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Image from Bexhill Observer, September 1983. Courtesy Bexhill Museum
Exhibition
The People's Pavilion. Our First 80 Years
18 Jun 2016 – 31 Jul 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Marina
- East Sussex
- Bexhill
- TN40 1DP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Direct trains from London Victoria, Brighton and Ashford to Bexhill
To celebrate our first 80 years, this exhibition will show how the Pavilion has been used and shaped by our visitors since it’s opening in 1935.
About
#bepartofourstory
1936 saw the start of the Spanish Civil War, the world’s first regular television service broadcast by the BBC and the release of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. At the recently opened De La Warr Pavilion, a series of cooking demonstrations were presented by the College of Modern Housekeeping to an auditorium packed with Housewives.
Nearly four decades later in 1972 whilst British Miners went on strike, the first Gay Pride march took place in London and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather hit cinema screens, Bob Marley performed on the De La Warr Pavilion stage.
To celebrate our first 80 years, this exhibition will show how the Pavilion has been used and shaped by our visitors since it’s opening in 1935. It will contain material gathered from Bexhill Museum and the Bexhill Observer archives as well as objects, images and stories collected from the public as part of our volunteer run Heritage Research Project, and ongoing initiative to build a digital archive for the future.
You can continue to share your memories, photographs and artefacts during our regular collection sessions during the exhibition. To find out more, contact us by email on mydlwp@dlwp.com
