Hut Stories Volunteers needed – 26th/27th October 2024

Posted on July 21, 2024 by EditorP

Hut Stories will celebrate the histories of the Lewes Green Huts, with key highlights including an exhibition and performances celebrating the men of the British West Indies Regiment who used this building as a church in 1915-16, and a display of creative responses by young people to the objects found abandoned in the huts.

Learn more on the Visit Lewes website : https://www.visitlewes.co.uk/whats-on/hut-stories or on Facebook : https://fb.me/e/48WNe5AKh .

This is a volunteer-run community event and we need your help! Can you spare a few hours to help make it happen? It is taking place on 26th/27th October, from 11.00am – 5.00pm.

Sign-up form for those who would be kind enough to help steward: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CmnDG6vozottNDgLc7m6YwGGMrU_1vaRbImpjIe0PdY/edit

N.B This is not an LHG project – posted on behalf of Lewes Town Council

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Lewes History Group AGM and presentations – Monday 9th December 2024, 7:30pm – Kings Church

Posted on July 20, 2024 by EditorP

As this is our Christmas meeting we shall be serving mulled wine and mince pies from 7.00 p.m.

Please do join us. A brief AGM will begin at 7.30 p.m. and will be followed by five short presentations by members, under the general title “Lewes heirlooms and possessions”.

Members do not need to register in advance to attend.

Non-members can buy a ticket (£4.00) from Ticketsource.co.uk/lhg

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Lewes History Group talk: Lewes council housing 1920-1970 – Chris Taylor – Monday 11th November 2024, 7:30pm

Posted on July 19, 2024 by EditorP

Monday 11th November 2024, 7:30pm start via ZOOM

Lewes Borough Council took it first steps into the housing market in the early 1920s with the opening of the first houses on the Nevill estate. Considerable expansion in the number of council homes followed as a result of ambitious slum clearances in the 1930s and a concerted, government-driven effort to eliminate sub-standard housing in the 1950s and 1960s. The consequences are visible in Lewes today, where a sizeable proportion of the housing stock was originally council-built.  

In this talk, Chris will outline the development of council housing in Lewes in the mid-20th century. A close look at specific episodes, drawn from five decades of house-building, will illustrate how Lewes councillors responded to national policy in the provision of homes for rent.

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 purchase 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.

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