by Cheryl Poole
THE star exhibit in the Museum’s
Costume and Social History gallery, a mourning dress worn by Queen Victoria in
1892, was once used for dressing-up games, the donor has revealed.
There was laughter in the gallery as
in the presence of fello...
by Cheryl Poole
EXQUISITE quality was the hallmark of
the Museum’s lace and embroidery weekend, an event which brought admirers of
these skills to the Costume Group’s beautifully-presented display in the
Education Room on April 27th and 28th.
The back wall...
by Rohan Jayasekera
BRITISH & Commonwealth servicemen and women who lost their lives in the service of their countries are buried all over the world where their graves are tended by dedicated groups of local volunteers.One such group in Sittard in the south of the N...
by Cheryl Poole
VIBRANT colours, bold imaginative
designs – Bexhill Museum’s 2019 exhibition on the Costume Gallery catwalk pays
tribute to the exotic Fifties and Sixties.
Costume Group volunteers Georgina
Bradley, Stella Hales-Morris and colleagues have s...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHIL Museum has a new
exhibition for 2019 celebrating the work of two townspeople who in the 1960s
founded a magazine still considered to have been one of the premier
publications in its field.
Did you know Bexhill was
the birthplace of ...
by Cheryl Poole
FOR three months a young lady from the
south of France has laboured in the Costume Group’s cramped ground floor
workshop behind the Technology Gallery.
Elodie Blanc comes from Grenoble but
from October until the closure on the museum for th...
by Cheryl Poole
CORMUSEN, crumhorns and flutes
–supporters of Bexhill Museum were transported musically back six centuries by
five talented musicians and their historic instruments.
Hastings-based Queen’s Consort
specialise in re-creating chamber music fro...
by Cheryl Poole
MODEL locomotives were chuffing, an
air-raid warning siren was wailing and World War II posters lined the wall as
the museum’s patron, comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, dedicated its newest
attraction.
The Park Gallery was packed.
Televisio...
by Cheryl Poole
A FIVE feet tall
silhouette of a First World War soldier is in place at the Museum. Sited in a
window overlooking Egerton Park, it will draw visitors to the museum’s
forthcoming Armistice exhibition.
The figure is one of
thousands produced...
by Cheryl Poole
CENTREPIECE of the
current display in the museum’s Costume and Social History gallery is a sombre
black dress which is easily the most significant item in its extensive costume
collection.
The mourning dress
worn by Queen Victoria for the ...
by Cheryl Poole
DURING
three months of research to produce the museum’s centenary tribute to Spike
Milligan, volunteer Yvonne Cleland frequently found herself reduced to helpless
mirth by the late comedian’s humour.
No wonder that museum
patron Eddie Izza...
by Cheryl Poole
FOURTEEN members of the Southern
Counties Costume Group were given a conducted tour of the Museum and its
extensive costume collection on the afternoon of Saturday, April 21st.
Collectively, the group has extensive
knowledge of the history ...
by Cheryl Poole
AT its peak Bexhill’s hotel industry
was a major factor in the town’s economy. In the inter-war period Bexhill
Hotels Association boasted around 140 members.
Bexhill had been transformed at the
turn of the 20th Century from a small hill-top...
by Cheryl Poole
From Tragedy to Utility
OUT of the tragedy of a premature
death in the royal family has come the focal point of a new exhibition at
Bexhill Museum which also looks at a logo which came to epitomize an era.The Duke of Clarence, elder son of the
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by Cheryl Poole
ATTRACTIVE new vinyl window panels
have been fitted to the museum’s Egerton Road frontage in a bid to draw in more
visitors.
The pictorial features replace vinyls
which had been in place since the re-opening of the museum following its
ext...
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Volunteer Training Especially For The Front Line TeamMonday 15th January from10.00 till 12.00 at the Museum.All volunteers welcome but if you work in the Galleries or on the front desk or are a Duty Manager this is especially for you.This is your cha...
by Cheryl Poole
TWO very welcome visitors were greeted
when Bexhill Museum held its pre-Christmas breakfast to thank the many
volunteers who make its work possible.
