Cafe on the Promenade, Bexhill-on-Sea "Sovereign" refers neither to the  monarch or a brand of cigarette, but rather to the light ship which used to sit in the English Channel opposite this point.
The lightship, and its companions which were strung out along the Channel, were replaced by automatic lights on pylons.
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