A Zoom Webinar
Sue Berry: The Development of Lewes c1840-1914
Sue will begin with asking why the arrival of the railway failed to give Lewes the reboot in the 1840s, which greatly benefited Brighton and other resorts. Was the lack of growth typical of market towns?
We will then explore how the town found its feet by developing stronger links with the surrounding rural area.
From the 1860s, some ambitious new suburbs were developed, attracting investors from Brighton – but what type of housing worked best, and why?
In spite of a slow start, Lewes had changed a lot by 1914, and the Georgian area became ringed by nineteenth century development.
View of The Avenue and Bradford Road from Castle Bank, Lewes, 1914 Mezzotint postcard
To join this talk, you need to:
1) register your intention to attend in advance
2) receive our confirmation email with a link to the talk itself. Save that email, and
3) click on that emailed link to attend the talk 5 minutes before it starts
LHG Members can attend our talks for free. We will send members emails with a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above.
Non-members can buy a ticket (£4) from TicketSource. The ticket will provide a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above.
Please join the webinar at 7:25pm.
We would recommend a computer screen or an iPad as a minimum screen-size for viewing our webinars.
Our presenters will be speaking live, and you can ask questions by typing in the Q&A box in Zoom.
See the Talks page for a list of forthcoming monthly events organised by the Lewes History Group.
Lewes History Group 