The visitors were Bexhill Rotary Club
president the Rev Paul Frostick and Rotarian John Coo...
by Cheryl Poole
We currently have a vacancy for a part time Business Support
Officer. This is a 20 hours per week post for a 9 month period in 2018.Find out more about the position, and details on how to apply,
on our ‘current vacancies’ page.Closing date for ...
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The times of Christmas Sales Have Changed!On Saturday 2nd and 9th DecemberandSunday 3rd and 10th December12.00 noon till 4.00pmOn Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th December12.00 noon till 3.00pm ...
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CHRISTMAS SALES AND REFRESHMENTSSaturday 2nd, 9th and 16th DecemberandSunday 3rd, 10th and 17th December!In the Education Room from 11.00am till 5.00pm.CHRISTMAS GRAND DRAW 4.00PM SATURDAY 9TH DECEMBER...
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Parents of young babies will no longer have to struggle to change nappies. New changing facilities can now be found in the Lower Floor Disabled Toilet. Turn left and left again at the bottom of the stairs - or use the lift if you have a pushchair....
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by Cheryl Poole
Your museum needs you!
BEXHILL Museum is critically short of
volunteers. The chairman has appealed to members attending the annual meeting
to step up to the mark.John Betts told the October 4th
meeting at St Augustine’s Church Hall that the mus...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL was the adoptive home of a
lady now largely forgotten but in her day a household name through her 1950s
contributions to the BBC Light Programme’s Woman’s Hour.
Ill-health robbed Minnie Pallister of
a Parliamentary career, Local His...
by Cheryl Poole
FAMILY heirloom clothes presented to
the museum by generous donors were among highlights of a special weekend
exhibition.For textiles and fashion expert
Georgina Bradley and her team of volunteers who care for the museum’s extensive
costume a...
by Cheryl Poole
THREE Russians have travelled more
than 3,000 miles to pay homage to a woman once vilified in Bexhill but still
venerated in Siberia.
Kate Marsden is remembered today as co-founder
of Bexhill Museum with the Rev J.C. Thompson.
But in her...
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Bexhill Model Railway Club Event.12th August 2017 from 10.00am till 5.00pm at St Richard's Catholic College, Ashdown Road, Bexhill-on-sea.If you came to the Model Railway Day they put on for us at the Museum you will know this is one not to be missed...
by Cheryl Poole
VOLUNTEERS from Bexhill Museum have
researched the history of a unique little town landmark and ensured its
conservation.
Time had shrouded the original purpose
of a metre-high cast iron pedestal near the war memorial on Marina.
Now Paul...
by Cheryl Poole
HOW
two Jewish emigres from Nazism came to design the iconic De La Warr Pavilion is
among the stories revealed in an innovative new exhibition at the Museum.
Project
manager Colin Heminway obtained £20,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for...
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8th July to 17th July 2017People Object Place: Exploring Migration in the Region.More details are on the Exhibitions page...
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Advance Notice: Strawberry Cream Tea.24th June 2017 1.00-3.00pmDetails to follow shortly....
by Cheryl Poole
OUR patron, comedian Eddie Izzard, was
at his father’s side on Sunday, May 14th as John Izzard was kept busy at a
book-signing at the museum.
John has penned Izzard: A Bexhill
Family Journey, published by Bexhill Museum Ltd. and now availab...
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by Cheryl Poole
Bexhill
Museum is proud to announce the publication of John Izzard’s long-awaited
autobiography – Izzard: A Bexhill Family Journey. A well-known pillar of
the local community and Bexhill Museum member, John is also the father of the
Museum’s patr...
