Growing for our Children’s Future
The Apron Community Garden is a creative community project in Buckingham Park. Its founder, Lis Long, will be giving a talk for the Shoreham Society in April explaining the ideas behind it and how it is helping local people to enjoy gardening, learn new skills and develop their creativity. The garden was conceived during the …...
Marilyn Stafford, 1925 – 2023
It is with great sadness that we learned that Marilyn Stafford, who was 97, passed away at the beginning of 2023. Marilyn was a remarkable photojournalist who lived here in Shoreham for many years. You may have seen the major exhibition of her work at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery last year or the …...
Footpath Access
to River Adur
This guest post is from two members of the Shoreham Society who would like a popular footpath across a field to become designated as a public right of way. Pedestrian access to the footpath on the banks of the Adur has been blocked by a farmer Many of you will be familiar with the footpath …...
We are Friends of
Shoreham-by-Sea Station
Since the start of 2022 the Shoreham Society has been a formal “Friend of Shoreham Station” as part of the South East Community Rail Partnership scheme. “What”, I hear you say, “does this mean?” Essentially, Community Rail Partnerships are local groups who “… work with (the rail) industry, delivering a range of...
AGM 2022
Chair’s Report
After a tentative start owing to Covid numbers rising in the autumn, we started the “in person” talks again at the Shoreham Centre: November – Launch of consultation for Old Shoreham and Kingston Buci December – Special network Shoreham event – Marylin Stafford January – Laura Brook on conservation and planning (Sussex...
Shoreham Society AGM
Don’t miss the 2022 Shoreham Society AGM and Social on Friday 20th May at 7pm. With so much going on in Shoreham at the moment, we thought now was the time for members to meet up and share their thoughts and experiences over the last two years. This is also the time to set the …...
We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us
When developers publish plans we tend to focus on aspects like the number of storeys, materials used, affordability, energy efficiency – which are all important, but do we take enough time to consider the effect of these buildings on the people who will live or work in them? The developers of residential units are building homes...
Shoreham Port – Our Future
Report & Slides
Was it just a coincidence that Storm Eunice chose Friday 18th February to come clattering through Shoreham-by-Sea – the same day that Tom Willis of Shoreham Port was invited to give a talk to the Shoreham Society? Or was it to remind us that, just like its Port, Shoreham has been around a lot longer …...
Marilyn Stafford’s
Shoreham Network Talk
Marilyn Stafford is a remarkable British photographer who lives in Shoreham-by-Sea. She worked mainly as a freelance photojournalist based in Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, then in London, travelling to Lebanon, Tunisia, India and elsewhere. Her work was published in The Observer and other newspapers. Stafford also worked as a...
Park Avenue Trees
Over two years ago two couples from Park Avenue, Shoreham-by-Sea heard an inspirational talk at a meeting of the Shoreham Society about the planting of trees in the verges in Roslyn Road. They decided to test the feeling for this in their road and began speaking to some of their neighbours. Unfortunately, COVID then struck …...
