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 …...
Guess the Gadget
Follow the Gadget Trail around the shops, cafés and other locations in Shoreham on 17th and 18th September during the Heritage Open Days weekend. Each participating venue will be displaying a “gadget”, old or new, common or rare, useful or perhaps not!, but definitely fascinating and challenging to figure out what they all...
Valuing Our Heritage
We’re excited about the annual Heritage Open Days festival coming up in September, especially because this year’s theme is all about innovation. It reminds us that everything old was new once upon a time. Shoreham has a rich heritage of past innovation in ship-building, aviation, engineering and even, dare we say it, making houses...
Heritage Open Days
England’s largest festival of history and culture, Heritage Open Days, is back this September.This year’s theme is Astounding Inventions – a celebration of the cutting-edge creations that make our lives easier as well as the imaginative inventors behind them. Alongside stories of wonders, the festival will highlight some of the...
Chanctonbury Ring
On Friday 15th July, Dr Janet Pennington will be giving an illustrated talk about Chanctonbury Ring on the South Downs. It has been an iconic landmark for Sussex inhabitants and visitors for more than two hundred years. The ring of trees, most of which were destroyed by the great storm of 1987 and replanted in …...
Down Channel
With Kim Matthews
The book, Down Channel – The Smacks and Mariners of The Shoreham Oyster Fishery, follows the 1st-class oyster smacks and fishermen of Essex, Jersey and Sussex. They battled winter gale, vigorous governmental interference and suffered tragic loss in their search for deep-sea oysters. The author, Kim Matthews, is Shoreham-born with Essex...
Protecting the Historic Environment
What do you know about conservation areas? How are they defined and do they protect the historic environment? What should be protected and what should not? At what point does an area cease to be of conservation value? The conservation areas of Kingston Buci and Old Shoreham were last reviewed in the 1990s. Adur District …...