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Bexhill Museum BOOK SALESaturday 13th May 2017, 11.00 am to 1.00 pm.In the Education Room at the Museum.Second Hand Books at Bargain Prices...
by Cheryl Poole
AS generous as ever with his time in
his old home town, actor and comedian Eddie Izzard gave Bexhill Museum a
tremendous boost over the weekend of
April 8th and 9th.Fresh from performances in Kiev and
Sofia, the museum’s patron devoted the b...
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Bexhill Museum wins
National Lottery support for Migration Project.
Bexhill Museum has received £20,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting new project, People Object-Place, taking place in t...
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"The Archaeology of North Bexhill and
the Coombe Haven."Wednesday, 1st March at 2.30pm at St Augustine's Church Hall, off Cooden
Drive. Bexhill Museum lecture - "The Archaeology of North Bexhill and
the Coombe Haven." Speaker: Casper Johnson, C...
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Captain A. F. J. Hannaford of the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal CorpA research folder and display board were presented to Bexhill Museum's Curator, Julian Porter on the anniversary of Captain Hannaford's passing on Remembrance Day 2015 by researcher ...
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Bodgers and Badgers, Museum LectureBadgers and Bodgers", by John Dowling is Bexhill Museum's next lecture
on Wednesday, 16th November at 2.30pm in St Augustine's church hall, off
Cooden Drive. It will tell how a town campaign saved a much-loved ...
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Many Bexhill Museum Items discounted now!Come and Find a Bargain....
by Cheryl Poole
A £3m venture designed to enable
residents, newcomers moving to the town’s northern expansion scheme and
visitors to visualise Bexhill’s past from the age of the dinosaurs onwards has
been outlined to museum members.
Taking a lead from Sir ...
by Cheryl Poole
THE first of many visitors to the
Costume and Textile Extravaganza over the weekend of September 24th-25th
came bearing a gift.
The visitor was at the head of the
queue when the museum’s doors opened. She had come to donate an exquisite
Tw...
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A Very Successful Costume and Textile Weekend.Lace Maker at Work.Mary and Tracy were busy all weekend demonstrating and answering questions.Queen Victoria's mourning outfit was demonstrating how the costumes are taken care of in acid free tissue and ...
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After 11 years a Bexhill Museum Volunteer Chris O'Grady is saying goodbye. A farewell party on Friday evening demonstrated just how much her fellows have appreciated her.Photographs from John Dowling. Chairman John Betts and Emma Tickner made the pre...
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On Monday 15th August Buckwood School presented a donation cheque in appreciation of the educational work of the Museum's Education Group. ...
by Cheryl Poole
WHEN our curator Julian Porter was
offered the piano once owned by the impresario who put the then emergent
Edwardian seaside resort on the musical map he jumped at the chance.Julian’s next thought was “Where on
earth do we put it?”Now, thanks...
by Cheryl Poole
VISITORS and residents alike can now
learn about Bexhill’s landmarks and their history via a new phone app.
Volunteers at Bexhill Museum have
taken advantage of an offer from specialist company Geotourist to add Bexhill
to the fast-growing ...
by Cheryl Poole
THE museum had its busiest day in
memory when comedian and actor Eddie Izzard returned to his home town and re-lived
his boyhood on Tuesday, 12 July 2016.With the flick of a switch, Eddie
inaugurated our latest attraction.The Izzard family tra...
by Cheryl Poole
The Izzard Family Trainset at Bexhill Museum Grand Opening: 3.30-4.30pm 12 July 2016 - by Eddie Izzard.Bexhill
Museum is delighted to announce that its latest exciting exhibit is the Izzard
family model railway.
The model
railway layout is a Tr...
by Cheryl Poole
A STEEP learning-curve awaited the
small group of people who responded to a dual invitation to explore Bexhill’s
beautiful Highwoods.
The Half-Term Walk is an established
tradition, organised jointly as part of Bexhill Museum’s Stepping Out...
by Cheryl Poole
ARTS Council England chief
executive Darren Henley paid a fact-finding visit to the museum on Monday, May
23rd.
