SHOREHAM SOCIETY

Valuing Our Local Heritage

Remembering the past, to influence the future – for the better

HERITAGE

A magnificent history with huge change. Embrace the future.

For a small town, Shoreham is a place with a long history, a wide influence and a great future.

St Mary de Haura church was built soon after the Norman Conquest, and even before that the Saxons had a settlement and church in “Old Shoreham”. Then, “New Shoreham” became a significant port by the 12th century. Its customs house was certainly built to last. But did the builders imagine that one day it would become the oldest secular building in Britain – and transformed into the Marlipins Museum? Probably not, but then neither did the creators of an aerodrome by the Adur in the early 20th century expect that over a century later Shoreham Airport would become the oldest airport in the UK!

When we look back through our heritage we see people creating the future – our present. What we create today becomes tomorrow’s heritage. Let’s make sure that future generations celebrate what we are doing now, and not that they bewail it.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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