Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Nick Corbo-Stewart, Archivist Travelling back to 1975 the United Kingdom had a very different feel, a population of just over 56 million people, coal fired power stations generating electricity, weekly cash salaries, white sliced bread, families with one car, three TV channels, Tom Baker as Dr Who, flares, Leeds United in the European Cup…
Cataloguing sales particulars for a New Town By Nick Corbo-Stewart, Archivist and Volunteer Coordinator Post-war re-development of Crawley led to a large scale planned expansion of the town, creating areas for industry, retail, and urban living. Classified by the government as a ‘New Town’ and overseen by the Crawley Development Corporation (CDC), this was one of…
By Alan Green - Guest Speaker In this talk local historian and author Alan Green will, with the aid of Stella Palmer’s slides and some others, take you on a tour of the city as it was fifty years ago; a city preparing for pedestrianisation but still ruled by the motor car. You will see…
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