The visit was part of a tour
of cultural institutions in Bexhill and Hastings receiving ACE support.
One of the first items p...
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Exploring Stuff at Bexhill College.A display at Bexhill College is showing objects from the Museum stores as examples of the kinds of objects used to inspire the art students and workshop participants alongside some of the art work produced....
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https://www.facebook.com/bexhillmuseum.exploringstuff151054773940633/ Bexhill Museum Exploring Stuff on Facebook.Copy the link above to your server and add your ideas about the Exploring Stuff exhibition and your Be The Curator ideas. Do you agree wi...
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The Be The Curator Board is complete....
by Cheryl Poole
SINCE her wedding at St Mark’s Church
in 1989 Sandra Phillips’ wedding dress – a £500 white satin creation decorated
with sequins and seed pearls – lay in storage under her bed, cherished but
unseen.
Now the dress complete with its
lengthy...
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Bexhill Museum has worked with a new digital tour company, Geotourist, to make heritage trails in and around Bexhill available on their app. Go to http://geotourist.com/landing and follow the instructions on the home page to download the app to y...
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Well done all the young artists who came to Planets, Space and Stars. Stars, every one!...
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by Cheryl Poole
IN the days before a series of
amalgamations reduced the British motor industry to a shadow of its former self,
Bexhillians were spoiled for choice when it came to motor dealers and car
marques.
Now a new photo exhibition in Bexhill
Museum...
by Cheryl Poole
BUSINESS sponsorship
for Bexhill’s independent, voluntarily-run museum has been welcomed by its
chairman.
Executives from
Brewers Decorating Centres visited the Egerton Road museum on Friday, January
22nd to see work in progress on two key...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL
Museum rounded off another busy year with an open day incorporating craft
activities for children.The
Egerton Road museum’s Education Room was bustling on Saturday, December 5th as
youngsters clamoured to try their hand at painting mo...
by Cheryl Poole
MUTILATION
or death could strike without warning and from a variety of sources as
Bexhill’s civilian population endured the Second World War.Five
graphic instances were outlined as relatives and well-wishers gathered at
Marina in gusty condit...
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Three of Curator Julian Porter's books are back in stock in the shop....
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“I LOVE coming here,” town MP Huw Merriman told volunteers when he dropped in at a fund-raising cream tea at Bexhill Museum on Friday, August 14th.
The event was the brainchild of museum volunteer and newly-appointed board of directors member Emm...
by Cheryl Poole
TWO years of painstaking excavation, conservation and research have gone into the presentation of a remarkable “find” now on display in Bexhill Museum.
A plant-eating dinosaur, a species of Iguanodont - known as Hypsecospinus and the size of a si...
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From Ticehurst, Bricklehurst School visited on an Enhanced School "Seasides of the Past" Museum Visit.Curator, Julian Porter took them on a History Walk after the workshop in the Museum. They seem to have enjoyed themselves! Go to Education and Resea...
by Cheryl Poole
ENGLISH newspapers containing vital information to him may well have come into Napoleon Bonaparte’s hands courtesy of Bexhill smugglers.
As Britain’s ambassador to France, the husband of the lady of the manor of Bexhill was subjected to a tirade ...
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Easter Holiday Arts and Crafts: Dreamtime Workshop.Some of the art work from the Dreamtime Childrens Art Workshop led by Louise Kenward, Artist in Residence.Proud young artists and their aboriginal style art work....
by Cheryl Poole
THE achievements of the 1066 Specials,
the club which enables everyone to enjoy sport whatever their disability, have
been acknowledged by a football legend.Lawrie McMenemy, one of the 20 most
successful managers in post-war English football, ...
by Cheryl Poole
A NEW venture by a Bexhill Museum volunteer reveals in detail just how many fascinating memorials, monuments and sculptures the town possesses.
Paul Wright has spent two years painstakingly researching the history of more than 40 examples and pho...
