1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Mardens Excavation Appeal / Three seasons of excavation in the area of the Mardens and Compton have been based on the discovery of a Saxon hill-top cemetery. Each season costs |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Grant for the Reigate Town House from the V and A / The Victoria and Albert Museum has offered an extra |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Stop Press! / The Friends' Auction at Horsham raised about |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / Aoril-May 1985 | Diary Dates / Special Events include Country Fair, Folk Dancing, Exhibition of Victorian Tiles, Heavy Horses, Magog Ladies Morris dancers, Rare Breeds Show, Exhibition "Cast in Iron", Children's Week and Autumn Activities Weekend. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Museum takes Sheep to London for AIM's "Heritage At Work" Exhibition. / Richard Pailthorpe and Alan Waters took a small flock of David Humphreys's flock of Southdown ewes, rams and lambs with the Shepherds Hut to the Courtyard of the London Guildhall.
There was another display in the Guildhall crypt, where Roger Champion showed his skills and some of the furniture from Walderton. Other demonstraters from the Museum were Chris and Diana Zeuner and Elizabeth Newbery. Among the guests were David Biart and Bob Harding. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Show for Rare Breeds Planned for Summer / Our first show for Rare Breeds will be held in July in conjunction with the Sussex Branch of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. It will include sheep, cattle, goats and pigs. Also traditional craft and animal husbandry demonstrations will be on view. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Publicity Workshops / The Museum has been at several publ;icity workshops : English Tourist Board's Excursion workshop; Southern Tourist Board's Travel workshops at Southampton, Poole and Reading; and their Heritage Education Fair at Portsmouth; South East England Tourist Board's Heritage Education Fair at Sussex University. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Winter Statistics / Despite bad winter weather 5297 visited between November and March compared with 5184 the previous year. Bad weather at Easter produced the lowest number of visitors on record. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | New Library Team Needed / The present MSC Team will stop working in the Library in June. Replacements aged 18 or over should apply to Caroline Hallam |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Albert Peacock / A picture of Albert Peacock making spars |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Wall Paintings Seminar / The UKIC Wall Paintings Section held an all-day meeting at the Museum on remounting detached wall paintings. Delegates will be able to examine and discuss the wall paintings in the Reigate House. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Picture of the Horsham shop / A photo of the Horsham Shop being re-erected by Peter McCurdy |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Seventeenth Century English Country Dancing / John Dibdin will direct dances of the time of Charles II on 13th July. Visitors may join in. Organised by the Southern Early Music Forum. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Titchfield Market Hall / The Titchfield Market Hall will be closed until serious decay of the new timbers has been attended to. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Photographic Competition / A photographic competition will be held this year with two main themes: "Architectural Details" and "Animals or Craftsmen at Work". Prizes will include a Yashica Partner AFD Camera, two Kodak Disc Cameras, and |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Biskupin Trip / The trip to Poland, organised by Marjorie Hallam, will take place in September. It will last about 12 days; travel by coach with an English speaking courier. Cost |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Expanding Education Service / Elizabeth Newbery is Education Officer for the Museum and Goodwood under the banner of the West Sussex Countryside Studies Trust. She will produce an activity pack for both establishments.
The museum already offers a summer school and children's club, and will produce a teaching kit backing up the guide book.
Goodwood offers a nature trail in Seeley's copse, Home Farm, the forestry and the house.
This not only for schools; links will be formed with St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill and the West Surrey School of Art and Design, Farnham |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Picture of Roger Champion / A picture of Roger Champion working on a model of Bayleaf |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Archaeology Symposium / Richard Harris attended a symposium "Professional Archaeology in Sussex: the Next Five Years". He contributed a paper summarising the contributions of various bodies and individuals to recording and preservation of buildings in Sussex. He hoped more people would deposit copies of their work at the Museum. |
1985/4 | Members' Magazine No. 24 / April-May 1985 | Book Success / Richard Harris's book "Discovering Timber-framed Buiildings" is breaking records for Shire Publications, with a print of 50,000. |
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