Category Archives: Art & Architectural History

Meeting – Monday 11 April, 7:30pm

Kim Clark: Lost Lewes: Photographs of James Cheetham. Kim’s talk will be illustrated by images created by the Lewes photographer James Cheetham (1854-1941). She will also explain how near Cheetham’s collection of glass negatives came to being lost for ever. They were saved only by … Continue reading

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Meeting – Monday 10 January, 7:30pm

Debby Matthews: A Tour Around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes Debby Matthews will give an illustrated talk entitled ‘A tour around Gideon Mantell’s Lewes’, based on Mantell’s original guide-book to Lewes. Mantell’s book was in turn based on a visit back to … Continue reading

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Meeting – Monday 13 December, 7:30pm

Christmas Meeting John Farrant: Lewes Castle, 1600-1850 The speaker at our Christmas meeting will be John Farrant, who will be telling us about the changes at Lewes Castle between 1600 and 1850 – the period between its final appearance as … Continue reading

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