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Louise Kenward is Artist in Residence at the Museum every Thursday. Last year she followed Annie Brassey's travels to all the other Bexhill's around the world and her messages from her travels are displayed against a world map in the Costume Gallery ...
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The Bexhill History Trail Although
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, has a rich and diverse history,
at first glance there would appear to be only a few memorials, monuments
and sculptures to help reflect that history. Paul Wright and Bexhi...
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Wednesday 18th February at 2.30 pm. St Augustin's Church Hall.Natural Flood Management and The Importance of Water.Fran Southgate, Wetlands Officer for Sussex Wildlife Trust will be speaking about the ways landscape can be used to store and use water...
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BEXHILL has an “exemplary” small
museum which “punches above its weight,” says the Arts Council England’s
regional museums relationships manager, Michael Cooke.
Mr Cooke was speaking on Saturday,
January 31st as guest of honour at the launc...
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Text QCGS39 £5 to 70070 to donate £5 to Bexhill Museum Ltd and make a difference today. JustTextGiving by Vodafone.Bexhill Museum depends on donations and the small entrance fee to keep serving the community of Bexhill....
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Donations can now be made on line at https://www.justgiving.com/bexhillmuseum....
by Cheryl Poole
A UNIQUE occasion produced a unique response. So many people took up Bexhill Museum’s offer to mark Armistice Day amid its WWI commemorative exhibition that the gallery was packed.
Visitors observed the Two Minutes’ Silence surrounded not just by...
by Cheryl Poole
TO pack a room with boisterous, half-term-celebrating, youngsters would seem like a recipe for loud noise.
But give them a range of interesting craft-work to attempt and the result can be near-silence.
Volunteers achieved the seemingly-impos...
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Thursday 6th November, 10-11.30 am, the Coffee Morning will include a Silent Auction. Find out more at Parkhurst Hall, Parkhurst Road. What treasures will they be selling? Have fun finding out how much they go for. ...
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New National Curriculum
Besides the subjects described in our Teachers’ Pack, we
are also now running enhanced sessions on the Stone Age and Smuggling (as part of a local
history study) to support the new National Curriculum starting ...
by Cheryl Poole
STRIPED blazer and boater, “flapper” dress and feather boa – Bexhill Museum volunteers went back to the Roaring Twenties for their annual summer Family Fun Day on Friday, July 25th.
The Fun Day is held in partnership with Bexhill Carnival and sup...
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STEPPING OUT TO EXPLORE BUCKHOLT FARM AND LOCAL IRONWORKINGS.Meet at Sidely Car Park opposite Lidl at 2.00 pm on Sunday 20th July for a somewhat more demanding walk than usual. Access to this private site is challenging
with steep banks, uneven gr...
by Cheryl Poole
Collections Review and Community Engagement Project for 2014/15
Bexhill Museum and four other partner museums in West and East Sussex and Kent have awarded a grant to run a collections review project. Funded by the Arts Council England’s St...
by Cheryl Poole
IT takes a group of dedicated railway ?buffs? to put together an exhibition on a defunct rail line and do the subject full justice.
On June 14, 1964 the last passenger-carrying diesel train thundered over the 17-arch viaduct over the Combe Haven ...
by Cheryl Poole
SUSSEX Day was brought to Bexhill Museum with a flourish when Rother member Cllr Paul Lendon rang the bell for the county.
Stalls in the museum’s Education Room were selling everything Sussex – from Sussex flags to illustrated maps drawn...
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Bexhill
Museum celebrated its 100th birthday on Thursday 22nd May
2014 by throwing a party in honour of its founders. As well as good food, drink
and company there was an abundance of special events.
The
evening also served as the off...
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Come and
celebrate Bexhill Museums 100th Birthday, and help the museum thrive in the
next 100 years!
