Lewes town centre is the focus of a new lightbox exhibition of historic photographs showing Lewes and its people – movingly displayed in the buildings where they once lived and worked.
Formal portraits taken in the Reeves’ Studio, together with Lewes street scenes, reveal their world and the people they may have encountered.
You will meet Edward Reeves and his daughter Mary Elizabeth, also a photographer, their neighbour Ruth Simmons who married twice and then emigrated to Canada, and from just across the High Street, Caroline Napier and Annie Mullens who ran a school for young ladies. In their daily life they may have bumped into Thomas Weston, ‘haircutter and perfumer’ out on his penny farthing bicycle or passed by Edwin Battersby, managing clerk of the Lewes Probate Registry and attempted murderer.
Unveiled and lit on Thursday 29th September, the lightboxes will be on view until Sunday 23rd October.
An accompanying exhibition: Lewes Town Hall – a Building in Focus, examines the crucial role of the building in town life.
Lewes History Group 