A meeting for those who have expressed an interest in taking part in this project.
We will review progress on the grant application, and we would also like to get up to date on any investigations you have been undertaking.
We will take this opportunity to distribute our interim guidance on project file storage and management.
Venue: King’s Church Building meeting room.
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David Simkin is a photo-historian who runs the Sussex PhotoHistory website.
He will be talking about the photographers who were active in the town of Lewes and the surrounding villages of Cooksbridge, Halland, Newick and Ringmer between 1851 and 1910.
The talk will cover the history of professional photography in Lewes from June 1851, when daguerreotype portraits were taken on Brack Mount, up until 1910, when the firm of A. M. Bliss & Co. of Lansdowne Place, Lewes, was selling “real photograph” picture postcards of Lewes, Alfriston, Barcombe, Plumpton and Upper Dicker.
David will concentrate on the lives and careers of established professional photographers such as Daniel Blagrove and Edward Reeves, but he will also look at the work of amateur and part-time photographers such as Edward Bedford (1865-1953), Henry John Bartlett (1875-1965) and William Baker Funnell of Newick (1848-1938).
He will illustrate his talk with primary sources and examples taken from his large collection of photographs taken in Lewes and surrounding villages in East Sussex during the Victorian and Edwardian period.
Lewes High Street by Blagrove c.1874. Courtesy of David Simkin
All are welcome from 7.00pm for free refreshments and updates on the Group’s activities. The talk will begin promptly at 7:30pm and will finish by 9.00pm.
There is an entry fee for these meetings, payable at the door, of £2 for members, and £3 for non-members.
Venue: The King’s Church building on Brooks Road, Lewes, BN7 2BY. (Between Tesco car park and Homebase)
See the Meetings page for a list of forthcoming monthly talks organised by the Lewes History Group.
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This tour is a special opening of the Seaford Museum for the Lewes History Group, and is on the first non-public day after the opening of the Display for the 150th Anniversary of the Railway extending to Seaford.
The special presentation comprises audio-visual displays as well as the model railway and all of the “shops” which make a Seaford Museum visit such a treat. You can enter the redesigned dress shop, and see the new camera shop featuring a VPK (Vest Pocket Kodak), as used by soldiers in the WW1 trenches to record the horrors they encountered. The last 150 years are captured in this unique opportunity to see how our ancestors lived.
More information on the Seaford Museum website
Image copyright Paul Farmer
Time: The museum will be open from 2.00 pm for Lewes History Group members.
Admission is by ticket at £3.00
Tickets are available for this and other LHG outings from Paul Waller (Outings Organiser) on meeting nights at The King’s Church in Lewes, by contacting him on 01323 872088, or by using the contact form below.
It is essential that you book well in advance for these trips
The outings are primarily for Lewes History Group members only, but they may purchase tickets for accompanying non-members. When possible tours will be exclusively for LHG.
All members are asked to make their own way to the venue in good time. Regrettably we are not able to to arrange transportation for these trips.
The train from Lewes to Seaford may be an excellent way to travel on this occasion: the 13.28 from Lewes arrives at Seaford 13.46.
See the Members’ Visits page for a list of forthcoming monthly trips organised by the Lewes History Group.
Contact Paul Waller for tickets using this form:
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