Centenary
Birthday Party at the museum on Thursday 22nd
May 6.30-8.30pm, buffet, bubbly and birthday cake as well as
special activ...
by Cheryl Poole
OUTING TO KENWOOD HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON
Date: Thursday
8th May 2014
Time of first pick-up: 8.30am
Cost: £23...
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Bexhill Observer reported the opening of Bexhill Remembers which was well attended on Friday 28th February. THREE hundred and thirty one tiny
bottles hang from the twigs of a tree. Each bears a label. Each represents a
Bexhillian killed in the ...
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The Limited Edition Bexhill Museum Centenary Bear is in the Museum Shop now....
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A
new Machine Embroidery and Textiles course at Bexhill museum in spring 2014.
Claire
Buckley a freelance textile artist, author and qualified teacher will be
running a 6 week course from March 11- April 15 2014.
Tuesdays
from...
by Cheryl Poole
Movers and Shakers
Youth Performance and Exhibition Project, Bexhill Museum
Performance at the De La Warr Pavilion Auditorium on Saturday 29 March 2014
Exhibition at Bexhill Museum opening on Saturday 3 March 2014
Bexhill Museum will be...
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Bexhill
Remembers
Exhibition and archive project for
2014, opening Saturday 1 March 2014.
Local
people will uncover the part played by Bexhill residents in the First World
War, thanks to a £35,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery ...
by Cheryl Poole
On Wednesday 16th November Dr Geoff Doel gave an interesting, well illustrated talk on the ?Green Man’. These images of heads with foliage coming out of their mouths and eyes are found in many places, even in Bexhill – look above the door...
by Cheryl Poole
HISTORY in miniature has been brought to Bexhill Museum. The contents of a single but highly informative display case tell how a postal service was brought to the town.
The display is the work of Bexhill Philatelic Society. It marks the stamp-collec...
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SPOOKY SUSSEX DROP-IN AFTERNOONThursday 31st October 2013 from 2.00 to 4.00pm.Spooky crafts. Guided Walk-about through the Galleries from 3.00 to 4.00pm. Find the spookiest objects and learn all about them.Adults £3, children £2. Childre...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL Museum has played a significant local part in the Heritage Open Days project in which 4,500 buildings nationally were opened to the public.
Museum curator Julian Porter gave a fascinating powerpoint presentation in the council chamber to ...
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The
Real Thing
Bexhill
Museum Takeover Day at the De La Warr Pavilion
Free Family drop in activities
11am- 4pm Saturday 14th
September, the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
To celebrate the De La Warr Pavilion exhibition The Univers...
by Cheryl Poole
DEDICATED volunteers on the Education Group at Bexhill Museum have doubled the number of children visiting the museum on school trips in two years.
Group leader Anne Lucarotti told Mark Redsell, head teacher of Buckswood School,
on Monday, Augus...
by Cheryl Poole
CHILDREN’S laughter filled the building when Bexhill Museum staged its Family Fun Day.
More than 500 youngsters took part in the July 26th event, staged in support of Bexhill Carnival.
Ten volunteers from the staff of Hastings Direct, which i...
by Cheryl Poole
VRRMM! Antiques expert David Harper brought a growling E-Type Jaguar V12 to a halt on De La Warr Parade and out stepped supermodel Jodie Kidd.
The celebrities were on a mission – to meet Bexhill Museum chairman John Betts.
Scott...
by Cheryl Poole
A GRAPHIC account of the discovery of one of the most important hoards of rare Roman coins was given on Tuesday, May 28th to guests at Bexhill Museum.
The visitors included town MP Greg Barker, High Sheriff Graham Peters, Town Mayor Cllr Frances ...
by Cheryl Poole
The popular folk/eclectic acoustic/originals band Titus is playing a long-awaited return gig at Bexhill Museum on July 5th as part of the Sussex Folklore season and to help raise museum funds.
Titus are well-known throughout Kent and Sussex for thei...
by Cheryl Poole
GENERATIONS of children visiting Bexhill Museum will be able to learn of an historic link between the town and Holland.
