Other Events

Detailed below are events organised by other societies, which may be of interest to our members.

If you have details for future events please send these to: Malcolm Dawes, 52 Rugby Road, Brighton, BN1 6EB or e-mail to malcolm.dawes@btinternet.com

Do please check details before travelling. The details of these meetings and events organised by other groups are only included as a guide and as a service to members. Inclusion here is not intended to be seen as an endorsement.

Saving Newhaven Fort

Newhaven Historical Society talk by David Gee. The Hillcrest Centre, Bay Vue Road, Newhaven. Free parking next to the Hillcrest Centre. Non-members £5.
www.newhavenhistoricalsociety.org.uk

Friday 9th October
8:00 pm

Bayeux Tapestry

Burgess Hill Heritage and History Society Event. With the Bayeux Tapestry coming to the British Museum in 2026, Simon Stevens will tell us why it’s not all Saxon violence. Cyprus Hall, Cyprus Road, Burgess Hill. Non-members £5. www.burgesshillheritagehistory.org.uk

Saturday 10th October

Austin Counties Car Rally at Tenterden Station

Weekend 10th – 11th October.
Event at Kent and East Sussex Railway. www.kesr.org.uk

Sunday 11th October

Open Afternoon at Chichester Model Engineers

Trains running during afternoon. Blackberry Lane, Chichester. www.cdsme.co.uk

Wednesday 14th October
7:30 pm

Model trams and how to manage them

Tramway and Light Railway Society presentation by Paul Coles. Visitors £3. DEALL Room at Southwick Community Centre, Southwick Street, Southwick. Email sussexbranch@southernelectric.org.uk

Wednesday 14th October
7:30 pm

Perilous Lives – Public Health in Victorian Chichester

Chichester Local Historical Society talk by Richard Childs, County Archivist. Visitors.£5. New Park Centre, New Park Road, Chichester. 01243 784915. www.chichesterlocalhistory.org.uk

Sunday 18th October

Autumn Industrial trains

This special day showcases the Museum’s impressive collection of industrial locomotives. Also steam train rides
operating. Amberley Museum. 01798 831370. www.amberleymuseum.co.uk .

Saturday 24th October
10:00 am

West Sussex Archives Society Conference Sussex Writers

Speakers : Ellen Cheshire on H.G. Wells; Chris Hare on Richard Jeﬀeries; Mike Kipling on Rudyard Kipling; Doug Nicholls on William Blake and Professor Brian Short on Writers and the Search for a Rural Idyll.
At Barnham Community Hall, Yapton Road, Barnham, PO22 0AY. Members and their guests £30 Non-members £35 Includes
tea/coffee and biscuits Lunch arrangements to be confirmed. To book and pay by BACS
please email contact@wsas.co.uk . See www.wsas.co.uk

Tuesday 27th October
7:30 pm

Prehistoric remains on the High weald

Danehill Parish Historical Society talk byHelena Griffiths. Danehill Memorial Hall.
Visitors £4 with tea/coffee and biscuit.

Sunday 1st November

London to Brighton veteran car run.

Local Exhibitions of interest

Tide Mills exhibition at Newhaven Museum
From Friday the 3rd of July until Wednesday the 2nd of September the museum will be
holding an exhibition on Tide Mills, and on William Catt who owned and operated the mill
there (2026 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Catt). The exhibition will include
articles on the Seaplane base, the Marine Hospital and David Dales’ horses that shared the
East Beach with the tide mill.

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Exhibition: British Landscapes – A Sense of Place. Ends 1 st November 2026

Novium Museum,
Tower Street, Chichester
Small exhibition on the Selsey Tramway including some items loaned by Alan Green..

Heritage Open Days in September
Many buildings are opened to the public during September as part of the Heritage
Open Days event. Many of these buildings have an industrial archaeology interest.
Events outside of London run from 11 th to 20 st September. Details from
www.heritageopendays.org.uk
Events in London will take place from 12 th to 20 st September. Details from
www.programme.openhouse.org.uk

The Association for Industrial Archaeology Conference.
The conference will take
place in Norwich and run from Friday 4 th September to Wednesday 9 th September,
made up of weekend talks and the AGM followed by 3 days of tours.
Details and booking information at https://industrial-archaeology.org/conferences

Do please check details before travelling.

The details of these meetings and events organised by other groups
are only included as a guide and as a service to members:
Inclusion here is not intended to be seen as an endorsement