Have your say on a public consultation on reducing the opening hours of The Keep.
The Keep houses the East Sussex Records Office, which used to be at the Maltings in Lewes, and also the Brighton & Hove Records Office and local history collections, the Sussex Family History Group library, and the Mass Observation Archive, amongst others.
The consultation runs until Sunday 25 October 2020
In the second of its online Autumn lectures, Lewes History Group welcomes David Scott Cowan who will talk about his grandfather, Rowland Hawke Halls (1879-1919).
Hawke Halls was a Lewes architect working in the Arts and Crafts tradition in the early years of the 20th century. He worked closely with local craftsmen on both the interior and exterior of his buildings. He was a farmer’s son who studied at the Lewes School of Science and Art, and established a practice based in the Seveirg Building, now replaced by Boots.
His work includes several houses in The Avenue, including one called Rowlands where he lived. He also designed houses in Seaford (to which he moved in 1914) and Rottingdean. His public buildings included the Fisher Street offices for the Borough of Lewes built in 1914 and St John-sub-Castro church hall in the Pells.
In WW1, Hawkes Hall served in France in the Royal Army Service Corps from 1916-1918, but was killed in a motorcycle accident shortly after being demobilised.
An exhibition of his work was shown in Lewes Town Hall in 2019, marking the centenary of his death.
Rowlands, The Avenue, Lewes
To access this talk, you need to register your intention some days in advance: Click to Register
There is no charge for this talk.
After registering and well before the talk, we will send you a confirmation email containing information about how to join the webinar itself.
Please join the webinar at 7:20pm.
We would recommend a computer screen or an iPad as a minimum screen-size for viewing our webinars.
Our speaker will be present to answer your questions, but for technical reasons he has recorded his talk specially for this occasion. 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.
The Lewes Heritage Open Days held on 10-13 September 2020 may be over, but you can still enjoy the Friends of Lewes’s three Heritage Walks at any time you wish.
Our self-guided Heritage Walks around Lewes allow visitors to explore the historic, architectural and environmental aspects of the town at their own pace.
The three walks leaflets are: Lewes Local Architects Walk, Lewes Town Nature Walk, and Lewes High Street Walk.
Link to more details and to download the three walk leaflets
Website archived by the British Library
Lewes History Group 