Bexhill aimed at raising £120,000 to buy a corvette during its Warship Week in 1942. Despite the fact that its war-time ...
by Cheryl Poole
TWO towering figures now stand guardian over Bexhill Museum’s major exhibition for 2013.
Folklore, Farming, Festivals and Fertility already featured farm implements from the past, a time-line of country rites and rituals plus colourful cost...
by Cheryl Poole
A LAUNCH day to welcome the Bexhill Observer staff held on Friday, April 5 saw many of the paper’s readers visit the museum to meet them.
The paper’s reporters have not had a base in the town since the Observer office in Sackville Road s...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL Museum has been awarded full accreditation by the Arts Council after being judged by the same standards as the V&A.
Months of work for Bexhill Museum curator Julian Porter backed by the efforts of the establishment’s volunteers...
by Cheryl Poole
SIR Goddard Oxenbridge of Brede had the misfortune to be considered an ogre who ate children. This was not helpful in the 15th Century and in 1487 Sir Goddard was executed by being cut in half with a wooden saw.Sir Goddard’s fate is just one o...
by Cheryl Poole
WHAT has been described as the most important hoard of Roman 3rd Century coins found in Britain since the 1930s will be on public display at Bexhill Museum from Monday, February 4.Enthusiast Tim Simmonds, of Burwash, was hurrying home in the rain in ...
by Cheryl Poole
VOLUNTEERS who keep Bexhill Museum operating have been told of their “good-news” year. They were attending a meeting in the Education Room which reviewed progress and reforms made in 2012 and summarised plans for the 2013 season which op...
by Cheryl Poole
THE bound files of the Bexhill Observer dating back to its launch in 1896 were the inspiration for a running series of live performances at Bexhill Museum on Friday, December 7th. Matinee and evening audiences saw drama and music students aged 16-18...
by Cheryl Poole
Performance Students bring 100 year old newspaper archives back to life at Bexhill Museum. Due to the success of the Global Gathering youth project and exhibition that took place over the summer, Bexhill Museum has been awarded more funding to engage...
by Cheryl Poole
A KEY element in Bexhill’s motoring heritage has helped publicise both the town and its museum at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.Members of the Bexhill 100 Motoring Club used a covered trailer specially designed for the purpose to...
by Cheryl Poole
AMONG the younger volunteers who keep Bexhill Museum running there is one helper who is even younger in heart.When Joyce Philpott is not taking her turn at the independent, accredited, Egerton Road museum she is busy helping ring the bells at St Pete...
by Cheryl Poole
A GLIMPSE of what life was like for the troops who manned the town’s defences against invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte can now be gained at Bexhill Museum. Bill Hill, the retired architect who reconditioned the museum’s original scale mode...
by Cheryl Poole
HAD the manufacturers patented their many technical innovations and put the Armstrong car into production, pioneer motoring would have taken a different course. But they didn’t. The result of their labours was a single machine which languished ...
by Cheryl Poole
MUSICIANS were seen playing in full wide-screen colour as guests gathered in Bexhill Museum’s cafe for a ceremony marking the gift of its new audio-visual system. The Wednesday, September 5th event was an opportunity to thank Bexhill Chamber of...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL Museum played a key role in the highly-successful Party In The Park venture. Volunteers welcomed more than 1200 visitors as the Museum threw open it doors. Saturday, August 11th will long be remembered as a joyous occasion when families flock...
by Cheryl Poole
DELIGHTED students had their first opportunity to see their work on public display when Town Mayor Cllr Joanne Gadd opened Bexhill Museum’s latest exhibition. A Global Gathering celebrates the museum’s rich world art collections. Young pe...
by Cheryl Poole
VIEWERS can now learn how Bexhill became the birthplace of British motorsport thanks to a motor heritage trail of five full-colour display boards. A cavalcade of historic vehicles headed by Bexhill Museum’s replica of the Serpollet steam car wh...
