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The trip to McBean’s Orchids is cancelled as we have just had a phone call from them to give us the sad news that they are closing down on the 31st October 2014.       –

Hopefully you have seen and enjoyed the current Stories Seen Through a Glass Plate exhibition of 80 lightboxes in 55 shop windows in Lewes, featuring plates from the Reeves archive. This wonderful display is a precursor to a much more … Continue reading →

Edward Reeves took his first studio portrait in 1855. Today his great-grandson Tom takes photographs in the same studio on Lewes High Street. The Reeves Studio is thought to be the oldest continuously operated photographic studio in the world. Its … Continue reading →