Bexhill’s Amiens Raid Air Ace
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.
1950s and 60s Exhibition
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 selected with care from the museum#s extensive collection to produce a display which is at once elegant and stunning. Here are […]
Blues Unlimited – new exhibition
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 Blues Unlimited Magazine? This small exhibition in the museum reception area explains the […]
Eddie dedicates WWII rail layout
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. Television and press cameras concentrated on the star. But there was one key absentee. Two years ago Eddie and […]
Armistice Figure donated
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 veterans working for Royal British Legion Industries and sold in support of ex-service […]
Town’s Hotel Industry Heyday recalled
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 village to a thriving seaside resort by the efforts of the 7th and 8th Earls […]
Southern Counties Costume Group Tour
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 of costume and visits collections across the region. Group members visiting the museum were drawn from as far […]
Centenary tribute to Spike Milligan
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 Izzard describes Spike as the “godfather of alternative comedy.” The illustrated tribute on the Sargent Gallery’s west wall has been […]
Museum thanks donor
The Centerpiece 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 funeral in 1892 of her grandson the Duke of Clarence was previously on extended loan […]
A walk around the heart of Little Common 9th Sept
Our guided walks program for late summer 2018 continues with: A walk around the heart of Little Common This is a new walk which will look at the important people and places in Little Common’s history. on: Sunday 9th September at 2 pm Meeting at: The Wheatsheaf Inn, Little Common Distance: 2 hours/2 miles Leaders: […]