by Cheryl Poole
The Kursaal Story – Bexhill Museum half-day school Bexhill’s Kursaal has always been a subject of wonder and curiosity. It is no longer there, of course, but how could this stylish, exotic looking centre of entertainment have come to a sm...
by Cheryl Poole
MEMBERS of the public are being invited to take a detailed look at one of the key factors which shaped Twentieth Century Bexhill. With That’s Seaside Entertainment, the Society of Bexhill Museums is offering three half-day workshops in the Eger...
by Cheryl Poole
A SPECIAL Bexhill Museum exhibition featuring nearly 40 gold and platinum discs, CDs and DVDs has been dedicated to the museum’s unsung heroes. In a 25-year career as a record company executive with giants like CBS, Polygram and MGM, graphi...
by Cheryl Poole
SIX months of detailed research and painstaking work have produced an evocation in miniature of a long-lost Bexhill landmark.At 82, retired architect Bill Hill’s eye for detail and steady hand with a pair of tweezers are undiminished.The man ...
by Cheryl Poole
THE premier exhibition for Bexhill Museum’s 2012 season poses an intriguing range of questions. Sporting Bexhill was formally opened by Town Mayor Cllr Stuart Wood at a gathering in the Egerton Road museum’s costume and social histo...
by Cheryl Poole
IN an immediate response to the shock sudden death of soul diva Whitney Houston, a South Coast Museum is staging its own unique tribute. The eight-platinum CD award designed in 1999 to mark Whitney’s eight-million sales in the UK is now o...
by Cheryl Poole
MORE than 70 of the faithful folk who keep voluntarily-run Bexhill Museum going crowded its education room. They were taking part in the museum’s first Volunteers’ Day, one of a raft of new measures designed to help the fully-accred...
by Cheryl Poole
VISITORS to Bexhill Museum this year will be spoilt for choice when it comes to the range of exhibitions planned there. The Egerton Road museum re-opens on Monday, February 6. To mark Olympics year, the major exhibition will be Sport In Bexhil...
by Cheryl Poole
BEXHILL Museum features in a forthcoming edition of BBC2’s Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. An edition featuring Society of Bexhill Museums chairman John Betts is due to be screened at 5.15pm on Wednesday, February 8. When John receive...
by Cheryl Poole
Please see the press releases from the past year below: August 2011: Christmas Craft Fair 2011 - Saturday 19 November 2011, 10am - 5pm: Stalls now available to book! We are now taking bookings for our second annual Christmas Craft Fair. Tables are &p...
by Cheryl Poole
'Museum Evening Lectures' Almost everyone reading this will possess at least one pair of spectacles and might have wondered where this indispensable piece of equipment came from. Frank Barraclough, who practiced locally as an optometrist for 50 year...
by Cheryl Poole
The latest press releases in relation to events, activities, lectures, exhibitions and more at Bexhill Museum can be found in the 'All News' section of this website.For the latest newsletters, take a look at the Bexhill Museums Newsletters page.Plus,...
by Cheryl Poole
The Society of Bexhill Museums host a wealth of lectures throughout the year. The 2011/12 lecture programme is available to download here: Lecture Programme 2011/12We will aim to bring you reports of the lectures on this page. For past lectures, plea...
by Cheryl Poole
Welcome to Bexhill Museums newsletters.You can find the latest issue on this page in PDF version, along with the newsletters from the last couple of years (please note some documents are large and may take a while to load): Visit 'adobe' website for ...
by Cheryl Poole
Bexhill Museum was officially opened by our patron, Eddie Izzard on Thursday 26 November Eddie Izzard returned to the town of his childhood to render yet another service to a cause he holds dear.Despite of the rain Eddie completed a half marathon fr...
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The Museum walks programme regularly brings to light little snippets of interesting information, details of some historically significant person or event or even one of those things that is neither significant nor important but raises the comment, &l...
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