thnkyou il share to My US friends

[@ramibu239]

Again another awesome vid! You are so much better than anything I have found on TV in a long time. Combining my love of travel & history splendidly once again! Might also be another thanks on a family history lesson - I know I have Medieval Morefords in there somewhere (I'll have to check my notes).

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks for the compliment - this video was the first of the Bald Explorer formats.

[@blackcountrywalker]

loved this longer version of your video's.

[@craiglogistics2092]

What a fantastic video, full of history and so much more to see for the visitor

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks Craig.

[@marinaau8551]

My family use to live in Lewes. My sisters went to Pells primary school which is now closed, sad. Sister and brother to Priory Secondary school. Love the town. Our second home.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for the entertainment. A bright spot in my day.

[@yvonnewratten5855]

We loved lewes .lovely old town and very historical.i remember it well when we lived in Kent a few years ago

[@henryvagincourt4502]

Wonderful video, very enjoyable viewing.

[@PortsladeBySea]

I love Lewes but never really knew all it’s history. Fascinating and fun filled film. I wonder if the vaults under the Town Hall are ever open to the general public to explore? I must look out for, and join, a future guided tour of the town. I once put my hand in to the water at The Pells swimming pool and decided that was sufficient exposure of my body to the freezing cold water so you are a very brave, or crazy, man for jumping in! 🤭🥶😳

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much Mike

[@thebaldyhippy]

Really don't understand why you haven't been snapped up by a TV company to front a TV series! They are definitely missing out. You would be great at it, and I would watch you.

[@hbsg79]

Thank you for this. I was just looking at different walks to do near Brighton, and I absolutely want to try this.

[@MsJan1968]

I'm leaving London to live in beautiful Lewes in a few weeks. How lucky am I!!

[@victorialamport-brown8699]

I’m going to visit my dad in lewes Sussex this Sunday December 3rd ,2023 !

[@lindsaycaress450]

Very happy and great entertainment .

[@JohnHawkins]

On the brink of a trip to the Lewes area I searched for a video about Lewes and shouldn't have been surprised to find it was one by Mr Vobes! I hope it isn't damning with faint praise to say this is the sort of content worthy of being on TV. Perhaps I should qualify that by saying it's the sort of content worthy of being on TV 10+ years ago, when TV was better than it is now. I cheered out loud when the Lewes Arms showed up. What a spectacular pub that is!

[@JohnHawkins]

Oh and #WeWuntBeDruv

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you so much, John, for your lovely comments.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Best video about Lewes I have seen. It is 11 years old now, but still very relevant, I have just moved to the area, and this is excellent about the history and present day. I have seen your more recent video about Firle Beacon and intend to walk up there when the weather gets nicer. Great stuff👍

[@pruetaz200]

Watching in 2022. This is still brilliant!

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much.

[@lynnb_and_ky_springer_spaniel]

Interesting. We must visit the castle and priory. They are so well hidden

[@RichardVobes]

They are gems

[@hazelb7218]

Came across this old video...lol....love it....like the intro too!!! I went to Lewes years ago...love hearing the history of it so thank you....nice informative video!!

[@RichardVobes]

That was the first Bald Explorer that I made. :)

[@finalbanese9359]

I love lewes. I live in the village of Chailey a few miles north, but go to Lewes almost everyday

[@elviramamanitaco1575]

Gracias por el video, eres veloz

[@Duffy512]

I have finally found you! Paul Edwards was praising you to the heavens. Your shows look super interesting.

[@HotForHistory]

Your videos are so good! This one is tv quality! I had to watch because I’m researching my family history as granddaughter of William de Warrene. You would prob see huge subscriber boost w making SHorts

[@christophervilliers8395]

Bonfire night is brilliant in.lewes on November the 5th.

[@RichardVobes]

And very busy too!

[@alexanderhedge5968]

Funny to see where I live from a different point of view. very entertaining

[@RichardVobes]

Alexander Hedge Thank you.

[@blakeadam8168]

As the in laws come from there ( and my wife already visited there). Lewes will be on our must visit list on our next holiday to England. Hopefully the pubs will still be there and they have some nice b&b's.

[@RichardVobes]

Oh the pubs will be there and so will the B&Bs - enjoy your visit.

[@orange70383]

This is outstanding, you did a superb job here and love the style'

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so very much. I made that a while a go but I am thrilled you found it.

[@RichardVobes]

@epcotcentre Thank you for your comments! Very kind.

[@imranzazai7404]

Amazing.

