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,...
Modernism by Sea
Richard Bingham continues “Unlisted”, his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture. Here he selects a much-admired house that exemplifies so much of the 1930s. On a quiet suburban street in north Shoreham, the white house certainly stands out. Lots of people stop to take a closer look. It’s not just the...
Sussex Kelp Recovery Project
A guest article by Ruby Stothard from Sussex Underwater on the background to a Shoreham Society talk on 19 July 2024. Sussex Underwater are a group of passionate local divers who love filming the diverse life in our Sussex seas, so that this underwater world is no longer out of sight, out of mind. In …...
West Sussex Waste Partnership
This is a guest article from the Waste Prevention Team of West Sussex County Council. Julie Silverson, their Events & Initiatives Assistant, gave a talk to the Shoreham Society with Gigi Backshall-Wilkinson in November 2023 about reducing waste and what can be recycled. The West Sussex Waste Partnership (WSWP) is a collaboration that...
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,...
Holding on to the Past?
Richard Bingham continues “Shoreham Unlisted”, his series of articles on the unsung heroes of Shoreham’s architecture. Here he takes a look at a relative newcomer. It’s very Shoreham. Flashes of modernity against a thoroughly traditional backcloth. Amenable, even humble. Perhaps that’s why, despite being very new, the...
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...
