Category Archives: Local History

Lewes History Group: Bulletin 18, (7 January 2012)

1.   Next Meeting on Monday 9 January:  Peter Gillies: Magic Lantern Show 2.   Grange Road 3.   Sale by auction of Pelham House, 25 January 1850 4.   Victorian cemeteries in Lewes 5.   The Governance of Lewes in 1938 6.   The British … Continue reading

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Lewes U3A Oral History Collection

A new page describes this valuable and fascinating historical resource of taped interviews recording life in Lewes in the 20th century.

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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 17, (10 December 2011)

1.   Next Meeting on Monday 12 December:  Christmas Meeting 2.   An early aerial view of Lewes 3.   Old Houses at Lewes 4.   From Alice Dudeney’s Lewes Diary 5.   Watercolours of Lewes Castle in 1785 by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm 6.   Lewes … Continue reading

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