[@imranzazai7404]

Really nice.

[@FranciscoCamino]

Well, you don’t have to choose. You can explore Brighton and Antarctica next. But going to the point, I have a day off between two connecting flights at Gatwick. I was thinking if Lewes would be a nice pic. You know it seems to have all tourists are looking for in any English town. To be as genuine as a Jane Austen novel setting. I am considering it now. It looks amazing

[@Tony-gv6ty]

Great filming of town ♥♥♥♥

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you

[@peterhobbs7609]

Great vid that Richard, I still have a lot to catch up with but enjoying the journey

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks 👍

[@stevecharleston8545]

Quite enjoyable!😁👍

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you think so!

[@ih8ua119]

I love the videos and really love the cozy little caravan, seriously! From Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA, thanks for sharing.

[@RichardVobes]

H8No1 Thank you very much. I need to make more for sure!

[@ih8ua119]

Richard Vobes Absolutely, that would be great!

[@RichardVobes]

I have another channel where I put all sorts, not up to the production value of these but a few simple walks there that are easier to achieve on a low budget. One does talk about the gadget, not to sell it, but because I am excited about using it. Turns out the gadget isn;t that easy to use. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX7HeqJvftGDnLs

[@1954real]

What a brilliant video so professional 👏

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much!

[@peachbottomparanormal3587]

You're adorable and informative, subbed!🤗

[@dzadza7775]

Great!

[@butch907]

Another classic.

[@deadm101]

Brilliant

[@TheElizabethashby]

OOH I ENJOYED THIS

[@kevinhobbs79]

Came here thanks to Chatabix… lovely vid!

[@RichardVobes]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@michaelwhite8031]

Very professional and interesting. Please pay a second visit and cover the extra history ?

[@RichardVobes]

Indeed, I must return.

[@RichardVobes]

@Dreamflyer999 Many thanks. I will have to check out and see if it is Dennis! :)

[@deanmc178]

my dad was a jockey and raced at lewes racecourse,,his stables were in spitals road ,,theres a video out there on youtube ,,a day in the life of a stable lad ..my dad is in that film footage

[@carolinesmyth127]

I wonder if that's the same Harvey's of Harvey's Bristol Creme fame... My favoirite Xmas tipple 🎄🍹

[@RichardVobes]

I don't think it is.

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

I’m off to Avebury stone circle next week - will also be visiting nearby Silbury Hill and West Kennet long barrow. If you haven’t been there, you MUST go! By the way, I’m enjoying your explorations - just realised that “bald” is a play on the word “bold”. Duh!

[@RichardVobes]

I think you have seen that I have been there. BUT An early Bald Explorer in Wiltshire looking at the first monuments: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJuVlWOCpbFjfKs

[@Cerceify]

I was in lewes in the lte 70's or 80's when the brewery was for sale. The antique shops were open, but nothing seemed to be for sale until the auction later in the week. This was the place to buy your British antiques and have them shipped to the states.

[@RichardVobes]

Much of England disappearing overseas :(

[@danjames5552]

You should of visited the prison in lewes which is only one of two in Sussex (( the other is Ford open prison whitch is more like a holiday camp) and the only prison I know that has a flint work wall all the way around it in the UK!!!!! It was built in 1853 and used to do a very nice cauliflower cheese every other Tuesday. (This was back in the 1990s

[@RichardVobes]

How very pleasant!

[@pxcoyy]

the place i live in beautiful history and great tradition still going ie the bonfire night you should look into on the 5th

[@rosabenjamiamorihira]

done and fullpack

[@johnhorne1685]

A great town I love it. I believe the Castle is the headquarters of the Sussex archaeology society

[@RichardVobes]

I believe you are right John!

[@KitoTodd]

too cool👍😎

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Love the November the 5th parade.

[@maggiesamuels2937]

Yep! Alleyways in sussex are called twitttens.👍

[@RichardVobes]

@JollyRodders This is the first really, although i would like to do more. I need to find some funding from somewhere.

[@AdeDaviesWales]

Well done Richard! That's Dennis Waterman at 30:55 isn't it.

[@spinynorman8217]

I much prefer your presentation today when you're more yourself, the programme was still hugely enjoyable though!! Thanks for posting.

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KarrierBag]

Ive riden a unicycle in the pells pool, was bloody hard but got a laugh, used to live in one of the old harveys brewery cottages and my parents had a shop in the cliff high street. Funny how i now live on a boat on the river ouse, just not the ouse in Lewes but Yorkshire.

