The role of your local history website and the challenges for the future Our guest speaker for the January 2026 Shoreham Society talk is Paul Osborne, co-founder of www.Shorehambysea.com. He will present a richly illustrated guide to recent discoveries of local interest and discuss the future challenges of preserving Shoreham’s past....

Richard Bingham continues the “Shoreham Unlisted” series by looking at the architecture of one of Shoreham’s Victorian schools. This striking block of flats stands opposite the Co-op in Ham Road. The building dates back to 1875. For the most part, it is a sympathetic conversion. The east and west ranges are much as they...

A Local Textile Art Project Celebrating Heritage and Community Would you like to be part of a local community project creating a new piece of textile art that represents the heritage, landscape and community within Old Shoreham and the surrounding area? The Community Banner is currently being created with people from across the...

In the latest of his “Shoreham Unlisted” series, Richard Bingham stumbles across an important surviving relic of World War Two. It looks like the business end of a sink plunger. Or the green dome of an alien spaceship, crash landed between the car park at Monks Farm country park and the busy A27. In fact, …...

All Aboard for the Big Birthday Celebrations! The Shoreham Society is heading up a big day of celebration for many of the things that feature heavily in Shoreham life and history which are reaching significant milestones, including 40 years of the Shoreham Society. Starting at 10am and going on until 3pm on Saturday 10th May, …...

Plans are afoot for a fantastic year of celebration in 2025 and there are many opportunities to get involved, whether it’s helping establish new trees or researching the history of buildings and all points between. 200 Years of Railways The big national event is 200 years of the railway. The introduction of the railway radically...

In the latest article in the “Shoreham Unlisted” series, Richard Bingham phones it in. It’s a sorry state. Three of the glazing panels at the bottom have been smashed. There is rubbish on the floor. And that’s a shame. Because the red phone box outside the Post Office on Brunswick Road is an example of …...

In the latest article in “Shoreham Unlisted”, his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture, Richard Bingham takes a look inside a well-known Victorian terrace. In the twentieth century, it became known as product differentiation. To catch the fickle eye of the consumer, companies would offer up...

The Downs Link is the walking, cycling and riding route that follows the disused railway line from Shoreham along by the River Adur towards Bramber and Steyning. The railway was closed in the 1960s and most traces of it are long lost. But earlier this year four new interactive display boards were installed near the …...

Update on 22 October 2024: Watch the 14 short video clips from the Tracing the Rails film that were featured on the Adur Connected heritage trail banners. Adur Connected is a heritage trail being shown on 6-15 September during the Heritage Open Days festival of history and culture. It follows the iron track of the …...