Newhaven Fort News Blog
June 2010
Special Events
The special events this year have been amazing! Most recently we have had a successful jazz evening, a living history day and the Brighton Fringe Festival play “I’m a warehouse” which ran for three nights to packed houses.
Glyndebourne used the Fort as a venue for their 'Sing Up' event that involved 400 school children from local primary schools doing exactly what the title said – singing up!
There are still some spectacular events coming up – “Rock the Fort”, the Oddsocks production of a Midsummer Night's Dream and Battle of Britain Day to mention a few; and the scary thing is that Halloween is not too far off (but then neither is Christmas). Details of forthcoming events can be found on the website events pages.
Volunteers
Volunteers have been busy working on jobs of all forms from collection care to sorting out years of accumulated rubbish from part of the derelict fort. To this end we have again welcomed teams from EDF Energy who have busied themselves with painting tunnels and anything else that doesn’t move.
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May 2010
The Museum
There have not been a huge number of new objects for the collection but the most notable are medals and effects of 38 year old Able Seaman P/J92162 Gray from Havant in Hampshire who was lost his life on HMS Hood when it was sunk by the Bismarck.
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April 2010
Special Events
Once again the Fort is to host to a wide and varied programme of events this year from music and theatre to art exhibitions, community events and old favourites like Battle of Britain Day, so please have a look on our events page for more information. If you would like to be kept better informed then why not join our mailing list to receive a regular e-newsletter.
Snippets
Season tickets are available - valid for a whole year and excellent value for money – for children, adults, families and senior concessions.
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March 2010
We’re back!
It’s been a while since the last blog and that’s partly because we have been hard at work getting the place ready for another busy season and in spite of the awful weather, which put paid to a few things that we wanted to do, we were ready for opening on the 1st March.
New displays
New First World War displays have been installed in the old Officers’ Quarters, including many exhibits that have not been seen before. Likewise the Fort and Newhaven has seen considerable change to allow for more display space and the Fort model is now viewable through 360 degrees – looks wonderful! Sussex Land Sea and Air has also been upgraded.
Dunkirk 70th anniversary
With this very important anniversary comes a new display of objects and photographs depicting this epic wartime event. This exhibition will be with us until the end of the season.
Archive of events that took place at Newhaven Fort in 2009.
Archive News Blog 2008
Archive of events that took place at Newhaven Fort in 2008.
