Adur Connected
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 …...
Celebrating Old Shoreham
A guest article by Brian Sayer from the Friends of Old Shoreham about the Old Shoreham Heritage Festival in September. The Old Shoreham Heritage Festival offers nine days of walks, talks, art, music and workshops from 6 to 15 September, organised as part of this year’s national and European Heritage Open Days. The theme is …...
Ropetackle – A Second Look
Richard Bingham continues “Unlisted”, his monthly series of articles looking at the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture. Here he takes a deep dive into Ropetackle. For some people in Shoreham, this is where it all went wrong. This is where the gentrification began. Where greedy developers began to eye up a quiet coastal town,...
Back to the Future
At the Shoreham Society AGM in May, Brian Rousell, Shoreham Port’s Director of Engineering and IT, gave a fascinating insight into the history of the Port. For anyone unable to attend the AGM, Richard Bingham presents a summary of what we learned. As Geoffrey Mead recently pointed out, Shoreham is good at claiming things that …...
The Curate’s Vision
On Friday 21 June, we are pleased to welcome Jeremy Tomlinson of Lancing College to give an illustrated talk, “The Curate’s Vision”, marking the 175th anniversary of the founding of the College. It is an astonishing story of Victorian energy, enterprise and vision with many surprising twists. It is a tale of heroic endeavour,...
The Friends of Old Shoreham
Taking a fresh perspective When we think of Shoreham, most of us probably picture the streets and river around St Mary de Haura and along the High Street. It’s not surprising as that is what appears on most maps around the town and online. We are told it’s the historic heart of the town, and …...
A Very British Post Office
Richard Bingham begins his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture with a profile of the former Post Office on Brunswick Road. The former Post Office on Brunswick Road in Shoreham town centre is one of many “architecturally handsome” post offices built by the Office of Works between the wars. Designed by...
Stows Hard
Stopping Up Order
This is a guest post by Kim Matthews, local author of “Down Channel – The Smacks and Mariners of The Shoreham Oyster Fishery”. The public hards of Shoreham are ancient rights of way giving the public statutory access to and from the river and harbour. They are Restricted Byways. They have the same legal status …...
Adur Unwrapped
Celebrating Our Creative Heritage Tour the Adur district and find out about some of the creative people who have lived there. Creativity comes in all forms, from the novelist to the opera singer, from the poet to the creator of the London A-Z. Adur is the home of many creative people, drawing inspiration from the …...
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Shoreham’s Disappearing Public Hards. Shoreham is blessed with streets and rights of way down to the river right in the centre of town. These public hards are the stumps of old Norman streets that extended much further south but were eroded by sea and river action. These hards are treasures in Shoreham’s townscape. But a …...