[@RichardVobes]

I used to ride a unicycle in the days when I was an entertainer juggling knifes and such like.

[@abhishekconstantinewinches9907]

Richard Vobes: The Bald Explorer. Keep exploring. #RichardVobesTheBaldExplorer

[@JollyRodders]

Fantastic video. Very entertaining. Have you done any other towns or cities?

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you - I have done a few more. I need to raise fund to keep going. Sorry for the late ... very late .. reply!

[@2serveand2protect]

DAMN! What a WONDERFUL place!

[@BeerGogglesReviews]

COR, you got down that hill a bit sharpish. Like a aerodynamic mountain goat.

[@RichardVobes]

Yes I did! :) Too much beer I suspect.

[@brianfinnegan664]

looking for a documentary on the Battle of Lewes, ur history is so much more interesting than our history in Ireland

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks very much.

[@EMBpodcast]

What if you film a Lewes banker, give him a brief scene that promotes his bank (as a side benefit) and then as a thank you, his bank could invest with a portion of the funding as a thank you!). Just a thought. Lovin' the video!

[@RichardVobes]

@BeerGogglesReviews Yes it was a fast run, eh?

[@Bonfireboy1963]

Very entertaining. CBS - Nulli Secundus.

[@michaelgamble296]

Enjoyed this thoroughly! But you didn't take advice on local pronunciation: Lewes has 'Leweesians' and Offham is 'Oafham' - still - the video was interesting to watch and most enjoyable. I hoped you'd manage to get on one of the Brewery Tours - they're excellent (like the Beer - named for many local events like 'Bonfire Beer' etc.) The Brewer is quick to mention that the water doesn't come from the Ouse, but from deep artesian wells! Hic! and is called not 'water' but 'Liquor' - Haec, Hoc! And the Chalk Pit Pub is now an Indian Restaurant . . . .

[@RichardVobes]

I shot this some time ago as you will have realised. I have since learned that some locals called Offham, Oafham and others don't - don't get me started on pronunciations! Yes, you are quite right that water in beer is called liquor - a shame to see the old pub go the way of many others into an Indian Resturant - I have had many a lovely ham , egg and chips from that pub.

[@ReverendFlatus]

Interesting stuff and really well presented. As you said, there's far more to see in the area than you had time for. I believe Offham is pronounced 'Oafham' by the way.

[@RichardVobes]

ReverendFlatus Thanks very much for watching!

[@maggiesamuels2937]

I used to walk to lewes over the south downs from Brighton and come out by lewes prison.

[@thecuriousitychannel1325]

:22 Ah! I swear, that’s the place that has my family crest in one of the stained glass windows!

[@RichardVobes]

How wonderful.

[@BeerGogglesReviews]

@Dreamflyer999 Bloody hell your right. Queen Terry McCann. "Sort 'im out Queen Terry, give 'im a slap." "Ere 'old on King Artha, I'll just av a word in 'is shell-like." LOL Well spotted mate.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

👍🏻👍🏻Thomas Paine

[@sarahstrong7174]

We have a couple of Twitterns where I live but we call them 'The Leper Walk'. Dosen't sound quite so jolly somehow.

[@RichardVobes]

What a strange name - the Leper Walk!

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@RichardVobes There was an ancient Magdalene leper hospital or hostal adjacent & apparently the lepers would walk that path to avoid the other townspeople. They used to come into town to collect alms. Also they came to the church to join in holy communion. There's a sheltered place on the corner of the church where apparently those poor folk would stand outside & watch the service. Though there is no window there now. So not really a strange name under the circumstances.

[@deanmc178]

my nanna lived in landport ,,thats off the back of lewes

[@pauljordan2988]

This is Vobes on fast forward.

[@carla5830]

Excellent quality videos, I love to watch from the once great United States, intil we got Biden!

[@clarereynolds9607]

Why did the guy think it may have come from France? Couldn't it be possible that we took it to France!

[@Dipfinder123]

Well done. I like your less animated self a bit better though.

[@RichardVobes]

This was made years ago, actually.

[@andrewgibbon-williams7974]

Actually, I'm trying to compliment you! Don't be so sensitive! I just happened to visit Lewes last week (first time for 40 years), and soon became aware of my own ignorance. But it is always unwise to talk down to your public. You taught me a lot. Thank you.

[@RichardVobes]

In that case I accept your compliment! :) Lewes is a lovely place. I hope you enjoyed yourself!