Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Nichola Court, Archivist Chichester Observer 21/10/1960 - ground record Oaklands Park is Chichester’s largest open space, famous for housing the annual Sloe Fair, the Festival Theatre, a large mansion hidden in the trees, now used by the University, and many of the city’s sporting clubs. These clubs include Chichester City United football club, which…
Continue reading ➞ Oaklands Park: Chichester’s ‘Field of Dreams’?
By Bill Gage, Guest Speaker My first recollections of Bognor Station go back to the mid 1950s, when my family would travel down by train from Essex for holidays. As our electric train approached the station I would hope to see a steam locomotive on the local goods train, waiting in the sidings. Once on…
Continue reading ➞ Tuesday Talk: The Bognor Branch – 160 years of railways in Bognor
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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